GhostVII

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by GhostVII 8y ago
An extra pound of weight in a backpack can be pretty annoying, since you have to move the backpack around a lot and carry it by hand sometimes.
782.
by GhostVII 8y ago
HN is relatively easy to optimise though - there are only a few stories with high traffic, so if you have good caching the load on the back end can be very low. It's more difficult to do that with something like github where the users
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by GhostVII 8y ago
Just because they are closing places that sell weed, doesn't mean it is illegal, just controlled. Alcohol is legal, but the Ontario government is still going to close down any store selling it without authorization.
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by GhostVII 8y ago
If you are OK with eating meat, you should be OK with killing animals for a movie, in my opinion. When you eat a steak, you could eat potatoes or something instead, but you choose to eat an animal because you like how it tastes. I don'
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by GhostVII 8y ago
How is discrimination along racial grounds legal in university admissions? Isn't race a protected class you can't discriminate against? If a store refused to provide service to an Asian because they already had too many Asian cust
786.
by GhostVII 8y ago
I would be very surprised if the benefits from blocking signal outweighs the cost of constructing the building to intentionally block signal, and the risk of being sued for it. It's probably just something that happens naturally with t
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by GhostVII 8y ago
Amazon profits off of it, but so do the shipping companies and payment processors that helped sell the product and increase its sales. I don't think a platform that provides a service should be responsible for those that use the servic
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by GhostVII 8y ago
Wouldn't those be essentially the same as docked bikes then? You have to bring it to one of the designated locations to drop it off, just like with docks.
789.
by GhostVII 8y ago
Shouldn't the liability be placed on the company actually selling the product through amazon? Amazon is a marketplace, not a manufacturer, in most cases I think
790.
by GhostVII 8y ago
Even if politics significantly affect you, I don't see why you can't get along with someone who's beliefs could negatively affect you, as long as they don't hold those beliefs with the goal of hurting you personally. Eve
791.
by GhostVII 8y ago
How so? Were there politicians debating on whether it was OK to be racist? Being anti-immigration is not racism regardless of how you feel about the topic.
792.
by GhostVII 8y ago
That doesn't make it a political issue though, because there isn't really any serious debate about it. Just because more racists support Republicans doesn't make it a political issue unless racism is something a significant a
793.
by GhostVII 8y ago
How do politics dominate every faucet of your life? My life is not affected at all when the government changes, except I pay slightly different taxes, and the news is different.
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by GhostVII 8y ago
Racism isn't a political issue, it's accepted that it is a bad thing.
795.
by GhostVII 8y ago
In the same way that a fake Picasso isn't real because Picasso never made it, a lab grown diamond isn't "real" because the earth didn't make it.
796.
by GhostVII 8y ago
I think the difference with games now is that the expectations are much higher - games cost far more to produce than they used to, and are much more complex and have better graphics, so it is harder to recoupe development costs by selling a
797.
by GhostVII 8y ago
Would radio ads be discrimination because they generally target and older audience? Or TV adds on shows that are generally viewed by older audiences or younger audiences? If it is discrimination to only show Facebook job ads to certain demo
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by GhostVII 8y ago
Source?
799.
by GhostVII 8y ago
It makes more sense in nature for females to be more selective than males, since once they choose a mate they have to deal with that choice for a while, resulting in males competing for females. So I think it makes sense that men would natu
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by GhostVII 9y ago
That seems like a pretty significant government overreach. Forcing solar panels on every house just doesn't make sense, and I think people should have the freedom to chose whether or not they want them. Its fine to add incentives, but
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by GhostVII 9y ago
That was a pretty terrible article. How does free speech enable the "mass murder" of women? Would attacks against women stop if people weren't allowed to talk about them first? And incels isn't a great community, but I t
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by GhostVII 9y ago
The value of the Mona Lisa is in the physical object. The value of the broadcast archives is the information they store. So storing the archived in a different format makes them more valuable, but storing the Mona Lisa in a new format remov
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by GhostVII 9y ago
Probably not, because there are far more male cofounders than female.
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by GhostVII 9y ago
But if the safety feature works almost all the time, and occasionally fails catestrophically, I would argue that it is actually more dangerous than having no safety feature, since people will depend on it working and not catch it when it fa
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by GhostVII 9y ago
It was going 3mph over the speed limit, a perfectly reasonable speed that is still probably lower than almost everyone else on the road.
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by GhostVII 9y ago
Where I'm from, at least, for people learning to drive the first thing you learn is that, if you go the speed limit, you are going too slow and will irritate everyone around you.
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by GhostVII 9y ago
Driving the speed limit is frequently unsafe. I drive on highway 401 in Ontario frequently, where the speed limit is 100kmh, but traffic flows at 120kmh or above, with faster traffic going more like 130. Going the speed limit means you are
808.
by GhostVII 9y ago
But, in the US at least, the speed of traffic will be much faster than the speed limit, so driving the limit is unsafe.
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by GhostVII 9y ago
How did they link your purchase to your account then? If they are linking accounts through credit card numbers that is pretty bad, anyone who has used that card for an online purchase can see any other purchases made with it.
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by GhostVII 9y ago
How did they link your online account with your purchase? Through your credit card?

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