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by aglavine 8y ago
Not read, but it doesn't look a serious piece of work. I'm not naive. Of course Singer's people probably wants to win a lot of money and of course you have lobbyists trying to make fast money everywhere. But that's not t
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by aglavine 8y ago
I'm from Argentina and I'm glad Singer helped to put a stop to our disastrous government at that time. That said, probably to act in this situations should be a UN prerogative, but UN is outdated in its institutions design. A coun
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by aglavine 8y ago
I'm from Argentina. Our government was the monster at that time.
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by aglavine 8y ago
Free speech is not being stifled. They want to regulate content in their site. You can publish your content in other places. I appreciate fake news being cleaned in my timeline, if the cost is no more than some occasional legit news being p
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by aglavine 8y ago
First comes innovation, then regulations. No big deal.
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by aglavine 8y ago
I think oil-to-electric conversions may be a thing once electric is mainstream
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by aglavine 8y ago
It is already happening that some (old) sites or blogs aren't popping up in their search results.
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by aglavine 8y ago
I knew someone who was paid for this. He attended tennis matches and transmitted by cell phone things like set-defining points (change real time betting odds instantly) and player injuries.
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by aglavine 8y ago
I am as against patents as anybody else, but I wish that people talk more about the original idea behind it: if next-door wealthy guy can copy everything you invent, then there is few incentive if any to create anything new.
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by aglavine 8y ago
You can't say that they didn't stick to a strategy.
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Foundations of Geopolitics (1997)(en.wikipedia.org)
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by aglavine 8y ago
People blame capitalism, Trump...It might be mysterious forces are working here...World doesn't need more humans, and Nature seems to be adjusting to that.
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by aglavine 8y ago
Yeah, sure. Edison, Tesla, Ford were all public employees.
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by aglavine 9y ago
Are video games still considered an addiction by someone?
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by aglavine 9y ago
Life is a miracle, I've accepted that a long time ago.
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by aglavine 9y ago
The problem is more the job conditions than the job itself.
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by aglavine 9y ago
The 'exact' concept is wrong. Any picture depends on lighting, camera used, filters, lens, etc. I don't mind colorized photos. Yet for some of them that were made thinking in a b/w result (For example, the 'With The
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by aglavine 9y ago
The hotel's site may well be a facade and you're still buying through booking.com
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by aglavine 9y ago
On the contrary, cancellation and purchase is easier. And also middle men add visibility to a lot of small hotels.
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by aglavine 9y ago
The teal trouble there is the ougtragrrous salaries, since thrrre is no correlation at all between performance and huge compensantion
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by aglavine 9y ago
Unexperienced people prefer very often experienced people
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by aglavine 9y ago
Not much related, but Túrin Turambar is my favorite Tolkien work. As someone who struggled against a bad environment, I related to Túrin Turambar misadventures a lot and connected to the character much more than any other of the whole Tolki
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by aglavine 9y ago
The article properly quotes that not only privacy but public safety is affected.
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by aglavine 10y ago
The irony is that Haskell had sorting wrongly implemented for awhile
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by aglavine 10y ago
I advocate for all salary data being public. To get a better salary and better work conditions cannot depend of hiding a figure. It is a weak position, to say the least.
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by aglavine 10y ago
A lot of people suffer of some kind of mental illness, and it is impossible to establish any kind of trust with them. The problem is to make a process to give the adecuate diagnosys to each person and the right treatment with proper funding
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by aglavine 10y ago
I will never install their ugly applications in my cell phone. Just mobile browsing is enough.
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by aglavine 10y ago
and in Westeros
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by aglavine 10y ago
availabiity might be the killer feature here. Who has more drivers and can get them faster to the customers?
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by aglavine 10y ago
Isn't the article describing the classic Gentrification move?

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