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>Electric chair for mass murder is a proper sentence Only (at most) 28% of the countries in the world agree with this. [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_by_country?...
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Google will charge more for access to YouTube, which makes competitors like Nebula more appealing.
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Electric trains have been around and widely adopted for more than 100 years. What is novel about these?
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Unless they are a trespasser. Generally, you owe no duty of care to trespassers other than to avoid intentionally harming them, unless it’s a kid and you have a pool. Homeowner’s insurance covers it.
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Nope. Fossil fuel interests have invested in solar. Why? Because the more energy you generate at home, the more oil you can export.
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Does this person come to the office 5 days a week? That is not mentioned in the article.
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I actually think that the smallest coin should be a quarter. my first job was at a movie theater, where all of the prices ended in either .00, .25, .50, or .75 because everyone who worked there was a kid and you needed to make it as easy as
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by 39896880 2y ago
Zero interest in reading a lecture on privacy from an ad company
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Informing the insurance company… how? Everything done by a large corp like an insurer has a specific workflow. There is no form to upload a video of someone behaving badly. Emailing some rando at Geico with an mp4 is going to be met with to
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Not only that, they’re getting worse. Look at the list of the 20 most destructive wildfires: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_California_wildfires?w... And check the years. All but 1 are in the past 25 years.
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I mean, they keep making new cars so… yes?
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It’s the latter. Why give away something that the most valuable public company in the world wants?
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The Web (like the world) is constantly changing. If you're interested in mitigating the potential harms of social media, you're going to have to form a definition of "social media" that fits with your own goals and value
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There is no place on earth which has laws that abide by this principle.
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Though not included in the current FTC definition of junk fees, it should be
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The EU takes speed limits more seriously than the US.
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Sensible changes, I just hope it doesn’t turn into a system whereby I’m required to make a choice for every aspect of my OS.
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No mention of the conditions the miners worked in to find it. A disgrace.
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As of March 2024, ~97 percent of apps in the Google Play app store were freely available. So they’re not selling much.
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I bought my mom an iPhone.
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Attribution is the opposite of Privacy.
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Why should they? It’s your device. You own it. It’s your responsibility to make sure you don’t install malicious code.
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Question for someone who is a fan of brand-specific game stores: what do you like about them? Personally I find the idea of apps-within-apps annoying and convoluted, but I’m willing to entertain the notion that I’m a luddite.
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It tends to be accurate. If you want to read more, see Demick, 2009: “Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea” [0] [0] https://search.worldcat.org/title/918997255
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Radio Free Asia is literally an American propaganda outlet.[0] [0]”Radio Free Asia (RFA) is an American government-funded non-profit corporation operating a news service that broadcasts radio programs and publishes online news, information,
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In my estimation, a country can have high censorship but also high ability for people to change the government (that’s what I call “freedom” here). So, in that sense, Germany is high-freedom because it can elect people to change the laws wh
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Apple says "The actual website address is never shared with the safe browsing provider" but this feels a little like Meta saying "we never sell your private information." Technically true, but in a way that usefully redi
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I have, and I found it much as Gibson did [0] [0] https://www.wired.com/1993/04/gibson-2/
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Reminds me if Apple’s Safari “Fraudulent Websites Warning” which sends your IP along with “information calculated about the websites you visit” to Google. If you’re in HK or Mainland China, it goes to Tencent[0]. I’m sure Google only uses i
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It seems that way to me too, but we have examples of high-censorship, high-freedom societies like Germany, and high-censorship, low-freedom societies like Singapore, and both report high levels of happiness. The devil really is in the detai

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