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by manicdee 8y ago
Apple didn’t just ban the App, they revoked Facebook’s privileges to “side load” their internal apps, so Facebook employees can’t even order lunch or a company shuttle.
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by manicdee 8y ago
Given the option between letting the trolley run over five people or taking action so the trolley only runs over three people, you chose letting the trolley kill five people.
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by manicdee 8y ago
As participants in a democratic nation (whether that be the US republic, the UK parliamentary monarchy or whatever) it is our responsibility to be involved in all facets of the world we interact with. We hire people to grow our food because
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by manicdee 8y ago
There's nothing implied at all. They are blue collar workers. Their career is on the decline because the mines are closing and there aren't enough new ones opening up to simply transfer the existing labour force to the new mines.
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by manicdee 8y ago
Imagine, all this time Five Eyes actually had a way of breaching privacy and they only started making noise about access enablement recently because they knew someone was going to report the vulnerability to Apple.
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by manicdee 8y ago
There are different rules for the rich, and different rules again for trusts and corporations. Sure they technically violate some points but they have so much money and funded my political party don’t you know?
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by manicdee 8y ago
Well there's certainly a very strong argument to reform the system of voting: switch to some form of preferential voting and remove the electoral college. Then you might see people voting for a third party because their vote isn't
848.
by manicdee 8y ago
The economic impact started when the shutdown began and furloughed employees stopped their discretionary spending because they had no idea how long they would have to stretch out that last pay check and life savings. By the time the effects
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by manicdee 8y ago
Just be aware that the trigger for double dissolution can be exploited to bolster the government if they feel public sentiment is in their favour for the duration of the shutdown and election.
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by manicdee 8y ago
I'm happy for you that your life has been so stress free.
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by manicdee 8y ago
Eastern Europe moreso, if you let French or English kmowmthere’s horsemeat in their pies they will be upset.
852.
by manicdee 8y ago
How can it even remotely be considered rent seeking to charge for a service you provide?
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by manicdee 8y ago
Is there any major weight loss system that looks at genetics? According to this article there are a few genes which will alter your success with either any excercise cersus only high intensity exercise, and low carb versus low fat being
854.
by manicdee 8y ago
TL;DR: people have not been trained in considerate scooter use, especially in pedestrian-dense environments.
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by manicdee 8y ago
Read the article before commenting.
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by manicdee 8y ago
No. You can’t take the dictionary definition, ignore the important word, then claim two things are equal. Salty water is not water strongly impregnated with salt. To simplify, the difference between salty water and brine is that brine is v
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by manicdee 8y ago
The short term effects are increased salinity and reduced oxygenation for water in the immediate vicinity of the desalination plant, which is enough to drastically alter the biome (aka “kill all the sea life”).
858.
by manicdee 8y ago
Phoning home is where a web site uses Google Analytics for example, while a CDN is where the assets you actually want are loaded from a server with large links to Internet backbone near you. Completely different things, which are sometimes
859.
by manicdee 8y ago
Do you never sit down or pick things up?
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by manicdee 8y ago
Is the only way you can argue via straw man? My complaint is not the use of CDN, it is the forced delay to load a page when the CDN is not available or certain resources are blocked. This is a direct form of punishment from Google: refuse t
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by manicdee 8y ago
The Internet has never existed in a “pure” form. It has always been balkanised, with different groups of people mixing with themselves more or less oblivious to the other groups around them. Information sharing in “the good old days” was of
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by manicdee 8y ago
It has flown actual hardware and launched a functional payload, making it operational. Just because you don’t consider a 2t payload launched to a Mars-crossing orbit to be “real” doesn’t mean the payload wasn’t launched.
863.
by manicdee 8y ago
Why 8s though? That’s well into “give up on loading this page, close the tab and try somewhere else” territory. Perhaps a better option is finding ways to prevent content jumping around so much while assets are loading.
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by manicdee 8y ago
Have a talk to any marine biologist about how effective landfill is as a means of disposal. Single use plastics are a hair behind AGW when it comes to existential threats to humanity as a whole. We’ll poison the oceans long before landfill
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by manicdee 8y ago
Neither does the X or any of the “plus” model face slabs.
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by manicdee 8y ago
The catch there is the lack of faster hardware, since phones are basically carrying desktop processor power these days.
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by manicdee 8y ago
Disposables are only the better option when you move some part of the entire planet outside the system you are measuring.
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by manicdee 8y ago
Pre-caching in those cases will cause other things to slow down and needlessly consume bandwidth which the user is paying for. The real reason for AMP is to allow Google to watch everything your visitors do so they can sell your visitors ey
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by manicdee 8y ago
Completely different. This is like a car that tries to phone home every time you start it, so either you keep the phone service active and get a salesperson talking to you while driving, or you disable the phone and the car leave the immobi
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by manicdee 8y ago
They recently switched from composite hull to metal hill for BFR/Starship, so it might be a case of terminating those employees whose primary focus was designing the composite hull and whose skills were not transferable. There will lik

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