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by helloworld11 4y ago
Congratulations on having exceptionally high personal living standards while residing in the 7th most expensive U.S city. You represent a miniscule fraction of the world's population. Now of course, this doesn't mean you should ba
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>That's fair. And I think my comment was unintentionally misleading. I was not saying that Mexico is a safer country than the United States. I was trying to explain my perspective. Fair enough, and I'm sorry if I came across as
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by helloworld11 4y ago
Just to add: There are of course many stories and cases of bad police conduct in the U.S and in many incidents, police investigate poorly or react badly to situations, but overall, the general trend is that if you report a serious crime, it
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by helloworld11 4y ago
I too live in Mexico and have for over a decade. If you say you feel physically safer here, it's because you live in a bubble of safety that's probably the result of having enough money to carefully choose where you reside and hav
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by helloworld11 4y ago
As someone who learned the language in about 4 months, my advice is to saturate yourself with conversation as much as possible without worrying about grammatical or structural correctness at first, just learn to talk and use as many words a
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by helloworld11 4y ago
These calculations are absurdly subjective and based on some sort of very unusually defined notion of costs per child. In the country I live in (and in many others i'm sure) millions of people manage to raise perfectly healthy kids won
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by helloworld11 4y ago
>The idea that technology will always bail us out seems foolish to rely upon in the grand scheme, eventually the disequilibriums we create in these environments we exploit will be too extreme to successfully manage and maintain a system
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by helloworld11 4y ago
Two essential rules by which to judge this headline and story: 1. Never take seriously as an indicator of any massively complex trend or long-term tendency any headline from a single paper or small selection of media outlets whose express m
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by helloworld11 4y ago
Try buying ebooks on Amazon for kindle app from another country (in my case Latin America), they essentially force you to get the book under their kindle unlimited crap and there's no easy way to remove its DRMif you buy it like that.
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by helloworld11 4y ago
is rutracker relatively secure for torrent downloads?
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by helloworld11 4y ago
>Funnily enough, it's possible to remove this DRM protection, but it's also not something completely legal, and makes me question why did I decide to legally buy the e-books in the first place. Did you seriously stop yourself f
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by helloworld11 4y ago
It's simple: hear or read about a book you like, visit Libgen, search for it under fiction or non-fiction, (more often than not) find it listed and available, click to download. The entire process literally takes seconds and unless you
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by helloworld11 4y ago
>And the scary thing is, this came out of nowhere, one day everyone online is for freedom and freespeech, the next day everyone became against it I don't think it came from nowhere. Specifically, I'd say a lot of it started ver
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by helloworld11 4y ago
I'm curious, if Copyright stays valid for 70 years or so, how are these books only now entering the public sphere if the last of them was written nearly 100 years ago in 1927?
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by helloworld11 4y ago
It is very much normal for millions of people to get infected with all kinds of mild to moderate illnesses each year. What bubble of cleanliness and isolation to you think most people should live in? During a pandemic, I can see the need fo
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by helloworld11 4y ago
>Falun Gong is a cult — the Moonies with Chinese characteristics. The fact that the author of this article and its associated book doesn't acknowledge this tells you all you need to know about this analysis. First, one piece of opin
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by helloworld11 4y ago
Now you're just engaging in silly semantics. Yes, in all practical sense, you absolutely do own the DRM-free books you've stripped of their rent-seeking garbage. You could even take that to court and quite heavily argue that becau
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by helloworld11 4y ago
To each their own, but many people read their books many times over in a life. It can be extremely enjoyable, comforting in bad moments, and bring forth new, fresh views on one's own thoughts and the text they're reading.
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by helloworld11 4y ago
First, fuck those retailers for putting such conditions on things you bought to own. They're yours, so who cares. Second, strip the DRM using Calibre, and store the books off any cloud-based platform and on your own drives, as you alwa
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by helloworld11 4y ago
>It is obviously ruinous for anyone foolish enough to still publish content that survives on ads, donation, or upselling other products now. Why do you think it would be ruinous for people who do any of these things? A (still) half-baked
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by helloworld11 4y ago
You're saying that Swiss-based Protonmail is worse for privacy than Australian-based (remember Australia's horrible digital privacy laws?) Fastmail? I'd love to see if you can even slightly substantiate that claim. Fastmail,
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by helloworld11 4y ago
>So Pearl Harbor doesn't count? For one thing, Hawaii wasn't a U.S state at the time. Secondly, that's still far from the mainland U.S, an attack on which would provoke a different sort of response.
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by helloworld11 4y ago
As Churchill once said very wisely about war and optimism over certain tactics. "all things are always in motion simultaneously". In other words, we can't really know at all whether China's naval techniques, technologies
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This is so very much worth reading given the context. https://englishatlc.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/randall-munr...
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by helloworld11 4y ago
The people posting here about all the aspects of EV car charging that are just so easy and convenient and present in their region, or easily applicable with a bit of effort have clearly not traveled to the other 80% of the planet that isn&#
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Stalin (who knew a thing or two about quantities taking on their own quality), in case anyone wonders. (though some have blamed Napoleon)
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This guy's extensive, numerous analyses of plane crashes are downright excellent and deeply detailed like few other texts about the subject that I've ever found online. If he makes mistakes here and there, or attributes blame some
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by helloworld11 4y ago
For years I've been telling people I know to NEVER trust all their security to one-password services. Given so many tech companies penchant for playing stupid and loose with internal security without customers even being aware of it, t
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by helloworld11 4y ago
hah. For years I've been telling people I know to NEVER trust all their security to one-password services. Given so many tech companies penchant for playing stupid and loose with internal security without customers even being aware of
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by helloworld11 4y ago
The main problem with Mozilla's initiative is that it presupposes a definition of what's "healthy". This won't be popular with some of the progressive set here, but for many people, being exposed to a freewheeling l

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