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by qntty 8y ago
Buying the cheapest part that will last longer than the warranty period is the standard practice at most companies. It's not malicious, it's just what happens when life of a product isn't something that consumers want or are
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by qntty 8y ago
A piece of literature is an argument. If it fails to convince you, then it must not be very good. I think Romeo and Juliet says interesting things about love and I think that Star Trek says interesting things about utopias.
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by qntty 8y ago
What I'm saying is that they basically offer the same thing, in different rhetorical modes.
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by qntty 8y ago
It's a mistake to think that Romeo and Juliet, or any fiction, is really just about the characters in the story. You might not learn more about Romeo or about Juliet but you can learn more about what people will do for love. You don&#x
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by qntty 8y ago
++VMS == WNT
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by qntty 8y ago
That doesn't really work. Is my life better or worse if I feel worse about myself because I become aware of the way that I'm part of a unethical social system? Given the choice, I wouldn't choose to be a happy person who live
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by qntty 8y ago
There's absolutely no basis for a judgement like that without introducing assumptions about what's valuable and what's not.
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by qntty 8y ago
Would society be better off if Linux kernel developers stuck to doing things that paid?
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by qntty 8y ago
What video content are we talking about here? HTML5 video?
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by qntty 8y ago
Sorry, for those of us not privy to how Widevine works, what's the problem exactly? What do you need Google's approval for and why?
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by qntty 8y ago
Yeah, you're right. By the numbers he gave it sounded like he could have been even younger than 17. It's always interesting to hear how very young people get into a programming job. I worked with a 15 year old intern who was proba
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by qntty 8y ago
Ah ok. Not that it would be that weird to start working at 17 right after graduating high school.
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by qntty 8y ago
Did you start working at 17?
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by qntty 8y ago
It does provide a value. If people are dissatisfied with something, it gives someone an opportunity to do better. If everyone accepts subpar quality, why bother making something high quality? Makers need consumers with the ability to apprec
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by qntty 8y ago
I have lots of complains about the world, and only so many hours in the day.
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by qntty 8y ago
In what way does that meaningfully differ from the way a democracy is supposed to be run? Shareholders are treated as "voters" in a democratic organization, where 1 share = 1 vote.
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by qntty 8y ago
Seems like it is affected by both, no? Transgender women tend to speak differently after they begin to transition.
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by qntty 8y ago
Needs to be proofread.
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by qntty 8y ago
Why is this better than giving employees a $1200 higher salary and saving on the $6/mo fee? I understand that people are irrational and like benefits like this, but is there a tax benefit too?
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by qntty 8y ago
Presumably people who support this policy wouldn't consider it a bolstering of free speech, whether it's justified or not.
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by qntty 8y ago
The next one is even better: https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1992/02/20
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by qntty 8y ago
I don't know anybody who has time to watch 5 hours of TV per day. Do you?
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by qntty 8y ago
2% is pretty good for a card with no annual fee. You can get more if you use a card like Chase Freedom and keep track of your spending categories, but I don't know of any no annual fee card with more than 2%. Citi Double Cash is the on
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by qntty 8y ago
Keyword being unique . Our tendency to procrastinate is explained by our sensitivity to, or ability to cope with, negative emotions. It's not something separate, like our ability to ride a bike (or lack thereof).
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by qntty 8y ago
Why would giving any group of people money ever be immoral? It wouldn't be immoral even if she said that it was only open to white, Christian men.
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by qntty 8y ago
Who's talking about the government? This is about Google. I'm talking about being factually wrong, not morally wrong.
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by qntty 8y ago
Helping people live in a mental bubble of homophobia is precisely the problem. People who would be vulnerable to an app like this would be people from places that don't give them access to too much good information about sexuality.
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by qntty 8y ago
Yes, these people are wrong. We must be able to make judgements of fact to make good decisions about these things.
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by qntty 8y ago
It's hard to take that too seriously if you know the reality of how organizations like this operate. They know how to make themselves seems innocuous but they are a part of a larger system of psychological abuse and violence.
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by qntty 8y ago
Seems somewhat more likely that this would do harm compared to astrology. There's a very real possibility that someone who doesn't know any better might take the concrete advice of the app. Most astrology apps aren't very spe

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