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by javagram 7y ago
MMS is used for group texting. It's extremely common in the USA since most people in the usa have phone plans that include unlimited MMS and SMS, third-party chat apps like WhatsApp never became ubiquitous here as a result of that basi
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by javagram 7y ago
They may not be regulated but if you’re buying a name brand water filter from a retail store in the USA, it’s unlikely that brand is getting away with selling something full of lead or other bad things. Those filters are sometimes tested by
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by javagram 7y ago
Germany is still on coal too. They’re planning to shut them down by 2038... Rich country or not, people want cheap electricity and until fracking unlocked cheap natural gas in the US, coal was the cheap option.
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by javagram 7y ago
Does fracking cause much air pollution of the type discussed in the article? I thought the main issue was groundwater and earth quakes , and methane gas release / flaring. Plus there are many countryside areas with no oil.
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by javagram 7y ago
Excerpt from the article: ‘In October, Iowa Supreme Court Chief Justice Mark Cady, who oversees the state’s judicial branch including all judicial officers and court employees, apologized for the incident before the state’s Senate Governmen
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by javagram 7y ago
Yes, it is a personal take based on my own experience, however, when considering the case of a 9 year old who is able to graduate from a college education, that seems a pretty unique case and maybe their situation should also be demanding o
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by javagram 7y ago
Interesting article but I can’t understand why cross compilation is dismissed. It could have been improved by some performance benchmarks showing cross compilation performance in comparison with this emulation based solution. I find it hard
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by javagram 7y ago
https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/local/tennessee/2019/07/... “ Nashville mother Megan Fox didn’t know her hoverboard might explode, but Amazon did. Now, a federal appellate court says the na
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by javagram 7y ago
That’s definitely not just an allegedly thing, my private high school gave a GPA bonus of 0.5 for honors classes and 1.0 for AP classes to avoid this issue. And I’m certain it wasn’t something unusual or hidden, many other schools must have
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by javagram 7y ago
Sports or clubs (Scouts, etc) are a better way to hang around with peer kids than school classes, IMO. I transitioned from homeschool to public school at one point during my childhood and I think I was actually much more socialized in homes
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by javagram 7y ago
The lock code also prevented pocket dialing, although with a flip phone this wasn’t much of an issue. And yeah as others have said, it protected your texts and pictures. The razr already had a camera.
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by javagram 7y ago
That is pretty anti-religious, and your expectation of “tyranny” from a small minority of devout Muslim believers is ridiculous. It reminds me of American liberals who believe “Christian dominionists” are hiding around the corner ready to t
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by javagram 7y ago
30,000 people flying to Davos once a year is not a major or substantial driver of global warming. If you calculated the carbon dioxide released by that action, it would be a very small fraction of all human activity (there are 7 billion of
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by javagram 7y ago
Didn’t you say that you accept that non-Muslims can use the prayer room though? So a Buddhist would be perfectly welcome to go into the room and use it. I’m a little confused what your point is. How is a room available to everyone tyranny?
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by javagram 7y ago
> I don't think only Muslims could use the rooms in any stories I have read about this topic. That wasn't my point “ Amazon (for example) provided only space for Muslims to have prayer rooms, but no one else.” I understood this
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by javagram 7y ago
I don’t really understand the relation of your comment to mine. I’ve worked at a (US) company with a prayer room that was used by some Muslim employees. As a Christian myself, I don’t think it would have been considered a problem if I used
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by javagram 7y ago
I guess it depends on your definition of activist. When I hear that, I think of someone like prominent tech twitter personalities who are employed at places like google/github and like to get into flame wars on twitter and so on. I ass
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by javagram 7y ago
If you’re already keeping your social media protected/private, that seems like a pretty good sign that you’re not a political troublemaker or activist. Private social media accounts don’t have virality or reach. I keep my own twitter a
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by javagram 7y ago
I’d be shocked if amazon in fact had a policy that only Muslims could use the prayer rooms. Christians and Jews should be able to use them if they choose. I googled around and could only find statements that Muslim employees of a security c
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The transition is happening, but we’re nowhere near on pace for negative carbon by 2050. Here in the US, most of our emissions reduction has been switching from coal to gas, while energy consumption continues to rise and politicians block o
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by javagram 7y ago
In terms of luxuries being taken away, I’d point to electricity and transportation as the #1. For those calling for immediate decarbonization, that would mean shutting down all our coal, gas, and oil burning power plants and scrapping our g
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by javagram 7y ago
Because of zoning and anti-development policies by the government. Some people making $15/hour will get lucky and get subsidized or “affordable” housing though and be able to live on that. Or they’re living with their parents.
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by javagram 7y ago
The NYT has 4 million digital subscribers, and they’re probably concentrated in the type of demographics that read HN. (I don’t know the WSJ numbers, but since it’s included in apple news that’s probably another one where a lot of HN reader
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by javagram 7y ago
When people riot in the streets and demand their luxuries back, what will you do to stop it? Authoritarian repression? Massacres? Yellow vest protests in France were caused by a modest increase in fuel taxes. Serious belt-tightening to stop
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by javagram 7y ago
An individual person has basically zero individual effect on climate change, even if they are a prince and spend millions of dollars lavishly on air travel and so on. These criticisms of people taking airplanes fall kind of flat in my opini
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by javagram 7y ago
We don’t have a solution for an asteroid coming toward earth anyway right now. It’s not illegal so SpaceX will try and do it and then astronomers can try and adapt. If it turns out to really bad, SpaceX could be forced to deorbit the satel
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by javagram 7y ago
The person already suggested an alternative: execution. That’s what human societies did for those crimes for thousands of years after all. The replacement of execution with prison is relatively modern, pre-industrial societies couldn’t affo
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by javagram 7y ago
Tobacco was smoked for hundreds of years too, that doesn’t make something healthy. Any type of smoke in the lungs is bad for them. Whenever marijuana is legalized at the federal level we will finally get the studies showing it, the only thi
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by javagram 7y ago
That’s your decision. Go for it if it’s what you need for your financial situation. My only point was that it wasn’t the same type of spending described in the article.
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by javagram 7y ago
If you weren’t pirating, you’d have to find some other way to spend your time. Presumably you find watching pirated content superior to the free, legal alternatives (e.g. DVDs from the library) available or you wouldn’t be doing it. If pira

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