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by koboll 8y ago
I'm sure I'm not the only one who opens the comments to skim them and quickly vet whether the article is worth reading or not
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I've given up on the idea that political engagement on social media can make society better. It seems to be a one-way ratchet toward political extremism, because it encourages people to immerse themselves in communities that respond wi
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$8 a month is for the standard definition plan, which I doubt many people have at this point. The most popular (HD) plan just went from $11 to $13. Subscribers might add Disney+ without dropping Netflix, sure - but all those services will r
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by koboll 8y ago
What an interview. The whole time, there's this strong subtext that Amazon is the primary vector here, but they never come out and say it -- and dance around the issue of what corrective legislation would actually look like -- because
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Here a couple examples I came across recently of games which have multiple recent reviews, on the first page of reviews, that either outright state they received a counterfeit or describe quality control issues that almost certainly describ
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>Of the 198 patients with CVD, 177 (89%) were adherent. Major cardiac events judged to be recurrent disease totaled one stroke in the adherent cardiovascular participants—a recurrent event rate of .6%, significantly less than reported by
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by koboll 8y ago
Congratulations, you got lucky and were directed to a non-counterfeit seller. But your anecdote is obviously not representative of everyone's experience.
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There are certain swaths of items that you literally can't buy anymore because they are completely overrun with counterfeiters. Perfume/cologne and board games are two big ones. Amazon is, at this point, undoubtedly one of the lar
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On my own personal projects where I have the authority to make broad declarations like "IE11 is marginal enough to be served the mobile version", that works. But try explaining that to a corporate executive. The cost-benefit analy
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What's seriously making me consider canceling my subscription is that it's slowly but surely becoming a worse service over time. It's clear that rising licensing fees are eating it alive, and its response, to create more orig
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by koboll 8y ago
According to CanIUse, it's supported in browsers used by 88% of users in the United States. Which means sites will fail to render properly in 12% of browsers. Developing for a b2b or enterprise product? That percentage is going to be l
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Really? I'm trying it now and finding it tremendously challenging to eat adequate calories without either grains or lots and lots of meat. Vegetables are so calorie-poor and expensive that they're untenable, so you better love bea
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"Lazy" obscures the addiction component, yes. But no other addiction has such an accessible and accepted narrative that the addiction is not your fault , there's nothing you can do about it , and so you shouldn't even
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"NES" is trademarked. And they are using copyrighted assets, from Mario and Pokemon.
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Or layer CSS gradients. Images of any kind are unnecessary.
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All of the speculation here hinges on the legal definitions of terms like "money", "credit", "bet", and "wager", which we're using as lay terms here, but which probably have well-defined contours
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Plenty of urban and suburban areas do this, yes. But that's not where the fires start. They come from areas that are a) dense with sap-oozing pine trees that hunger for a fire to spread their seeds, and b) so remote that maintenance ch
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by koboll 8y ago
That's why the solution is nationalization. Their negligence will be our problem either way. The only solution that effects justice is to confiscate the company from shareholders entirely.
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I was blown away by the beginning of that book. Was not expecting something coming out of contemporary China to be so pointedly, brutally critical of the revolution.
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To be fair, based on my searches, "Get from x to y by train"-type searches tend to feature this site on the first page of results -- that's how I found it originally. So something in the Google algorithm clearly values this t
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by koboll 8y ago
> We've yet to solve Identity (Who is this?) and Merit (Is this person qualified/competent?). Thank god that back when I was babysitting for extra cash, there wasn't some faceless, soulless automated system judging my Iden
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by koboll 8y ago
This is literally exactly how it works currently. Hospitals and insurance companies are all suing each other constantly over a ton of different things.
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by koboll 8y ago
USDS/18F have done such incredible work and I'm glad the Trump admin hasn't killed them off completely. Given Trump's total-war attitude toward all Obama initiatives I'm somewhat surprised they still exist and haven
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The article is from 2015. The plastic for certain cups (see: https://www.keurig.com/recyclable ) is recyclable as of earlier this year, and all k-cups are switching to recyclable plastic within the next year.
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On the internet, there is a supportive community for every possible opinion humans can have.
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>HAES is a reaction that says "What if we accepted that some people are just going to be fat, and then tried to come up with ways of being as healthy as possible given the circumstances". You may not like the packaging that HAE
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K-cups are recyclable, it's just that no one does it because it's a pain in the ass to do at scale. You have to awkwardly peel back the top foil, dump the grounds, and then recycle the cup. Who at the office wants to sit there and
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Funny you should say that. I bought in at the beginning of the frenzy last September, and sold ten minutes after I read in early December that Wall Street was about to open up futures trading. I guessed that meant that the likes of Goldman
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It's not a matter of whether I trust them. It's a matter of whether any misuse of data actually occurred, or whether this is a lot of innuendo with no evidence that any harm was, or even could be, done.
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Come on. It's obvious they blocked it not because it's "critical of Facebook" but because it contains links to known Russian disinfo sites .

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