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by imron 9y ago
People of different races are predisposed to different diseases. If you see medical care as going beyond just treatment but also inclusive of education and preventative measures, then if you don't factor in race you will be doing a dis
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by imron 9y ago
> If business in the US was effectively at the level of business in China Pity about all those pesky environmental and human rights concerns getting in the way /s
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by imron 9y ago
> What did most people think Facebook was doing. Most people think Facebook is a convenient way to keep in touch with family and friends, and most of my friends and family are bemused that I don't have a FB account, and think that a
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by imron 9y ago
You think the DNC didn't have something similar given how close Facebook and Google's leadership were with the Clinton campaign?
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by imron 9y ago
I sometimes censor myself online by deciding not to comment or reply to things - both here and on other places for precisely this reason. Not fear of imprisonment or execution, just a concern that the comments might cause me hassle or grie
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by imron 9y ago
As did the first implementation of apple maps
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by imron 9y ago
Yes matches are bi-directional, but the match is at the higher tiered user's discretion. That is, by paying more, you have the option to more finely filter matches. Regarding ethical concerns, I'm not imagining tiers in the hundre
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by imron 9y ago
Stitchpunk needs to :set expandtab
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by imron 9y ago
Maybe have tiers of pricing and the option to only be introduced to people at the same (or lower) tier.
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by imron 9y ago
I'm reminded of that quote by Gordon Letwin talking about software bugs and rare events - "in our business one in a million is next Tuesday" This was the next Tuesday of the photography world.
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by imron 9y ago
> Quite a strange thing to watch as an outsider. And working just as the cognitive scientists designed.
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by imron 9y ago
> offended, in which case I recommend turning the sarcastic laugh into a benevolent, condescending smile Acting condescendingly will only serve to make people think you are a condescending git.
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by imron 9y ago
Kinda dropped the ball on the NBN though, and it was entirely over politics, not reasonable policy.
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by imron 9y ago
They had to pass a law in Australia to take away benefits if you didn't vaccinate, and they could pass a law if needed regarding childcare too.
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by imron 9y ago
I'm just surprised they admitted it was an employee and not an 'intern' or 'third-party contractor'.
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by imron 9y ago
Musk's entire strategy revolves around using luxury vehicles for the rich to directly fund R&D of battery and EV tech. That's been the gameplan since day 1.
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by imron 9y ago
Infinity + 10
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by imron 9y ago
Rare yes, but no more effort to install, and significantly more pleasant to use.
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by imron 9y ago
As opposed to cmake or autotools? I mean it's not like Python is a rarity on Linux systems, or a difficult thing to install (assuming it wasn't installed by default)
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by imron 9y ago
> Obama won a noble prize and then became the first president to spend every day of his term at war You could argue that the wars were started by previous administrations and ending them was harder than starting them. Far more egregious
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by imron 9y ago
> Thank god this is Satire. The best satire has a grain of truth to it. See also: http://www.businessinsider.com/littlethings-online-publisher...
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by imron 9y ago
It's no more egregious than requiring cmake or autotools. And like I said, many Linux systems (and almost any used as a developers machine) will have Python installed by default. And the simplicity of meson's build files far outwe
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by imron 9y ago
The systems that I use it for all have Python installed by default, so really it's just: 'pip install meson', which takes all of a few seconds to run. The binary it produces is still dependency free.
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by imron 9y ago
> Relevant: http://www.rojtberg.net/1481/do-not-use-meson/ Meson is fantastic.
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by imron 9y ago
Strictly speaking, the question is asking why women can't get pregnant without the menstrual cycle . As you mention in your post, the period occurs at the end of the cycle, therefore without a cycle, pregnancy will not happen.
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by imron 9y ago
Yep. Just be sure to sell them in black. An inflated purchase price thanks to 25% tariffs just makes them more attractive to buyers who don't care about price.
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by imron 9y ago
> The ad was terrible. Agree - I found the voiceover in particular, to be very off-putting. That said however, a brief view of the comments section on the ad showed that more than one person thought the voice was great. Which kind of lea
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by imron 9y ago
This was my thought to. "and be built to float about, helping us in our everyday lives" This guy has grown up on Ocarina of Time and thought "I'm going to make that happen".
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by imron 9y ago
> If we can bank online, why can't we vote online? If someone breaks in to your online bank account, they can steal some money - at best it's insured and you lose nothing, at worst a single person's life savings are gone.
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by imron 9y ago
It's not ironic at all, the contrast rebellion site doesn't use low contrast text except as an example to show how it's bad.

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