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by gonmf 9y ago
I agree that child pornography should not be illegal to possess, only to make or profit from the distribution. My theory goes: if you're not a pedophile, I don't think stumbling upon child porn will make you one, just like watchin
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by gonmf 9y ago
I'd imagine the host website needs to ask for the permission to share specific data with a third party named XYZ Startup, that will use that data for language/country segmentation or whatever is they do, and if the user denies tha
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by gonmf 9y ago
It's a simple issue, bar entities that should not have conflicts of interest from accepting gifts/investment/etc that could create a conflict of interest. It is appalling how US senators are allowed to receive gifts or be com
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by gonmf 9y ago
Oh yes, imagine the silence of people peacefully talking with each other and forming their own opinions, and come election time change the government. Having opinions without being told by the opinions makers, crushing. Imagine the property
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by gonmf 9y ago
Hate crimes are nonsense. If something wasn't a crime without the hate part, why should it be with it, when hating others is legal.
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by gonmf 9y ago
Obviously people having opinions in an internet forum is much more important. On a more serious note, Tor was meant to be used by people that want to say something that may run counter to the general, approved, discourse. That was a very ir
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by gonmf 9y ago
You do not have to face the response, if the response is violence or hacking, because those activities are illegal. Talking on the internet and organizing legal, peaceful, rallies, is fine in my book. The US really doesn't care about f
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by gonmf 9y ago
I feel the labels are switched in this picture http://erikrood.com/Posts/renter_home_income.png
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by gonmf 9y ago
This is great news!
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by gonmf 9y ago
I don't want to be a downer but that statistic doesn't seem to be backed by anything. And yes, Portuguese in Brazil were also christian, of course, but there is a certain "what the eyes don't see, the heart can't fe
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by gonmf 9y ago
The rest of the developed world affords it by paying up to 60% in taxes, like where I live, and still seeing private doctors if you don't want to wait months.
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by gonmf 9y ago
And Israel is notoriously omitted.
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by gonmf 9y ago
I think part of it is also availability. We know, as consumers, the average price of certain goods, and in an effort to save money, avoid spending when it seems obscene, without looking at the bigger picture. If the average price of mobile
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by gonmf 9y ago
I thought this too!
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by gonmf 9y ago
At some point you will need to convert fiat into cryptocurrency and vice-versa, and the companies that provide that service legally will require your identification.
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by gonmf 9y ago
AFAIK the African slave trade is not a visible topic on Lisbon because it was a very small part of it. While Portugal trafficked millions of people across the Atlantic, very few would be sent to Europe, since the Christian faith didn't
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by gonmf 9y ago
Maybe they calculate the likelihood of each health condition, using machine learning. Most people on the internet would check the first two articles, read and focus entirely on their ambiguous descriptions, and make up their mind.
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by gonmf 9y ago
Everytime I feel compelled to serialize data with relationship information, all I have to do is look at the extra file size -- with all the namespaces and trivial definitions -- and I immediately trash the idea. I do like separate data file
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by gonmf 9y ago
As someone who has quite the extensive experience with Prolog, I can best summarize that there are some types of programming problems at which it excels: deduction, ordering, discrete constraint problems, etc; and at everything else an impe
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by gonmf 9y ago
Wow this was buried fast.
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by gonmf 9y ago
I agree. I see no issue with one country informing another that terrorists may be plotting an attack and how to prevent it. Today it feels like being told that every thing to come out of Trump is wrong and every hacker or unpopular opinion
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by gonmf 9y ago
I mean come on, is an article with pictures such as: https://lisacharlotterost.github.io/pic/170509_Republica_Tal... worth discussing? What's next, the right-wing field sharing articles of IQ across racial groups?
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by gonmf 9y ago
The article is literally false. strncpy is safer than strcpy. The argument of the author is it still has room for abuse.
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by gonmf 9y ago
There was also the enslavement of Germans for over a decade. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_labor_of_Germans_after_...
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by gonmf 9y ago
Not officially, but there is a general, fabricated consensus for it. Just like in this story Russia hasn't made a law to prohibit political solicitation but LiveJournal still applied it.
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by gonmf 10y ago
1) They currently do not have an element of choice. And it would actually be very difficult or impossible to proportionate them a full choice since they would have to know what their lives would be like if outside the island, or with a mode
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by gonmf 10y ago
Yes, we should. We think we know better. We have senses and can measure ways in which the quality of life of man and animals can be ascertained, and we can conclude that these people will live much shorter, worse, unfulfilling lives, than t
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by gonmf 10y ago
Right now, somewhere in that island is a child that wished she could live to be older than 30, while we culturally sensitive outsiders do not dare disturb her way of life.
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by gonmf 10y ago
An interesting article but I was left guessing why either the US or Israel would attack a military airport near Damascus and why doesn't anyone bat an eyelid. I wasn't aware either of these countries was at war with Syria.
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by gonmf 10y ago
There are many minor inconsistencies in this otherwise interesting and accessible piece, but I think a fundamental one is that the citizens of a country are not valued the same as foreign citizens. It could be argued one of the purposes of

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