Sangermaine

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by Sangermaine 8y ago
It hinders nothing. It ensures that what you're with user data doing is truly voluntary and that your users really are 'willing and eager" about it beyond you pinky-swearing you'll be good with what you're given. Be
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
Are you joking? >Under what crimes would you like them charged? Fraud, obviously. >What proof do you have to support the charges? They took investor money and made deals with partners like Walgreens based on a product that didn'
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
Do you mind explaining why you think so? That's a pretty surprising perspective; the community often has intelligent discussions about a range of topics.
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
If we're talking about private American VCs, the "logic" doesn't apply. Your comment would only apply if we were talking about US government investment. The problem with your comment is that in China there isn't a p
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
>The thing is I get sick of the moralizing that underlies all these threads, as if our media doesn't do the exact same thing. re: manufacturing consent. But this is exactly the whataboutism I'm talking about. The point of the a
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
Don Draper: "If you don't like what's being said, change the conversation."
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
When I read that thread, I wondered at those comments. They always come up in these discussions. I always wonder how many are genuine and how many are actual government FUD.
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
>(strategic? image-preserving?) indifference Neither, it's apathy. The US media doesn't really cover the space exploits of its allies in Europe or Japan either, unless it's something really huge. I think the US views other
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
The inevitable "whataboutism" comments that any discussion of China generates are indeed just noise.
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
As said below, this can be automated. If you can't or won't comply, then your website shouldn't exist.
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
>How will I be able to operate my small company website in the future in a legally compliant manner? Maybe you shouldn't operate your company if you can't comply, then. The entire point of the GDPR is elevating privacy as a pri
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
> Of course that's annoying from a business perspective, but from an individuals privacy perspective, it's fantastic. So many people are pro-privacy until it affects their bottom line.
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
But everyone would have to have those, or else the first country to develop them would have an insurmountable advantage. A country that has both nuclear weapons and the ability to block all attacks including nuclear would rule the world, or
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
If you read about the economics of this period you'll find that, as with most of history, the reality isn't this simple. A lot of Southern capital went into financing Northern industry, for example. It's difficult to neatly d
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
Judging by most craft beer companies, the AI should just add hops, then add double that amount of hops, then add some extra hops for flavor.
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
Ha, no. "Capitalism" is not a synonym for "freedom" no matter what an-caps might want to believe. It's one economic-political system among many.
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
Well, the real mistake is believing that people think or behave in a consistent manner. All attempts at "rational" debate starts from this flawed premise, and thus always fails.
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
Unless this was some kind of money laundering scheme which used the charitable aspect to mask what was really going on.
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
It's nice to see that however much America and China might be at odds, they can apparently agree on attacking their young people as lazy and entitled.
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
Great, that's your preference. Other people do enjoy it. People have different preferences.
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
>Who are these people seeing the same movie multiple times during its initial theater run? You must be very unfamiliar with modern movie audiences, especially comic book movie fans. Plenty of people see movies they're fans of multip
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
That analogy is a terrible one for the historical situation we're talking about. The numeral system is a concept that was vastly changed as it passed through different cultures over time. The current system in use is, demonstrably, not
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
But the point is those laws aren't enforced the same way in different areas, even when they're the same. Jaywalking is illegal in NYC. Come here and see if anyone, cops included, cares. But other cities seem to care much more abou
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
The "reality should conform to my ideal, not my ideal to the reality" approach is and has always been a guaranteed recipe for failure. "Let's change everyone's minds and behavior everywhere" is much harder than
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
>This revolution should have started with mundane tasks, such as city street sweepers and perhaps garbage trucks. Vehicles that move slow on a predefined path in the night. Then advance to faster moving objects like taxis. No, you'v
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
>There's no documented proof that Indian system was descended from another system. The Fountainhead was India. Hence, purely of Indian creation. You misunderstand my comment. Read it again: >What we use today is the modified syst
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
The English alphabet is a good example of why the Indian complaint doesn't make much sense. The modern English alphabet descends from an ancient Proto-Sinaitic script, which was adopted and transformed over time by the Phoenicians, the
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
> First of all, the escape room is not real - you can always just walk out and then you also know that the riddles were created to entertain average person, so there is nothing special about solving them. Well, yes. It's a game you
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make, but the very page you link to contradicts what you're saying. The author of this piece has made no error, you're just misunderstanding. As your linked page explains, "o
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by Sangermaine 8y ago
For a view of what this looked like on the ground, you should check out "Musui's Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai". It's the autobiography of Katsu Kokichi (Musui is another name he was known by), a samurai

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