cforrester

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by cforrester 6y ago
I think you're thinking of "slavery" as a term applying exclusively to chattel slavery, but it's far from exclusive to that form. Bonded labour and forced labour are commonly recognized forms of slavery, as people are ob
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by cforrester 6y ago
Poverty was also a major factor for a lot of us. Entertainment is a basic human necessity, and video games were so compelling to me as a child. When you have days where your mom has sleep for dinner so you don't, it's tough to fin
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by cforrester 7y ago
Does this tracking data really need to be transmitted outside of the local environment, though? The driver simply needs to download a list of the available application profiles and compare it to the process list locally. Then, if a specific
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by cforrester 7y ago
This makes me wonder how emoji might be used in the future. They're becoming pretty ubiquitous, and even adopting meanings of their own. Might they replace punctuation entirely in the future, as a marker of tone the way punctuation mar
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by cforrester 7y ago
On reddit, he elaborated that it's just the size of his hands that make it as annoying as all trackpads: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/eq2pwa/my_review_of_...
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by cforrester 7y ago
That doesn't mean it's wrong to criticize his choices, so long as it's done without being insulting.
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by cforrester 7y ago
> Does the contemporary New York Economy connect people around the world and put all the worlds knowledge at your fingertips? Would it be any more acceptable to lure people into the "dependent contractor" trap if it did?
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by cforrester 7y ago
I can remember a time when there were serious complaints about Walmart's influence in the home video market. It used to be very expensive to produce a DVD, and smaller studios couldn't afford to produce both an original widescreen
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by cforrester 7y ago
Do you suppose they mostly use WeChat there?
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by cforrester 7y ago
I'm wondering if they don't have a different idea of training internally than you do... When I was younger, my mother worked as a freight forwarder. After she'd been there for awhile, the company paid to send her for training
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by cforrester 7y ago
I wouldn't say that helium is becoming scarce in the sense that we can't get any more, though. I may be wrong, but my understanding is that it's just expensive to store, so nobody wants to do it if it's not worth the mon