Normati

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by Normati 12y ago
That didn't work in England when they wanted to arrest a terror suspect, so they secretly followed him to work one day, then shot him dead as he entered the train station. It turned out he was a plumber, not a terrorist.
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by Normati 12y ago
America isn't the problem, Americans are. Everyone who voted for this is to blame. From what I understand you can even vote for some of the local judges or prosecutors too! There's no excuse but to recognize that your neighbors ar
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by Normati 12y ago
I was just thinking about freedom of speech. I don't deny America has a problem with police violence. It has a bigger problem with violence in general too. It is still quite bizarre that not being in France, I can safely say "The
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by Normati 12y ago
France is not a free society in the same way America is. French people are happy to live under many more restrictive laws but we don't often see it. For instance, Charlie Hebdo's staff could have gone to prison if they had publish
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by Normati 12y ago
The election is the appropriate forum. Except that Americans somehow keep on voting for parties they don't want because they have silly idealistic rivalries.
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by Normati 12y ago
A table of symbols is extremely helpful. I hate reading a paper where the author defines things when they first appear. If you missed that bit, you have to spend minutes searching for it, and forget what you were thinking about. It's w
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by Normati 12y ago
No because we can't control cell reproduction to any significant degree compared to what happens automatically. If you're careful not to cut your skin and cause extra cell reproducing as it heals, you're still shedding your e
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by Normati 12y ago
It seems to be counting types of cancer (by their location in the body) rather than incidence. This makes it potentially meaningless. Those 9 cancers caused by lifestyle, might also be the 9 most common or most deadly ones.
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by Normati 12y ago
When the nature of the hazard is entirely new and it causes no symptoms in the short term, who could imagine it's dangerous? Are we confident that Facebook use won't cause psychological problems as people grow older? That reading
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by Normati 12y ago
Why isn't the threat of legal action a sufficient incentive against this? It might not help to prevent freak accidents but for known health problems like the radium, if the managers are documented to know about it without taking action
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by Normati 12y ago
This feature of strings is cool! It sounds like the end of the Unicode encoding mess that most languages drag the programmer into: "One of the truly clever design choices for Swift's String is the internal use of encoding-independ
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by Normati 12y ago
Not a requirement. Eg USA didn't have them half a century ago despite being mostly developed (I understand some parts are still a bit wild west), and fairly stable (probably not really going to be taken over by communism).
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by Normati 12y ago
StrongVPN works fine for me. I leave it on pretty much 24/7 except when it disconnects a few times a day.
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by Normati 12y ago
I like this idea. Unfortunately the small cost to each individual site operator is too great for their own motivation - despite the value it might add. I guess that value would be more intelligent filtering which may actually be a good thin
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by Normati 12y ago
Human rights are a luxury of stable, developed countries. If autocratic governments are too liberal with them, they can lose their power, and that can end up worse than all the human rights problems put together (ie civil war). See Iraq or