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In particular, filed under 2019, Europe, Entertainment. https://www.forbes.com/under30/list/2019/europe/entertainmen...
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Whenever I send them out The filters always route: "Spammer: John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt" [N/A] [N/A] [N/A] [N/A]
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Normally we'd reject the first 37% [0] of candidates and then pick the next one that is above the average, but if all the unluckiest candidates show up first, then we need to sample even more in order to get an accurate baseline. This
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> fixed “plate“ to “play“ and went into soccer territory. Well, a soccer search lets Google make more money by showing you more-profitable ads. /only-partial-sarcasm
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I imagine it's much like game-developers saying: "Set a fixed seed so the player gets consistent results." Yeah, it can work, but it is subject to so many potential pitfalls that you can't casually assume it will. It&#
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Also, (b)locking at the device level has a crucial benefit: It brings enforcement into a physical realm where parents can detect and manage exceptions. If Little Timmy has a phone you don't recognize in his hand, then you know that&#x2
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And all age-checks will be identity-checks. Oh, sure, you can imagine a system where they aren't, but is bill isn't going to get us that? Nope! It's going to get us something stupid and ripe for abuse, and the mere presence o
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I think if you proceed in that "unlimited power" direction, what happens is you land inside regions for which we already have other--much older--words (Manoralist, Feudal, Monarchy, Despotic, etc.)
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Yep, hence "Capitalists Hate Capitalism" [0], and if we want to keep the core thing (as opposed to Manoralism or Feudalism in a mask) the participants can't be allowed to destroy it with monopolies, monopsonies, and regulator
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How backwards. Parent poster is talking about treating cops closer to how regular people are being treated. If you're really committed to fairness, you'll take away the off-duty/unofficial privileges and immunities that t
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> the current capitalistic (?) model? Surely we would say the market is efficient I'd like to highlight a a fundamental contradiction between "free[ly moving] markets" versus "free [to do what you want] markets."
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I think you've misread the parent poster. * Their "not owning" means a swap to a subscription/license for the car, which could still be exclusive rather than shared. * Your "not owning" assumes a reduction in t
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https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3405064/ > Nonetheless, average daily energy expenditure of traditional Hadza foragers was no different than that of Westerners after controlling for body size. The meta
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If it were just about electronic surveillance, a bunch of other cars/manufacturers would be getting impeded or at least get some sort of negative scrutiny. https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/privacynotincluded&#x
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So then you agree that a boycott is actually not the "only one way" to react? Your original comment makes it sound like you think that nothing else is possible, which would exclude things laws around privacy rights or liability
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Damn, maybe I can finally find out why my 10+ year account was globally (and retroactively) shadowbanned, even though the appeal was allegedly granted. In the past, those post removals didn't even exist in the moderation log, so perhap
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An aspect of the "just-world fallacy", where ultimately good things happen to good people, so if a good thing happened to you, you must have been good, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_fallacy
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> There is only one way to Zuckerberg et al. would actually prefer that we all think that, so that we just stop there and don't proceed to more-effective politics. https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/21/
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It's also a defensive self-interest: A corrupt senior who takes bribes is indirectly threatened by any junior with a clean record, because they aren't "in the same boat." So each wave corrupts (or eliminates) members of
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Especially over the last few years, I've become worried that a certain sizeable minority exists who will read the phrase and not see any problem.
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> I dont think they have any obligation to save anyone else's life. I reject this framing, the person here is not a passive observer in the first place, they are a participant with obligations. Consider a pet dog: You aren't m
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> At least until the issue become important enough I'm not talking about minimizing effort or deferring decisions. What I mean is that there are conflicting and competing goals , where you need to accept that one of them must not
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Caution: This is a book-review, not the results of an investigation by the Telegraph. If you don't see the URL and "category" header bar, the title and opening paragraphs are a bit misleading. > All these questions and mor
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Besides buying a couple goats, another option is to to rent a whole bunch of goats for a shorter--and shorten ing --engagement.
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More or less, AFAICT the underlying barcode standards don't support Unicode, if that's what you mean. It looks like Code 128 could potentially handle some ISO-8859-1 accented latin characters, but I'm not sure how to test it.
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To me the connotation is that it's always an unreasonable theory, such as one that requires thousands of people to maintain nearly perfect secrecy for an indefinite period, with no mistakes and dedication even when they'd benefi
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> prior to Bidens election it was mostly Democrats who were saying they weren’t going to take the vaccine Nope, look at Figure 10 in this poll [0]. Asked about a hypothetical vaccine in the next ~2 months before the election was held, th
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Some minutes later, and this is my best guess in the form of original with code comments. I got to the end and then backfilled the group names. There's a double layer of irony here, # There is something wrong and hypocriti
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I dare a grammarian to take the above-sentence and diagram it out. No, I'm not "feigning surprise", I am legitimately struggling to figure out exactly who's being blamed for what.
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Relevant British comedy clip ( Yes, [Prime] Minister ) on such polls: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ahgjEjJkZks

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