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by hartpuff 11y ago
> A meaningful discussion cannot be had if you are only allowed to speak negatively of a subject. I agree censorship of ideas or opinions is a bad thing, but if what he says is true, that the sub was being essentially rendered unusable b
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by hartpuff 11y ago
Is there such a thing as an entirely passive online ad? Any clickable ad at least knows which site you were on when you clicked; TV advertisers don't know what I was watching when I saw their ad. That aside, the crucial difference is s
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by hartpuff 11y ago
TV ads are not tracking you, taking data from you and/or providing an attack vector for malware or other cybercrime. So literally not the exact same thing.
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by hartpuff 11y ago
> Subscription models just don't work. Nuff said, really. There's 10+ years of data to back it up. The subscription model has worked for 20 years in the adult industry, even though free online porn has existed since the inventi
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by hartpuff 11y ago
> A lot of innovation has been spurred from people's passions and their hobbies, but much more innovation has taken place as a result of people trying to make a quick easy buck. I'm not sure I believe that, but I do believe a l
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by hartpuff 11y ago
> Micro payments cannot come soon enough. I know I must be missing something here, but what is actually preventing a service where a number on your account (which you have funded with $10, because lots of quality news and content sites
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by hartpuff 11y ago
They're intrusive but they aren't violating your privacy, tracking you and/or being a potential security threat. That aside, there's also no way to remove those ads.
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by hartpuff 11y ago
Even if Google was 100% unbiased politically, providing yet another major outlet for people who have no problem getting their message out already seems redundant, unless the point is just to reinforce existing power and influence. I don&#
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by hartpuff 11y ago
> Which group resulted in major restrictions to UK freedoms? The one that didn't have American citizens, politicians, and organizations bankrolling and lobbying for it.
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by hartpuff 11y ago
Referring to it as the "snooper's charter" - which sounds about as threatening as a nosy neighbour from a 1970s sitcom - doesn't exactly help. They should be called what they are, "Stasi powers", and memories o
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by hartpuff 11y ago
> I wonder how other decimal comma countries have been able to stave off the decimal point. Yes, I looked it up a while ago for some reason, and was surprised the comma was so widely used. I'm also surprised SA uses the comma, becau
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by hartpuff 11y ago
The parent of my comment was making a joke (I doubt he seriously thinks people say "floating full stops" in the UK) so I made a joke too, in the same vein. You know, period/full stop... It may not have been the best joke ever
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by hartpuff 11y ago
No, it's called a "floating period", like in the US.
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by hartpuff 11y ago
I'm pretty sure more countries in the world use a decimal comma than a decimal point. Certainly more than use Fahrenheit, anyway.
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by hartpuff 11y ago
First, thanks for replying, rather than simply downvoting. That isn't what the post says. The post says, literally: [Why Are So Many Animals Homosexual?] " Because some animals fuck anything that moves and doesn't ". Mea
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by hartpuff 11y ago
Given that it's the most upvoted post, evidently quite a few people here agree with the extremely rational, thought-out and scientific argument that homosexuality is just a symptom of "fucking anything".
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by hartpuff 11y ago
Surely it's simply a rebuttal to people who argue against homosexuality, and gay people, by claiming same-sex behaviour is "unnatural" and that animals don't exhibit it. (A recent example being Manny Pacquiao, which may
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by hartpuff 11y ago
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but AIUI, here's what a smartphone is, or can potentially be, capable of acquiring/giving up to persons unknown (in addition to everything willingly given up to FB/Instagram/Tinder&#
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by hartpuff 11y ago
Sorry I thought I had replied to this. I'm not aware of any article or book going through the history of that era, unfortunately, but I wasn't aware of Bedrooms to Billions, so there could well be. It's just kind of 'kno
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by hartpuff 11y ago
> If the early 80's was good, then something else must be bad. If programming from one era was good, why do you think that means programming from another era "must be bad"? Why can't good programming exist in both era
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by hartpuff 11y ago
I really don't know why you take what was an entirely positive comment, in praise of programming and programmers in the early 80s, and try to turn it into a negative, pointless, opinion-based pissing contest about which era was 'b
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by hartpuff 11y ago
> As the sole programmer. In an era when programming was far more tricky and low level. In the same era, early 80s, kids across the UK were single-handedly writing games packed into 1-16k, some of which (Manic Miner being a prime example
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by hartpuff 11y ago
> Why would they fund the people calling for their destruction? Because if they're off destroying Syria or Iraq or Libya or the USSR, they're not causing mischief within Saudi Arabia.
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by hartpuff 11y ago
Yeah, I've always thought it was insane that for an operation as huge as 9/11 they'd do something as risky as train in the US itself. Rather than venture into conspiracy land (nothing against conspiracies in general; they&#x2
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by hartpuff 11y ago
> The CIA and/or NSA very likely knew that the 9/11 terrorists were in the US, learning to fly airliners. Has there ever been an explanation why the hijackers risked conspicuously attending flight schools under the noses of the
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by hartpuff 11y ago
POUM was anti-Fascist and anti-Stalinist. If you think it was an error to support such a party in Spain at that time, I'm afraid it says more about your judgement than Orwell's.
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by hartpuff 11y ago
> The FBI's stated position, "These people did a terrible thing and we have to investigate it" is pure PR How is this not a fact?
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by hartpuff 11y ago
That's interesting, but I wasn't making any insinuation about why she became French. I was simply giving reasons why "French" wasn't an unreasonable guess for people to make.
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It sounds like she is known or remembered in Poland for her science and for her nationalism then. Outside of Poland, her Polish nationalism is obviously going to be less important/relevant than her contribution to science. >I don&
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by hartpuff 11y ago
Not only that but people unfamiliar with Polish names would not necessarily assume Sklodowska is Polish anyway.

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