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by alt227 21d ago
If I lived in a place where this was a phatic expression, I doubt it would have made much of an impression on me as I would have heard it all the time. I live in the UK where parting phatic expressions such as 'cheers', 'see
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by alt227 22d ago
PHP kept on getting professional attention and development, and so now it also has all those things you mentioned.
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by alt227 22d ago
I had a similar situation. As a kid I used to poke around on my families windows 3.1 PC and break it all the time. One day I found an interesting new command called DriveSpace, and it looked exciting. I ran it on the C: drive and then got c
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by alt227 22d ago
One time I was interacting with a stranger (so long ago, I dont remember who. Possibly just a store clerk). At the end of the interaction they looked me in the eye and said 'Have a great day'. It took me off guard, but made me fee
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by alt227 22d ago
> With some minor texture brushups, they can release a "remastered" version Unfortunately these versions are usually inferior to the originals, so I dont think they can really be referred to as preservation.
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by alt227 23d ago
I personally know Benny Wenda and the Wenda family. Benny Wenda was the West Papuan President before his people were overthrown and violently ousted by the Indonesian government in part in order to gain full control of the largest gold mine
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by alt227 24d ago
I've made this same comment several times now. To live in our 'free' western society, you need to register your birth, get a social security number, and attend state dictated education. Life in general is now gated, and if yo
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by alt227 24d ago
....in your own opinion.
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by alt227 24d ago
To live in our 'free' western society you must register your birth and get a social security number. You also need to attend education. This is effectively 'registering' for access to 'society'. I dont see givi
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by alt227 24d ago
Generally we in the western world consider ourselves 'free' citizens. Yet to live this life you need to register your birth, get a social security number, and enroll in education etc. I dont see signing up to twitter any different
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by alt227 24d ago
> You can all walk away. You don’t need it. Except some people still want it, thats the uncomfortable truth that lots of people cant accept. I see lots of comments giving different reasons people think that other people cant leave twitte
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by alt227 24d ago
> Why does anybody... still use twitter? Because not everybody thinks the same as you? People are entitled to their own opinions, just because you think something is wrong doesnt make it objectively wrong.
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by alt227 24d ago
> I don't see how That is your opinion and you are entitled to it, just remember other people have their own and they are entitled to theirs, and no one opinion is 'right'.
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by alt227 25d ago
This is a first hand account of somebody very knowledgeable and respected in the industry at the time of the events. I would say he is the evidence.
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by alt227 26d ago
On LG TVs there are about 5 separate agreements you need to accept. You dont need to accept them all to use the tv, but in the initial setup LG puts a handy 'Accept All' button front and center, which agrees to all 5 incrluding th
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by alt227 26d ago
It was enabled when you accepted the terms and conditions when you first turned it on, or did a firmware update. LGs statment says this: > ACR is an optional feature that is turned off by default. To enable ACR, a user must accept LG’s
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by alt227 26d ago
It may not be needed, but it will certainly be rolled out.
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by alt227 26d ago
How are they supposed to drive themselves without monitoring whats going on outside the vehicle?
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by alt227 26d ago
Taxis, busses, and trains are all private spaces with cameras in them. Public infrastructure has been run by private companies for a long time.
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by alt227 26d ago
> Eventually not charged Theres your answer.
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by alt227 27d ago
If people have a right to privacy, why is it disappearing?
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by alt227 27d ago
Right now governments in western societies are pouring more money and resources than ever into support programs, and yet we still have record high levels of mental health, unemployment, poverty, waiting times for doctors and support staff e
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by alt227 27d ago
> Define bad parenting? Parents that do things that are bad for their kids wellbeing. > Should the state do nothing about children not being sent to school? Yes it should do nothing > Should they go hungry when not fed? Yes t
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by alt227 27d ago
You sir, are very aware of how the average computer user thinks!
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by alt227 27d ago
Im arguing against the parent point that "Site freezes machine, user stops going to site." Its a gross oversimplification, and it doesnt hold water becasue there are lots of other vectors to a user coming across this than just &qu
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by alt227 27d ago
> children with shitty parents deserve as much safety and support as they can get too. I know my opinion is not popular, but I do not agree that it is the states responsibility to pick up the slack for bad parenting.
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by alt227 27d ago
Why do people have to be fun for you to hang around with?
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by alt227 27d ago
That would also then require them to invalidate caches and rerun scripts to rebuild those lists and recommendations, which costs extra compute.
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by alt227 27d ago
This is hilarious, and what if an bad actor abuses this and makes a script or browser plugin which goes to this url every time a browser is launched? What about url shorteners and redirects? You seem to dismiss the issue based on a very na
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by alt227 27d ago
Wow, a very literal whataboutism!

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