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by Blahah 3y ago
It seems like you're advocating for something the OP didn't ask for. They asked for advice about how to stop "being this way". That's what the GP comment provided. I'm sorry for whatever you've been throug
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by Blahah 3y ago
It's certainly a constraint of any medical system but not a goal, primary or otherwise. The goal of socialised medicine is to provide medical care equitably to everyone who needs it - to assign that as a right. Care only has to be rati
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by Blahah 3y ago
Absolutely. But in the UK, Ireland, Germany, New Zealand, etc... nobody would be refused their medicine because the payment system didn't work. Even if the computers didn't work. In the USA, people can and do die because there&#x2
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by Blahah 3y ago
Right, equitable access to medicine means everyone pays a zero, or trivially affordable price, that's the same regardless of who they are and regardless of what the medicine is. In the UK that is £9 maximum - free for many. P.S. vouche
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by Blahah 3y ago
Having to show identity documentation doesn't rely on a payment processor. Prescriptions in the UK (and other places - Germany for example) are electronic by default but can be made out on paper and verified without a computer.
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by Blahah 3y ago
Nobody diagnosed anything. It's a perfectly reasonable thing for a person to suggest that another person might be depressed, especially in this context where it is clearly intended to be supportive.
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by Blahah 3y ago
But none relating to payment or ability to pay. In the UK, medications are dispensed without checking whether a person is eligible for free prescriptions. Anyone can collect a prescription medication without paying by claiming an exemption
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by Blahah 3y ago
The absurdity is painful. That in a wealthy nation people can be unable to access medicine because the system for deciding who will pay how much for it is unavailable. Absolutely grotesque. The hack isn't the problem. The system that p
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by Blahah 3y ago
> it's 'obvious'[0] that the latter warrants more policing. Is it? I don't see it as at all obvious. It seems utterly ridiculous to me to increase policing in sync with socioeconomic deprivation. The blindingly obviou
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by Blahah 3y ago
Running it remotely on a cloud instance? Or on any machine without a GPU.
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by Blahah 3y ago
Weed can easily be adulterated (e.g. by spraying with synthetic cannabinoids), but generally it's trivial to find a supplier who doesn't do that. But also true of MDMA and ketamine.
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by Blahah 3y ago
No it isn't. Because there is precisely no evidence for, or coherent argue in favour of, ID. If you imagine ID is an alternative to evolution then that is to misunderstand the concept of evolution which is, at least in its fundamental
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by Blahah 3y ago
Widespread poverty in Ethiopia started with the Italian fascist invasion.
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by Blahah 3y ago
Most children aged 3+ are entitled to a few days of free childcare/nursery in the UK, but it's unlikely that a montessori school accepts the government scheme. They may do though, if you email them. Childcare for the remaining two
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by Blahah 3y ago
Barely a country? Without a shred of infrastructure? You haven't been to Ethiopia, or learned about its history, clearly. Ethiopia is not only very much a country (with that name since 330 AD), but one orders of magnitude older and mor
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by Blahah 3y ago
Are you confusing Sudan with the moon? I spent a month teaching at the university of Khartoum, and another couple of weeks travelling around the country, and Sudan has working infrastructure that is only inhibited by sanctions.
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by Blahah 3y ago
https://archive.is/AWuWw
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by Blahah 3y ago
> Now I’m super autistic about paper backups of everything, having ways back in, etc I don't think autistic means what you think it means
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by Blahah 3y ago
I agree it will also be impactful in the US. Just saying not in Antarctica, where all 50 annual visitors already have a sat phone
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by Blahah 3y ago
To be fair, if you make life decisions based on listicles on the website of a printer manufacturer, you might love living in Luxembourg. And if you're white, middle class, and hate having interesting experiences. For everyone else ther
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by Blahah 3y ago
Antarctica and international waters already have sat phone coverage. Don't think it'll save any lives in those places. Remote regions of populous countries with a long tail of sparse rural infrastructure maybe. Brazil, India, Chin
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by Blahah 3y ago
True for a particular dominant but antiquated and rapidly aging out model of peer review. Peer review as practiced at PeerJ, eLife, F1000, etc. is collaborative, productive, and maintains integrity in a visible way. Peer review is not inher
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by Blahah 3y ago
But that isn't what it means in the context of theft, and linguistically the distinction is clear unless you are being disingenuous. There is absolutely no linguistic foundation for equating theft and duplicating information. Legally t
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by Blahah 3y ago
Your definition supports the OP. All three require 'taking', which doesn't happen with copying
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by Blahah 3y ago
It's unclear to me why he's destroyed this evidence or how the vague explanation suggested in the article (for YouTube views) makes any sense. Anyone understand it?
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by Blahah 3y ago
Because you can't police who is using the device at the other end. You're authenticating a client device, not a person, and that doesn't keep children any safer from abuse - if anything it means they have an incentive to keep
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by Blahah 3y ago
So happy you've discovered it! In every single video in the series he lifts up a bunch of people who are struggling in a really personal, memorable, inspiring way. I reckon he's saved a few lives (at least).
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by Blahah 3y ago
Tbh the sad thing isn't any youtuber losing a platform, it's that Omegle was really a place people went when they were having a hard time and other people went there to cheer them up. I really hope there's another platform li
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by Blahah 3y ago
The journey of those episodes is really inspiring. Practising in that environment he pushes the boundaries of so many areas of human achievement in one, and once he's better than anyone else in the world (maybe half way through the ser
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by Blahah 3y ago
Gives me chills, that was so heartfelt and raw. Hurt on all sides, but this is a bit like losing access to a public space because someone committed crimes there. One of the greatest things Omegle enabled is this... https://www.yo

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