ApolloFortyNine

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by ApolloFortyNine 6y ago
The article reads as if this wasn't the case. Do you have a source that mentions this? Everything I can find reads exactly the same as DMCA, where there's no 'central authority' to listen to, but you're just expecte
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by ApolloFortyNine 6y ago
Well OP did say >If you drop the penny, for the love of $diety change your sales tax structure so that it's a multiple of 5. 5%, 10%, 15%, etc. Which I assumed wouldn't be just for paying with cash. I don't know if a &#x27
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by ApolloFortyNine 6y ago
>There was resistance when Canada dropped the $1 bill in favour of a Loonie (a $1 coin with the image of a loon on it). People bitched about having too much change in there pocket, pockets became too heavy, etc. I do however see more coi
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by ApolloFortyNine 6y ago
People like to act like this is the end of the world. It's easy to blame media here, as media is taking a handful of cases out of millions and making sweeping (end of the world) claims.
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by ApolloFortyNine 6y ago
Some liquor is sold in milk cartons. Having been to Japan, I saw plenty of glass bottles in the liquor stores/7/11s.
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by ApolloFortyNine 6y ago
>Uber and the like claim the workers choose when to work, how much, whether to accept gigs etc. But this is part of the problem: offering gigs at a set rate as take it or leave it is insufficient control. A real contractor would be able
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by ApolloFortyNine 6y ago
It's truly terrifying to see the number of people calling for limits on speech similar to ones in Germany. [1] The right to freedom of speech was seen as so important, it was put first on the bill of rights. For anyone who cares about
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by ApolloFortyNine 6y ago
>I once ran a large online forum and set up a word filter to replace certain phrases with "fluffy bunnies" and other absurdities. It did a remarkable job of improving discourse once the foul-mouthed types realized their hateful
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by ApolloFortyNine 6y ago
>So you want to be able to post ads that say that people of certain races are inferior? I don't understand. OP clearly laid out their own examples, please don't go out of your way to make one up so you have a strawman to attack
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by ApolloFortyNine 6y ago
It's all well and good to survey people and have them answer "no" to the question "Do you want to be tracked?" But if Facebook threw up two buttons, one saying I agree to allow targeted ads, and one saying "$17
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by ApolloFortyNine 6y ago
There were an incredible number of tweets calling to "Burn it down" or similar (about the fires in Minneapolis after the George Floyd protests). I can link a few tweets, but with millions of twitter messages a day, I can hardly li
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by ApolloFortyNine 6y ago
The biggest hit against reddit is that every large sub has to resort to weekly discussion posts/tagging every post so people can filter, simply because of the way subreddits are forced to be laid out. A normal forum will have different
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by ApolloFortyNine 6y ago
A "log in with Google/Apple/Github/whatever" fixes that issue easily enough.
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by ApolloFortyNine 6y ago
>This implies that no singlecountry will be able to affordthe construction of this machine and also the operation timemust be strictly restricted. Meh, $100 billion? The US has spent more than that on it's own defense initiative ($2
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by ApolloFortyNine 6y ago
I'm curious, if Github does decide to end their ICE contract, if this will follow the 'slippery slope' into then combing other companies ICE works with. Surely there's a bank ICE holds their money in, do they have a Gith
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by ApolloFortyNine 6y ago
This is one of the supreme examples of what a huge effect media bias can have. Without actually lying, the media coverage of immigration (often purposely blurring the lines between illegal and legal immigration, with the birth of the term &
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by ApolloFortyNine 6y ago
>All corporations are political. By accepting the ICE contract previously it was political. Now by reversing they would be changing sides. They were already in the political fray. This is only the case if you can find a substantial numbe
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by ApolloFortyNine 6y ago
And how did they expect them to get paid when they were giving away unlimited copies of the authors books?
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by ApolloFortyNine 6y ago
The only virus ever to be eliminated globally is smallpox, and it took a vaccine to do so. Unless Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, iceland, luxembourg, monaco, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Belize, China plan on never reopening to
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by ApolloFortyNine 6y ago
I'm not sure what the point of owning a digital copy of a book is if I can, at any time, "loan" one from the IA in <15 seconds. In a way it's even more convenient than owning a copy, your basically using IA as cloud s
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by ApolloFortyNine 6y ago
I don't think Google has ever released the numbers on how many people have opted out, one can assume it's not 100%. And you are clearly tracked across Google services at least, as anyone who has ever google something shopping rela
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by ApolloFortyNine 6y ago
You can not [1] (though this is definitely the clause that at least in the US, I'm confident would be beaten down in court). And this is why I have such a problem with the rule. Without some dramatic changes, any video streaming site a
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by ApolloFortyNine 6y ago
Cutting off my post right before I say "except they should have told them where they should go instead of arresting them of course." is incredibly misleading.
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If it was because the reporters here were 'too close' then that does kind of fit the narrative the cops gave, except they should have told them where they should go instead of arresting them of course. Still, does not make it raci
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by ApolloFortyNine 6y ago
Because it's not on topic. It is almost definitely crime or politics. From FAQ: What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sent
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by ApolloFortyNine 6y ago
The main Mastodon federation has a list of servers you must ban on your end to join the federation. So even if you only disagree with a subsection of them, if you want your server to be in the popular federation, you have to ban the entire
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by ApolloFortyNine 6y ago
The federated Mastodon, the one people generally are talking about, is controlled, by a 'democracy' of sorts of the server owners. The technology itself is of course open, but if your content is not approved by the main Mastodon f
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by ApolloFortyNine 6y ago
They clearly state you have to be looking for a job. [1] [1] https://www.ncoa.gov.au/report/appendix-volume-1/9-11-unempl...
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Punishing the people who put in extra time to improve themselves really seems like an odd way to go.
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>I will also disagree that the SAT is a leveling field. The reason is that in the high achieving schools, the child is sent to private tutors and classes every single year of their lives starting in elementary school. The parents will sp

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