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by sdwa 7y ago
Parents can't be expected to get everything right all of the time. It's not unreasonable to ask that technology companies don't exploit vulnerable people, and in particular, children. Blaming the parents in this case is som
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by sdwa 7y ago
These games are literally designed to exploit vulnerable people, and they use every trick in the book to do it. Criticising parents for not being able to defend against the fruits of millions of hours of labour spent on marketing and r&am
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by sdwa 7y ago
Well, lots of things are arguable to some extent, but really the idea that the state should materially benefit from murdering its own citizens is pretty difficult to defend in my opinion. The moment a judge starts to think "well, what
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by sdwa 7y ago
Nah that's totally ridiculous. Death is as serious a punishment as possible and can never be appealed once delivered, there should never be any incentives to deliver the death sentence besides seeing that justice is done.
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by sdwa 7y ago
It is easy to point the finger, yes, because no Western country is nearly as bad as China when it comes to human rights, and to suggest otherwise is peak contrarianism. I'm not going to suggest the West is perfect, but it's witho
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by sdwa 7y ago
I don't find those trying to explain away China's disdain for human rights by using historical arguments to be in any way credible. Taiwan alone proves that it's possible for China to be a democracy with respect for human ri
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by sdwa 7y ago
That's not the "full saying". It's an alternative, in my experience far less common, version of the one used by the author.
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by sdwa 7y ago
Why do you think it's appropriate to rely on blind optimism just because it's worked for us so far when the challenge we face is totally unprecedented as well as existential? Seems awfully careless to me.
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by sdwa 7y ago
What's the problem?
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by sdwa 7y ago
Whoever he is, despite knowing nothing about him except his unusable pipenv, in the time I have been using python I've somehow become aware through osmosis that this person is not very pleasant. I can only assume that there's no
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by sdwa 7y ago
Is it the case that said funding is being redirected from the causes you mention to restore this cathedral? Somehow I doubt it.
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by sdwa 7y ago
Well, you could have it somewhere in between the two extremes.
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by sdwa 8y ago
I don't think that's the case. Lede is at best an alternative spelling, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_paragraph#Spelling and FWIW, I'm British and I've never seen it spelt lede ou
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by sdwa 8y ago
The article you have linked says nothing of the sort.
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by sdwa 8y ago
I agree the pragmatic thing to do is just to change it, but how much work the fix requires is not really the point here. We're talking about something more than what is simply the optimal business decision. I think it's wrong to
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by sdwa 8y ago
Also the question: on who does the responsibility to be tolerant and understanding lie in such a situation? Is it our responsibility to change green hats to blue, or their responsibility to understand that not everyone sees any negative co
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by sdwa 8y ago
The "IQ-72" people do not have the gumption to leave their home countries in the first place.
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by sdwa 8y ago
There aren't any far left countries in Europe, and haven't been for nearly 30 years now.
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by sdwa 8y ago
News is not fungible though, so even if there many good free news article, and there are, it has little relevance here. Besides, there's a great deal of good to be said for paywalls in my option, as I find most of what's funded e
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by sdwa 8y ago
Indeed the one thing that sticks out in my mind about The Wolf of Wall Street is that no effort was made to show all the harm he did to the people he stole from. It was just one very, very long spectacle. Not a film I'd watch twice.
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by sdwa 8y ago
There was no treatment to be had in Rome, they were just going to hook him up to a life support machine. The doctors in Rome, being doctors, are professionals, so they never once suggested they would be able to cure or even treat his condi
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by sdwa 8y ago
We don't live in a world where your race doesn't matter, unfortunately.
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by sdwa 8y ago
>The American/Western exceptionalism attitude towards other countries is kinda nauseatic. So too is the "everyone's on aggregate just as bad as each other and everything is the same" equivocating approach to evaluatin
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by sdwa 9y ago
They are dubbed in English as well.
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by sdwa 9y ago
>And if you're starving and there is free food one block over you go and eat there. Well most people generally want to do better than that, surprisingly enough. > The problem is that no one wants to live there because living in d
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by sdwa 9y ago
We do, but clearly the balance right now is far too much in the favour of the naked self interest of shameless home owners. I mean a place to live is not a luxury, it's up there with food and water.
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by sdwa 9y ago
> the USA is the least liberal and democratic ( in the true sense of the word ) country in the world You cannot really believe this. Such ridiculous hyperbole does your argument no favours. North Korea? More liberal than the USA? Ple
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by sdwa 9y ago
Our societies are already so hopelessly rigged that it's hard to feel too upset about these rather tiny wealth transfers to people who need it, even if they didn't "earn" it.
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by sdwa 9y ago
Punishing people despite them having broken no laws is obviously nonsense.
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by sdwa 9y ago
It's a terrible currency, and I doubt many people are buying it because they believe in the underlying technology. It's all about getting rich quick. It may be a cliche but the logic is sound I think.

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