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by ivanhoe 7y ago
Communism is both the name of the ideology and of a form of society (well defined in theory), and you need to make a distinction between the two. These countries you mentioned above were (some still are) run by communists, but were never ev
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
You never had a memory of some childhood event that feels super real, and yet you're positive that you couldn't really remember it - you've just had that memory implanted as a result of hearing the story told over and over by
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
> "Women are better at social activities while men are better at competitive activities" much less so. I never heard Peterson or any research claiming this. The claim is that women PREFER certain activities, while men PREFER ot
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
IMHO a big part of "controversy" surrounding the idea of purely biological male vs. female predispositions comes from people not really understanding how statistics work. People feel that results like this are somehow limiting to
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
Or to help you to outperform everyone by such a large margin that racist don't have an excuse not to hire you for being black?
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
I don't remember hearing that IBM suffered a huge losses (or any) as a result of this, so could it then be that it wasn't such a big deal? There's so many variables at play when hiring it's just silly to presume that 100
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
You say: "Sorry, we need to start charging" and then out of those hypothetical thousands of people some will decide it's cheaper to pay the service than rewrite their code, so you get yourself some customers...
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
> But it's not Twitter crowd that decides if it is rape or not. Well, it's not Richard Stallman who decides either, but he tried to do exactly that... and that's why people are pissed at him
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
> Rape is always illegal. - If person is 18 and sex is consensual it's not a rape. - If person is 17y 354 days old it doesn't matter what the minor person acted like, because law treats it as a non-consensual sex, so it's
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
perhaps I misunderstood, but to me it sounded like the reasoning that it's not rape if it was a willing interaction. But it is the rape, because the law says that minors can't willingly get into it. It's like getting a little
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
It is, because one is illegal, the other is not. Just like drinking with 21 and 20.99 years is not the same, because you have to draw the line somewhere and it is drawn there. In my country the age of consent is extremely low, just 14. So b
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
Well, no, rape is not just a forceful rape, because the law says that minors up to some age are not capable of making decisions on who they have sex with willingly, and thus it's up to adults to be responsible and avoid such encounters
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This is some really good writing style. I couldn't really relate to the character and the story, but I still really enjoyed reading every single word of it.
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
Totally, just like so many bands were better young, clubs, beaches and restaurants better before they got popular, etc. Unfortunately it's just something that happens when things get mainstream, you can't reverse the process.
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good point... still, quite annoying when you come to check your meal cooking in the oven for the last hour, only to find out that it never actually switched on because of the clock :)
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
And the same applies for people criticizing the fields they know little about. I'm pretty sure that not all electrical engineers in the world are idiots and that there's a solid reason why they've chosen the grid frequency as
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and famously if there's ever a blackout, most of modern ovens will refuse to work until you setup the clock... never seizes to piss me off each time I have to do it...
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
Russia doesn't give a shit about Snowden, of course, but Putin cares a lot about his own image of power. Such event would be a huge slap in the face for both the country and him personally - it would make Russia look weak and that&#x27
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
Strange idea, considering what France and other EU countries did not so long ago to Ecuadorian diplomatic plane suspected to carry Snowden. Also a big problem for Snowden, because even if granted asylum it's highly unlikely that US wou
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It would be really much more useful if they've bothered to mentioned what are the early symptoms?! If a dog has bloody diarrhea of course you'll take it to the vet...
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
Looking at these official stats, median for plumbers is $54K per year, which is not such a bad money for a job that requires no school, just on-job training. Little bit less for carpenters, floor installers and masonry and construction work
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
You're talking about a wishful thinking, I'm talking about the (for many people rather harsh) reality. I agree, it can (and should) be solved in the ways you mention, but this technology will not wait, it's here now. At the m
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Is there option for having monthly/yearly snapshots?
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If we ignore the obvious possibility of blackmailing people who have something (legal) to hide, there's also a huge problem of innocent people being in a wrong place at a wrong time. It's not hard to presume that police would use
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Let's see, you could use it as a supercool way to open your gate and/or garage doors when your own car approaches the entrance. You have a guest visiting? No problem, open the gate for their license plates too.
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Competition is good, but competition creates segmentation, and with mail clients it's already far more crazy than browsers ever were. There are huge differences even between the different versions of the same client, especially across
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yes, them and Email on Acid were the best sources on what's supported where.
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
I've spent a year of my life working on a front-end for visual composer tool for emails, and it was a horrible experience, time-travel back to IE6 era. I wish there was some tool like this back then, I'd probably keep it open in a
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
Not necessarily, as you don't restrict people from entering the country, you restrict the availability of accommodations and access to certain protected area. In protected nature parks this has been done for years, you need to buy a ti
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
This is not pure rain water that he collects. It is collected from obviously contaminated sources and all those creatures actually come from the soil, not the rain. Let some tap water (that is guaranteed to have no life in it) sit in a jar

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