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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
My thoughts exactly. Why suffer through 1-2 days of sickness every 6 months to protect myself against an illness that I've already had and poses no threat to my demographic anyway? Sounds like the cure is worse than the disease. I smel
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
That's really interesting and tells me that I need to do more research into this case before forming an opinion. (Don't I always?) Thanks for sharing.
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
Sorry, but you don't get to decide what words mean. "Tax evasion" is illegal by definition. "Tax avoidance" is legal. According to Wikipedia, the term "tax noncompliance" (or "tax avoision"... bl
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
But it is worthless garbage, unlike a lot of torrents.
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
How do you pronounce "Tvix"?
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
So why didn't they skip "Mu", which as others have pointed out is a far more common name than Xi? Everyone knows the real reason they skipped Xi, you're not fooling anybody.
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
They skipped the Greek letter "Xi"; no prizes for guessing why.
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
Anything you recommend instead? Personally, I got a lot of value from Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann.
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
> There’s no way this ends well How do you think it will end?
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
What does "due care" mean here? Does it have a specific legal meaning? How is it possible to kill someone with your car while exercising "due care"?
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
For starters, here's the relevant part of Texas penal code which GP mentioned. You can read the whole thing, it's very short: https://texas.public.law/statutes/tex._penal_code_section_9.... IANAL, but it seem
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
> If you're buying diamonds or bananas or cobalt, and you need a provable supply chain though.. yeah.. it fits. I've heard about this supposed use for blockchain before and I genuinely don't get it. So what if you have a t
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
> There absolutely are good uses for crypto, and even for things like NFTs What do you think are the good uses for crypto and NFTs? (This is a genuine question; I've never been sure what to think about crypto.)
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
It all starts with the dubious (to say the least) premise that men and women are exactly the same. Both sexes on average want the same things, like the same things, are interested in the same things, and have the same priorities and procliv
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
> Ottawa is itself closer to Havana than is Barbados. Wow, this looks really wrong on Google Maps (Mercator strikes again!), but I looked it up and you're right. Havana to Ottowa: 1585 miles. Bridgetown, Barbados to Havana: 1644
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
No idea, but the theory is as plausible as it is hilarious.
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
I don't think the resemblance is that strong: https://www.startpage.com/av/proxy-image?piurl=https%3A%2F%2...
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
I'm a big fan of this theory of royal offspring: https://medium.com/@leibowitt/of-course-fidel-castro-is-just...
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
Do Appalachians say "just" a lot? I don't get it.
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
> I’m honestly surprised people still exist who support lockdowns. 18 months of relentless one-sided fear porn will do that to a mind. I highly recommend Laura Dodsworth's recent book A State of Fear for more on this. It's ab
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
Remember: vaccine passports are only a temporary measure until we've got the virus under control. Oh, and you're going to need a booster jab every six months, but stop asking questions.
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
> and then it happened again. Did it happen again? We haven't had anything close to another Chernobyl, and that was 35 years ago (more than 50% of the entire history of the nuclear power industry.)
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
> when they whip up paranoia for ratings Wait until you learn about a thing called COVID-19.
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
Increasing the CO2 concentration in the air we breathe, even by the relatively small amount caused by burning fossil fuels, has been shown to lower human cognitive function. Does that count as poisoning? (Source: it's discussed in the
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
Any podcast recommendations?
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
Enjoy this brief respite, because it won't be long until he's center of attention again.
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
So when are Apple going to make phones that use the same charging cables as everyone else?
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
Are you open to hiring part-time contractors?
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
You two are discussing this as if it's specific to Germany... is it really that rare? Every tech job I've ever had in the UK (admittedly not a huge sample size) has had some kind of probationary period baked into the contract, alt
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
Does it? Most people I know use computers daily, but they can't touch type.

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