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by lurk2 1y ago
> The main component is driving sexual others into social service contract cults while severing ties to clan/family. The implication being homo- and asexuals join the clergy because it obviates the expectation that they will marry?
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by lurk2 1y ago
Is this even news? I remember reading about this ages ago.
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by lurk2 1y ago
I know I don’t want to have to close down the apps manually. Review the site guidelines; you are breaking several of them.
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by lurk2 1y ago
Could be economies of scale reaching a point of diminishing returns.
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by lurk2 1y ago
No, I haven’t. I haven’t tried building a car before, either, I still know that I want it to have a cupholder.
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by lurk2 1y ago
> Popularity and optimality are not the same thing. Yes they are. If we lived in a world where Australia was a world superpower we might be having this conversation upside down and with r’s where there shouldn’t be any, but we don’t. Eve
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by lurk2 1y ago
> Sure it does. I’m talking about the Translate app, not the in-line translator. If your text exceeded a certain length in the Translate app you couldn’t even select it. They might have fixed it in subsequent versions, but I wouldn’t kno
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by lurk2 1y ago
> lol no This is obnoxious and you’re wrong about it. > It sounds like you just don’t like apple to be honest. Astute, I don’t. > It just works It doesn’t.
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90s Cable Simulator – Recreating Retro Cable TV with a Raspberry Pi [video](youtube.com)
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by lurk2 1y ago
We can ignore that one, then, but my understanding was that the functionality has been disabled twice; first by Apple, and later by YouTube. I could be wrong, though, it's been almost 15 years.
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by lurk2 1y ago
Off the top of my head: - Substantially poorer performance - Keyboard is less accurate - YouTube videos can’t be played on the lock screen without some tricks - Apple Maps (it is basically at parity now, however). - Translate feature doesn’
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by lurk2 1y ago
> Money that paid for development of iPhone and iOS. iOS has gotten progressively worse every year since 2012. It may not be the worst idea to turn off the tap.
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by lurk2 1y ago
> In E.M. Forster’s short story The Machine Stops, he paints a future where a vast machine handles every aspect of human life. People live isolated lives, fully dependent on the machine. They don’t know how it works. They only know how t
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by lurk2 1y ago
Yes.
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by lurk2 1y ago
> There's always the tendency for people to say "my accent is the neutral standard against which all others should be measured". You can measure this by mutual intelligibility with other accent groupings.
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by lurk2 1y ago
Then you go after their insurance company like in the OP. If they don’t have insurance you may be able to go after the owner personally, though that’s likely to be much more costly than the dollar value of your damages. Honestly, why are yo
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by lurk2 1y ago
> All the Democrat led states have paid leave and higher minimum wages/overtime exempt laws. And higher unemployment benefits They also have significantly higher unemployment rates. > Build Back Better bill a couple years ago Thi
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by lurk2 1y ago
No it isn’t.
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by lurk2 1y ago
It would save future generations from having to read inane questions so I don’t think we can rule it out.
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by lurk2 1y ago
> That's not how it works. If that’s not how it works then the framework isn’t useful which is why it isn’t taken seriously. > However you can see its success in China, Vietnam and Laos, countries that happen to now significantly
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by lurk2 1y ago
Persistence over time.
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by lurk2 1y ago
If dialectics could predict the future, you would have earned enough money to finance the revolution by now.
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by lurk2 1y ago
> But it prevents the certain path to self-destruction. History presents us with far more examples of successful autocracies.
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by lurk2 1y ago
> Ironically, it’s often the opposite party that actually pushes for policies that would materially benefit the working class. Such as?
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by lurk2 1y ago
> It's dubious that even the widening relative gap between the working class and the capitalist class plays a major role This description could apply to the French Revolution, Tsarist Russia, the fall of the Weimar Republic, and the
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by lurk2 1y ago
> Which is fine unless they know the system and how to play it - eg by telling the magistrate the second time around that they've made partial payment & have more coming, just need some time, etc. Are you speaking from past expe
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by lurk2 1y ago
You can seize control of physical assets if they fail to pay you.
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by lurk2 1y ago
Are you speaking from experience?
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by lurk2 1y ago
> Ideas are explored and adopted only until the next idea replaces it or the surrounding business landscape shifts yet again. “Creative destruction is a concept in economics that describes a process in which new innovations replace and m
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by lurk2 1y ago
> Now I never have to read the linked article. I think you’re saying this jokingly but it would be an improvement. Most people don’t read the article. This is partially laziness but also has to do with consistency: I know what a Hacker N

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