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by manicdee 6y ago
I mean you could check the other comments under that one to see that it's a deliberate trigger for anti-vax fearmongering. It's one thing to be skeptical, it's another to be a denier. If you can't pick up on the cues the
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by manicdee 6y ago
That's right, testing is part of scientific medicine. Once it's been through the usual tests and we have some idea of efficacy and understand how to manage the side effects, it will be approved for use.
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by manicdee 6y ago
First-party status for an app store means being able to install apps on the phone, as opposed to being an app which runs Epic Store games (eg: Bluestacks or Plarium Play).
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by manicdee 6y ago
> Epic, however, takes 5%..... after you pull in $1mil in revenue. That's it. That's it, for now. Epic is trying to set themselves up as publisher like Steam. Once they can get first-party status as an app store on iOS their tu
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by manicdee 6y ago
Oh you mean the caches of weapons sold to Iraq by the US that had been buried for decades? As opposed to the rationale for the invasion which was Iraq building stockpiles of WMD from their own factories? Or are you talking about a different
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by manicdee 6y ago
All medicines were new at some point in time. Your anti-vax fear mongering doesn't belong here.
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by manicdee 6y ago
Let's hope it's involuntary relocation and not murder.
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by manicdee 6y ago
> The PR / social media contingent that supports the riots is frankly impressive. Would you say they're organised "organically" or are they well organised and funded, as if there's big money backing these riots?
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by manicdee 6y ago
Do you mean long range EV wishful thinking, improved battery technology wishful thinking, market-changing utility scale battery wishful thinking, Supercharger network wishful thinking or some other kind of wishful thinking?
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by manicdee 6y ago
Getting into a pedantic argument of the semantics of "stopped" is missing the point that Disney has a vault into which they put their movies so that they can extract more revenue from their IP by trickling it out on a seasonal bas
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by manicdee 6y ago
Do you even know what you're talking about? The process is described at a high level by Apple here: https://developer.apple.com/developer-id/ 1. Developer signs their app 2. Developer sends signed app to Apple for
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by manicdee 6y ago
There's no mystery. The water is being stolen, or the water never existed anyway. Water allocations are based on a single year which had high rainfall. Models attempting to predict rainfall are problematic, and models attempting to pre
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by manicdee 6y ago
You don't need to refute anything if you can describe the process yourself.
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by manicdee 6y ago
> Though our business practices are designed to mitigate many of these risks, if we enable or offer AI solutions that are controversial because of their purported or real impact on human rights, privacy, employment or other social issues
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by manicdee 6y ago
Which is to say Disney stopped the theatre from showing the movie. The reason the theatre couldn't show the movie is because Disney wouldn't allow it to do so.
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by manicdee 6y ago
A cascading bubble of quantum vacuum propagating outwards at the speed of light! I don't see the need to worry about such things, since we'll never know that they happened.
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by manicdee 6y ago
Part of the culture of "move fast and break things" is that sometimes the things you think are "broken" are going to end up not being included in the final product, or will be better optimised later, once you understand
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by manicdee 6y ago
Notarising is only the act of a trusted third party verifying that the signature on a document is valid. Here's a grossly simplified version of what happens with Apple's notary service: 1. Developer writes program 2. Developer sig
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by manicdee 6y ago
Condemning all unions because some stupid idiots dropped a concrete block one someone? Are you a Pinkerton? As for the union "goons" well it's safe to assume that the people doorknocking are going to be the ones who haven&#x2
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by manicdee 6y ago
Remember to also write to your state and federal politicians demanding bans on corporate donations to politicians or political parties. Cap donations at $1000, and impose meaningful penalties on illegal donors (in percentages of revenue, no
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by manicdee 6y ago
When a Justice of the Peace notarises a piece of documentation, they are not vouching for authenticity they are only voicing for certain claims made: the document was presented on a certain date, and/or that this copy is an accurate fa
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by manicdee 6y ago
This isn’t about the history stored on your computer, this is about the browsing habits observed in real time by eg: ad agencies who get lots of information about where you have been because their ads run everywhere.
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by manicdee 6y ago
I can tell it has started raining by the number of ambulances leaving the station down the road. Human driver errors not correlated my arse!
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by manicdee 6y ago
There are many sweet spots, Musk is good at targeting the “deliver quickly, fix the glaring problems later if at all” sweet spot.
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by manicdee 6y ago
> When you're dealing with a new disease there are no best practices for treatment. That doesn't give you carte blanche to claim that your drug does wonderful things for condition X when the evidence supporting your claim is no
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by manicdee 6y ago
The problem is the way it comes out of the box. In Apple Mail you can "simply" open Preferences > Composing and set "Message Format" to "Plain Text". There is also the option for each message you write to Fo
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by manicdee 6y ago
Throwing money at the problem helps a lot to some extent: - putting food on the table - putting kids through school with at least one new set of clothes a year - having food in your belly makes it far easier to cope with the endless "
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by manicdee 6y ago
It's a reductio ad absurdum argument.
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by manicdee 6y ago
In lab conditions with cat5 cable perhaps. In the real world, the copper in the ground or on the pole is close to a century old, and probably qualifies as cat2 if you are lucky.
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by manicdee 6y ago
One dollar, one vote!

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