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by ratsmack 8y ago
This is why I very rarely comment... people on this site are far too sensitive.
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by ratsmack 8y ago
I think this is what you are talking about: https://threadreaderapp.com
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by ratsmack 8y ago
I believe the point parent was trying to make is that advertisers are more valuable customers while app developers, as customers, are expendable.
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by ratsmack 8y ago
What's even more sad about the Twitter thread is that AirAsia Support is responding to everyone that commented in the thread. The responses must be automatically generated and triggered by any one of the comments... Something is defini
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by ratsmack 8y ago
The $30K I noted is arbitrary and only chosen because that is the approximate poverty line currently.
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by ratsmack 8y ago
It depends on what rate is chosen. I've read that an 8% tax applied this way would reap more tax than the current system. My personal effective federal tax rate has always been between 17-20% on an income of about $100K/yr.
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by ratsmack 8y ago
More importantly, remove all of the many loopholes that are used by the very wealthy to prevent themselves from paying tax at all. I would greatly be in favor of a flat tax for everyone earning $30K and above.
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by ratsmack 8y ago
It didn't. I was admin on a VAX 11/780 back around 1980. One day I noticed two directories contained the same files and assumed they were duplicate do I deleted one copy to open up some disk space (we were using RM80 disks). Then
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by ratsmack 8y ago
It read like a cheesy timeline with minimal information in many places. I'm sure the creator just tried to compile information derived from the internet rather than create a more personal and publish worthy exposé. Personally, I found
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by ratsmack 8y ago
I've never understood the cult mentality in consumer products like Dyson and Apple. There are many very good products that are as good and many times better than these cult products. As for the move, I'm sure it's profit base
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Reporter Quits NBC Citing Network’s Support for Endless War(medium.com)
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by ratsmack 8y ago
It seems that the Linux desktop will never be a close 2nd to Microsoft Windows in my lifetime.
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by ratsmack 8y ago
It's all fun and games until some overzealous government agency throws him in jail for trying to help people.
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by ratsmack 8y ago
User was created today, probably just to make the dumb comment.
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by ratsmack 8y ago
Credible evidence must be provable, otherwise it is just speculation.
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by ratsmack 8y ago
Indictments are merrily formal accusations and are not proof of wrongdoing, so again, please supply substantial evidence of Russian meddling.
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by ratsmack 8y ago
Please elaborate extensively on the evidence the shows Russia to be complicit in election meddling. I've been watching endlessly for some hint the Russia was a compelling force in anything related to the 2016 election. And the same goe
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by ratsmack 8y ago
People just don't seem to understand the distance between the human mind and AI... they are still miles apart.
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by ratsmack 8y ago
Why don't we just when we feel hungry?
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by ratsmack 8y ago
And why would publishing controversial subjects be "unsafe"? Isn't one of the merits of ones learning is to have an open mind to new ideas? Why is it that when something is published that a specific group disagrees with or ha
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by ratsmack 8y ago
When a moderator removes one of your comments because they disagree with the content, that is censorship. When a moderator removes your comment because it breaks a well defined rule, then that is moderating. Trying to moderate "hate sp
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by ratsmack 8y ago
And everyone seems to be fine with the censorship, until it is their own worldview that is censored. "First the came for the ..."
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by ratsmack 8y ago
Unfortunately, inferring sarcasm is becoming a lost art.
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by ratsmack 8y ago
Amazons 'tactics' are no different than any retailer of consumer goods. You see the deceptive practices applied especially in clothing where items are marketed at inflated prices and then suddenly dropped 50% or more for a 's
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by ratsmack 8y ago
I have personally become weary of ridiculous patents over extremely trivial items that the average person considers obvious. These pissing contest stifle new and improved technologies built upon older ideas and makes it impossible for new s
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by ratsmack 8y ago
I wonder if Algeria suffers from a higher level of cheating than other countries, or if the level is comparable and other countries just have a lower level of concern.
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by ratsmack 8y ago
I used mawk for many years and wrote numerous >1000 line programs for manufacturing automation. It is just about the fastest interpreter I have ever encountered, processing multi-megabyte files in just seconds.
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by ratsmack 8y ago
It is the same in Washington state, and I suspect most other states also make this information available. I believe it is required because the taxing authority data is considered public information.
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by ratsmack 9y ago
And this is why Daily Stormer stays permanently available on TOR... which is the direction Sci-Hub should go.
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by ratsmack 9y ago
It is still actively being worked on. It just recently converted from Microsoft based software to open source throughout. The work is fairly slow because there are only a couple of devs.

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