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by Hokusai 6y ago
> post-hoc punishment post-hoc punishment is the only reasonable punishment. The alternative it to punish people before they commit a crime, and that seems immoral at best. > push a policy My guess, it was already illegal to poison th
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In 2020 there are some replacements for what used to be templates and even templates have improved to be more expressive. 17 years after this article was written there seems to not be a better alternative. Templates are still at the core of
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> Forging relationships with political leaders, media personalities and activists is now critical to Facebook’s continued primacy in social media. Where has the WSJ left the "capitalism is good, let the markets decide" attitude
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> academia itself is not doing enough to change this culture This is the key point. Individual action is needed to fight climate change, but cooperation between governments and institutions is as or even more important. > The data ind
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Great comment, I agree with it. Except for the blame part: > Those people are the ones running the tech giants today, pushing locked down hardware, and trying to crush general computing as a thing. To blame individuals will solve nothing
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> I wouldn't even say lack of testing is technical deb You are right, it depends on the kind of application and circumstances testing can be done in different ways. There is occasions were instead of automated testing there are othe
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> Payments couldn’t be processed in different currencies > If the delivery system is offline, the code wouldn’t work > Users with deactivated accounts could still access the system > No automated testing > And this, my friend
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Is your position that everything is relative and truth does not exists? Is that a quote of some book that I do not know? Am I missing the reference? Your answer is sarcastic and I do not see how it helps to improve my understanding of your
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Seems like a breach of contract. Adobe should give the money back, at least.
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> polite conversation about mundane topics Is lying polite? Is lying respectful? Misinformation is not only harmful but also disrespectful towards your audience. So, I agree with you that "polite conversation about mundane topics&qu
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> But at the same time, doing that kind of doomed future generations to stagnation and decline of equality. I do not see that relationship. To not invest in people's well being and education is what has doomed America economically a
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> But along with the term of experience goes the breadth. You see, the person who learned reference counting in 1995 and thinks that you can only really understand programming if you manually type out your own reference-changing events,
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> it'll probably be the last antitrust case against Google we'll see for some time. ...in the USA.
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> they didn't get it as much last spring; they're getting it now That are lives saved. The more knowledge we have about the disease the easier is to treat it. Also, that measure has extended the lives of all the people that wo
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> One is a anti-paedophilia movement That is how some people think, they are demonstrably wrong. There are things that are true and things that are false, not everything is an opinion. The scientific method helps to see that your comment
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> gutenberg.org You are right. :) My point is that a bug that set book prices in Amazon to zero would be fixed quite fast.
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> "A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling: For ex... That makes no sense, because it is not solving the problem with the English language pronunciation. To solve pronunciation you have 2 options: 1. Set on 1 pronunciation fo
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This makes me feel very frustrated. Facebook logic seems "As we have to remove QAnnon posts, we will also remove Extinction Rebellion posts. They are NOT equivalent! One is a cult that promotes terrorism the other one is a environmenta
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It makes sense. There is no much cost for such a mistake. Some team somewhere has a "correct overprice bug" low in the priority of their backlog of tasks. Have you found many books that you wanted priced at $0?
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> I missed out on witnessing Uber's hyper-growth phase. That is so alien to my personal values that I have a hard time following the post. > [...] fueled what current and former Uber employees describe as a Hobbesian environment
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All the on-line advertisement industry has gone too far. As an example, I found a site with a walkthrough of a game I was playing. The typical site that many kids and teenagers will use to get unstuck in a game. The pop-up listed over 1,500
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> the totalitarian government in China Yes, except that it started to work out when China stopped to try to be a fully planned economy (that killed millions) and started to work towards a more free market economy where people had more ch
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The future is scary if any sole country leads the world. Only cooperation and shared responsibility creates a viable future for humanity.
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> They should feel social pressure That rarely works. For each consumer that has the time and understanding to not buy the brand there is a thousand that are not aware. The way to go is lobbying for stronger regulations and to limit wher
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> it didn't feel as dystopian as it sounds My mother grew up in a dictatorship, and most of the time is like any other country. People would come on vacations and they will not even notice any difference. The only problem is when yo
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> Instead, I believe that it is a national security issue That or the president wants a Friendly social network to manage the news cycle of the election instead of a social network that is not so much influenced by him. Those who contro
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The USA has more freedom of speech that many countries, but its heavily biased on certain ways. To show violence on TV is Ok, but to show a naked body makes people go all full censorship. That a nip slip in 2004 generated news around all th
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> Urine therapy is an alternative medicine with zero scientific evidence to support any beneficial claims. Yes. There is zero evidence to support any of its claims, nobody should do that. I just was pointing out that it exists, that it
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Look for Urine therapy, I guess that this is not a great source but there you go: https://www.yogapedia.com/definition/5884/amaroli
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VC capital goes to noteworthy individuals that are able to give a memorably pitch. Hardworking, sensible individuals build their careers in a different way. If you take Elon Musk as an example, he was already wealthy. That adds to a sense o

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