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by lagadu 8y ago
> supported by both national political parties and the sitting president. This coming from a company from a country that can barely be considered to be democratic and that has the largest modern track record of interfering with foreign s
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by lagadu 8y ago
And who decides what is "degenerate stuff"? You? No, thank you.
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by lagadu 8y ago
The internet doesn't care about companies trying to improve their revenues, particularly when it comes to "free" products. It does care about a great deal when it's lied to.
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by lagadu 8y ago
I completely agree, I recall running into a couple here and there but the only one I know from memory that attempts that is kink.com (or so they say).
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by lagadu 8y ago
> I can understand that companies prefer not to be associated with a world that seemingly contains a lot of misery. They're already in the pharma and health business.
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by lagadu 8y ago
If there's one thing that VR has taught us is that photorealism is completely unnecessary for immersion.
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by lagadu 8y ago
How is that relevant for professional hardware?
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by lagadu 8y ago
Stealing your btc is also really easy, as xkcd showed a long long time ago: https://xkcd.com/538/
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by lagadu 8y ago
AKA: list of websites whose habits regarding your personal data are so shady, they're literally illegal in large swaths of the world.
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by lagadu 8y ago
I too, sometimes go to the casino for a little "investing".
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by lagadu 8y ago
> Why anyone would spend more than $200 on a phone unless there is a business requirement (ie, it makes you money) is beyond me. Are you also surprised that people spend over 50000€/$ on a car? The answer is simple: because it turns
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by lagadu 8y ago
People act based on the standards of the places around them. My example: I'm Portuguese but have lived in Denmark for quite a few years now, in Denmark I'm about as punctual as everyone else around here (which is mostly punctual,
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by lagadu 8y ago
> I wonder if this system will still hold up when the country develops further. It's similar in southern European countries, although to a lesser extent, so it's very likely it'll remain.
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by lagadu 8y ago
How so? Why can't they be complimentary?
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by lagadu 8y ago
After illegally gaining entry to the country. That said he might qualify for refugee status, depending on whether the state is willing to recognize Krypton.
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by lagadu 8y ago
If their corporate taxes are lower than in your country (after calculating for what you have to pay according to the double taxation agreement the two countries have) then it's worth it opening your company there. Depends on how high t
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by lagadu 8y ago
The definition of hate speech depends on what each society defines it as.
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by lagadu 8y ago
Why are you talking your work phone home in the first place? Or at the very least not disabling notifications for that after work hours?
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by lagadu 8y ago
That's against the instagram rules. Fetlife is where we generally post those.
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by lagadu 8y ago
Regarding the "what if" novels, not the novels where a gender is entirely missing for unexplained reasons like discussed at the end: Because few things have had as strong an influence in our culture as gender, it's central to
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by lagadu 8y ago
Just because it played a part in those events doesn't mean that it's not a tool for free press. One could argue that the fact that that speech wasn't able to be passed through traditional media is a point in favor of free spe
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by lagadu 8y ago
Well we are a social species: by and large we're programmed for that.
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by lagadu 8y ago
Nothing coming out of wccf is even marginally trustworthy, they're infamous for posting every single rumor they hear about.
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by lagadu 8y ago
That is the Occam's razor choice to explain this yea.
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by lagadu 8y ago
> the government and their current struggle That's a funny euphemism for "ruinously managed totalitarian hellhole".
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by lagadu 8y ago
Not a very good example, stock cars are effectively ancient in many ways compared to modern cars. For example they only started playing with (indirect) fuel injection a few years ago.
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by lagadu 8y ago
Well, you cared enough to post. Now imagine all the people who actually enjoy reading insights about developing software that we've all used.
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by lagadu 8y ago
You do if you want to use visual studio, which according to Stackoverflow's survey is the second most popular development environment (less than 1% behind visual studio code)[0] Not to mention that in the enterprise world Java and .net
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by lagadu 8y ago
We pay a lot more than that for MSDN licenses (which includes the OS if it's only used for development).
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by lagadu 8y ago
> So it's only against the law once the company becomes big enough? Yes, that's exactly what monopoly abuse laws are for.

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