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721.
by jowea 3y ago
I think this qualifies for "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence". Also looking at the front page this site seems to have a major slant. > The Nazis, not the Soviets, were responsible for Katyn Massacre,
722.
by jowea 3y ago
I mean, aren't PSAs (Public Service Announcements) propaganda?
723.
by jowea 3y ago
> Perhaps a sufficiently large insurer could dilute the risk of an earthquake destroying a large percentage of homes in Los Angeles by also covering large swaths of other high-risk parts of the country or world. Yes, I believe that'
724.
by jowea 3y ago
And I naively thought meta-narratives in history were supposed to be over decades ago.
725.
by jowea 3y ago
Me neither but if no labels means more consumption and more options, might be worth it.
726.
by jowea 3y ago
Since the vegetarians and vegans can still figure out the meat options contain meat I think it's more of a do not emphasize rather than withhold the information.
727.
by jowea 3y ago
I meant get the money back after the fact. Which yeah it will probably suck for the client even if the bank considers it a cost of doing business.
728.
by jowea 3y ago
I suspect that what's supposed to be going on there is that what protects your account is law enforcement and the fact that financial transactions are traceable.
729.
by jowea 3y ago
Different priorities maybe? Are those foreign media outlets criticizing him for the same reasons people there support him? I think what we have here is a case leaning towards benevolent dictatorship. Those are always controversial.
730.
by jowea 3y ago
Fair enough, but that is just ebooks. Isn't goodreads also useful for dead tree readers? Although I guess the bibliophiles on goodreads are more likely to have an ebook reader.
731.
by jowea 3y ago
Is Kindle that dominant among book readers?
732.
by jowea 3y ago
I never used the Fediverse, but is all/most trying to be a Twitter clone?
733.
by jowea 3y ago
The big problem with this logic is that devs have to go where the users are if they want their money, no matter what.
734.
by jowea 3y ago
Wouldn't we need to take into account all networking infrastructure, computer industry and consumer electricity consumption to see the price of the information economy?
735.
by jowea 3y ago
You would think "grep the codebase for FIXME" would be in the checklist before deployment.
736.
by jowea 3y ago
Is admin really the natural progression after editor, as you seem to be assuming? IMHO, the interest in the "project" part of Wikipedia that is required to be an admin isn't intrinsically linked to being a prolific and dedica
737.
by jowea 3y ago
They all redirect to discord.com now.
738.
by jowea 3y ago
Yes, and this could just as well be the MP making a point of how humans would still be needed to check the inputs and outputs. Still, it's interesting to know how far back some of the basic issues of computing go.
739.
by jowea 3y ago
Yeah, the end result of this logic is a 10% pay cut for WFH.
740.
by jowea 3y ago
Anyone knows why is it valued at billions? Where is the profit to stockholders supposed to come from? And value for the cryptocoin?
741.
by jowea 3y ago
Hypothetically speaking if instead of using Discord normally and using his real info for billing Discord only accepted Monero and was only accessible via Tor it would be harder to identify him. But that's not really my point, just pick
742.
by jowea 3y ago
Well, in fairness, I believe the guy that got caught posting classified docs in a small private discord server would appreciate privacy, even if I myself and a lot of people almost exclusively use public servers and would prefer if they wer
743.
by jowea 3y ago
I've heard of that, but I think the rule changed, Discord even includes an account switcher now.
744.
by jowea 3y ago
Fascism is ill defined so people call the Terran Federation fascist due to being jingoistic and undemocratic, despite it being quite different from historical fascism as you say. Also minor detail but in the book there's a few jobs tha
745.
by jowea 3y ago
I believe he is referring to the more widely known movie.
746.
by jowea 3y ago
It's the same thing with the old reddit alternatives. Very few people are actually going to bother purely for the sake of principles, so the alternatives end up flooded with the ones that are forced to alternatives for good reasons. If
747.
by jowea 3y ago
Brazil had trouble somewhat like that. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=438825
748.
by jowea 3y ago
> Then maybe the government regulates ADHD meds to keep people homeless What for?
749.
by jowea 3y ago
I'm not sure if that's what the previous poster was referring to, but before SVB officially collapsed it tried to get an emergency loan but failed because the system for such emergency loans is slower than the systems its clients
750.
by jowea 3y ago
What about preparing for when the house of cards that was FTX crumbles?

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