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EpicEng
7y ago
I don't see a comparison to food here... just flying and shipping via boat.
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7y ago
Which "war [video] games" that are "on the market" are you playing exactly?
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7y ago
It continually amazes me that people like you think they have found a legitimate problem after 30 seconds of thought which the experts never imagined. I imagine at least one follow up which includes a reference to 'appeal to authority&
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7y ago
If someone is going to rise to the level of creating a mask in your image to unlock your phone then you have already failed by using this feature to secure it. MI6 is coming after you and you're relying on something like this? C'm
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7y ago
Automatic billing... Meanwhile, median life expectancy has skyrocketed, in large part due to new medical treatments and early detection methods. Unless your father was spending 20-30% of each day paying bills, I don't think that's
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7y ago
Then you're going to have to give me some examples. All in all I think doctors and medical scientists are more important to the world than the vast majority of us (since we have to make it an either/or for the sake of argument), s
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7y ago
Why are you assuming that I would spend less time with e.g. my wife if she were less efficient in performing some menial task? It would take her longer _to complete_, but that doesn't mean she wouldn't still quit working at 5. Bes
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7y ago
>I would argue that helping many people allocate their time towards activities they actually value is just as important as saving individual lives. I think you'd pretty easily get trounced making that argument. People would much rat
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7y ago
You're leaving out the fact that the attorneys take these cases on contingency and front the costs.
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7y ago
As a high level statement that makes no sense. We as a society place age restrictions on all sorts of activities. You have to be specific and focus on the problem at hand.
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7y ago
>How is this different from buying baseball cards, pokemon cards, etc.? There are at least two obvious differences. First, you can't divorce the problem from reality and expect to win an argument based upon the fact that loot boxes
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7y ago
Man, why should those people be allowed to meddle in your life? What is your point exactly?
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7y ago
Yet back in the real world where children aren't spending hundreds of dollars to fuel their 25c toy machine addiction, parents are parenting by saying "this is bad". This also effects adults, let's not pretend this is an
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7y ago
And when your oven has a problem with it's heating element you'll have no idea why your cake didn't turn out well. We're supposed to be engineers, right? Learning how things work is good.
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7y ago
I don't own the law firm I use to defend myself in court, but I do pay them to act on my behalf. Blizzard has also not done anything to backpedal on that statement. Honestly, how many mental hoops did you have to jump through to convin
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7y ago
>but that is a pretty onerous requirement if you think you're not a security But the SEC does, so tough luck? >The Telegram token may increase in price but there's no profit sharing directly from Telegram Sounds like a wease
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7y ago
I have a hard time believing you would even be arrested, but I suppose I have no clue as to whether or not it's actually happening.
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7y ago
>First they try to threat you, and then resort to the police How could they pull this off? It's 100% he said, she said. What court is going to see such a case through and find in favor of the fraudster?
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7y ago
Which order is unlawful in your mind?
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7y ago
Nice. It's a niche industry still for sure, and I didn't work on live cell imaging that would require incubation (we had a process that would keep the cells in good shape via a live cell medium.) It's interesting work. Sounds
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>What did they do? My guess would be 'very little', though I have no facts to back that up. It's just a staggering number given what the company does. I've worked at a place like this. The job was as easy as it was cu
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7y ago
In my experience Dysons are overpriced garbage. Do yourself a favor and buy a miele next time.
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>What is surprising about this line of thinking? I never said it was 'surprising'; I said it was remarkable. >People stated, correctly, that companies should support gay rights and other progressive causes because it is in t
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7y ago
>Of course there is! What does it mean to NOT remain neutral? No, there is not. At least, not any longer. The moment a company dips their toes into the Chinese market they are getting into bed with an oppressive, authoritarian regime who
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This is just a remarkable line of thought. What you're really saying here is that the actions of a company are justifiable solely based upon whether or not the company is acting in its own best (financial) interest. Just... wow. >Ch
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I would imagine not, but do you think those two statements stand on the same footing? At some point you have to examine what is actually being said. I understand that can get murky, which is really the entire problem with censorship, but
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>You are a professional player in a tournament, you should not use an official stream to spew political opinions https://overwatchleague.com/en-us/news/23013827/ Blizzard was fine introducing politics into
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>I think Blizzard has a legitimate "time and place" argument here. Blizzard pushed Pride hard when it suited them to do so. What is the proper time and place exactly? It would seem that only certain political opinions are ok an
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>You can't use someone's event as a platform to express your political views when their terms forbid it Their terms are a generic, vague catch all yo allow them to punish you for saying anything they don't like. There'
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7y ago
I thin you missed the point... of course a farmer wouldn't want to carry additional weight. What they would scoff at is a software developer complaining about an extra pound when their most strenuous activity is walking from an Uber to
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