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Recently, there is an increasing conspiracy theorist group who believe that covid was planned by few billionaires who profited the most this pandemic.
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Itch: A Marketplace for Indie Games
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Why Great Britain Sent Its Prisoners to Australia (2018)
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Woah, I didn't know that. For anyone else: https://theculturetrip.com/pacific/australia/articles/why-gr... So the idea doesn't seem that crazy.
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I am deeply empathetic to both society and prisoners. I don't think a life imprisonment make any sense for either. I would be for removing it or replacing it with anything else. Money that use to rot people in prisons for life could be
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> Why not just let any depressed person commit suicide efficiently so they're not around bringing us down! Criminals who would get life sentences are an order of magnitude different than average person who attempts suicide. They are
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I wonder why people don't look at death sentence as more favorable. Modern ways of euthansizing people seems peaceful compared to the prisons in most parts of the world. Why imprison a person for life in such places? What does anyone g
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No mention of biological terrorism?
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14% of Americans changed their mind about an issue because of social media |2018
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For cultural customs, I am not sure which country to take. For US and UK (which dominate the statistics on stuff like this due to language and other factors), women spend significantly more. > The 2013 data contradicts your claim. It doe
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> And before "have you tried this *nix distro??" comments appear, they are still too hard to setup and nowhere near as user-friendly for most people on an everyday basis. This isn't true. This perception continues to hurt
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> that's an incredibly 'old fashioned' statement to make If spending in cosmetics industry is any indicator, women definitely cares about how something looks over men. There are hard number even if you don't believe i
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> They are in fact correct that [insert anything] are scary and too complex for them to manage, and they want someone they can trust to do it for them Is this an argument for forced autonomous cars or stopping selling of knives because t
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You make an interesting point about judges. I wonder how prevalent behind the door blackmailing is given we probably wouldn't heard about them if the person complied.
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Have you tried pop OS? They do bunch of optimization and come with tested and stable drivers pre-installed.
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This can't be linked enough: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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Why call linux a bad user experience when you are depressed at the state of what you can do on mac/windows? Doesn't user experience account for what you can do on your device and with how much ease?
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I was looking into various differences among demographics which use and prefer apple products. Nobody rated any of the problems often thrown in here as a priority. Majority of iPhone users are women and HN/reddit are primarily men domi
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Correction: You don't need to login to install apps from Microsoft store and software control on Linux. Android, yes playstore requires an account but you can install an alternative store without signing in.
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For me, no. For my grandpa, yes. Windows smart screen hides the run anyway button as more info link.
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Brian Willson
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Use a custom domain for your email. It magically reduces the number of spam emails.
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> Making users upset is a direct threat to their business model You can't really compare Google to Apple. You can switch to a different company if you don't like pixel phones and get almost the same experience. You can switch b
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Windows smart screen. I can install it but sometimes it is trigger happy so I have to go through a pop up.
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What's a computer? iPad. People aren't laughing now, are they?
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A lot of it is just people parroting the same old boring tropes. They couldn't believe Linux had gotten easier to use than windows. I know this. I installed Windows few days ago. I can't install steam or chromium without getting b
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Smart screen and other measures on windows are so useless that they just encourage consumers to engage in bad security practices. I downloaded steam from the steam page, windows blocked it. I downloaded Chrome, windows blocked it. What'
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This has been happening for a long time. Hardware and software that you can't control is becoming normalized. If they had done this 10 years ago with the same customers, those customers would be shocked or weirded out but right now, ma
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It's not unusual. It's more developed.
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> And even if you work a shitty gas station job opportunities you can learn the gas station business, impress the owner, and get them to invest in opening your own. Or you can learn a trade in your spare time. You most likely will be use
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