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by anoncake 5y ago
Alive when? Right now? By that logic the Spanish Flu has retroactively become quite harmless. The important question is, how much earlier did someone die because of Covid. 2 weeks of life just aren't worth as much as 50 years.
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by anoncake 5y ago
Is Android a store for iOS apps? Obviously not.
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by anoncake 5y ago
If companies paid what jobs are worth, they wouldn't make a profit. The same applies to goods: If you are charged as much as a good is worth to you, why bother buying it?
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by anoncake 5y ago
Unfortunately, having so many retirees that pensions are a problem means there are too many retirees for your suggestion to be politically feasible.
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by anoncake 5y ago
Masochists like being hurt, and sadists enjoy hurting others which means doing so is in their interest.
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by anoncake 5y ago
I wonder what people who disagree think malice actually is. Randomly harming others without even enjoying it?
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by anoncake 5y ago
> I can't imagine most people don't just tune ads out most of the time. "Most" means "not all".
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by anoncake 5y ago
Malice is a form of self-interest.
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by anoncake 5y ago
If Apple doesn't have a monopoly, where are the other iOS app stores?
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by anoncake 5y ago
Yes. Covid continues to behave like any other virus.
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by anoncake 5y ago
If it does, that's even worse. We're polluting more than we can afford to, making people want more stuff is the last thing we need.
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by anoncake 5y ago
Where does the money you seemingly save come from? You pay for them whenever you buy something that was advertised. If Google Search was $10/month, the average Google user would save about that much spread across all the products they
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by anoncake 5y ago
Yes, feeling depressed can be good. Just like sadness and other negative emotions. But depression, the disorder, is not.
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by anoncake 5y ago
"Just" 20%. https://www.medscape.com/answers/286759-14675/what-is-the-su...
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by anoncake 5y ago
> The answer to this is to let states sue each other in federal court for any pollution that crosses state lines. That's a regulation, a very draconian one: States are not allowed to pollute whatsoever.
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by anoncake 5y ago
> Resilience, endurance Literal survivor's bias. If you are depressed but not resilient, you kill yourself. > learning to overcome adversity, learning to overcome yourself Overcoming adversity requires doing something. Depressio
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by anoncake 5y ago
> Depression is a wide array of emotions Where did you get that absurd idea from?
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by anoncake 5y ago
What possible value could depression have?
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by anoncake 5y ago
Or, more likely, it's simply a result of the brain not being perfectly "designed".
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by anoncake 5y ago
This. "I can't do this, the computer doesn't let me" ought to be as absurd a statement as "I can't do this, the intern doesn't let me".
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by anoncake 5y ago
The UX is garbage, but if you use the nightly there is a way to use arbitrary extensions.
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by anoncake 5y ago
The worst thing about depression is how difficult it makes it to deal depression.
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by anoncake 5y ago
There is no GDPR definition of a cookie. It doesn't care how you track people.
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by anoncake 5y ago
10% is significantly higher than 0.
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by anoncake 5y ago
The guidelines say "Please don't use uppercase for emphasis". Not "Please don't use uppercase except for emphasis".
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by anoncake 5y ago
No matter how you organize it, pensioners use what is produced by the working population. PAYGO systems just make that explicit.
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by anoncake 5y ago
Buy 20 then. I wonder if there's a way to tastefully put them all on a single ring.
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by anoncake 5y ago
> Are human lives less important than your right to go outside? Yes, of course. Depending on the number of years potentially lost.
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by anoncake 5y ago
In principle yes. But why would you imitate the browser if not to mislead the user? And who wants to mislead the user but has qualms imitating the browser?
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by anoncake 5y ago
> I can’t think of a legit use case where an app should get access to every single contact in my address book. To manage your contacts? The permission to access all your contacts does need to exist, even if it's currently overused.

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