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by maratc 4y ago
Kobo only needs it to support transfers, and because it lacks emailing. If I want Overdrive, Dropbox and Pocket support, I have a smartphone for that.
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by maratc 4y ago
The Kindle is inexpensive, has great support, has a huge library (open to non-US people with non-US credit cards), and you could just email a MOBI to it (which is great if the Kindle owner is your parent). It's only disadvantage was th
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by maratc 4y ago
I'd like to know its accuracy on the sound of Rhabarberbarbara[0] or Nackenzacken[1]. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3_tRPRt9x8 [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mngm8k4_qAc
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by maratc 4y ago
That's a current situation, on one platform. In the future, this might be the same on the other platform, — or it might be different. I don't trust any of Google/Microsoft/Facebook to not try to shove their app store (us
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by maratc 4y ago
For me, "an iPhone that complies with these demands" would be a worse experience than the current one. I have no intention to install Microsoft app store (so I can get Outlook), Facebook app store (so I can get WhatsApp), and Goog
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by maratc 4y ago
> This way, Israel can plausibly claim to take every position on this issue, all at once, and thereby appease a coalition of about a zillion different views. I'd like to point out that this hasn't started with Israel per se; th
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by maratc 4y ago
OpenOffice, Linux and RISC-V are of tremendous help to Russia.
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by maratc 4y ago
It's a sort of an operating system for some specialized hardware. The code that runs AWS could be an example.
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by maratc 4y ago
In $current_place, we have about 250 hours (!) of tests that are run in CI per each commit. By splitting this across many executors, the CI can finish in about 40-60 minutes. The idea of "running the tests locally" may fit some pr
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by maratc 4y ago
I'm sorry, I don't understand. Say I feel a lot of respect to e.g. Amelia Earhart, so much so that I want to establish an air-exploration company and name it Earhart Air Explorers. Do I need to get an approval from all of her desc
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by maratc 4y ago
> Whether or not they do doesn't really disproportionately harm a minority group. It does disproportionately harm a minority group of porn afficionados. If your point is that LGBT minority group has some rights that porn afficionado
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by maratc 4y ago
First, UAE hasn't signed that declaration. Do we hold UAE accountable to a declaration they never signed just because we've signed it and hold it a "North Star"? Second, the Declaration has nothing on LGBT rights, and it
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by maratc 4y ago
> There are huge differences between Amazon not selling porn due to local laws and Amazon restricting LGBTQ searches due to local laws. Except for the fact that you agree with one ('cos it's "a good thing") and disagr
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by maratc 4y ago
People who bring the "genocide" argument to the discussion are like people who bring pepper spray to a party: they are not interested in a discussion (the others are not interested in a party). Skipping that, Amazon is not taking
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by maratc 4y ago
> Do you think women should have equal rights as men? What I think is irrelevant. The question why the US hasn't yet ratified the Equal Rights Amendment that would guarantee that "women have equal rights" is also irrele
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by maratc 4y ago
We may roll with it to the point of discussing why do schoolchildren in the UAE have to submit to laws restricting guns, and how their freedom to bring guns to schools is oppressed. "There is no monopoly of common sense, on either side
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by maratc 4y ago
> Some things are simply wrong. This is one of those things. If one’s worldview disagrees, then theirs is simply incorrect on this matter. The GP said, "in a way that doesn't assume your worldview is the universal position ...
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by maratc 4y ago
Humour is a good mechanism of coping with harsh reality that we as individuals have very little influence over. Dramatizing the (already dramatic) situation even more helps no one.
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by maratc 4y ago
> Once you consider the intentions of the pregnant person So a homicide of a pregnant woman that has an unwanted pregnancy should be single homicide, not double homicide? > When you only consider a woman to be an incubator for your
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by maratc 4y ago
> So while the design of the Phone 1 is quite unique I am certain it reminds me of something, but I can't quite put my finger on it.
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This also shows how women at that time were treated as "glorified property": > If that woman die, his daughter shall be killed. You damaged my property — your property will be equally damaged. Justice! Women wouldn't be tr
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by maratc 4y ago
> women have less right to their body than a corpse. I don't think it's a fair argument: someone who needs a kidney may receive it from this dead body or from another one, but a fetus cannot be magically transplanted into a dif
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by maratc 4y ago
> Also if you beat a woman causing her to miscarry An interesting note: even in the Code of Hammurabi there's a provision for that, and that's from about 4,000 years ago.
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by maratc 4y ago
> I'm going to wade in I'm going to roe out then. (I'll see myself out.)
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by maratc 4y ago
Not only "They" think it's murder, we as a society tend to think it's murder too. Here's my argument: in most jurisdictions, a killing of a pregnant woman brings harsher sentence than a killing of non-pregnant w
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by maratc 4y ago
I didn't say it has something to do with that. It's a tangential question.
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by maratc 4y ago
> It’s strange suddenly waking up one day and not being able to do a thing that you used to have an option to do. I guess the former slave owners of Missouri could somewhat share your sentiment.
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by maratc 4y ago
> Many believe, myself included, that women should have the right to control their own bodies, and access to abortions is part of that right. I won't argue with your belief, but please share your opinion (if you don't mind, of
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by maratc 4y ago
> those decisions must be grounded on actual text Uhm, no — “precedent” is a judicial decision which may not be grounded on any text whatsoever. It’s a common thing in Common law, and of course it doesn’t exist in Continental law.
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by maratc 4y ago
I'm not arguing with that, since any argument about "beliefs" is pointless. I'm just saying that "legislating from the Bench" is there by design . If you disagree with the design, it's fine — but this app

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