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by pluma 8y ago
Depends on if you prefer separate windows or just separate tabs. I prefer having a single window and I've become so used to containers that using Private Browsing feels weird because I can't move those tabs into the main window.
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What gives you the idea any military intervention is ever based on protecting a random country's sovereignty? What incentive would NATO or the EU have to join Ukraine if this escalates to a direct military confrontation between Ukraine
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by pluma 8y ago
Ukraine is not part of Europe as far as "Germany, France, etc" are concerned. These countries are concerned about the interests of the EU. Also, most of the EU has strong trade relationships with Russia (e.g. via Gazprom). As long
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by pluma 8y ago
You can't just say "it's a slippery slope" without any evidence or context. That's not even a statement. Slippery slope to what end? By refusing to spell it out you can claim any interpretation that results in absur
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by pluma 8y ago
I don't see how an incursion on Ukraine would result in a war with NATO. Ukraine's problem is precisely that it's a formerly neutral party and not part of NATO. In fact, from a Russian POV the reason for the annexation of the
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by pluma 8y ago
This doesn't mean 60% of watch time is from people (actively) "on their smartphones or tablets". I frequently use YouTube on my phone while working on the laptop. I don't think I'm the only one.
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That's not really a matching analogy. YouTube doesn't just store videos, YouTube promotes videos via its algorithm and it monetises them, giving you a kickback on any ads you let it place on them. It's not in the "video
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Either you misread that last sentence or I don't understand what you mean. Capitalism is making sure that good isn't distributed evenly or fairly.
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Arguments that are presented without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. It's not a slippery slope.
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Get rid of capitalism and you're right. Within capitalism this only means people will be worse off (though in this case the impact most likely will be outside the US rather than within because the jobs in the US were mostly gone to beg
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by pluma 8y ago
So in summary, manufacturing is coming back but the jobs aren't? This trend was entirely predictable. Cheap human labor becomes expensive and unreliable at scale so it's only a stopgap until automation becomes affordable enough. C
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by pluma 8y ago
Of all the laws you had to pick the ones about child porn to make your point? I think you'll have a better time making the argument by talking about how US-based social media sites treat female nipples as pornographic. That said, your
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by pluma 8y ago
I've been to JSConf EU a couple of times and it's certainly not a JavaScript conference "about building web sites". Aside from the non-technical talks there were talks like * how concurrency works in modern JS engines *
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> saltysugar Can you elaborate? I've never heard this phrase before and google results aren't very helpful.
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Not really? Any EU customer could report them to their own DPA who would have to investigate the issue and resolve it. There's no reason any DPA in Luxembourg would have to be involved the way I understand it (except for customers in L
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by pluma 8y ago
Seconded. Most general advice ("IANYL/TINLA") I've heard from lawyers in Germany about e.g. GDPR boiled down to "1. Don't. 2. If in doubt, see 1." -- it's their job to recommend against taking any ris
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by pluma 8y ago
Looking at recipes on the Internet it seems eggnog barely contains any whiskey by volume. By comparison German Eierlikör consists mostly of korn (a 32% ABV clear liquor similar to vodka) or white rum. I'm not sure what 1950s eggnog loo
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by pluma 8y ago
If you want to make a case for blockchains, maybe you shouldn't lead with the proven pyramid schemes that are ICOs? "They ripped off over 5 billion dollars in cash, that means it's not a bubble." Well, doesn't that
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by pluma 8y ago
I'm not a Ruby programmer but have over the course of my career had numerous occasions where I had to look at "incredibly readable" Ruby code. No, no it isn't. Sure, you can infer some meaning in the various "DSLs&q
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by pluma 8y ago
Sure, but this can be reduced to "it's worth the risk if you have a financial safety net to fall back to if you fail or burn out". In other words "the high risk discourages people who are not already well-off and the hig
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by pluma 8y ago
What are you even talking about? YouTube Kids is from YouTube and is advertised as a kids-friendly filtered version of YouTube. YouTube Kids however failed to filter tons of disturbing and inappropriate content. The entire raison d'etr
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This is basically the all-American argument of "sure, the advertising is a complete lie but it's the consumer's fault for being gullible". YouTube Kids presents itself as specifically for kids. You don't expect weir
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I have yet to see an educational content provider that isn't primarily funded from Patreon, direct sponsorships ("This video is sponsored by..." lynda.com, Audible, Skillshare, etc etc) or produced by an entity that has relie
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by pluma 8y ago
...which begs the question, what is the point of a Ted talk about success stories if they're really just stories of being lucky without admitting that fact? It's a nice bedtime story, yeah, but people look at this crap for inspira
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Luckily our fellow libertarians are busy promoting "individual success, individualized failure" as an alternative. Because if you're a failure, it shouldn't be our job to provide for you or pay for your recovery, right
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It's only ever "worth it" if it works out. It's never "worth it" if it didn't. This is basically the survivor fallacy: you didn't win because you risked ruining yourself, you won because you got lucky
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by pluma 8y ago
Oh, that's right. I forgot the US has widespread electronic voting. I was thinking of normal paper ballots where you can just spoil the ballot by scribbling all over it instead of ticking a box. I guess that makes it more difficult to
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Not voting is the equivalent of saying "I support whatever the outcome is". You're effectively submitting to the status quo (or rather the future status quo). It's a legitimate choice in the sense that it's a decisi
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I wish people would stop using the phrase "Orwellian" for everything they consider intrusive.
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You can "not vote" by going out and spoiling your ballot. "Not voting" by abstaining is functionally indistinguishable from apathy. Actual voter fraud is a non-issue in the US compared to voter suppression and gerrymande

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