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by lev99 8y ago
That's the thing about the food pyramid that was so bad, foods don't always neatly fit into one category, and foods sharing a category can have very different nutritional profiles. No wonder so many Americans eat iceberg lettuce,
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I haven't gotten a dog because I feel like renting isn't stable enough environment for a dog. I get the owning a home is a prerequisite for children point of view.
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To be fair to Zillow, looking at historical home sale data is a much easier problem then predicting what a home will sell for the future.
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The Expanse's high-political scene is best described by the balance of powerful sovereigns, and how that changes over time. Companies have a lot of power, but that power is primarily expressed by influence in governments. A company ge
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Dune's CHOAM corporation is a great example. Ownership in choam is synonyms with power and wealth. All political maneuvering is based on gaining or keeping control in choam corporation.
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I'm not sure if it was implemented as a 'competitive point' or if Microsoft just has employees that solved the porn search problem for personal use.
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by lev99 8y ago
Alphabet has several projects that Microsoft does not have a counter-project for and in which my primary ethical concerns are not privacy related. I'm specifically concerned about their approaches and attitudes on AI and Life Sciences.
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My primary goal of using Google alternatives is to deprive Alphabet of revenue. Privacy benefits are secondary.
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I find bing to be better than any other Google alternatives.
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I thought it was strange bing was not mentioned, even though it has Mozilla's endorsement of having a better privacy policy than Google[0] and is probably the most popular alternative to search in the United States. This far from a com
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A tech job making 10M yen in Japan is a very different experience than a tech job in the US making 100k+ a year.
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Sure, but they aren't going to overnight take 25% of the pornography business and become the largest porn distributor.
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The argument that we should defend ourselves or that we should kill our enemies does not require the existence of evil.
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I understand the self defense argument. Law Enforcement and Armies are trained to respond with violence to people with intent to kill. The passengers of United Airlines Flight 93 are heros. Killing "bad people" to save "good
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Some subreddits act as a beacon attracting new members and sharing new views. These people or ideas do not always stay in their respective subreddits. Similarly people attracted to steam for pornography might stay to play a game, adjusting
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by lev99 8y ago
> Steam is going to become the worlds most profitable, largest distributor of hardcore pornography overnight MindGeek's (online porn conglomerate) annual revenue was $460 million in 2015. Steam has 125 million active users. I doubt
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61% of Americans have unfavorable views of Islam. [0] Islamophobia is prevalent across the western world. [0] https://www.brookings.edu/blog/markaz/2015/12/09/what-americ...
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> There is evil in the world. The argument here isn't that the people have the right to defend themselves. The argument here is that a person wearing a suicide vest is bad and deserves to die for being bad. They are evil. This argu
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The identification of a person wearing a suicide vest isn't a racial or emotional problem. Declaring that a person wearing a suicide vest in an Arab market is inherently bad does play on racial prejudice and emotional appeal. It's
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by lev99 8y ago
An argument that relays heavily on racial prejudice and emotional appeal is philosophically underdeveloped.
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Mathematically true, ethically dubious.
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It's unavoidable. Let's say a self driving car realizes that it is on an unavoidable collusion course, but changes in it's behavior (steering) will change where it collides. That's the trolley problem.
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> - Is pursuing an AI that kills 10 bad guys but saves 20 good ones overall bad? - Yes. If your philosophical development is to the point where there are clearly defined good guys and bad guys in your mind I suggest you read more.
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Between the ARM A9 and no LTE I would say that device isn't very remarkable.
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Sure, the Apple Watch is only useful for iPhone users. My last comment was how I assumed there was a similar Android Watch device. I like Apple Pay, I think it is kind of big deal. It's really cool to be able to buy a cup of coffee or
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by lev99 8y ago
Using a feature phone instead of a smart phone for a daily driver is a different decision than having a second device with less distractions that is used sometimes instead of carrying a smartphone. These have setups for call forwarding and
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I leave my phone behind and take my Apple Watch Series 3 with me sometimes. The watch is much less distracting than a smart phone while keeping basic connectivity. The Apple Watch Series 3 has almost all of the features of the Light Phone
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Messaging could make phone numbers a big deal
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The first phone had even less features. Starting a hardware product by making a niche product and expanding the market and device complexity over iterations on the hardware is a proven success path. "Active" apps require third pa
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> - Eliminate "early" retirement ages and force the "full" age I'd really be interested in seeing the math on this. If a person retires 2 years early (receive 86% of benefits) that person's total social secu

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