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by philistine 8y ago
Because they have to since they're stuck using imperial. The imperial system does not make people better, it forces people to use fractions.
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by philistine 8y ago
The crux of the issue is that every big metro center in North America gave Amazon a list of incentives they were willing to provide. Next time Amazon negotiates with any city for any development, it can mine this private treasure trove of e
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by philistine 8y ago
The article fails to mention Apple. Are they affected by this?
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by philistine 8y ago
Gay marriage is a concept. Trump is currently the president of the United States, the most important actor in the world stage and we are seeing the results of him exercising that power. A sitting US president, by the strength of their mere
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by philistine 8y ago
Bingo! That's the whole crux of the problem there. You can't get rid of the 7-day cycle for religious reasons. So when you try to create a universal calendar that satisfies all the religious constraints, you end up with ... someth
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by philistine 8y ago
Weeks are exceedingly important constructs! They're the whole reason any hare-brained scheme never amounted to anything. They are used by religious communities. When your god says you must do something on Sunday or Saturday or Frid
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by philistine 8y ago
Are you like a Russian troll trying to sow dissent or something? We're talking about poutine!
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by philistine 8y ago
People downvote because you're saying that culture is a lie when it's the incorrect word. You're not wrong per se, you're using the incorrect word. Others point that out to you, and you still insist on using the word lie
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by philistine 8y ago
How odd that it happens to two nations that have decided to throw their lot with an English majority. How so very odd.
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by philistine 8y ago
I don’t feel like anybody is asking for any shop to stop serving anything. The paper is highlighting the dual identity of being Québecois: whenever Canada celebrates anything Québécois it’s Canadian, but when it’s a bad thing then that’s n
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by philistine 8y ago
What is so different from physical access to an unlocked iPhone than an unlocked Mac? You’re screwed either way, no?
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by philistine 8y ago
Two small things: the list says to buy an iPhone Se, 6 or 7. Obviously newer iPhones have been released. Someone could construe that as implying there is something wrong with the newer iPhones, when it’s quite the contrary on the security f
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by philistine 8y ago
You’re not even following the logic of the list: it explains in detail how to turn on full disk encryption, meaning that journalists should care about those details. I guess my second point is: don’t trust a list about security that was not
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by philistine 8y ago
The list says to use an iPhone instead of a laptop, I presume because the iPhone has hardware encryption coming from the Secure Enclave. But newer MacBook Pros from Apple, and even the iMac Pro, feature the T2 chip to achieve the same resul