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by cortic 8y ago
>"well it's only a quarter's earnings across all of Google" actually, 2017 google made $110B so its not 1/4 but 1/22 of their profits last year.. enormous? meh.
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by cortic 8y ago
Its very likely, that's its not as likely as people likely think it is.
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by cortic 8y ago
There are a few scientific reasons to believe that the universe is simulated; One has something to do with the information in black-holes, i can't remember the details but it suggested to me that '3d space' was fundamentally
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by cortic 8y ago
You never want matching airflow in a PC case, it creates pockets of heat, frying components, usually the top disc drive or sometimes the PSU. Positive pressure is very good at assisting the PSU fan and any radiator exit fans you have, negat
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by cortic 9y ago
Its strange to have such a protection for the worst atrocities, (though people tend to agree with you); Imagine if the government did something so horrible, that just talking about it would reasonably cause a riot... it would be illegal to
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by cortic 9y ago
In the UK we have the Distance Selling Act; https://www.gov.uk/online-and-distance-selling-for-businesse... "You must tell the customer they can cancel their order up to 14 days after their order is delivered. They don
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by cortic 9y ago
The system is flawed, it will always be flawed. some innocent people will be imprisoned, some guilty people will never be caught. Since its impossible to change this i think the system should be designed with this in mind; what we would li
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by cortic 9y ago
? "music ability" eq "rhythm, melody, and pitch discrimination" (I'll be honest this bothered me that much i didn't read very much further) Did they design a test specifically to make them feel special? rhythm
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by cortic 9y ago
plenty of recent studies show that pornography use is manifestly good to our brains https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/all-about-sex/201601/ev... https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2
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by cortic 9y ago
I think you are looking at it wrong; its like saying a bank teller or stockbroker or even a cash machine has no 'useful industrial application'. They are necessary for the currency to work, and they must be paid to do a job. I s
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by cortic 9y ago
"and publishing the news in a responsible manner." \s ?
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by cortic 9y ago
a hack job. how it that not obvious? and the dog i have in this race is the future of my country.
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by cortic 9y ago
They are the only place a whistle-blower can go, without being hung out to dry; Your main complaint about them is that they sometimes, supposedly act like the rest of our media...
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by cortic 9y ago
no where near as manipulative as the rag you read that in, and he is in a much more precarious position as those reporters are.
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by cortic 9y ago
i see, thanks for explaining that. I suppose 'disinformation' would be the most apt word for what you are meaning.
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by cortic 9y ago
i'd expect that kind of stupidity from reddit, but here? Has mainstream media truly got such a hold over everyone? that they can destroy the reputation of a service (and a political refugee) while doing absolutely everything they accu
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by cortic 9y ago
curious, but what do you mean by 'damaging content'; Or would it hurt me if you told me?
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by cortic 9y ago
yes and no, exchanges like Coin Floor let you pick an amount and price, then auto match buy offers with sale offers. so its technically on the exchange and between two parties.
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by cortic 9y ago
Business models like NiceHash (putting aside their security issues) have elevated the price of bitcoin by letting miners mine the most profitable currency and then immediately selling it for BTC. This moves the demand off the best alt curre
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by cortic 9y ago
No, we have hearsay laws similar to the US. We can't compel an officer to testify on our behalf about something we said to them in questioning. its just in the UK, if you talk to the police, and forget something that is important you
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by cortic 9y ago
This would be more compelling if it was not set in the backdrop of advertising. Advertising is an entire industry set up to mislead the consumer, with the aim of getting the consumer to make choices that they wouldn't ordinarily have
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by cortic 9y ago
“You do not have to say anything. But, it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned something which you later rely on in court. Anything you do say may be given in evidence.” https://www.gov.uk/arrested-you
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by cortic 9y ago
But without representation and legal advice such 'small courts' often rule on the side of money. Even before such a hearing can take place the employee can be subject to pressure and bullying and without representation in discipl
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by cortic 9y ago
how else are we to interpret a "corrosive us-against-them dynamic" Unions don't get involved unless there is violation of workers rights. And believe me anti-union does mean anti-workers-rights. "Many rights of worker
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by cortic 9y ago
In short; 'JR' has better success in business when he can under-pay his workers and ignore their health and safety needs and human rights. As an unrelated side note; All my businesses would be successful if i could just use slave
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by cortic 9y ago
At the point where they start to put back the conditions we have around welfare today. Or at the point they start to treat us the same way employers treat us today. Sure, for a time, it may become impossible to have a runaway defense b
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by cortic 9y ago
i did spend an embarrassing amount of time trying to find an example of RNA life after reading your initial reply lol. I suppose viruses do count as 'life' in some sense, so fair enough, thanks for clearing that up.
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by cortic 9y ago
- "Almost all life on earth is based on DNA being copied, or replicated" - Can anyone tell me what they are referring to here? (life on earth that isn't based on DNA)
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by cortic 9y ago
There is also a fixed fee per day of around 30p (which hits poor people harder as its a bigger part of their bill). As well as a higher rate for the first (6KWh? tariff dependent, though common) and a lower rate for every KWh after that (m
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by cortic 10y ago
There are outliers but most systems fall between two extremes of regulation, the heaviest regulation is basically a socialist system, owned by the people, run as a public service and so directly regulated. the lightest regulated is a priv

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