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by objclxt 10y ago
> look at the top 100 websites in the world; not a single one produced by Europe[1] Did you actually read that link before you posted it? On that list there are sites hosted by companies based in Cyprus (xHamster), the Netherlands (booki
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> "Vanilla extract" is often artificial as well. In many countries there are legal requirements for "Vanilla Extract" vis a vis the percentage that comes from vanilla beans, as opposed to "Vanilla Essence"
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> There is hope. Discord and Slack. Neither of those are FOSS, which Hello was.
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> but how hard will it be to just fly a drone there with some kind of projectile? It's a massive long metal tube full of extremely flammable things...what seems more likely: drone with projectile entering a highly restricted piece o
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> If Apple was similarly accused of wrongdoing by the IRS, and told to backpay taxes that they were supposed to have paid, would you still feel similarly? But that's not what's happening, really. If as an individual the IRS wro
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> If the EU wins the case, the money flows back to Ireland, in essence rewarding the country who was out of line to begin with. Not entirely - any monies returned can legally only be used to pay back Ireland's national debt. The UK,
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> Safari is bad because it's behind the times, and doesn't keep up with standards Safari and WebKit has 100% support for ES6, which is more than any other browser - http://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6&
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> Does this put them in a legal situation? Not really. GitHub aren't liable for the initial upload due to safe harbor laws. If the dump is fake, then there's no problem for GitHub. Life goes on. If the dump is real then potenti
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> If it's real the Equation Group will bid - probably a lot. Why? You have no guarantee what you're bidding for will remain private, and you don't want to give it legitimacy by bidding. Who's to say if it's real
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> I think this is a symptom that the movie industry is on its way out, in much the same way as has happened to music. If that were true, other movies studios would be in trouble: but look at Disney, who are doing gangbusters with Marve
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> With self-driving cars, the first one is impossible. A car that follows the law to the letter is by definition never at fault in a collision. You can still be "at fault" even if you followed the law in a collision. Laws - par
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No - I'm pointing out Thiel is framing this as the "great debate", but nobody in the place he actually lives is debating it.
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> It's not clear to me how this is an endorsement of Trump Did you read the speech???? It's right there : "Tonight I urge all of my fellow Americans to stand up and vote for Donald Trump." How could you possibly thin
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> When I was a kid, the great debate was about how to defeat the Soviet Union. And we won. Now we are told that the great debate is about who gets to use which bathroom. > This is a distraction from our real problems. Who cares? I gue
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There have been a number of reports from different owners that the Model X has had some serious quality issues[1], and there was definitely a story posted here a week or so ago about Tesla reaching an NDA'd settlement with at least one
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by objclxt 10y ago
As you might expect, laws around casino debt in Nevada heavily favour the casinos: https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2014/dec/3/debtors-pris...
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David Campos, who is proposing this tax, is against all house building. So good luck with that happening. Campos's policies just defy rational thought. Last year he wanted to completely ban any housing construction in the Mission[1].
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Anecdotal as it is, I will say this: I saw a number of Facebook posts prior to the election from millennials who said they were voting leave and when challenged replied "well, remain is going to win anyway". I do think this was th
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> Why are the anti-Trump people chanting in Spanish and waving Mexican flags? Trump frightens me, but his enemies are quite clearly not my friends. You're frightened by people speaking Spanish waving Mexican flags?
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I think on a purely statistical level this is somewhat true, certainly the polling suggests it. However, millennials should really be just as mad - if not more so - at themselves for either a) not voting (under 30 turnout being much lower t
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> The biggest being with uncontrolled immigration (no possible way of capping a maximum) It's not "uncontrolled immigration" - an American reading this can't just turn up in the UK and start living and working there
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> Could be another reason for Scotland to secede from the UK, or at least another item to add to the 'Pros' column. I highly doubt MI6 or GCHQ are concerned with the rights of foreign citizens, were Scotland to secede.
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A lot of those points are simply not true in a loser pays system, such as the UK or Australia. > It encourages people to pick the best, most expensive lawyer in town for every case no matter the expense, because your opponent will be pi
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> At the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, for example, they even were referred to as "lady computers" I don't know how accurate that is - in the early 1900s I believe the majority of computers were women, so the distinction
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The original book, Schindler's Ark, was written by a man (Thomas Keneally), as was the screenplay (Steven Zaillian). Putting that aside, you seem to be under the impression that there's some kind of Hollywood conspiracy, when in f
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> *dramatization of a novel by a totally PC woman black? author I fail to see how the gender or sex of the author has anything to do with anything, but it's good to know where your own biases lie.
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Not Moscone West, where they have held IO in the past.
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I actually found out a few days ago that in some countries Uber does accept cash (like Singapore - https://www.uber.com/cities/singapore/ ). But it's still not anonymous, obviously, because your user profile
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That's why it's often better to use a cursor in your client-facing API (or a pseudo-cursor that maps to something you have in your database), rather than passing the limit/offset through.
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> If you're that out-of-step with the people around you, you'd be better off just moving, instead of trying to force everyone around you to adopt your mindset That's some real victim blaming there. By your logic, if I&#x

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