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You’re piling on a lot of ifs of which there are alternative contingencies other than artificially keeping the price of corn goods cheap. I’d argue that the negative effects of cheap corn has made our country less healthy which in turn is
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I’m not really in favor of making exceptions to the types of food that poor people are or aren’t allowed to buy. Removing corn subsidies would do a lot to change the pricing dynamics of food in the US. Sugary and heavily processed foods wou
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It would be better to end corn subsidies altogether which have wide-reaching effects on the health of Americans.
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Do these subsidies go exclusively to unestablished energy firms trying to enter a market that has an unreasonably high capital requirement or are they going to massive energy corporations that can front the cost?
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Trust is earned; it should not be given freely. As I’ve already said, it’s already a gigantic burden to try to corroborate claims and distill biases from all media, so there’s little reason to spend time doing so from sources I already know
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> So South Korea has reasons for being not too keen on Japan, which you understand, but you also wouldn't trust them to talk about that? Does anyone with any grievance deserve trust, in your eyes? Trust in the matter that they’ve gr
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It’s getting tiresome reading terrible takes from anti capitalists that not only attribute everything they view as negative as a product of capitalism, but also when those things are very obviously an improvement to the status quo. The alte
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Google has never shown competency in building hardware. I loved my Nexus 5 phone. It’s still my favorite phone as far as aesthetics goes. It was a great value and much cheaper than comparable phones at the time. It bricked itself with a b
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That's the intrinsic risk of your business depending on other business' platforms. We're witnessing the effects of this currently with Meta's revenue being heavily impacted by Apple's privacy initiatives on their pl
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If a phone is important enough that you think that it's critical that people consider using alternatives for the sake of the future, then those alternatives need to consider why they're that critical and ensure that they are meeti
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The impetus isn't really on consumers to use half baked products in hopes that it'll improve over time. It's on developers of alternatives to make it at the minimum good enough, but more so actually compelling to use the prod
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It's a pretty straight forward path to market suicide.
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Two workarounds that I've seen apps that don't meet app store guidelines are altstore [1] and TestFlight, which I guess doesn't have the same rigorous oversight that the app store does? The latter still does require the devel
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> Just because there isn't a strict naming convention doesn't mean there isn't a longstanding convention in English-speaking countries of giving wars boring names based on the participants or theatre That is one name tha
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The term "Civil War" affirms the United States' (i.e. Northern) viewpoint that the secessions of the southern states were illegitimate and the conflict that ensued was between citizens of the same country. If you think that t
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> It doesn't really make sense in that context. The Thirteen Colonies seceded from Great Britain, something not in dispute even in the UK. Great Britain sent troops into the United States to oppose the secession. But it's not r
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If you are to suppose that the Confederate States of America were a legitimate, sovereign government of the Southern states, the term "War of Northern Aggression" makes more sense. They did not threaten to secede from the United S
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The unfortunate reality is you can't have both an inexpensive and prebuilt keyboard in this space. I'd suggest looking for a used Kinesis Advantage 1 or 2 on ebay as that might be a little more palatable and the used prices are fa
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There's another side to the mechanical keyboard community that is focused on ergonomics [1]. I personally use a Kinesis Advantage 2 [2] with an Adantage 360 [3] on preorder. These are not marginal improvements to my quality of life, t
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Keyboard Maestro [1] also allows you to trigger automations using MIDI commands. [1] https://www.keyboardmaestro.com/main/
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A few months ago I was contemplating the same thing since I was out of town for a long stretch of time. It's unconventional and doesn't have quite all the features that most traditional keyboards have, but I ended up purchasing a
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What? You're right, It's not an argument. It's a statement of fact. Firefox gained marketshare against Internet Explorer by being significantly better than Internet Explorer. I remember enthusiastically switching to Firefox,
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> Firefox needs one thing right now and that is market share or else the browser is dead in a few years. > The most important thing is compatibility with major sites at this point. if people's banking or health insurance page rej
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I'd imagine most people deliberately using Apple products have made considerations for other options. Unfortunately there is no panacea like you seem to be alluding to, just a different set of tradeoffs.
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> That's how you end up with things like horse-drawn carriages with electric lighting They still must follow the law of the land, so things like this are often out of necessity rather than any sort of communal inclination.
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This reads like an advertisement and the constant comparisons with Apple products is weird. I can only assume the comparisons are being made because he or the people around him use very expensive Macbooks, but It doesn't help that this
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Trackpoint was so vastly superior to touchpads for the majority of the existence of the laptop that it's only natural that people that were computing when that was the case just completely eschew the touchpad on their laptop, even to t
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> You could have stopped at the first half and had a mostly coherent point that I would agree with. You could have also just stated that the legislature has been ineffective at passing legislation that is important to you, and you&#x27
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> Basically - few of these bills have ANY impact on 99% of us. That does not mean they are a waste of time, however. There are a lot of impactful bills. Just because they don't personally affect or benefit you does not mean that the
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> Until you realize that metric would only be meaningful per capita Why would this metric only be meaningful per capita?

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