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by delecti 2y ago
Your comment just reiterates the same point which I was already questioning. My response to JumpCrisscross already applies perfectly to your comment.
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by delecti 2y ago
The options available to that intelligence chief in your scenario are probably bad for China, but are they any worse for those citizens than what China's own government could do to those citizens? I kinda get why the US is banning tikt
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by delecti 2y ago
"Fetish" is the wrong way to look at it, but it does seem connected. The explanation I've seen is basically a unified "fuck you, I won't do what you tell me, so instead I'm going to give my data to China even h
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by delecti 2y ago
I have trouble seeing that as irony in a world where "embrace, extend, extinguish" exists.
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by delecti 2y ago
Agreed. I love public transit. To get to work I can either take ~45 minutes by bus (during which time I read), or 25 minutes by car (during which time I can only loathe that I'm stuck contributing to traffic). That 20 minutes "los
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by delecti 2y ago
He's the owner of the site, in the inner circle of the incoming administration, and also the richest person in the world as global society is increasingly an oligarchy. That's hardly "living rent free in [one's] mind&quo
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by delecti 2y ago
I, perhaps unwisely, use the same username absolutely everywhere. Basically the only exceptions are places which don't use usernames, like Linkedin, or which predate inventing the username.
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by delecti 2y ago
The comment I replied to was implying that the positives were oversold, but to my read didn't really mention any negatives. What negative consequences are you talking about? Currently your framing makes it seem even better: some (IMO)
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by delecti 2y ago
> they have cherry-picked some extremely simple drugs to synthesize to make their point It can't do everything , but those cherry-picked examples are still pretty dramatic. Saving $80k to cure your Hep.C is pretty practical. Gettin
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by delecti 2y ago
I can't vouch for its quality, but this has the full standard layout of those buttons (plus insert/delete). https://www.amazon.com/EPOMAKER-Mechanical-Swappable-Program... I've also really enjoyed my Keychron
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by delecti 2y ago
> It's weird to me how [...] Counterpoint, it's weird to me to be surprised to encounter a problem when you knowingly avoid preventing that problem.
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by delecti 2y ago
I have no idea. I'm entirely unfamiliar with that.
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by delecti 2y ago
The consumer never gets the affiliate cut either way. If there are coupon codes, the consumer wins. If there aren't, the customer only loses a bit of privacy about what they're buying, which most people don't care about anywa
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by delecti 2y ago
Oddly she actually got a quarter, despite seemingly having been "entitled" to half. Though perhaps it isn't so odd; if she's willing to give so much away so quickly, clearly she wasn't merely aiming to fleece him.
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by delecti 2y ago
I would not be hopeful. From AP news: > Four of the FTC’s five commissioners voted to approve the rule. Commissioner Andrew Ferguson, – who is President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to replace Khan, was the one dissenting vote. https:&#x
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by delecti 2y ago
Are there truly that many movies which aren't released on physical media? I've also recently set up Plex, and just rip blu-ray copies to my NAS for it. Haven't failed to find any movies I've looked for.
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by delecti 2y ago
Okay, so what's wrong with slapping a number on a strain name? COVID-19 ( CO rona VI rus D isease 20 19 )
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by delecti 2y ago
At 1:20, a small bit of text pops up in the lower right, just right of the "Soon..." which says "Dec 11th".
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by delecti 2y ago
As I've heard it, it was characterized as flirting by the employee.
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by delecti 2y ago
I've seen "thought experiments" (not sure they're quite that, but close enough) like that for a variety of things. The big numbers I've seen that done for most often are: unique shufflings of a deck of playing cards
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by delecti 2y ago
It's not surprising that a law whose goal was increasing the customer base for a service also increased the profits of that industry.
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by delecti 2y ago
> Your job dictates your insurance, not you, and most jobs [...] This is answering the question with a very narrow focus on what any one person can do. Sure, when I filled out my job's open enrollment last month, there was no checkb
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by delecti 2y ago
> negligence, noun - failure to take proper care in doing something. Negligence does not mean that he was obligated to show more care than he did. Pick whatever word you want, my point is just that he had ample warning and opportunity
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by delecti 2y ago
He was diagnosed with cancer more than 30 years before his death, which also recurred almost a decade before his death. That kind of thing usually gives one a kick in the pants to get your affairs in order. To have those health incidents, t
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by delecti 2y ago
I've tried both, and prefer Honeycrisp. I found Cosmic too tart.
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by delecti 2y ago
I got put on a PIP at Amazon, and even at the time I thought it was a reasonable criticism. I then worked hard, graduated out of the PIP, and stayed there a few more years. (I also opted-in to a second PIP (with my manager's knowledge
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by delecti 2y ago
The context of the quote pretty significantly changes the meaning though. It's an argument for why the rules shouldn't be loosened for the preservation foundation. > Still, the US copyright office has said no. "The Registe
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by delecti 2y ago
That's how it works on my work-provided HP laptop. The physical switch is only an opaque block on the camera.
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by delecti 2y ago
The brand "Das Keyboard" did that almost 20 years ago on a non-mechanical keyboard. The activation forces were tuned in exactly that way across the keyboard. The keycaps also didn't have any legends on them, so it targeted th
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by delecti 2y ago
Some of the complaints in this thread make me wonder if Mercedes has a really good automatic braking system, or if you are all much more erratic drivers than my wife and I to make them kick in all the time on your cars (or maybe a the syste

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