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The issue here is not the registered offenders list but that things like this are considered crimes and somebody could be convicted for them. It’s not about forgiveness, it’s about minimizing future harm. If you are an actual (and there sho
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3y ago
What about child abusers? People convicted of fraud or other types of corruption? etc. Basically people that never should never be allowed to do certain types of work because it wouldn’t be in the public interest?
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3y ago
So newspapers will be afraid to report on things like that even when it clearly is in the in interest of the society for them to do that? Criminal records don’t exist just to punish people and penalize them for the rest of their lives but a
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3y ago
> which helps Especially if you’re a corrupt politician, child abuser etc. it’s really helpful for that sort of people. Not so much for everyone else, but why would that ever be an issue?
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3y ago
As if extreme volatility and being inherently deflationary is any better (not that crypto is money anymore that any other commodity is)
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3y ago
It didn’t necessarily have much to do with the Euro. Inflation was high everywhere back in the 80s
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3y ago
Which had a hard drive. The last gen classic is much thinner (and probably had better battery life than the Tangara). It’s hard to understand why does it have to be so bulky but I assume it’s intentional (e.g. full size SD slot).
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3y ago
> First of all I was talking about thermal baths were bacteria do not survive anyway. Large Roman bathhouses had multiple pools with different temperatures. > Romans did not know antibiotics or bacteria or how infections worked That’s
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3y ago
> we're not in an anglophone country, so delivery I’m not sure not having those things is at all unique to Anglophone countries
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3y ago
> That's super dominant True. But it’s hard to say to what extent. Many/most people probably have multiple apps installed and use them somewhat regularly in addition to texting/iMessages.
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> The Romans would have never allowed something like that. Their slaves had better lives than that. That’s either sarcasm or you certainly know almost absolutely nothing about how the Romans treated their slaves. You could try looking up
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3y ago
> public baths Perfect place for spreading diseases. > had access to high quality food, The economic elite probably did. Everyone else? Unlikely, especially not consistently. Most people were dirt poor by modern standards (no real equ
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3y ago
> We've wound up being far more taxed than we were before. While also receiving a lot more (sometime massively more) services from the state.
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3y ago
Possibly. But only for a small minority.
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3y ago
Or ever. Not that it’s a fair comparison modern medicine and some (even on a minimal level) access to healthcare means that the majority of people who are alive now would’ve been dead. Of course that’s certainly not the only thing.
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3y ago
I did read it, I’m just not sure what are you suggesting? A law obligating everyone who publishes their apps to any app store to also provide an .apk?
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3y ago
What if you ripped it from a DVD?
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3y ago
> due to the employer being unable to do much if the employee does things like watch porn on their work equipment, sabotage the company’s tech infrastructure before leaving, Except that’s not really true throughout most of Europe. Yes f
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3y ago
Are you a robot?
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3y ago
Well can do whatever you want with your phone. Apple however has no obligation to make it easy for you to run third party software or support this at all. After all that would be an additional feature which they never claimed their devices
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> "you can have a monopoly as long as your device and ecosystem are 100% locked down" No. It’s you can have a monopoly if you treat everyone equally and don’t make secret deals with anyone. This is a generally accepted and non
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3y ago
So? Google isn’t forcing them to only publish on the Play Store.
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3y ago
As awful as those conditions were arguably they are still better than the conditions the bottom 10% would’ve experienced historically (which were almost inconceivable awful by modern standards try reading some of the descriptions of ancient
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3y ago
That doesn’t mean much and wouldn’t be particularly useful when picking a limited number of people from a lineup (certainly not at at 90% accuracy) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_deviation
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3y ago
So you’d rather be more poor and less productive (but still exploited) just so that corporations would have lower profits?
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> It missed the internet in the sense that it is near impossible to create an innovative (read: disruptive) internet company within the context of EU and member state regulations Can you elaborate on that? And was this also the case in t
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3y ago
Complying with GDPR shouldn’t be that hard at all for most businesses if they introduce some basic procedures for handling/storing user data and most importantly don’t want to transfer/sell it to third parties
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I assume one of the core idea would be to protect individual made by “blackbox” (complex or non complex) algorithm (e.g. used by banks and other companies) without any direct human involvement. Basically banning companies from just saying “
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3y ago
So same should apply to mortgages and real estate?
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> I can guarantee you won't enjoy driving a pickup here. Weren’t we talking about driving a three wheel car with poor tires and no safety features? I doubt riding one on European roads would be that mich safer.
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