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by austerity 12y ago
Yeah, maybe I assigned some of my own meanings to what he said. It just so happened that I only hear about "saving a language" in the context of shoving it down the kids' throats in schools and giving official status to dead
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by austerity 12y ago
Why shouldn't I use terms like efficiency? Because it's exactly about efficiency. Or ease of collaboration and communication if the e-word offends you for some reason. The languages are a barrier to distribution of knowledge. Yes
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by austerity 12y ago
As the man in the back row, I am not convinced. He reduces the need to save languages to the need to save cultures and leaves it at that, implicitly assuming the latter to be an axiom. To me it's even more obviously false. Plus, he com
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by austerity 12y ago
I wish so much to hear at least a semi-coherent response to this from the pro-prohibition crowd.
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by austerity 12y ago
Yep. Not sure how good this particular source is but it was in the mainstream news recently. http://ibnlive.in.com/news/cannabis-helps-shrink-aggressive-...
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by austerity 12y ago
With many substances the legal risks are incomparably higher than the health risks. But it's not even the point. The illegality simply makes safer/more predictable substances much harder to obtain.
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by austerity 12y ago
Sill, one "bad" language is better than many slightly better ones.
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by austerity 12y ago
That kind of supports your point though.
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by austerity 12y ago
Doesn't your experience prove the parent's point? For 23 years you've been a productive law-abiding member of society but were stripped of rights just because you are an "alien". Now that you have joined the club yo
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by austerity 12y ago
Interesting... Google Translate did a very decent job on the article, but the comments are all kinds of hilarious. Looks like informal speech is much harder to translate correctly. Although on the second thought it's not surprising.
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by austerity 12y ago
> the undesireables are the poor No, that doesn't work. The inequality here is minimal.
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by austerity 12y ago
Aprophene (Taren), a soviet drug seemingly unknown outside of ex-USSR. It was included in the standard civil defense medkit as an antidote against some specific group of chemicals. The most famous substance in the same pharmacological group
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by austerity 12y ago
Sorry, but that's an outright conspiracy theory you have there. The drug policies are nothing but a populist response to the public demands to "do something" by politicians who know no ways to deal with undesirable phenomena
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by austerity 12y ago
> was a concern that my mental state would be permanently affected by the experience, Yup, that's the beginner's curse. Every single person I know who ever tried potent psychoactive substances had this experience at least once.
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by austerity 12y ago
It's quite telling that the heroine chose to sell her oxycontin and buy heroin instead of telling her doc she's hooked and suffering withdrawal.
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by austerity 12y ago
Well, all the empirical evidence suggests otherwise. So by resisting the change you are helping inflict damage on more lives.
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by austerity 12y ago
Every single law limiting access to information ends up being abused to create censorship in favor of somebody's selfish interest, political or otherwise. Privacy laws? Abused. Libel laws? Abused. Copyright? Abused all the god damn tim
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by austerity 12y ago
This shit needs to end. Even the obvious jurisdiction overreach aside, what happened is the court ordering Google - a party not in any way involved in the conflict at hand - to withhold information from the public. The idea that this "
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by austerity 12y ago
As long as you are not born into corporations and free to "leave" one and "join" another one they are vastly better than governments. The problems start when governments and corporations merge.
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by austerity 12y ago
Truth be told, I have no idea. Maybe the author of the map had an agenda :)
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by austerity 12y ago
Unfortunately it's not as simple as that. You can instruct the browser to ignore an invalid cert for the site in address bar, but all background requests (images, scripts, ajax, etc.) to different domains made via https will still be s
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by austerity 12y ago
It's certainly not the intended behavior, but it's not a surprising bug either. The rewrite was surprisingly tough to make work even most of the time. But if you could share the specific site this happened on, I will likely be abl
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by austerity 12y ago
Thanks, duly noted.
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by austerity 12y ago
Yup, on it, thanks for the heads up.
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by austerity 12y ago
The servers used in this case are definitely in the Netherlands. However what seems to be happening is they are used a lot by people from Turkey (they are shared with another popular web proxy) and Google learned this somehow from some impl
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by austerity 12y ago
Got it, will fix.
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by austerity 12y ago
No, those ads are mine. Although they were supposed to be disabled.
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by austerity 12y ago
More like trusted by Teleport. Whether you trust Teleport is up to you. While I promise I won't steal your passwords it's really the best I (or anyone serving as a proxy) can do. If you want a "trustless" channel, the on
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by austerity 12y ago
Yes, this is openly addressed in "How it works".
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by austerity 12y ago
Which country were you trying?

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