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by Nursie 1y ago
> the cost of paying for the moderation would cut too much into their profits? This one. Not just in terms of needing to take on staff, but it would also cut into their bottom line in terms of not being able to take money from bad-faith
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> The premise is that you admit the huge corporations with billions of dollars don't have the resources to pay moderator My contention is more that they don’t have the will, because it would impact profits and that it’s possible tha
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> The fact is that moderation is hard Moderation is hard when you prioritise growth and ad revenue over moderation, certainly. We know a good solution - throw a lot of manpower at it. That may not be feasible for the giant platforms... O
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> your browser history may be used as evidence in a criminal case As others have said, that's the case already and not just in Australia. Same in lots of other places like the UK and the whole EU. Less so in the US (though they can
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They are starting to work, in some countries, where it has been realised that these things are incompatible with sustainable fisheries. Alternatives are definitely good, and yes, it will be easier to move people away from destructive practi
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I mean, that's pretty flexible. At $17.99 (AUD) per month it could fit into the $1 step model, which starts at $0.99, maxing at $139.99 They charge $19.39 for the same subscription if you buy it direct. By the logic of Apple taking a 3
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I don't know, it's the only data point I have! I would presume an outlier as it seems to make poor business sense.
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> You are free to pay ~30% extra for your preferred customer experience. The rest of us can leverage discounted pricing. Customer Choice for the win! People say this stuff, but recently I re-examined my subscription to a multi-platform V
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The reality is also that keeping on doing that and other activities like bottom-trawling is going to continue to wreck ecosystems. Both of these things can be true. You don’t get to push away the environmental damage these things cause beca
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If an alternative isn’t found, then people are going to eat less fish one way or another. I’m suggesting we do that through conservation rather than decimation. But you feel free to throw your hands up and watch the seas die because “people
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Archos did some of the very earliest HDD-containing players back in the day, and beat the ipod to market by about a year (December 2000 launch). My first mp3 player was a 20GB archos xs202, which I loved. Partly for being a great music play
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by Nursie 1y ago
It sounds to me like bitcoin ATM operators should hold clients' funds for some time to allow for recovery in the case of fraud. But of course we know that they would have very little business if they did that. Crypto enthusiasts never
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Actually in a lot of places the attempted solution was to put steadily escalating taxes on 'gas', to try to make people drive less. That plus put restrictions on vehicle efficiency to drive down fuel use, which can also be argued
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Sometimes things need to be addressed whether there’s an alternative or not, because they are damaging. Onshore fish-farming is being developed. I don’t know enough about it to have any idea whether it can be made compatible with animal wel
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Tasmania produces a lot of caged salmon. It’s bad for the salmon (in terms of animal welfare) and it’s wrecking the local ecosystems. It’s not any sort of panacea. We need to stop destroying ocean ecosystems, not just shift the damage aroun
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by Nursie 1y ago
> UK could launch it's nuclear program, it has the scientific background and infrastructure, but surely they wouldn't have a certified, tested weapon within 5 years. As in the other thread (that I see you've now seen) the
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Trident carries UK-manufactured warheads and is allegedly independent, even though it does rely on US ballistic missiles to carry them. Wikipedia says - "The British government insists the warhead is indigenously designed, but analys
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My first reaction is - why should the UK be launching US-made nuclear weapons? It's been widely reported that these aircraft will only be able to use US nuclear munitions, and that will require US permission. God forbid they ever be us
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> The point of this punishment is not to apply a sort of cosmic morality according to the true culpability Except that is very much part of the justice system, and when people talk about "trying kids as adults" it is exactly a
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I’m not trying to play down any problems or say nothing should be done. In fact I’m not expressing any beliefs other than the (very well supported) notion that children’s brains are not fully developed and therefore they shouldn’t be dealt
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Queensland seems to be making a lot of noise about that at the moment as well. Seems to be this weird reasoning (and I know it has cropped up in the US too) that - if they did an 'adult' crime they should be tried as an adult. It
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I agree with your last line, but the rest not so much - Yes, the monopoly on violence exists, but the idea that one must always consider that the state will kill people on the introduction of a simple fine is just silly. Looking at the mono
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> at the end of the day you either pay the fine or go to jail This is just not true. It's such a reductionist argument that it's nonsense. You either pay the fine or ... they find a way to get the money outside of direct paymen
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In most places, shooting by law enforcement is not allowed unless there is a clear and present threat to life. Your whole post falls apart right there. Person 'x' refuses to pay a fine - OK, well there are mechanisms where a fine
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Well, I'll definitely be giving it a go, thanks to yourself and the poster above for the heads up :)
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Really? Amazing. I loved time team back in the day and I’ve just started rewatching some of them (one of the streaming services has series 13-17 here in Aus). Might not be the same without Tony, but I see he did pop in for a cameo…
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Honestly, as a daily reader and oftentimes commenter on the dreaded orange site, I've seen a lot of criticism of its denizens, very often along the lines of - "Computer people who think that because they're smart in one area
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It's a nice idea, but it won't be applicable to all games... I'm thinking of Ark:Survival Evolved here, where the grind on 'official' servers is insane - for example taming a Wyvern required you to be online more or
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Fair enough, I'm not especially familiar with mystic traditions in major religions, or eastern flavours of mysticism. But I have spent a reasonable amount of time around Wiccans, neo-pagans etc and various crunchy 'spiritual'
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There is a lot of waffle written about psychedelics and various forms of spirituality. If you're not that way inclined but are interested in experiencing psychedelics, then yeah - don't let them put you off. My subjective experi

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