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"never" implies a really strong sentiment that is rarely evoked by the issues in (2). I think most people would not let these issues deter them if there were sufficient benefits to set them off. Some people have strong feelings ab
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Does it? I've read that one of the goals of dragonfly was to allow the government to look up the full search history of every user, which seems to go far beyond Bing's complicity in censorship. On the other hand, Microsoft was the
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The brackets do have the advantage that they make the order of evaluation and individual callees totally explicit, unlike some languages with optional parentheses or a mix of dots and other syntax elements. As someone with the unusual disti
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Google. Consider: - donations to climate deniers such as CEI - work on totalitarian tools such as project dragonfly or PRISM - sabotage of competitors, e.g. breaking search and YouTube on Firefox - feigning investment to steal ideas Of cour
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"but for Russia, it's a good thing." Are you sure? Haven't the resulting sanctions damaged Russia's economic growth and increased prices for consumers? I can see the geo-strategic value of Crimea, but for the ordina
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Derek Parfit argued that there is no defendable criterion to differentiate between the duplicate and the original. That led him to the conclusion that the feeling of being a particular person is itself an illusion - just a side-effect of se
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Eating only meat is a serious health risk. There are other sources of protein, and many vegetables that go very well with a low carb diet.
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persona non grata = unpleasant person. You probably meant "unknown person"? (I don't think there's a canonical Latin phrase for that.)
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Lack of light mode is also a problem when you have sub-optimal lighting in the workplace. Bright UIs can block out glare and reflections, thus preventing tiredness and headaches in such cases.
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You are confusing philosophical ethics with morality a bit. Ethics includes systematization, description and criticism of moral thought, although I'll admit that, in the real world, it often doesn't draw on science as much as it s
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Not all dating is about long term relationships. There is a large spectrum between, say, AdultFriendFinder on the one and Parship on the other end. Not sure where Facebook think they are going to be in that spectrum.
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North Korea does it, too.
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Same for me! First girlfriend. Opposite opinions of the movie. We broke up soon after.
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What was your next job?
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I purposefully wrote "not as much of", because NS-Zwangsarbeit was indeed massive. It happened in the main part from 1939-1945, with a total of 8 million people enslaved at one point or another. On the other hand, US slavery wen
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There are plenty bosses like this in Germany, which doesn't have as much of a history of slavery. I'd wager that when looking at countries with roughly the same level of industrialization, whether humans view fellow humans as some
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I think this isn't meant to be about ease of use but about controls that are actually misleading. E.g. the thing that turning off the WiFi in the control center in recent version of iOS does not really turn off the WiFi, it just discon
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Excellent point. I'm not sure how "fixed" the correlation is for alcohol though. Someone who almost never drinks will be quite impaired at 1‰ BAC, whereas someone who drinks several times a week might not be affected that muc
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even in the Nigerian prince mails they don't go out of their way to give the prince a biography that could have been written by Erich von Däniken.
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the team page supports your point ( https://www.crownsterling.io/2019/05/alan-green/ ): "Alan [...] dedicated the last fifteen years to decrypting mathematical codes in Shakespeare’s writings that have r
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I travel a lot, and the top 3 or so interesting conversations I had with locals were in Taipei. It is also clean, tolerant, laid-back, super bike-friendly, and has some great nightlife as well as outstanding natural scenery nearby. On the o