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by dendriti 4y ago
OK so not actually guns but "government" then. Not as dramatic though. OP is likely the same kind of person who calls taxes "theft" for rhetorical purposes.
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by dendriti 4y ago
The fact that you think this is a "gotcha" is a strong indication that you have no business discussing the topic.
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by dendriti 4y ago
OK so, let's say I completely understand every facet of signing up for and using Mastadon, but still think it's bullshit that few normal users will navigate. Is my opinion valid now?
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by dendriti 4y ago
Can we just stop with these bullshit word games? I'm so tired. Describing a form of legal discrimination (in this case, affirmative action) as "racial discrimination" is not an argument. Or even an invitation to discussion.
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by dendriti 4y ago
I love the Winnie the Pooh quip because it helps me identify those who have no business commenting about China.
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by dendriti 4y ago
>the salary to be offered is reduced to cover the estimated current value of the future employee protections. This is a fallacy. Companies will pay employees as little as possible. Why would they pay you more just because employee prot
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by dendriti 4y ago
Literacy rates in Western Europe and North America were quite high. There was an bustling trade in almanacs, pamphlets, periodicals and Bibles. Go read about Charles Dickens' career and how he succeeded by appealing to the tastes of
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by dendriti 4y ago
Is that what OP actually said?
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by dendriti 4y ago
the Hacker News commenter with 20k karma says hey. go post your comments on your own damn blog.
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by dendriti 4y ago
Right. Systemic problems require systemic solutions, and "voting with your wallet" is capitalist bullshit. They love to trot that one out, to make real change impossible.
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by dendriti 4y ago
That exists... It's called "Microsoft Office 2021 Professional" and it's on their website. Very expensive. You can find it (much) cheaper elsewhere.
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by dendriti 4y ago
"Grades" are a metric, not a goal. The goal is to educate and train students. If you make a metric into a goal, you have already made the metric worthless and are likely to fail to achieve your first goal.
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by dendriti 4y ago
Folks, this is not difficult to understand unless you're deliberately being obtuse. There's legal and illegal discrimination. Some forms of legal discrimination do amount to discrimination against White people. When we say "D
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by dendriti 4y ago
Any university should be able to hire and fire teaching professors at will if they're not doing a satisfactory job. Clearly this professor wasn't. I don't feel like anyone was cheated.
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by dendriti 4y ago
The fact that you think a "formal international treaty" means anything, tells us that you're not ready. States will do whatever states CAN do. Treaties mean nothing by themselves, especially in this context. (side note: near
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by dendriti 4y ago
A keyboard doesn't claim to be good for millions of actuations. You're referring to (a single) switch, which cost less than a dollar even for the most premium switches. They are easily replaced.
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by dendriti 4y ago
One major issue driving the dissatisfaction with dating apps may be that a truly satisfied customer stops being a customer.
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by dendriti 4y ago
You do know that the oppression and subjugation of women and minorities was often brought by colonizers, right? Singapore's anti-homosexual laws, for example, were promulgated by the British. They didn't always bring enlightenme
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by dendriti 4y ago
No one (here) is claiming that we know dark matter exists...
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by dendriti 4y ago
That's because Filezilla uses updates as a vector for advertising... they're incentivized to make updates as small and trivial as possible.
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by dendriti 4y ago
Well, yes but no. It's good that Amazon is hiring ex-cons and minorities. It's good that Amazon is not testing for weed. None of those things obviate the need for a union.
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by dendriti 4y ago
You should read about the political history of South Korea before making the claim that Korea was democractic (yes you hedged with "on paper" but that is meaningless).
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by dendriti 4y ago
Are you literally incapable of understanding that other peoples' needs are different from your own?
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by dendriti 4y ago
Right but it's not though, nearly all of the big-ticket esports games are easily playable on a GTX-1060... You could build an entire esports machine, with monitor (and RGB!) for less than 1000USD. I have done it many times.
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by dendriti 4y ago
You absolutely can scrape a product image from a supermarket website legally. Why would you think otherwise? Whether you can use those images commercially is another matter entirely.
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by dendriti 4y ago
Visa is not a medium of exchange. This is a sad take.
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by dendriti 4y ago
You know this works for literally EVERY concern about privacy for ANY technology?
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by dendriti 4y ago
We call non-religious cults "cliques" now...
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by dendriti 4y ago
Please calm down. No one is attacking you. The point is, MOST people don't have a 3990X at home, because they don't need it, and MOST people won't have a fast charger at home, because they don't need it.
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by dendriti 4y ago
Multiple displays have a tremendous advantage that cannot be matched in software, namely that you can adjust each monitor to its use-case. The portrait monitor I use for web browsing is adjusted very differently than the one I use to game,

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