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by arrrg 8y ago
The implications of banning headers in soccer would be quite interesting, but it also seems entirely possible, as in the game wouldn’t suddenly be completely different. After all, handling the ball (referring to both arms and hands) is alre
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by arrrg 8y ago
Plagiarism was the issue, approached systematically first in 2011, in the wake of the Guttenberg† scandal. (Plagiarism was discovered in defense minister Guttenberg’s dissertation in early 2011. His title was subsequently revoked by his uni
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by arrrg 8y ago
Why is that absurd? Can you explain that? I was searching for reasons, but didn’t find any.
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by arrrg 8y ago
The problem isn’t so much that the rich can hide their income more easily, it‘s that the value of money doesn’t increase linearly. The more money you have available, the less valuable any additional unit of money is to you and the less it h
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by arrrg 8y ago
If people are in the store I’m responsible for and they blackmail me I would call security or the police, too. That‘s unacceptable behavior. I understand your frustration, and it really sucks that Telstra put you into that situation, but th
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by arrrg 8y ago
They are not selling anything. They are a non-profit. You can donate to them.
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by arrrg 8y ago
In the abstract that is certainly true, but you are missing the bigger picture. You are acting as though people are somehow able to discern what is and isn’t an emergency and decide that all by themselves with perfect accuracy. The point he
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by arrrg 8y ago
I think the thought is to position the iPad mor like the Macs. Macs come with USB-C, too, after all. So the iPad becomes another device to plug your phone into, so to speak (if only to charge at first).
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by arrrg 8y ago
How and why do you have to back it up? It’s just a type of argument that is actually quite common with its basic idea being that just because something is effective, doesn’t mean it’s right or just to do. Transferred to racial profiling the
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by arrrg 8y ago
It used to go in the other direction. This treaty was beneficial for the US in the past.
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by arrrg 8y ago
I don’t think any proponents of this would have any issue with allowing disabled people access (probably including disability caused by aging).
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by arrrg 8y ago
That’s a too simplistic approach. Bugatti wants to be able to sell cars at the price point in the future and any marketing and PR they do certainly has to be geared towards that, not selling additonal cars. Also, I think this is about Lego,
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by arrrg 8y ago
It literally says in the game that’s how you are not supposed to beat it. Quote from the rules: “It should be emphasised at this point that this is not a question of counting off the seconds. There is no counting. Of course, time passes by
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by arrrg 8y ago
They might differentiate between walking and hiking, for example.
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by arrrg 8y ago
What’s hollow or not is about context. Chess is very serious, The Minds is not very serious. If things are less serious and also more squishy when it comes to the rules (despite the very absolute “no communication” rule I do think that some
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by arrrg 8y ago
The rules explicitly state that you shouldn’t count seconds … this presumably also includes using a clock as reference. It’s given as a guideline (in the optional to read spoilery upside down box on the rules that explains that it’s a game
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by arrrg 8y ago
Any and all aspects related to child rearing, for example.
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by arrrg 8y ago
Yeah, if pushing a pram is seen as a stereotypically “female” activity and because of tat further outside the lived reality of the men writing the software, then it could be sexism. I do agree, though, that this is more generally something
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by arrrg 8y ago
No one claimed that. If you read the linked article you will be able to plainly see that. Sexism can also include paying less attention or being ignorant of stereotypically “female” activities. That, in practice, pushing a pram is not at al
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by arrrg 8y ago
How is that beating anything? You play games to have a fun or engaging time, counting seconds is extremely boring. I and everyone we showed this game to had a lot of fun playing this game and not by counting seconds. It‘s a nice, quick game
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by arrrg 8y ago
You are throwing together different issues. Amazon has lax standards as to who can use them to sell their wares (leading to fakes being sold). That’s not UX or a UX dark pattern, that’s a business strategy. (Which doesn’t make it necessaril
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by arrrg 8y ago
I would, however, postulate that Amazon is aware that fake positive reviews only buy them short term benefits with long term disadvantages. Having a cheap/free way to evaluate products by letting the customers do it is an advantage, es
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by arrrg 8y ago
An alternative explanation for this is that Amazon is struggling with identifying fake reviews, which could explain both why there seem to be many fake reviews and why one would get blocked from writing reviews (basically falling victim to
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by arrrg 8y ago
It depends on the particulars, but my preferred approach is actually to turn all work email notifications off (even unread badges). I check my mail a couple times a day during work hours, usually when I arrive in the morning, after our stan
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by arrrg 8y ago
Which, again, hints at a structural problem (and gets the Marxist inside of me all tingly). Because capitalism H&M can’t move those stores elsewhere.
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by arrrg 8y ago
H&M’s operating margin is at 10%. It seems that many clothing retailers are somewhere around that point. 100× doesn’t even work as hyperbole for me. H&M likely wouldn’t even survive a 2× reduction in clothing prices. Which is not to
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by arrrg 8y ago
If there‘s any freefall involved there will be weightlessness, orbit or not.
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by arrrg 8y ago
This won’t be a problem much longer: https://blog.emojipedia.org/all-major-vendors-commit-to-gun-... Sometimes you gotta break a few eggs to make change …
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by arrrg 8y ago
Your characterization as “idle consumption devices“ makes no sense at all. They aren’t exclusively solitary activities. A lot of usage has a social component (it’s communicating with friends). I don’t think you can seriously suggest that re
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by arrrg 8y ago
Ah, yeah, that’s the best translation. Didn’t think of that.

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