Hondor

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by Hondor 10y ago
It's sad that this is a service instead of just free software. Did that never evolve to be user friendly enough? Do ISPs not let you run your own web server anymore? Maybe it's because of changing IP addresses and domain names? Th
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So you agree? Our ideas of right and wrong are largely arbitrary so we aren't actually very good people compared to our ancestors. Your main concern is that the examples I used to show that aren't as good as showing that we arbitr
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People tend to overestimate their own competence (and I suppose intelligence), so they must also see anyone who agrees with them as being of high intelligence too. That means we think the politicians we vote for are smart. It's just th
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> the others cannot by definition (according to legal and social norms). Your argument could equally be used to justify criminalizing gay sex as long as it happens in a country where it's illegal and people generally don't like
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It's hard to make an argument against pedophilia (as a sexuality) which doesn't also argue against homosexuality. Of course gay men raping other men is bad and is still a crime, just as adults raping children is bad. But that&#x27
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It makes a valuable point that our popular culture that we think makes us "civilized" is really just a sham and we're no different from olden-days racists and homophobes but with a few extra rules applied. We're very car
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We can't ban the government from doing what private businesses and people can already do. Otherwise they can simply buy the data off private companies who have cameras on private buildings.
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What's more of a surprise is that there's a browser that has such a clumsy sounding feature as this "wand". Only power users are going to bother clicking a button just to help them fill in a form, or even know that'
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Maybe FB thinks they speak Hebrew because they liked lots of other Hebrew language posts too. Could be a vicious cycle. These like-trigger-happy Arabs probably drown out the real Israelis simply because they like more posts.
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As long as there's a way to verify they're really natural. The article mentions synthetic diamonds getting certified and sold as natural ones. Once they become indistinguishable, how could anyone trust a luxury brand to really be
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Only "almost all"? Why not use the few that don't? Is it because your revenue from them will be lower? Maybe it's lower because they aren't forcing these profitable ads at your users. That really does sound like the
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If the only way publishers can make money is by screwing people over then maybe the whole business model is the problem and life would be better without all those blogs. Here's an alternative. Specialist sites sometimes sell ads direct
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Adblock Plus tries to do that https://adblockplus.org/acceptable-ads
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Many of your reasons disappear when everyone has a smartphone. The software can convert whatever representation of a location into whatever description helps find it. That I think is better than locking "directions to help the postman&
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If Apple goes to USB-C then it'll do the opposite of split the market. Of course it'll be a massive step back if it spawns lightning versions of headphones on top of 3.5mm and USB-C. But that's not a sure thing. What is a sur
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Whenever I see these negative responses to eliminating legacy technology, I think "would you prefer to wind the clock back and add any obsolete things?" Is there any now-gone port that phones/computers should reinstate or is
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The article seems to be saying America's military isn't powerful enough. Is that really a problem for anyone, even America? I thought most of their military was just a byproduct of the military industrial complex and not actually
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What if the GPU had its own private SSD with textures installed to it when you install the game? A 100GB SSD is about 20% of the price of a high end video card.
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dw's society can produce goods at lower cost than without fw. But really there doesn't need to be any benefit to dw's society unless dw's people consider themselves privileged and deserving a better life than the world&#
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I agree that being locked to one employer is a kind of market distortion. Would you say non-compete clauses are too? I know they're not enforceable in California, but other states effectively lock local workers to their company because
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Does what your ancestors might have done really make you more deserving of a better life? I understand that it gives you more chance of a better life, but just by the luck of the lottery of birth, not by any actual fairness. Did civil war s
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$5/hour sounds like they were violating minimum wage law which is now about $11/hour. Surely that itself is the problem, not whether the workers were foreign or local, or how much above minimum wage they were paid.
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Is it really broken to fight an artificial government imposed monopoly, which is what labor restrictions on foreigners is? This isn't something that's going to make the incumbents destitute. They're IT workers, eminently hire
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Well yes, mainly. But the complaint of the laid-off workers was about immigrants taking their jobs.
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This is simple "they stole our jobs" rhetoric. It's just like taxi drivers with their "Uber stole our fares". If you can't compete, go to another market. If you're already overcharging, charge less. "
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I was just stating the outcome in a more negative way. Most had no reversal but also most didn't get worse either. Because half of that 70% were in the "halted" category which might not be much use if you're already at a
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That all happened 15 years ago. The article mentions that it's available at some hospitals, so that suggests it was ultimately successful and it's now part of regular medicine. I suppose it's still only for 5% of cases and on
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They should because they decide the country's actions through their votes. For a democracy like the US or UK, at least.
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That's always been Apple's advantage. Trying to serve everybody's needs is what Windows was for a long time. Apple has a history of breaking compatibility and screwing over the few holdouts of the old products. I think that f
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Nobody ever says they want fewer options, but that's because it's never such a pressing issue as not having the one you want. In a program I develop, I sometimes remove an option and people complain, then it turns out they were ra

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