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by pmachinery 6y ago
I can't tell if the word "imaginary" is a (very good) pun in relation to Bandersnatch (developed by Liverpool's Imagine software) but, as many people will already know, it did kind of exist. The ambitiousness of the proj
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by pmachinery 6y ago
It would be a lot easier to see if Wikipedia had a point or not if you named the public figure you're talking about.
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by pmachinery 6y ago
The reason Europe can't have a powerful federal government is that most people in Europe quite rightly don't want one.
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by pmachinery 6y ago
The point of my post is that supporters of Assange / readers of Murray's site are unlikely, as the other poster suggested, to be surprised by Assange's extradition. What was the point of your post?
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by pmachinery 6y ago
I'm pretty sure people who read Murray/support Assange believe his extradition is a foregone conclusion.
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by pmachinery 6y ago
> Many people don't know that a radio series preceded the books. Which, as you will already know but others may not, the brilliant TV series was adapted from (not the books): https://vimeo.com/338525482 (Iconic musi
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by pmachinery 6y ago
True, and FWIW, I am on your side of the 'argument'. While I love the convenience of digital and sometimes wonder if things I believe were 'better' is just age/nostalgia talking, I do think there's a genuine lo
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by pmachinery 6y ago
That's not (necessarily) due physical vs digital though. One is you asking about something you find interesting and the other is someone telling you about something they find interesting.
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by pmachinery 6y ago
> Is there some equivalent where I could say, “Here’s what I listen to the most” ? In the old days (at least up until the late 1990s) and especially on music newsgroups, people would write at the end of their posts what was now playing a
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by pmachinery 6y ago
> Virtually every democratic country on this planet has national id cards. Switzerland, a bastion of democracy does, Israel does, South Korea does, Germany, does Virtually (or maybe absolutely) every undemocratic country on this planet h
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by pmachinery 6y ago
I'd be interested to see which countries in Eastern Europe have abandoned the kind of socialist policies that I mentioned - free/universal health/education/welfare - and found their population better off/healthier a
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by pmachinery 6y ago
> Demonstrably how? The existence/necessity of laws to deter bad behaviour.
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by pmachinery 6y ago
Improvements in life expectancy, child mortality, literacy are the result of socialist struggle and regulation, including free education, universal health care, increased workers' rights and welfare safety nets. As for wealth distrib
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by pmachinery 6y ago
Great post. I was confused by "channel 9" since I thought there may be rules or regulations against receiving ATC on a plane, but for anyone else who didn't know exactly what it referred to, it is (was?) an inflight entertain
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by pmachinery 6y ago
Here's a javascript version: https://github.com/TomHetmer/sprach
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by pmachinery 6y ago
Yes, if there's one thing the Uighur people desperately need right now is people outside China cynically exploiting their suffering for petty axe grinding about young people ("current generation") and "cancel culture&quo
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by pmachinery 6y ago
> Really? What's the evidence for that? I thought this was an uncontroversial fact everyone knew, but a two-second search on drug-related crime would answer your question, with many links. For example: "In 2004, 17% of state pr
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by pmachinery 6y ago
That Al Capone didn't turn to flipping burgers after the 21st Amendment doesn't illustrate the correctness of the 18th Amendment. Robbery, extortion, theft and burglary - plus other crimes and social ills - are all made far, far,
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by pmachinery 6y ago
Thanks, and thank you too, svachalek. And yeah it's weird that the non-image search is fine, results about the food and about the player, but the image results really stand out. I have to say I didn't know who Steph Curry was befo
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by pmachinery 6y ago
On images?
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by pmachinery 6y ago
I agree, sadly, and in (literally) every discussion on DDG that I've seen, people cite as one of DDG's plus points that you can use !g to search Google instead. Just out of curiosity, what do you (anyone reading) see when you sear
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by pmachinery 6y ago
It's not that surprising that the cause of the Soviet Union's collapse tries to pass the blame elsewhere. Without Chernobyl, but with Gorbachev's reforms, the Soviet Union would still have collapsed. Without Gorbachev's
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by pmachinery 6y ago
The bulk of his reply was not about pornography. He specifically stated the Catholic Church has no outright ban on nudity, but quoted two paragraphs from the Vatican about "resist[ing] the allurements" of "voyeuristic explora
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by pmachinery 6y ago
That's not everywhere, it's two examples. Beaches and communal showers. "Almost nude" simply means not nude, and personal, private nudity is obviously different from seeing other people nude. Even if someone doesn't
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by pmachinery 6y ago
Nudity isn't "everywhere in life", so what is the point of this, since it's not to start a flame war?
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by pmachinery 6y ago
Surely it's not that hard to understand that for religious, cultural or other reasons some people and/or members of their family may feel uncomfortable seeing nudity.
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by pmachinery 6y ago
> That isn't a very solid argument - they had ISPs and TCP/IP and emails in 1970s [0] and yet HTTP/Netscape/Amazon/Google/the rest of what the modern internet is used for didn't exist before the 90s. No
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by pmachinery 6y ago
WoS has excellent content, but wouldn't suffer from an update (more responsive aware, no dead links and better quality images). Not that it detracts from the article, but anyone else wanting a clear(er) view of the top two illustration
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by pmachinery 6y ago
> This is clearly transformative. [...] The implications are still unclear Around the time Bitcoin originated (or at least when the name was finally decided upon and the domain registered), the first commercial Android device was launche
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by pmachinery 6y ago
> How do you think the wrongly arrested people confessed to the murders in the first place? As in that example with Kravchenko, the same way false confessions occur in every country, pressure in some form from the police who want to conv

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