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by rhcom2 9y ago
People are now blindly believing any source if it backs up their opinion. You're not going to be able to get primary sources on everything so at some point you will HAVE to trust some source.
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by rhcom2 9y ago
That's the line Trump loves to get people to believe, that random fake blogs are equal to newspapers in their disinformation. And why investigate it? Everyone is just as bad /s
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by rhcom2 9y ago
Get a virtual machine and let your curiosity run wild.
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by rhcom2 9y ago
> Even in wilder society, every third person you meet is either currently serving, served at one stage, or worked for one of the large companies with government contracts to supply the military. I think it's an important point that
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by rhcom2 9y ago
Measurements detect no signs of FTL, Sol is noted as a good place for a future hyperspace bypass.
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by rhcom2 9y ago
Finding their way out seems more challenging for them based on my anecdotal evidence of finding a very pissed raccoon stuck in my trashcan after the lid closed on him.
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by rhcom2 9y ago
Avoiding the silly title, a better question is the smartphone fundamentally different then those other mediums? The ability for addiction seems to indicate, to me at least, that the smartphone might be different.
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by rhcom2 9y ago
You can't avoid being exploited by just "not being an idiot". There is a huge power and information imbalance between an individual and a company that has been used to exploit labor so much labor unions had to form to stop it
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by rhcom2 9y ago
I bought from one of those mattress in a box companies. They had free return with pickup so I figured it was pretty low risk and I was very happy with the result. Best mattress I've owned.
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by rhcom2 9y ago
I was just thinking that most people who use the term "virtue signaling" are also "virtue signaling" against other people's "virtue signaling".
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by rhcom2 9y ago
The rape-by-deception scene in Revenge of the Nerds immediately springs to mind.
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by rhcom2 9y ago
A lot of the Fallout dialog holds up with its absurdity and gallows humor but I think you're right overall.
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by rhcom2 9y ago
I'd love to but the thing's base price is $800 without hoses or mask. I can't afford that without going through my insurance.
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by rhcom2 9y ago
CPAP is usually the first line for sleep apnea. I've been using one for the past couple of months. They've improved the masks so the really only annoyance is being tethered to the machine when you roll over but it isn't too b
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by rhcom2 9y ago
The article mentions imports to the US, Cuba and Mexico as well.
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by rhcom2 9y ago
Because it can't be awarded posthumously I think it is impossible to divorce it from politics.
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by rhcom2 9y ago
> That leaves only the people who're making a decision each election that matter. But what those people are making their decision on could be as arbitrary as "would I like to have a beer with this person?" or "what w
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by rhcom2 9y ago
Paid speeches aren't partisan, nearly every politician does it - from Giuliani and Bush to Clinton and Gore. I don't even think you can use funds like that as you describe. You'd have to loan the money to your campaign to get
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by rhcom2 9y ago
I imagine a good percentage would response, "Isn't Harvard IN Cambridge?"
590.
by rhcom2 9y ago
It can certainly hurt your bottom line to be viewed as a "totalitarian sycophant" by a much larger segment of customers.
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by rhcom2 9y ago
Wouldn't it be a better crime (more profit, easier to get away with) to use the hack to manipulate a company's stock then try to sell all the person data for pennies per GB?
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by rhcom2 9y ago
I think it's in Palo Alto. https://www.deeplearning.ai/machinelearningsoftwareengjobdes...
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by rhcom2 9y ago
That isn't true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_offender_registry#Sex_offe...
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by rhcom2 9y ago
> Insulating gold-colored blankets will char and break off first, followed by Cassini's antenna, 30-foot-long magnetometer boom, and other loose or fragile parts. Carbon blocks full of plutonium-238 fuel will last the longest. >
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by rhcom2 9y ago
> They’ve tried spraying naloxone into his nostrils, but it’s had no effect. He’s not breathing. They’re running out of time. > One of the medics takes a drill out of his bag and turns it on. It whirs like a dental drill as he pushes
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by rhcom2 9y ago
America needs oversight of police's use of force. We don't even collect good enough data and that opaqueness only helps abuse.
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by rhcom2 9y ago
> "False speech is not protected by the Constitution, and TechDirt’s false and malicious speech about Dr. Ayyadurai should receive no legal protection" The irony this is the same guy who spoke at the Boston Free Speech Rally.
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by rhcom2 9y ago
93.91/100 from Charity Navigator, spending 86.9% on programs and services.
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by rhcom2 9y ago
Why is it all or nothing? The other poster already brought up Germany, it isn't all or nothing there and they seem fine.
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by rhcom2 9y ago
So don't. Isn't it that simple?

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