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by alexgieg 3mo ago
As I remember, Kagi's index isn't entirely its own. They do some crawling themselves, but they still rely heavily on purchasing search results from Microsoft and Google to complement their own.
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by alexgieg 4mo ago
Then please correct me on the above. Are gated free speech zones a thing, and do Americans obey that? If no, what are the news talking about when they show those? If yes, why do Americans submit to this? And is carrying guns into protests a
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by alexgieg 4mo ago
I'm not American and don't know much about how protests are done in the US. From my perspective what you describe sounds extremely weird, in a cultural shock kind of way. I mean, how is it that, in the US, one can carry actual gun
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by alexgieg 4mo ago
What the sentencing calls attempted murder, the defendants are describing as one of the protesters watching a police officer preparing to shoot another protester who was running away on their back, and thus shooting in the direction of the
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by alexgieg 4mo ago
Many countries don't use SMS, they use WhatsApp, for almost everything, from chatting with family and friends, to business contacts, to talking with your bank manager, to medical appointments, to 2FA, and even to transfer money. That&#
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by alexgieg 4mo ago
Those are pre-requisites, but not enough. You also need society to have local cultures, as well as the culture at large, that actively oppose such behavior as immoral and/or shameful, with enforcement by peers. This I say based on two
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by alexgieg 5mo ago
I noticed it as LLM-written by the middle of the second paragraph. The text is filled with classic rhetorical structures LLMs love making, especially the "it isn't X, it's Y" and "not A, not B, not C, but D" pa
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by alexgieg 6mo ago
I'd suggest cheap Android-based Chinese e-Ink e-readers if you want flexibility. My current one is a Bigme B6, which was for sale in my country a few months ago. Their main advantage is providing access to all e-reading apps available
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by alexgieg 6mo ago
I checked the numbers. OpenOffice reports about 230,000 downloads a week. LibreOffice, in contrast, reports about 1,000,000 downloads a week. Those are both direct downloads from their respective websites, thus not counting Linux distributi
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by alexgieg 6mo ago
That didn't use to be the case. In the US many laws were approved in the 1930s that forced businesses to keep stakeholders in mind, not just shareholders. That led the US to become the global powerhouse it became, and its middle class
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by alexgieg 7mo ago
Thanks, that was quite informative!
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by alexgieg 7mo ago
This is an interesting point. Supposing this sudden shock happens, wouldn't American towns, counties, and the like, run to buy buses and start providing emergency bus services all around to all those suburban areas where people couldn&
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by alexgieg 7mo ago
Oil demand is mostly inelastic. No matter how much or how little is produced, those who need it NEED it, so they'll compete with all others who similarly need it. The richest ones from among them get the oil first, and the poorest get
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by alexgieg 8mo ago
Chinese planning revolves around mastering a technology no matter the cost, then monopolozing the global market no matter the cost, then bankrupting existing foreigner competitors or entirely preventing them from arising in the first place
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by alexgieg 8mo ago
Does that apply to websites full of CSAM, or that sell for-hire animal torture real-time streaming services, or that provide hitman hiring services, or...
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by alexgieg 8mo ago
No, you're in the companion of anti-vaxxers, an all-American conspiracy theory spreading globally that denies hard evidence in favor of vague feelings of maybe this and maybe that and maybe the other thing and OMG we're so afraid
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by alexgieg 8mo ago
It seems US citizens are quite divided on this, which suggests there's intense dissatisfaction with the law as is, and therefore the need to re-legislate the topic following the current will of the majority.
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by alexgieg 8mo ago
You said what happened to him was just. Most people I've seen have taken the position it was legal but unjust.
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by alexgieg 8mo ago
That isn't in the Quran though.
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by alexgieg 8mo ago
That's incorrect. There have been studies on this. In a few cases seeing depictions of violence causes an urge to act violently, but in the majority of people predisposed to violence it causes a reduction in that impulse, so on average
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by alexgieg 8mo ago
In your view, is legality always and invariably the same as justice? In other words, are all laws just, and all that's just is codified as law?
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by alexgieg 8mo ago
Could you point to any center-right policy (what Americans call "the left") that attempts to force straight people to submit and go through gender operations? See, that's the core difference. One side wants to leave people fr
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by alexgieg 9mo ago
The French government managed to rein in Amazon so traditional French stores, both online and brick and mortar ones, don't go bankrupt due to Amazon's unending pockets. If they deem it necessary to rein in Google, they will rein
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by alexgieg 9mo ago
> I hope they're not going to be foisting their newfound vaccine skepticism[0] on the rest of the world. Unfortunately they are spreading it. Everywhere US far-right propaganda touches, including via local branches of American Chris
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by alexgieg 9mo ago
The scamming problem is a fault of the government. It's trivial for a national government to make rules forcing banks to become able to reverse wrongful transactions. That'd stop scammers cold. If your government doesn't do t
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by alexgieg 9mo ago
The European Commission, as well as many individual countries, are starting to see that as a problem in need of urgent solving, as they've realized it's strategic suicide for a country to be dependent on the goodwill of the (poten
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by alexgieg 10mo ago
Good points. But notice that, if the overall unemployment rate is the same, and in one country there's higher unemployment rate for youth compared to another, this means in the other there's higher unemployment rate for older work
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by alexgieg 10mo ago
OP here. True, if you prove they're in fact a completely underperforming employee. Notice this is not only for the position they're in at the moment, but for every other conceivable position they might be reassigned to before the
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by alexgieg 10mo ago
You're uninformed. France has that, and it doesn't result in excessive unemployment; in fact, the unemployment rates in France and in the US are practically the same, respectively 7.5% vs. 7.8%. What changes between the countries
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by alexgieg 1y ago
In a word, yes. Longer answer: Any content the moral panic at the time is panicking about will require age verification. Only things moral panickers believe is child-appropriate will be accessible without it. This includes forums. If people

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