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> It was only when I realized that one of my clients had his own editing website that everything changed. Turns out, this guy would offer to edit someone’s novel for, say, $2,000. He would then pay me $500 to edit it, then send my work b
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Exactly. So a unionized tech company would be a company that attracts people who don't have the skills to earn lots of money. I doubt such a company would thrive among competitors with top level programmers
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I would be satisfied if there was a proper criminal justice system. Unfortunately, in the US (and most of the world) that is not the case, and former prisoners are more likely to commit crime than people who have never been in prison. I kno
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Any specific quote, or is it just the generic "The US jails people who broke US law and the Chinese jail people who broke Chinese law, so the US and China are mortally equivalent"?
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I wonder what would happen if price gauging laws were removed. Suddenly there wouldn't be as much of a risk that the demand will abruptly end (eg. a vaccine) and leave them in debt due to all of the the new factories that they built, s
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from the article > "Climate has always changed, and weather is always variable, due to complex, powerful natural forces," Legates said. it sure doesn't sound like he is "denying climate change", rather he disagre
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Thanks for fact checking. I guess I'll have to preface this story by saying that it's a myth. Oh well
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I once heard, from a potentially unreliable source, an interesting story about this. When countries border each other and also share a coast there is a issue of how to decide who owns the water. The simplest way is to find the point where t
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I have no problem with facial recognition. It is as, if not more, useful as/than an eye witness. Which means to say, use that as a basis for collecting evidence, but not as evidence itself. For example, if facial recognition linked a l
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Got that too. I too have never visited that site and am not in the US.
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It's also probably because we know more about how to treat people with the virus. At first ventilators was the go-to plan for people with difficulty breathing, until it was shown that ventilators were either not very useful or even det
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I guess you would be surprised at the amount of people who borrow from people with an actual gun. The short explanation is that some people are really desperate for money right now.
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I tried it and unfortunately it did not work
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6y ago
I don't mind paying. I tried WINE but that didn't work well enough for me. I will try codeweavers crossover
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One deal breaker for me regarding OnlyOffice is that they have absolutely no support for RTL https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/DocumentServer/issues/19 . From what it looks like there is a 5 year opened issue req
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6y ago
MSword doesn't support Linux. Personally, if it were to I would purchase it
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Ranger: A console file manager with VI key bindings
(github.com)
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