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by lagadu 6y ago
I get what you're saying but letting the people decide what policy to follow is what a democracy is all about: if enough idiots in a sovereign nation decide to go "fuck 5g" then that's exactly what that nation should do.
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by lagadu 6y ago
Everything is worthy of discussion and everyone's opinion is valuable no matter how much I may dislike them/disagree with them. I feel like this because the alternative is having a gatekeeper who tells everyone whose opinion is wo
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by lagadu 6y ago
If you're going to claim with a straight face that the majority of goods on g2a are stolen, which is what you're implying, you're going to have to provide sources.
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by lagadu 6y ago
All of those are completely above water, legally speaking. There's even a term for that: arbitrage.
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by lagadu 6y ago
Why do you say it's a black market? Reselling of license keys is legal within the EU. Granted the hundreds of keys mentioned in the article were originally stolen, therefore illegal to sell but it seems they're taking steps to com
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by lagadu 6y ago
A month ago you could be seated next to a stranger infected with ebola or tuberculosis. What's different about covid?
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by lagadu 6y ago
The person on the other side gets the benefit of that. The airline still got $39 out of it. A more interesting scenario is what happens if both of those people paid: can the airline sell the same empty seat twice? I'm assuming it'
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by lagadu 7y ago
It's like that for the vast majority of viruses.
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by lagadu 7y ago
Yep, this isn't fraud; it's just breach of contract.
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by lagadu 7y ago
Fire up a Linux VM and check out the named howto. Not only will you learn a lot about dns, you'll have a working server by the end of it.
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by lagadu 7y ago
This article is weird: the tone it sets is that them being blocked was a bad thing but then they say: > Netflix would’ve never stood a chance of getting its current market penetration [in the UK],” says the BBC source. “All the big playe
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by lagadu 7y ago
But we also know that this plane was poorly designed and the design process followed a path that completely disregarded safety. You're saying that the best way for a company to get your business is to make a deathtrap and after it kill
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by lagadu 7y ago
The government's job is whatever we, the electorate, decide it is. The government represents us and we've empowered it to reign in large companies and moderate the influence they can have on us and it's exactly what they&#x27
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by lagadu 7y ago
> "oh no, a problem, better get the government to solve it" Erm, that's exactly why we have governments: to solve society-level problems.
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by lagadu 7y ago
But what's the incentive for doing that? What are you offering to those who work on adtech for them stop or to those who do work for $EvilCorp.
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by lagadu 7y ago
Here's a website whose handling of private data is so bad that it's literally illegal in large parts of the world.
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by lagadu 7y ago
Absolutely none.
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by lagadu 7y ago
Yeah, they get things done because they're a totalitarian, completely opaque regime. I'll take western governments with all their faults and inneficiencies, thank you.
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by lagadu 7y ago
- Because the original premise hasn't controlled for family, we can only work with the data we have - Because other students in the same country succeed - Because other students in the same educational system succeed That argument only
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by lagadu 7y ago
> work is what we do for the betterment of collective This is going to be unpopular but I'll plow ahead regardless: no it isn't. Work is what we do to support our expensive hobbies and because we like nice things.
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by lagadu 7y ago
If most of the students did bad in the exam, the problem lies with the one factor in common: the professor.
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by lagadu 7y ago
Yes it does, it's part of the new orthographic agreement.
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by lagadu 7y ago
I'm like that too. Furthermore I have a story about that: A couple months ago I found myself driving a car that didn't have automatic windshield wipers. I drove in the rain for a couple of minutes without turning them on and only
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by lagadu 7y ago
Well it depends on the type of crash really. Landing gear failure has a fairly high survival rate for example, on the other hand MCAS-related crashes are pretty damn lethal compared to everything else.
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by lagadu 7y ago
Well, building friendships is something that takes at the very least a few months and that's with very regular contact. Generally speaking friendship usually comes from a simple factor: it breeds from familiarity and that takes time. T
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by lagadu 7y ago
Forget dating: First step is getting yourself some local friends. This means joining social activities nearby. Are you interested in board games? Start showing up to the local board games meets. Do you like cooking? Take a cooking course. D
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by lagadu 7y ago
Pretty much my first impression: in my experience dating apps tend to yield only ONSs at best but meeting people who I share an hobby with tends to make for significantly longer-lasting relationships. > if I don’t get an extremely clear
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by lagadu 7y ago
You're saying that there are higher rates of homosexuality among furries or am I misinterpreting that? If so, what makes you think so?
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by lagadu 7y ago
You must hate how supermarkets and restaurants have to comply with those pesky health standards.
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by lagadu 7y ago
By your logic complying with financial regulations is a large compliance burden too that kneecaps small companies.

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