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by maratd 13y ago
> Food is plentiful and cheap, so Americans devour it incessantly. This isn't really the case. The problem is that the processed food we are creating is so abnormal, our bodies simply don't know how to respond to it. The overwh
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by maratd 13y ago
Well, you can solve the problem very easily. If they don't want to have a j-o-b, you can send them to Siberia. Now everybody wants a job. Of course being productive while at work becomes your next challenge. The travails of communism
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> there is a universe outside of PHP, and PHP is not at the center of that universe. There is only one universe and PHP is a part of it. A big part. That's the reality. Some of us have to work on multiple platforms with multiple lan
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by maratd 13y ago
So you've got C/C++, .Net, NodeJS, Python, Lua, Java, and Ruby covered ... but PHP is a no go? Why not change it to we're on everything but PHP? Seems more succinct.
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by maratd 13y ago
> By the way, how the hell does bail get set at $500,000 for a single Facebook comment, no matter how insensitive or inciteful? I think he might graduate high school soon and go off to college, so that represents a flight risk. And as fu
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> Prosecutors try bad cases all the time. They're bloodthirsty inhuman bastards by design. Agreed. > But defense attorneys and jury trials have been vilified to the point that even a "socially conscious" show like The W
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by maratd 13y ago
> Why not just pass one federal law instead? You really think it'll be some simple thing like "no dealerships are ok" and that's that? No, that's not how things work in Washington. Everybody would get to add a li
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by maratd 13y ago
No, a better submission would have been a title that says what it is. The idea that I have to click to find out is nonsense. It's link-bait. I would have never clicked if I knew it was docs for HTML/CSS/JQuery, no matter how
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by maratd 13y ago
Since you said places and not nations, well, you do have some options. 1. Antarctica. South Pole. Parts of Siberia and Alaska. Essentially where it's too much trouble to reach you. 2. On a boat. If you got enough money, go cruising for
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> So where it's convenient, i.e. US citizens cannot be spied on, the concept of a nation state is invoked, but then non-US citizens basically have no right to privacy, not even the ones their governments give them, because the US ca
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> I suppose due to precedent that decision can't be overturned since it was over 60 years ago. It can be and the Supreme Court has done it before, but you will need a slate of judges that will willingly curtail their own reach and t
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I am all for the free market, but this should really be hashed out on the state level. You really don't want the federal government involved.
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> viewing pornography (and relevant compulsion) is a way of maintaining a state of denial regarding their own poor sexual performance. I think that's a bit off and the answer is far simpler. I have sex regularly with my wife and sti
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> Chimps commit brutal murders of their own kind As opposed to human beings?
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by maratd 13y ago
> Because it's an island with no infrastructure. There was a hydrant in the pictures, so they had water and most likely, sewage. Electricity as well, based on the appearance of things. Remember, the island was actively used up until
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by maratd 13y ago
> I'm still waiting on Snowden to provide evidence of the NSA breaking the 4th amendment and illegally spying on the American people. Recording meta-data of phone calls and certainly the phone calls themselves, is a gross violation
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> it forces a response from the White House. It doesn't force anything. They don't have to respond and they usually don't, when it's not convenient for them. It's just a user-created poll on their website.
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> future generations of politicians will know now to upset the population to the point where they'll revolt and ask for their execution. I agree with your post, except for this. If history has shown us anything, it's that they
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> There do exist experienced PHP devs who would do password storage the right way but PHP up until now neither made it easy nor encourage these practices as they relate to passwords. As much as I welcome these features, I don't thin
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> Am I the only one thinking PHP needs more stuff removed rather than added ? You can remove things yourself? The PHP codebase is extremely modular. Just compile your own PHP and leave anything you don't want out. Has a wonderful --
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by maratd 13y ago
> just because someone using it doesn't make it _good_ Actually, it does. When you give people a large array of choices and they consistently choose the same thing, over and over again, that makes that thing good . Now, it may not
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by maratd 13y ago
> And PHP only makes it worse because it's old versions are absolutely terrible... You just need to put your foot down. 5.2 is absolutely too much, I would never develop for it. Just tell them to stop being so damn cheap and upgrade
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by maratd 13y ago
> you are stuck paying for both services. No, I'm stuck using thepiratebay.org and when they get tired of losing revenue, they'll start sharing the content. Piracy is most certainly a force to be considered here and it can actu
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by maratd 13y ago
> You had me right up until calling Apple a hipster love fest with substandard hardware. Alright, alright. The hardware itself is, of course, not substandard. You're paying for the brand, so it's just overpriced. Yes, build qua
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I followed you up until ... > But they're still good ideas, both empirically and morally. No. They're bad ideas because they don't work, for reasons you mentioned! Certainly we should strive to resolve all of those issues!
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> Fuck competition. Become one with your inner troll What a morbid way of looking at things... and it's not terribly accurate, either. You can make a very good buck on volume, even with fierce competition and extremely tight margins
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by maratd 13y ago
> we're back to Cable Television This will never happen, for the simple reason that you have choice and as a result, competition. You can choose Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, or any of the smaller ones. Netflix gets commercials? It w
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by maratd 13y ago
To each according to his need, from each according to his ability. That's communism and that's what the parent was talking about. Now, the countries you visited are probably quite a bit off from the above even though they call the
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Communist much?
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by maratd 13y ago
https://supporters.eff.org/donate Just donated.

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