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by capote 10y ago
Nobody's telling anyone how to live their life here, much less you specifically.
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by capote 10y ago
This does give it a kind of bearded-conspiracy-theorist-ish vibe that puts me off too. But the underlying point in using the word makes sense and hey, maybe it'll deter some people from using Facebook without knowing exactly what they&
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by capote 10y ago
Blocking an entire app store is so consumer-unfriendly--is there a chance of that happening in a reasonable country?
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by capote 10y ago
Oh! I didn't realize it worked that way. So they can tell Apple to take something off their App Store because Apple has presence in their country? Would app stores be immune if their company doesn't have a presence in a country?
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by capote 10y ago
Couldn't the government ban the company from making the service available? The app depends on the service.
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by capote 10y ago
They should've made the EU -> UK border control guy Boris Johnson. Would've been triple as effective.
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by capote 10y ago
I wouldn't have been in his situation in Hong Kong because, while I see his actions as positive overall, I do not think they're worth having to run off to a place like Russia (which does what I'm trying to fix on a much large
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by capote 10y ago
"an unworkable, unjustifiable violation of rights" in Russia? Shocking. But seriously, will anyone relevant hear him? This type of thing is common in Russia and has been for a while. Snowden ran to hide in the mother of all gov
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by capote 10y ago
Based on nothing or anything. It's just reality.
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by capote 10y ago
It's definitely the case that remainers are better informed.
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by capote 10y ago
I'm a US citizen and want to move to Australia for good. How can I find someone like you in Australia to get advice from on how to proceed? (I'd just be looking for a normal software/managerial job kind of like the one I hav
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by capote 10y ago
I spend much of my time in unuseful ways, and so do you. Outright ignorance is definitely pushing it. It's a guess, but very much an educated guess that it's mostly Brexiters who are googling it. Bremainers tend to be better i
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Krugman on Brexit: worry about Britain and separatism(krugman.blogs.nytimes.com)
5 points by capote 10y ago|0 comments
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by capote 10y ago
I recognize bias, and I recognize that I myself am biased. But I also maintain that the title is accurate, and the implications of the bias are reasonable to draw. Whether or not this speaks to the quality of the publication is up to anyo
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by capote 10y ago
Are you saying it's categorically wrong to use subjective adverbs in headlines?
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by capote 10y ago
I don't. But if Bremainers were googling it it's inconsequential. It's the Brexiters who google it that tell us something about the vote.
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by capote 10y ago
The title is a pretty clear and accurate summary of what's happening.
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by capote 10y ago
You didn't. All of this is based on implication and what meaning you draw from the information, so it's not such a solid thing.
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by capote 10y ago
Do you disagree there's a big implication here? Normally I'd agree with you.
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by capote 10y ago
Gut feeling after reading the article I suppose? Would you really be surprised if many voters didn't know what they were voting for? Especially if the outcome is one agreed upon by most intellectuals to be the worse outcome.
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by capote 10y ago
Wanting to know and in many cases regretting it. It seems obvious many had no idea what they were doing, and many were just "mucking about".
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by capote 10y ago
And it seems many of the leave voters are regretting their choice now.
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The British are Googling what the E.U. is, hours after voting to leave it(washingtonpost.com)
413 points by capote 10y ago|568 comments
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by capote 10y ago
With all the attention they got, roughly 30 downvotes, flagging, your attention, you'd think I posted the most substantive posts this site has ever seen.
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by capote 10y ago
Why? Getting a bit political here, and I'm sorry, I just need to answer the question then I'll cut it out with the strong political views: Because I couldn't bear to be a citizen of a country that elects Donald Trump as presi
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by capote 10y ago
I want to listen to you (I'd write in Bernie to be honest) but unfortunately it's not realistic. I've come to this conclusion by observation of reality, not from the media. I don't even consume much American media.
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by capote 10y ago
My comment was mainly aimed at people who agree with me that Trump would be a disaster and Hillary would simply be the continuation of the not-so-great status quo. To those people, I plead to stop making the both-sides-are-evil argument. Y
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by capote 10y ago
A myth? We literally only have two choices. There is not a single chance that someone else will be elected unless someone within either of the parties does something. What do you seriously suggest the people do to get another person bes
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by capote 10y ago
I'm a little bit put off by the mentality of "both sides are bad" that a lot of people seem to have in both of these issues. Yeah, both sides have massive flaws, but isn't it stifling to keep insisting on this fact and t
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by capote 10y ago
Thanks for the level-headed verbal answer. I guess I just feel like a downvote is a slap, rather than a more appropriate simple response that states the issue, or just being ignored. Slaps should be for when people are offensive/racist

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