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by anoncake 6y ago
You can live on Pluto instead if you insist.
572.
by anoncake 6y ago
And depressed people should stop being so unhappy?
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by anoncake 6y ago
The problem is that people have to run untrustworthy software to begin with.
574.
by anoncake 6y ago
You must have misread my post.I wrote "many people", not "me".
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by anoncake 6y ago
If it's one person, sure. But not if it's a widespread problem.
576.
by anoncake 6y ago
I don't agree. Ideally, everyone could make their own decisions for their own so they aren't forced to go along with others. In that case there isn't even a need for democracy. But frequently, that is not possible – what you
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by anoncake 6y ago
For many people, that doesn't work for whatever reasons. Which is why we have a loneliness problem. WFH may be good for introverts with good social skills. It's awful for shy extraverts (which is a less-than-ideal combination to b
578.
by anoncake 6y ago
It's our duty as human beings to resist any normalization of remote working. Loneliness is a far worse problem in our society than commuting. We need to make sure everyone has a baseline level of social contact.
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by anoncake 6y ago
So Argentina has problems that crypto-"currencies" serve as a workaround for? But do they help actually solve them? If not, then they are harmful as workarounds reduce the incentive to actually fix problems.
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by anoncake 6y ago
> * Programs that need to know their absolute window coordinates > * Windows that want to draw to the root window Gnome certainly won't support it, but in principle a compositor could expose that functionality. > * Programs th
581.
by anoncake 6y ago
The only three countries that have sufficient fraud protection for AVS are anglophone? I don't think that is the (only) reason here.
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by anoncake 6y ago
> - recognising that it's about to pour onto hands and reducing the temperature to below scalding - Mistakenly recognizing that it's about to pour onto hands and reducing the temperature - Training users that it's safe to
583.
by anoncake 6y ago
> The left takes the phrase "free speech" and purposely misuses it (I mean the smart ones do, since they understand that all speech is not free, free speech comes from the government and not corporations, etc. No, the smart one
584.
by anoncake 6y ago
No, freedom of speech obviously means that banks will not close your bank account to punish you for your speech.
585.
by anoncake 6y ago
Prescriptivism is bullshit.
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by anoncake 6y ago
*exactly what he claimed was his intent. There's no way Steve Jobs cared so little about quality he thought web apps were preferable.
587.
by anoncake 6y ago
They are entitled to sell software on Apple customer's devices.
588.
by anoncake 6y ago
"They" has been used as singular for centuries.
589.
by anoncake 6y ago
Or just "They", which is both shorter and actually gender-neutral.
590.
by anoncake 6y ago
Seriously? These corporations' PR stunts make you happy?
591.
by anoncake 6y ago
It's just `apt-file search /path/to/file` actually. I think there's a dpkg command that is limited to installed packages as well.
592.
by anoncake 6y ago
Get a different job? It may not have anything to do with FileZilla but no software developer with a successful open source project on their resume is forced to use adware. I'd understand if they were unable to work for whatever reason,
593.
by anoncake 6y ago
Sure you could count every instance of someone not getting their will, which is unavoidable when decisions affect more than one person, as tyranny. But I don't think that's a very useful definition.
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by anoncake 6y ago
<outlandish conspiracy theory> Google does this to make every tech worker not working for Google, and thus Google's competition, less productive. </outlandish conspiracy theory>
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by anoncake 6y ago
The hell? Any decisions that involve more than one person involve tyranny?
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by anoncake 6y ago
even closer.
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by anoncake 6y ago
> This statement has no basis. We've had multiple awful nuclear accidents and the world keeps turning. You hadn't forgotten I was writing about severe accidents within half a sentence, hadn't you? > We are headed towa
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by anoncake 6y ago
No, that is not democracy. Democratic decisions, by definition, are made by multiple people together.
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by anoncake 6y ago
> That's actually quite a common rule found in many languages Usually the second or third verbs in a sentence take their infinitive form. It's just a bit hidden in English because the conjugated form is identical to the infinit
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by anoncake 6y ago
Let me try: "Understand" is an an infinite verb. "Understood" and "did" are finite ones. Each clause can have only one finite verb (its head) so "did" and "understood" cannot both occur in o

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