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by pc86 9mo ago
In addition to the two replies below, which are both accurate, most people don't block any ads.
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by pc86 9mo ago
> Politicians might promise something on an utilitarian premise where there real premise might be unknown. At the risk of drifting off topic, what does it matter if you agree with the policy? If I want my member of Congress to vote yes o
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by pc86 9mo ago
I'd love to have a response to this but for the life of me I have no idea what you're trying to say.
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by pc86 9mo ago
I don't have any problem with not giving Adams just because you don't like him. Even if I think it's a bit silly, it's certainly your right, and while I would rather enjoy art I enjoy regardless of the artist's beli
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by pc86 9mo ago
I sincerely doubt that the average UK (or US, or French, or German) citizen even knows what a VPN is beyond "that thing you sign in to for porn," let alone knows enough about it to have an informed opinion on the laws surrounding
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by pc86 9mo ago
How can you sue for damages when a search is done within the bounds of the law?
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by pc86 9mo ago
Depends what you mean by "the authorities." It's a demonstrable fact there are many small local PDs that don't give a shit about the first, fourth, or fifth amendments to name a few. That doesn't mean the Constituti
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by pc86 9mo ago
Well the first half of the sentence you're replying to is "a legal, valid and justified search." So if your question is "what recourse does an American have against a legal, valid and justified search" the answer is
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by pc86 9mo ago
Everyone seems to forget that using VPNs to violate your local laws gives lots of good ammo to the authoritarians that want to ban VPNs. The answer isn't to use a VPN to get around it (and thus give fodder to your enemies) but to chang
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by pc86 9mo ago
And a notable behavior of performative virtue signaling bores is saying that anyone who doesn't share in the performance (even if they agree with them in principle) have weak morals and no principles.
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by pc86 9mo ago
It's funny to end a comment with "That's the point" when you so egregiously missed my point that I have to believe it's intentional and you're approaching this entire discussion in bad faith political hackery
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by pc86 9mo ago
It's important to note that the specific comments the NYT are referencing is when he was discussing a survey in which only 53% of black people surveyed agreed with the statement "It is okay to be white." He started discussing
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by pc86 9mo ago
My chief complaint is not only that it's spitting into a headwind during a rainstorm, but also just the performative nature of it. Someone enjoys Adams' (Adams's?) work, presumably for years or even decades. He says something
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by pc86 9mo ago
> > Does Brad Marshall mention that Palmitic acid is the dominant fatty acid in tallow? And since Palmitic acid is the most abundant SFA in the U.S. diet, can we draw a conclusion that it may partially play a role in poor health outco
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by pc86 9mo ago
If you (the royal you) thought it was unethical to buy a Dilbert book because the person who stood to make something like $4 off of it had some views you disagree with, you are a broken person. Even if Adams agreed with every single opinion
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by pc86 9mo ago
Eyeballs increase ad revenue, just because you're not paying money doesn't mean the artist isn't making money.
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by pc86 9mo ago
Maybe, but I'm not sure authoritarianism has anything to do with what we're discussing here unless I'm wrong
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by pc86 9mo ago
I hope this isn't too off topic but one of the key underpinnings of, for lack of a better word, capital-D Democratic / liberal (/ leftist-ish?) ideology in the US is that there is not a universal truth governing reality. Wa
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by pc86 9mo ago
Fallacy of composition. It does not logically follow that given Palmitic acid is the most abundant SFA in the US diet (objectively true), and given the US diet directly leads to poor health outcomes (very likely but not proven at least not
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by pc86 9mo ago
The entire concept of "lived experience" is, bluntly - absolute bullshit. You take all the worst aspects of both conscious and unconscious biases as well as anecdotal 'evidence', and wrap it up in the fact that the avera
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by pc86 9mo ago
Do you really think there are enough hijackings to meaningfully affect safety statistics?
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by pc86 9mo ago
The idea that the government should have the right or ability to do this in the first place is actually insane. Ideally the government doesn't want to do this in the first place, but even if it does it shouldn't have the technical
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by pc86 9mo ago
Sorry I was unclear, I mean 50s or 70s air travel compared to present day air travel. (Which on reconsideration might not be particularly relevant haha)
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by pc86 9mo ago
It'd be a lot better if we did :)
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by pc86 9mo ago
> travelling by plane in 1957 (or even 1974), would have been much more [expensive] Not to mention a lot more dangerous.
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by pc86 9mo ago
There are already way too many attorneys, and way too many lawyers who can't even get jobs as attorneys, I'm not sure how letting anyone who takes the bar exam cosplay as an attorney will help things. (I am not an attorney, or a l
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by pc86 9mo ago
What is the point of this comment?
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by pc86 9mo ago
This only makes sense if the percentage of LLM hallucinations is much higher than the percentage of things written on line being flat wrong (it's definitely not).
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by pc86 9mo ago
Are there a lot of products or services you can try out without using the product or service?
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by pc86 9mo ago
There have always been hundreds or thousands of companies that want software engineers but simply don't have the revenue to support them. My first dev job was a small private company in exactly this spot. They basically paid me my sala

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