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by arrrg 11y ago
Ha, I remember first reading about this when I was discussing with Young Earth creationists. (What a pointless exercise that was …) Their big point about dating methods was that radioactive decay could be influenced by external factors. No
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I mean, there is a more subtle point right there. In actual abusive relationships this interdependency is one of the important factors that keeps the abused in the relationship. It’s one of the things that makes abusive relationships so har
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by arrrg 11y ago
That’s not contradictory. It may well be that the leak contains that and personal information that would be literally unreasonable to publish. That’s what ethics is all about: weighing different things against each other. The journalists wi
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by arrrg 11y ago
Ah, I suspected something like that. I think I’m just not into that scene, so that’s completely meaningless to me. If you are into that it’s probably exactly right for you and something like Spotify would be a poor fit to your needs.
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by arrrg 11y ago
See, I personally never understood SoundCloud … it’s completely opaque to me and I don’t understand how I would even begin to use it. I simply don’t get it. But I also mostly use Spotify to listen to music I already know and sometimes get r
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by arrrg 11y ago
It could be something else. That’s the problem. Apple doesn’t know for sure and they would like to.
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I really fail to see what that has to do with living in a democracy. No matter which system of government, rules (in the broadest sense) can always change. Democracy is just the attempt to better align those rules with the interests of the
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by arrrg 11y ago
„Meister“ (literally “master” in English) is just the certificate you get after finishing some vocational trainings in Germany (includes theory and practice). Vocational training is still somewhat widespread in Germany (for jobs like mechan
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by arrrg 11y ago
That’s simply a discrepancy in definitions. ”Democracy” as used in your quotes is not “democracy” as used elsewhere here. With democracy the people you quoted meant something more specific than the people using it here. Today democracy is s
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by arrrg 11y ago
The full-frame direct competitor is probably the Sony CyberShot RX1R II: http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/rx1r-ii-review Though that one’s still 75% of the price of the Leica. Also, newer and as such in many ways an unk
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by arrrg 11y ago
Ha, I love the 2012 models and still have my 2012 15" rMBP. Save for the bullshit ghosting issue (three screens later I finally got my non-ghosting Samsung screen – oh, first gen woes) that was handled awfully by Apple at the time I lo
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by arrrg 11y ago
They won’t be doing physics. They will be doing (in the broadest sense) empirical social research with a focus on gender and physics, i.e. why are people with certain genders deciding to go into physics or not. Are you really surprised tha
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by arrrg 11y ago
It’s so general as to be useless … basically what you are demonstrating here is one huge exercise in moving the goalposts, turning the theory into unrecognizable mush. So “invent a necessarily preposterous myth” is out. It’s now just about
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by arrrg 11y ago
You can apply this to literally every political belief someone fights for. As such the explanatory power of your theory seems to be quite poor. If something is a political belief you do not share it is easy to call it a myth. If something i
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by arrrg 11y ago
Yeah, that seems like the trick. The ape ones are really very similar to each other.
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by arrrg 11y ago
You can display hearts on the photos by going to the view menu! (As well as titles if they exist, the file format, …) That info is overlaid! (I also think it’s entirely reasonable to only have the thumbnail bar for photo navigation. I think
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by arrrg 11y ago
Eh, I think you could say a lot of similar things about iPhoto. That was one shitty app, certainly much, much, much, much more shitty than Photos … There are always many things “wrong” (in your case it’s mostly your specific use case and th
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by arrrg 11y ago
I was just skipping through it. This film gets things right many scifi films don’t to this day. Which is astonishing, really. There was no real need for it to be this accurate. I mean, there just was no space flight, so you could just as ea
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by arrrg 11y ago
But by deciding to keep this people are “enforc[ing their] views on society on someone else”. You cannot not act. Keeping the status quo is acting, too. Neutrality is just impossible and you have to decide how you want to deal with these is
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by arrrg 11y ago
I don’t really understand what’s wrong with using more inclusionary language. I’m so very confused by this attitude. I mean, I can understand someone not viewing it as particularly important, but you seem to view it as very obviously ridicu
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by arrrg 11y ago
Oh boy. The filter bubble is real! (That’s not meant to be disparaging. We are all in our own isolated bubbles, clueless about a great many things and the details of how people behave.) People often don’t use separate OS accounts (it’s ofte
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by arrrg 11y ago
Surfing behavior not being visible to other users is exactly the reason – the by far most important and absolutely towering reason – for private browsing to exist. Everything beyond that is nice to have but ultimately not really useful, not
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I do think it’s fashion, but it’s fashion combined with technical depth and sophistication. Usually technology that’s just plain stylish (instead of, say, kitschy or flashy) tends to be technologically quite poor, especially when it comes t
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by arrrg 11y ago
Because of people like you. He wanted out. He didn’t want to be internet famous anymore, being questioned by smug know-it-alls. And good on him. Would have done exactly the same in his place, heck, even sold to much, much, much worse compan
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by arrrg 11y ago
There are many hundreds of variables that are different between the variants … you chose to focus on this one for some weird reason. Such is comm research. There is no other way, there really isn’t. This makes sense as a starting point.
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by arrrg 11y ago
It’s a fair comparison … just because your own suspicions are confirmed doesn’t mean it’s not one. To be honest, I find this criticism baffling and confusing. I would agree that I would want to dig deeper now and figure out the exact variab
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Also, this fixes an existing usability and accessibility nightmare of Twitter. People already post longer texts, just either split into multiple tweets (a horrible distraction if you don’t want to see it and incredibly hard to read if you d
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How is that the bright side? Those people are innocent! It's not as though you can blame them for being born in North Korea! (And those who starve are guaranteed to not be those who are in power.) Plus, I'm not sure to what degree
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Nationalism in general is toxic. I firmly believe that nations are a deadly plague and that they should not exist.
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Especially because of that. This nationalism is so weird. I mean, to me it’s mostly incredibly weird, nothing else much. I just cannot picture myself ever ever ever doing something like that, it’s just so incredibly alien. But a good demons

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