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by metamet 7y ago
Where's the line of liability, though? I could make a video and state that Sandy Hook was a false flag and these parents are crisis actors. I don't have followers and influence, so my video wouldn't get many views and likely
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Right. But, as a public company, should their position be to leave the harassment up until the court finishes up with its process, promoting its continued spread? Because what do they gain from leaving this stuff up? It hurts people. If the
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How else should they have handled Alex Jones' Sandy Hook insanity? Like, that becomes innately "political" because Jones has positioned himself that way. But he was peddling insane conspiracy theories regarding Sandy Hook bei
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by metamet 7y ago
Quarterly planning is equally frustrating. I don't think we've ever had a quarter where we're on track three sprints in. Something always comes up, we pivot a bit, or our estimates were as uninformative as we all thought they
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If you've gone over before, they will charge you $10/50GB of additional data, capping at $200 more a month. You can pay them an extra $50/mo to remove the data cap. This is coming from someone who unknowingly got a $200 bill
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Wait until you hear about my storage array built entirely on floppy disks.
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> Michelin-star restaurants probably don't have delivery. It's not that "lack of delivery" is driving their value, it's that sitting down there allows you to experience the food more fully. Very salient point. Fu
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Which is why I think the vinyl resurgence is much more complicated than "hipsters being hipsters". We, as humans, like tangible things.
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> There is no practical difference between homevideo and streaming, and homevideo copies of Ghibli films are everywhere (whether official or otherwise). There very much is. Ghibli is preserving the "value" of the film by not a
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> If you want to object to censorship, great. But if you do, you need to do it as a general principle, and that means tolerating speech you don't like too. Sorry, but I don't see a world where supporting open, self-proclaimed N
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I don't think that's what meant. "2 of the biggest GPU vendors" !== "the 2 biggest GPU vendors".
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> You can always vote yourself into oppression True. But those in power can suppress voter turnout through a variety of means, whether thats spread of misinformation ("voting is [wrong day] at [wrong location]!"), literal voter
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Morbidly fascinating, I would encourage everyone to check out this episode of the podcast Behind the Bastards: https://www.behindthebastards.com/podcasts/all-fertility-doc... There are multiple fertility doctors who ha
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I suspect that since illicit drug trafficking has a strong social stigma, it may not be the best thing to lead with. It can, however, be discussed with nuance in a way that could change minds. I definitely think there's a lot of legiti
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I think this is an important cultural reframing that needs to occur, sooner rather than later. Most people, when they hear of things like "the dark web" and cryptocurrency think about the massively publicized instances of drug tra
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Visual Studio does this for me a lot as well, especially when projects become larger. The number of times the typeahead caused the app to hang is too numerous to count. Part of me misses .NET, but I've been mostly working with Golang a
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A big part that is often not talked about is the oral fixation. A lot of smokers smoke because they use it as a mental break--both day to day life at work and at home--and like having something to do idly. Feeling restless or anxious? Go ha
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And isn't one of the common threads within this whole thing the presence of Vitamin E acetate within the oil? Earlier reports were suggesting that contaminated oils may be part of the cause, which could explain why all these cases are
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And George Papadopoulos bragging, kicking off the investigation: > During a night of heavy drinking at an upscale London bar in May 2016, George Papadopoulos, a young foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign, made a startling revelat
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/07/22/protests-...
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Pipeline is an investment in infrastructure that sets up a sunk cost argument against moving away from oil as a driving source of energy. "Why would we invest in more clean/green energy sources when we have this brand new pipeline
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I completely agree with you.
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> "Access to healthcare" is similar. Why do people in Sweden have universal healthcare while people in America do not? Is it corporations? No, Sweden's corporate tax rate is quite a bit lower than ours. (It's similar
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On that note, one of Elizabeth Warren's primary focuses seems to be the concept of who the government works for. To that end, the boogieman of "big government" can either be positioned as something that fights for its citizen
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Elizabeth Warren has set this up as the core paradigm in her campaign. She posits that greed and corruption have overtaken the American government's purpose, especially in the last 25 years. Money, through lobbying and other forms of i
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The other--more suspicious and dismissed as conspiratorial--benefactor of of this trade war Russia and the bolstering of Russian industries. America is importing a lot of Russian steel [1] and aluminum [2], and Russia is been ready to fill
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by metamet 7y ago
Or Microsoft Onedrive being stuck in an eternal upload/download loop. Back when I had Comcast, that bug cost me $200. Thanks Microsoft.
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I posted this above, but it is a direct response to your question as well: Just look at the absurdity of Qanon. This troll gone long [1] has affected real people and real relationships [2]. [1] https://www.nbcnews.com/tech&#
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Just look at the absurdity of Qanon. This troll gone long [1] has affected real people and real relationships [2]. [1] https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/how-three-conspiracy-... [2] https://www.esq

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