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by finid 10y ago
You're actually not being pedantic. It's true! Microsoft does _not_ love open source. The company does love to find ways to hurt Linux while pretending to "love" it.
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by finid 10y ago
Beef commands a premium if it is labeled “grass-fed” or “naturally raised,” but the Department of Agriculture withdrew oversight of those terms in January and no longer verifies such claims. Even in cases where the U.S.D.A. does certify la
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by finid 10y ago
The interesting thing, is that the laws are being passed by your elected officials, not a lobby group. Yes, I know the lobby groups bribe the lawmakers, but why do voters allow that to happen? Why not take those lawmakers to task? Voters do
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by finid 10y ago
Very nice utility to have. Thank you.
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by finid 10y ago
Organic food is pseudoscience. Really? Care to elaborate on that? The article lists the many reasons why organic foods are better than non-organic ones. You should read it.
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by finid 10y ago
In the U.S., fast food workers are struggling to get a respectable increase in pay. But in Denmark, the fast food industry pays its workers at least $20 an hour. That's at least $5 more than the $15 minimum wage the same class of wor
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Denmark is on its way to becoming an organic food country(foodrevolution.org)
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by finid 10y ago
It's actually truer for men, especially in cultures where polygamy is legal.
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by finid 10y ago
You left out the sentence before that: Marriage stops the "natural" dynamic by tying every male to a maximum of one female That guy must be kidding, right? Monogamy is one thing, but what about other forms of marriage that invol
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by finid 10y ago
We humans tend to think high about ourselves (compared to animals) What makes you think animals don't think high about themselves? We are ashamed of our sexual desire so we developed complex system of rationalizations that we call &
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by finid 10y ago
It says Free during beta on the website, but doesn't say what happens after beta. In any case, it looks nice. It could use a tabbed interface.
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by finid 10y ago
Link to the website is not accessible from the post's title, here it is: https://www.typora.io . About to install it on Ubuntu now, since it's easy to install.
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by finid 10y ago
At this point, it's save to assume that NSA/FBI/CIA/Pentagon has front door access to Google. That cheap-oil-for-your-private-planes deal with Pentagon is one small evidence [1]. The other is Matt Cutts working for (on a
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by finid 10y ago
The officer, of course, never had any intention of following through; ... I feel a bit sick for even writing that, honestly. You should be. It's known that cops carry things around that they can plant as evidence. I recall the revela
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by finid 10y ago
It's going to take strong political leadership to change things. But any politician who takes up the task will be tagged with unfriendly to cops, putting the lives of cops in danger, or not tough on crime And because cops tend to vot
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by finid 10y ago
A video of the interrogation, during which Bigda reportedly threatened to crush the skull of one of the teens and plant a kilo of cocaine in his pocket, was provided to defense attorneys who are now using it to impeach Bigda’s credibility
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by finid 10y ago
One out of every two Nigerians have access to the internet. The few Nigerian friends I have disagree with that statement.
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by finid 10y ago
This is only during the testing phase.
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by finid 10y ago
I find it interesting that the few comments o here seem to be more about the money spent than in the goals and objectives of the program. When next you see a report of a terrorist video, did it really come from them or from your favorite go
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by finid 10y ago
If they’re raiding a house and they’re going to make a mess of it looking for stuff anyway, they’d just drop an odd CD there. So that explains how they always seem to find computers with evidence of terrorist activities. Likely also how t
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by finid 10y ago
I thought it odd that a Republican senator is pushing for government oversight of a private company, given that his party is the anti-regulation party. Than I read this: The senator now faces a heated 2016 reelection campaign in his distri
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by finid 10y ago
Here's part of the relevant section that other news outlets are trumpeting: §227.54. Manufacturer’s Permit to Test Autonomous Vehicles that do not Require a Driver. A manufacturer desiring to conduct testing of autonomous vehicles cap
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by finid 10y ago
Yep, publish or perish applies to academia everywhere.
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by finid 10y ago
Wait a minute! That seems to be backward. Doesn't "losing face" come from being caught doing the wrong thing or being dishonest, so that the incentive to fabricate data for something as important as scientific research should
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by finid 10y ago
Police officers across the country misuse confidential law enforcement databases to get information on romantic partners, business associates, neighbors, journalists and others for reasons that have nothing to do with daily police work, an
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by finid 10y ago
It's been happening in the US for a long time. Americans have been suing and collecting money(?) from frozen Iran assets for a long time. It's a type of law that makes lawyers salivate.
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by finid 10y ago
Until California, Texas, New York, etc become independent countries, the comparison will always be made against the US. I'm sure some folks in Texas are itching to secede, but until that happens, we compare other countries with the US,
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by finid 10y ago
And for all those highlighting the short comings of other areas of India compared to its space program, do you recall what other aspects of life in the US were like at the initiation and heights of its space program? Just as in the US, bene
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by finid 10y ago
The problem, and the root cause of many medical mistakes, is medical staff not getting enough sleep. I know of nurses who could barely keep their eyes open while driving to work. And that's because they just finished a shift at a diffe
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by finid 10y ago
That doesn't seem to apply to Firefox on Linux. Works well on Vivaldi browser (Chrome-based) on Linux too. By the way, I don't use any ad blockers.

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