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by docdeek 9y ago
> Those that swear by it are those that defeated their alcohol reliance while in AA or replaced their alcohol reliance with a reliance on AA events. It’s anecdotal but in my case I replaced a reliance on alcohol by a reliance on sports.
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by docdeek 9y ago
I imagine all leaders share some traits no matter how good, evil, or truly monstrous they are. The reality is, however, that Americans can vote their leader out of office in a couple of years while in Belarus they just cannot.
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by docdeek 9y ago
It depends on where you are, I guess. I pay for data on my cell in France but the amount of data I am allowed each month before things start to slow down (100GB, up from 50GB a few months ago) means I never get close to getting throttled by
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by docdeek 9y ago
I didn't know that. Is it possible, then, that a person who leaves their door unlocked is punished while the person who stole and dumped the car is not?
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by docdeek 9y ago
Minimum wage is indeed about 550 euros a month (it’s 557 euros) but the average wage is more like 1130 euros monthly. https://www.expatica.com/pt/employment/minimum-wage-in-portu...
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Cambridge Dictionary’s Word of the Year 2017 Is Populism(dictionaryblog.cambridge.org)
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Lab rat bill proposes to put tech giants above the law in South Australia(abc.net.au)
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by docdeek 9y ago
One key difference right now, though, is that I can use my Mastercard to pay for just about anythying just about anywhere I happen to be. In comparison to this worldwide acceptance as a means of payment, BTC seems just about worthless.
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by docdeek 9y ago
"We believe in science (the universe came into existence 13.7 billion years ago and if you can't re-create/test something it doesn't exist)." Wouldn't there be a number of things that we know exist but that we
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by docdeek 9y ago
> Free speech --> Sue a magazine Free speech doesn’t mean freedom from being held to account for your speech.
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by docdeek 9y ago
"We interview people who fit the basic criteria, and for less than one hour (sometimes 15 minutes!). If the person seems capable and there aren’t major red flags, we hire them (we use an extremely coarse grained filter). If we have fiv
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Is Amazon Getting Set to Accept Bitcoin as Payment?(finance.yahoo.com)
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by docdeek 9y ago
Nice article. The most interesting point is the question posed for proponents of UBI: what do you do if it doesn’t work out as planned? Extending that, if it turns out UBI is a bad idea, how do you get out of it? One thing that governments
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Twitter is done with hate symbols and violent groups(techcrunch.com)
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by docdeek 9y ago
It’s happening here in France. A report in the free commuter newspaper in Lyon this morning recounted the arrest of a guy who had watched videos of decapitations (I presume ISIS-produced). Perhaps he downloaded the video, but likely he just
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A resistance against Big Tech(axios.com)
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Big tech finds itself lacking political allies(ocregister.com)
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by docdeek 9y ago
The DPRK nuclear program pre-dates American regime change in Iraq and Libya by decades. Their pursuit of nuclear weapons, while destablising in the region and for the world, is not tied to post-9/11 American foreign policy - there was
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by docdeek 9y ago
> The study’s conclusion: With the exception of recently released blockbusters, there is no evidence to support the idea that online copyright infringement displaces sales. For the owners of the copyright on the blockbuster, that’s still
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by docdeek 9y ago
I think the difference here is that the sorts of things that article mentions that are thought to favor boys in other countries (role models, more men than women on boards etc.) are also evident in Jordan, but the girls are still doing bett
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Tusk: Refined Evernote desktop app(github.com)
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by docdeek 9y ago
Relevant Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Regulations_for_...
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by docdeek 9y ago
It appears they have also posted Democrat/Independent details, too: latest release (Part II) includes Senators Warren and Sanders among others.
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by docdeek 9y ago
Social media seems to be living by the maxim “It’s not enough that I succeed, others should fail”. It’s not enough to simply be a good person, win an argument, or see your personal political beliefs become widely adopted - you also have to
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by docdeek 9y ago
Trump moving to Gab would be interesting both for the effect it would have on Twitter’s valuation and on the media profile of Gab as a Twitter-like service. Trump would have the ‘pull’ to draw attention to Gab and the media would feel thems
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by docdeek 9y ago
LSE has a little form in this area… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_School_of_Economics_Gad...
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by docdeek 9y ago
>What do nazi ideologies fall under? They are illegal in Germany and not protected by free speech no? I believe in Germany you are correct, yes. >why is hate speech protected by freedom of speech, is it so that dictators can't ac
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by docdeek 9y ago
As I understand it - at least in the US - hate speech is protected speech. Inciting someone to commit a violent act or to otherwise break the law might not be, but hate speech is protected speech.
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WordPress Banned the Website of the Group Linked to Charlottesville Killer(fastcompany.com)
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by docdeek 9y ago
I think the problem lies in defining who a Nazi is. At Birkenau it is clear, and for a lot/most/all of those chanting ‘blood and soil’ in Charlottesville it is pretty clear, too. There are many shades of grey between right wing an

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