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by ardy42 6y ago
> My worry with a large number of modern tech heavy cars will be that while the centralisation of a lot of these controls and features into one panel may be convenient to the user Centralization of controls into a single touchscreen is m
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>> So for all the reasons above when any physician tries to suggest that a physician is the only “real doctor” you can roll your eyes and suggest they crack open a history book and then let them go back to stroking their own ego. >
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> I think we should do the reverse: No moderation outside of court orders or you risk losing 230 protections. I hope you like spam. Also, what you propose is equivalent to forcing you to pay thousands of dollars and wait weeks or months
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> Pretty much everyone agrees that some level of infringement is appropriate; even the NRA's not out there campaigning for the right to bear nuclear arms. > Same with free speech. Libel is speech; it's never been protected s
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> Every time the Democratic Party get some power they immediately pivot to gun control which is the ONE major issue outside abortion that motivates the other side to vote. It’s like they can’t help shooting themselves in the foot. Yeah,
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> Everything old is new again. They tried this with FB-DIMMs in the early 2000s and it didn't go well: IIRC, Rambus RDRAM was also serial, or at least less parallel than conventional DRAM.
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> No, seriously, what ongoing action(s) of China “must be stopped” and what actions by whom are likely to succeed without causing more harm than that which would be stopped? I literally could give some likely possibilities of what they w
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> Wikipedia may have been an amazing idea in the beginning. Then it got taken over by a bunch of entrenched editors more interested in their own power than the accuracy of the pages' information. Then there are also the people with
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> So you agree we(you and us) can't agree on a definition of "trustworthy reporters" but we(China) should accept reporters that you deemed trustworthy, and that really sounds alright to you? seriously? Yes, seriously. Why
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> The g-parent comment asserts that "China must be stopped" and I started thinking about what aspect(s) of China do they want to stop. Certainly they don't want to end the country and its inhabitants. Maybe they want to st
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> However, digging more, even the AAMC is saying you need residency slots: Which are determined by federal government Medicare funding, btw. From your link: > Federally supported residency training slots have been capped by Congress
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> Enrollment != graduation and licensure. > More people may be interested but nobody can practice until after residency, and you have a large pool of hopefuls basically in a lottery for residency slots. But my understanding is that re
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> Everyone complains about the cost of healthcare and nobody asks why the AMA operates like a cartel. That's not entirely a bad thing. It would be bad for Medicine to turn out like Law, with a huge glut of unemployable graduates af
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>> Military solutions will fall back to inertial, celestial or optical guidance, and people using GPS for navigation will at worst show up where they need to be somewhat later than planned. > The US Navy re-started celestial naviga
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> Compared to other nations, the US has the least restrictive immigration laws. The US also benefits by bordering Canada with some of the most restrictive immigration laws. If you want to go where there is growth, there's no other o
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> 2. Not in places immigrants want to immigrate to. There's reason to doubt that. A lot of Trump's support was rural, and a lot of immigrants are farm laborers.
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> I've already explained, we can't agree on a mutually acceptable definition of "trustworthy reporters", so this will not happen, ever. You don't understand. We don't have to agree on a definition of "
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> Your point of view is that the western world represents absolute justice, How did you come to that conclusion? That is not, in fact, any position which I have expressed. > and you can judge us based on your value system, this is no
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> It doesn’t seem enough to blame the entire group. It actually does the opposite, and takes care to not blame the entire group. Right after 9/11, I remember two main domestic messages: 1. A LOT of flag waving. Like, flags on ev
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Why don't you petition the PRC government to open up the area to trustworthy reporters and to cease reprisals against locals who speak to them? You claim you're Chinese, so that's your right per Article 41 of the constitutio
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> CIA officers should mind their business. Their role is to collect information on foreign environments not give opinions. Obviously not. If they just dumped a bunch of raw information on decision-makers, their output would probably be
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> You're probably going to get downvoted for that, but I, too, find it ironic that someone in the CIA said this, given their history of funding several terrorist groups to help act as a insurgency to overthrow foreign governments no
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> Buying verified twitter accounts is also a non-scalable solution. Sure in the short run you could probably get quite a few, but in the long run there are only so many people. I don't think that's a problem if your goal is dis
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> Yes. It’s our own Tower of Babel. All built in the name of 3rd party advertising. Do you mean Library of Babel [1]? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel : "In any case, a library containing a
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>> If verification is easy and accessible, what’s stopping a real person from getting a simple verification and then loaning out their account for bot actions (for a price)? > When you get caught you get booted off the platform. W
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> You might find that your attitude is the problem, and not the industry itself. If you’re so cynical as to compare writing code for a living to human trafficking and sex work, which are very real problems that you have carelessly and in
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> The new code of conduct bans harassment on and off the site, barring behaviors like hate speech, the use of slurs, stereotypes or attacks based on personal characteristics, as well as threats of physical violence and ‘hounding,’ or fol
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> Dave Chappelle has a bit in which he talks about how this one pimp manages to "get extra mileage" from one of his (the pimps) whores who is on the brink of quitting, of breaking down. The horrible story, expertly delivered by
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> Lincoln may not be evil, but he's a man of his times and we are in a different world now. Statues get torn down, that to me is a sign of progress. People recognize he wasn't an angel, maybe the best America could do at the ti
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> This architecture accelerated Intel's downward spiral. It should have been shut down years ago, and I find it surprising in the changelog that Intel "is still officially shipping chips until July 29, 2021" no wonder Inte

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