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by drekk 5y ago
Nah, just recognize that the tech already was out there, for a lower cost, in a form factor that won't notify you you're being tailed This isn't a new thing and Apple takes steps that, for example, Tile doesn't to preven
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by drekk 5y ago
Sure, but the last time they actually tried doing it we had a civil war in which millions died.
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I don't know why people single out China for this when the US has invaded, couped, bombed, and otherwise helped install right-wing military juntas globally. Where was self-determination for Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos? China's pri
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This is totally separate from the point you were making. You can say you're from Hong Kong, but it's part of China. That you shouldn't get death threats should go without saying.
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If it requires fighting a war that has been "hidden" it's pretty jingoistic. Especially given the hand-waving everyone does here to call China a despotic autocratic regime despite the US having more prisoners overall and per
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It (optionally) uses a fork of Proton, the Valve-developed compatability layer. All containers use Wine, but Proton and Lutris are more complex and support more modern titles
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I see the Cold War never ended in the US. The communists you're decrying engaged 80% of the German army and were responsible for 7/10s of Nazi deaths on that front. It wasn't the USSR that dropped two nuclear bombs (one urani
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This kind of reasoning is circular. It justifies any and all escalation on the chance that others are doing the same. Also baked into the assumption is that fire fights fire. I don't want my state to produce killer robots. Even if ot
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I think it's important to note American consumers are fighting for these, like the right to repair law recently. Unfortunately, we live in a "representative republic" that only had universal suffrage (on paper) in the 60s. Th
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I don't know why you're speaking for me here? Laws are made by lobbyists purchasing government seats in your "free market". It's laughable you think consumers have an impact on the passage of laws or their contents
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They sell placebos without you needing to give money to quacks practicing 18th century pseudoscience
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You don't need to publicly display or own the likeness in perpetuity if it was just training data
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Maybe I can help clear something up for once in these comments! My focus is on substance abuse and not aging, but I've been following the literature and what has been gaining prominence is the "cold wet hungry" hypothesis. Th
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Purdue would give them kickbacks, vacations, etc. as part of their marketing outreach. It's not like the doctors made commission on every pill
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Your argument rests on the assumption that capitalism is the best or only economic system. It is not profitable to feed poor children. And we don't. 25% of children are food insecure in the US, one of the wealthiest countries not just
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Does virtually nobody know? I haven't met a black American yet who didn't. Perhaps a better question: if you know a term has a racist history, why are you so attached to the specific term?
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This was way too many words to say "my language may have offensive and antiquated roots but I don't care and if you do you're sensitive and should not be taken seriously" Like cool opinion, nobody has to accommodate you
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You don't know that, you're going off of last names. Why are we justifying conspiratorial thinking
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by drekk 5y ago
"Your money or your life!" is technically a choice, yes. I think that framing assumes a lot of agency on part of the victim here. We are not always free to make decisions, especially living hand to mouth.
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by drekk 5y ago
I like how you wrapped condescension and a humble brag in the same breath. You invested in a company and profited by it. That's all that tells us. B can follow A, it doesn't follow that A caused B. I see this in finance all the ti
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by drekk 5y ago
What value do you find in inventing a caste system for engineers? Psychology already suffers from a replication crisis and pseudoscientific quackery; corporate psychology is even less broadly applicable to humans. People are not static; the
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There's a difference between literally being cellular automata (all life, including you and me) and being treated like a robot. I imagine aliens putting babies in boiling water and explaining the unpleasant noise as air escaping the lu
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by drekk 5y ago
Heroin has medicinal properties too. That doesn't mean any 16 year old should be allowed to purchase it over the counter for whatever ailment they think it may treat. Nicotine is one of the most reinforcing substances we know of, and c
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Common misconception, the median age skews younger in history because most humans died in infancy. If you survived to adulthood you could expect a similar lifespan (50-80)
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Depends, are we willing to practice basic public sanitation during influenza outbreaks or are we returning to the days before germ theory? I care more about my grandparents than the economy, I take the flu shot yearly, what exactly is the i
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by drekk 5y ago
HIV was also completely ignored for the most part because they thought it was "gay cancer". Politics aren't biology but they can certainly become it. We pay more attention to things than we did then I hope. Millions of excess
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One country left the EU and was made an example. Britain is worse off for it and didn't gain anything. The entire world had the pendulum swing to conservative governments, including the US which had even less refugees at the border. I
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Obesity and malnutrition are two ends of the same coin. In industrial societies we subsidized calorie-dense products (in the US these are corn based), and mostly lead sedentary lifestyles even as children. Kropotkin would have a lot to say
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The US has more prisoners than China, an "authoritarian" nation with 4x the population. In fact, certain sectors of our economy (Idaho potatoes, for one) are completely dependent on unfettered cheap prison labor. Hong Kong is Chin
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by drekk 5y ago
I don't see what's wrong here, is there a "mass killings under capitalist regimes" page? We can start with 100 million indigenous souls in the Americas and count from there! These listicles might get you some clicks on B

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