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by fiblye 9y ago
Brexit was a democratic decision. People may hate the results and call it bullshit, say the vote shouldn't matter, etc. But it's still democratic. A non-democratic option would be the government breaking off without consulting the
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by fiblye 9y ago
What? A group of people getting together to vote to make a decision in no way violates democracy. It's the very essence of democracy. Telling people "you aren't allowed to vote because this decision belongs to us, and so your
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by fiblye 9y ago
The problems started long ago. It's all too convenient to in any way imply a presidential switch will have any effect on it.
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by fiblye 9y ago
The CIA's missions for the past 60 years have been overthrowing random governments and imposing dictatorships just for fun (with the results almost always backfiring massively on the US) and spreading ridiculous propaganda. Their lies
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by fiblye 9y ago
Honestly, as an American, I wouldn't be so hopeful. People were 100% sure things would turn out differently just a year ago, and anyone who said differently was openly mocked for being delusional. Things are going to get far worse befo
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by fiblye 9y ago
And as soon as such a service becomes available and known to the average person, it'll be shut down or else.
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by fiblye 9y ago
Even the USSR had money and wealth. Desire to accumulate wealth in some form is a primitive instinct.
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by fiblye 9y ago
Your first problem there is monetizing it. If nobody can pay for it, nobody is going to get together to make it.
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by fiblye 9y ago
Just what I was thinking. Reddit and HN shadowban people without them ever knowing. Twitter probably should too, and allow things like current location/potential plans to be farmed.
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by fiblye 9y ago
Lay your phone on a table about 6 inches right of your shoulder. It's perfectly possible and easy to read and use your phone this way, but your face is completely out of the camera's field of view.
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by fiblye 9y ago
It's not hard when you have a context and assume the proper readings of the word. Dyslexia makes it hard to establish the background of what a word should be, so no emulation will be perfect.
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by fiblye 9y ago
I think whenever someone asks a "why would they?" question, it's best reworded as "why wouldn't they?" The government is made up of people, and given enough people, at least one is bound to do something stupid
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by fiblye 9y ago
I highly doubt this is unintentional like they claim. They were testing the waters for backlash. I can count all the times I accidentally put ads in my software on one hand, using zero fingers.
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by fiblye 9y ago
Life isn't all about getting promoted. Loads of people get far more satisfaction from knowing they're carrying out an important duty than they do from knowing they got promoted from Javascript Ninja to Javascript Assassin.
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by fiblye 9y ago
You say a normal president would help, but a "normal president" was behind the shit in Libya that you said cemented NK's determination. No matter what kind of president America has, our reckless foreign intervention through t
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by fiblye 9y ago
Christ, none of the issue is with women using tools. It's everything but that. The blog post's focus is clearly that someone as apparently young and busy as this isn't merely a jack of all trades, but a master. Gender isn&#x2
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by fiblye 9y ago
To sum up the article, businesses are making ridiculous demands and expecting to pay prospective employees marginally above nothing. Aside from the people posting these job ads, nobody is really surprised.
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by fiblye 9y ago
Are you speaking specifically about your farming town losing 10% of its population? Because I also live in Shizuoka-ken near the countryside and population decline is nowhere near 10%/year. It's been pretty much the same for 20 ye
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by fiblye 9y ago
Japan is reverting to a state of being as technologically and economically irrelevant as Western European countries. The most common thing I see on the news and hear people worry about is the violence going on in America and in the increasi
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by fiblye 9y ago
I think the average Japanese person doesn't care about how stale outsiders think they are, and they certainly don't feel like they need a "cure." If anything, society here is reverting more to a norm after being in a mas
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by fiblye 9y ago
Well, some people do like the work they do. Doing work you enjoy is even better when you can focus on it without distractions, and frustrating when you can't.
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by fiblye 9y ago
Point A is something people don't realize they need to be careful with. The terms "racist" and "sexist" have been so overused and reduced to meaninglessness in the past few years, that true sexism and racism have be
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by fiblye 9y ago
I think a large number of people in tech simply have a straight-to-the-point style of talking. They don't follow through with the HR-like "we appreciate your thoughts and comments, but going forward, we must politely decline to to
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by fiblye 9y ago
I think it's because the American style of home cooking is having a meat, veggies, and potatoes all as their own separate thing. Meanwhile most other cuisines tend to mix them together, making it more palatable to kids and everyone.
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by fiblye 9y ago
People are reading more than ever thanks to the internet and literacy rates are up. The problem is whether those readers and reading things that challenge their world view rather than just affirm everything they already think.
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by fiblye 9y ago
No joke, a big thing I noticed the first time I went outside America was, "Holy shit, the food is real." No matter where I go, I find cheap food that's simply better quality than anything that's even mid-range in the US.
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by fiblye 9y ago
And when the consequences become obvious, the media will continue to complain about how shitty Western men are and how we need to crack down on them hard and fast. And it'll just keep snowballing, unless people realize we need to stop
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by fiblye 9y ago
And then you became unpopular with girls suddenly? Because you became more or less geeky, or what? And what does being "very popular" at 14 have to do with adults being lonely? I have no clue what your intention was with that post
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by fiblye 9y ago
If the reason that people get enraged is because they lack the intelligence to dispute something, what are google and news agencies doing hiring such people? I'm not sure whether it's lack of intelligence or a desire for self-gain
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by fiblye 9y ago
Slowly dying from cancer is expensive. Dying from a sudden stroke induced by a lifetime of lethargy isn't.

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