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by sellyme 6y ago
This is exactly what the comment you are replying to said.
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by sellyme 6y ago
> This might reduce take up. [...] if you live in Wellington you likely have stopped even thinking about the pandemic most days It would certainly reduce the urgency of take-up, but I would expect there to be a pretty strong correlation
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by sellyme 6y ago
> You won't be sued (I'm not a lawyer) as long as you're not breaking and ToC, or misleading users into using it and sending you their data. You can probably mislead them all you want in most jurisdictions. After all, that
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by sellyme 6y ago
I wouldn't describe it as coordination, but I think it's relatively safe to assume that at the very least whichever companies were slowest to react would have had their decision influenced by the earlier actions of other large com
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by sellyme 6y ago
> what principle prevents Amazon from arsing some other group that we agree with? The principle of Amazon not wanting to piss off all of their customers and several government organisations. If you're this tentative about something
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by sellyme 6y ago
You'd be surprised. Google has a lot of storage lying around, it takes them a while to notice it being used up. I know of at least three people who on the order of petabytes of data on Google Drive. They took action against one organis
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by sellyme 6y ago
Nothing being discussed was private. It was all globally visible.
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by sellyme 6y ago
Probably, which might have something to do with the fact that there's no genuine belief that Biden is going to cause the deaths of hundreds of thousands due to administrational incompetence, or going to spend his entire term attempting
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by sellyme 6y ago
> I think we see this borne out in the data. The places with the strictest lockdowns are doing better than the places with fewer restrictions. However, the numbers aren't so night and day different as to suggest that those additiona
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by sellyme 6y ago
Also an outside observer, isn't the ability to do that the entire point of having electors in the first place? As terrible as the electoral system is, it wouldn't be illegitimate to use it for its intended purpose.
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by sellyme 6y ago
Surely if anyone's pushing an agenda of the Taiwan issue it's the geopolitical entities that have extremely strong financial incentives to do so. If you define "country" as being an entity recognised as a country by some
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by sellyme 6y ago
As someone who has spent a lot of time contributing to all manner of Australian sports articles across all codes, I recognise several of the contributors there and can assure you that they don't have some kind of secret nefarious agend
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by sellyme 6y ago
> It's not possible to fix information on Wikipedia by using primary sources You're confusing "original research" (something you've personally researched and have not published elsewhere) with primary sources. Pr
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by sellyme 6y ago
Then I'm already going to have some pretty major problems whether or not I install an app.
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by sellyme 6y ago
> Where is that? Can you quote them? Sure thing. The most recent comment in this thread not made by one of us was by quicklime, and ended with this line: > [The lack of open discourse about America's prison slavery problem] doesn
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by sellyme 6y ago
Honestly I think that's on the phone. I also have an S7 with extremely heavy performance issues opening Google Maps (and almost every other application, for that matter), yet my ancient Nexus 4 is as quick as ever.
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by sellyme 6y ago
> I cross reference Google Maps with Waze all the time back when I used it, but I wouldn't dare call Google Maps unreliable Unless "back when I used it" refers to pre-2013, I'm not sure I'd describe that as cross
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by sellyme 6y ago
> Or did I misread this entire thread? Yes. In fact most of the people you've responded to very explicitly said the exact opposite of what you've interpreted.
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by sellyme 6y ago
> * These are inmates, serving a sentence as punishment for a crime they were convicted of. If the gaol sentence is their punishment, why are they being penalised further by reduced wages? > * If inmate labor cost what non-inmate labo
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by sellyme 6y ago
I think you've lost sight of the original context of this thread. Here's the top comment: > As long as companies Apple are not legally responsible for their supply chain in front of developed countries’ courts nothing will chan
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by sellyme 6y ago
I interpreted that "Spend more to go to events" quote as being with regards to travel, rather than exorbitantly expensive meet-and-greets. If I have some kind of hobbyist interest and there's a convention for it in another co
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by sellyme 6y ago
> Both this and OP depend crucially on the hidden assumption that you have enough money to buy new shoes or a jacket on a whim. It's hardly hidden: > I grew up very poor, so I was probably primed against the idea of spontaneously
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by sellyme 6y ago
One time when I was younger, in my late teens, I was walking through the city around 8pm. I suddenly felt rather cold, and went through the typical 15 seconds of internal grumbling. I then had an epiphany, and walked into a nearby departmen
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by sellyme 6y ago
> Especially for low-priced cryptocurrency, the marketing pitch of "it's like bitcoin for $1" could be very appealing, if you spread it on Reddit and other forums. If you went back a decade in time while you were at it, ma
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by sellyme 6y ago
On the other hand, measuring crime by enforcement actions is somewhat like saying "crime rates dropped to a record low during The Purge". That said, piracy seems like a much easier bet for a crime category that hasn't gone do
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by sellyme 6y ago
> I know it's a difficult position to argue for practically, but I think piracy is vital to ensure the longevity of all forms of commercial art like video games, TV shows, and music. Not at all a difficult position to argue for. Thi
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by sellyme 6y ago
> Where did you find that comment? My googling is failing me... The comment in question was posted on /r/allmyopinions.
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by sellyme 6y ago
> assuming that my use of a website would have no consequences like doxxing that could get back to the rest of my life This is a brave assumption.
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Moderators on Reddit hold very little power. Unlike almost every other messageboard in existence, they can do absolutely nothing to stop you from creating a competing community on the exact same website, leveraging the existing userbase. Th
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by sellyme 6y ago
> I've seen people take time to go through your profile and dig out one comment and then label you, just one. That feels like a disgrace. Eh, depends on the comment. I recently saw a particularly erroneous comment about COVID-19, so

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