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>I swear it's almost like web designers are trying to make things worse. They are, because the business wants you to download the app.
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That systems engineer would be stupid to completely rule out software related root causes to a bug that is only evident on the application i/o level when they have no tangible reason to do so. It's not only a failure of psychiatry
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Also remember kids, alcohol is not a drug, even though it leads to more crime and deaths than any other drug in the US
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Agreed, claiming mental illness is due to being born with a "bad brain" is dangerous pseudoscience. Psychiatry/psychology has zero proof that mental illness is due to "bad brains" or any such objective biological ca
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Is there a greater causation or correlation for mental illness and drug adddiction than poverty?
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Why would they invest so heavily there if there was nothing to be gained?
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There are plenty of global advertisers/propagandists willing to pay Google to manipulate the french people. Claiming someone's eyeballs are owned by a government is silly.
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Agreed. Also don't forget the massive contribution advertising has to ecological destruction by creating insatiable consumerism.
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Nah, the internet functions fine without the French government, and people are always looking to exploit the poor and helpless. >The differences in CPC between an affluent white male working in tech in San Francisco and a poor black woma
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>Why would anyone advertise to french customers if there is no functioning french economy Political propaganda/advertising is a great investment in times of choas/crisis. >How would french consumers pay for satellite access
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1. Satellites 2. You don't need French schools to learn how to Google things
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The only real way the Fed is accountable to the people and greater good is to the extent that they don't screw the people so obviously and badly that the people (including the police and military) revolt against them, which is the same
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>How could Google make money in France if there was no french police force, education system, market regulation, court system, contract enforcement? By showing ads. Ads only need eyeballs to make money.
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I agree with you, but central banks like the Fed are not accountable like the government is
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>won't allow any of these things in my house period because they will always use them for things behind the scenes that they won't state. As OP stated, "this extends beyond home speakers to any voice-enabled device in gene
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>Because you can check. Open it up, see what it does. Use Wireshark to inspect traffic. 99.9% of users are incapable of doing this. >Imagine the scoop that "the mute switch does nothing" would be for a tech journalist. Googl
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>This is only creepy if you don't understand how the software works. No, its only creepy if you're not sure whether or not conversations had in the "privacy" of your own home are being listened to by a faceless person
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Use test subjects who sign up explicitly and specifically for this purpose, rather than burying it in a massive TOS written in legalese that can change at any time and is applied indiscriminately to all customers
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>1. How can one find out about their shadow profiles that have been created by FB? Funny how this question always seems to generate distracting and misdirecting responses. The simple fact that detractors seem unwilling to address is that
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>“The profits are all based on the user’s info, but the users get none of the profits back.” >“As they say, with Facebook, you are the product.” Whenever people become products or property of another party it's a pretty good sign
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Why don't we assert the property rights of the individual by defining one's personal data to be their rightful intellectual property?
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There's also the option of having the government break up the city
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Yes it is moreso full of garbage of course, but still contains a wider variety and higher quantity of educational content than any other site.
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>it's not insulin or a house. Again, it's a video entertainment site. It is wholly unimportant in reality. It's the greatest library of educational content in human history.
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Why don't you try it for yourself? In my experience the effects are very mild, but does seem to help silence that "internal chatter" which causes anxiety and prevents one from getting to sleep. I've also found turning of
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>1. Marketing management asks Engineering management how long it takes to do feature X so they know when to launch the online ad campaign. Why can't Marketing just wait until the feature has been built to launch their campaign?
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>often rooted in the lack of emotional tools us men are given to process anger. We are raised to be "strong" and talking about your feelings is seen as weak Mental/emotional repression and the evolutionary need to appear s
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>You can't solve an issue without identifying its causes. Agreed. How are the fundamental causes of domestic violence different from the fundamental causes of all other types of physical violence, in your opinion?
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>They still suffer far more You're creating a false dichotomy by claiming women suffer more from physical violence from men. History and context are important for understanding reality as a whole (as best as we can). In all honesty
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>historically women have been on the receiving end of physical violence from men far, far more often than vice versa and were told to suffer in silence. Historically, men have been on the receiving end of violence far, far more than wome
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