Fargren

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by Fargren 6y ago
Lips closed, teeth unclenched. That's how I sleep anyways, as far as I can tell.
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by Fargren 6y ago
You are not wrong, but bear in mind that Lorem Ipsum is not latin, is latin-looking gibberish.
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by Fargren 6y ago
> But no-one has a problem with other creative industries withdrawing their publications I wouldn't say no one has a problem with this. It does happen, but it certainly doesn't make everyone happy. I for one would like for all
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by Fargren 6y ago
I work at Book Depository. We ship to almost every country in the world, and certainly to every country in Europe.
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by Fargren 6y ago
> Eliminating all physical proximity with other humans for months or years is very much not. Agreed. That is excessive and is not what I'm doing. I meet with friends roughly two out of three weekends, and I see my girlfriend every w
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by Fargren 6y ago
Yes, this is more or less exactly what I tell myself. I think it's a rational and logical way to look at this. I still feel very uneasy about it though. We don't know the long term effects of COVID. I worry that I could be contrib
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by Fargren 6y ago
I have an issue with this. I hear a lot of this argument, that we should "accept a certain risk of catching COVID". But that risk is not what keeps me from going out, I'm personally willing to catch it. What keeps me home is
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by Fargren 6y ago
I'll restate what I said: In a game of Monopoly, someone who starts with more money is not playing under the same rules. A game of Monopoly where one player starts with more money is not a fair game, even thought we all move 6 spaces f
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by Fargren 6y ago
Real fairness under that definition can't exist as long as there are inheritances. People who are born in wealthier families are not playing under the same rules (just imagine if a person playing Monopoly started with ten times the ini
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by Fargren 6y ago
If I dig one hole a day with my hands and ten holes a day with a shovel, I still dug the nine extra holes even if I don't own the shovel.
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by Fargren 6y ago
Android allows sideloading and this doesn't happen (too much) in Android. It's possible to support walled garden by default while giving the user advanced options to sideload, which are difficult but not too difficult to find.
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by Fargren 6y ago
Why hasn't this happened on Android ? Or has it happened and I'm not aware? I think as long as sideloading is made inconvenient enough, most consumers won't use it and therefore most developers won't provide it. But it s
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by Fargren 6y ago
I don't think that would happen. You can sideload into Android but as far as I know no one sideloads Tik Tok, you just get it through the store. I'm not saying it can't happen, but I just don't see it as a reason for not
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by Fargren 6y ago
> I want an ecosystem that works and I can rely on including knowing that little to no one can side load a malicious application onto the device. I don't understand this, can you explain why? As long as you don't sideload on yo
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by Fargren 6y ago
> one cannot combine ideological utopia and a functional economy. And still we should try. It's not like California didn't have a functional economy before Uber. Sometimes it's right to make sacrifices in order to uphold o
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by Fargren 6y ago
Rights are not granted by governments, they are recognized by governments. They exist as part of our culture.
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by Fargren 6y ago
> Is it a "right" if it can be taken away? Of course. Every person that was ever murdered had a right to live, even when it was taken away. Would you say that they didn't? Rights exists regardless of whether they are respe
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by Fargren 6y ago
I think you are bringing your own biases to this problem. The US is not as decentralized as it once was, it's true. And that has pros and cons. But many countries that are more centralized than the US have handled this crisis better, a
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by Fargren 6y ago
Most of the world has reacted better than the US. I agree it's not easy, it has not been easy for anyone. But the unwillingness/incapability of the US to suffer backlash from their own moneyed interests is not the norm. It's
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by Fargren 6y ago
I didn't put my e-reader back into my backpack after passing security in Heathrow. Two days later I received an email telling em they had found an e-reader configured with my email address. They asked me to describe it, I mentioned whi
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by Fargren 6y ago
> if there is no fetus-person claim This question is essentially unsolvable from a philosophical point of view. Laws and people will take their stand about when human life beings, but there is no objective definition that will solve thi
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by Fargren 6y ago
I come from a country were people are still often denied abortions after being raped, so maybe my perspective is a biased (though the laws say they should be allowed). But even in other cases, I assume if a person is looking for an abortion
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by Fargren 6y ago
> if a foetus is a life (i.e. a person) from day one, then it follows women shouldn't have a choice This is not the case. Even if the foetus is a human person, body autonomy tells us that no person should be forced to give up their
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by Fargren 6y ago
I like being praised for my work, and would be annoyed if I was never congratulated for doing a good job. But if I'm often praised and never see a compensation increase, that will make me feel the praise is fake: if my work is so valua
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by Fargren 6y ago
And you would be correct. Apolitical media doesn't and can't exist. The existence of media is a political statement. You can restrict partisan media, or identity politics media, or other subsets of politics. But politics as a whol
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by Fargren 6y ago
I think the point Scarblac was trying to make is that by the biological definition of race, there is only one human race, and all human belong to it. We have historically said that Black people, White people, Asian people, whatever, belong
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by Fargren 6y ago
Quoting a message from this thread: > If you are black, you are less likely to get a small business loan, and if so you are likely to get worse rates [1]. They also are encountering more resistance to accessing COVID-19 bailout funds [2]
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by Fargren 6y ago
The definition of racism is not treating a race different from others. Racism is a belief that one race is better or worse than others, and the politics that arise from that belief. Recognizing that a group has been treated unfairly and com
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by Fargren 6y ago
I have tattoos and went to some very nice public Onsen in Japan. It's more work to find them, for sure.
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by Fargren 6y ago
Regarding what the police should have done, I think the Wikipedia article is quite clear: > 'a call was dispatched to officers on the street as a "Code 2" assignment, although calls of a crime in progress should be given p

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