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> Private money would build these plants if allowed. By replacing one environmental problem with another: > The commission's staff experts said the facility would destroy marine life in about 100 billion gallons of seawater per y
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> Should the whole world now turn their backs on the USA because of recent Roe v Wade overturn which most of the world sees as step backwards, that abolishes women rights, endangers their lives and criminalises what's is acceptable
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No. Also: Suffragettes and abolition of slavery were both called crazy in their time.
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Easiest is still as subjective as it gets. I never smoked. So, I could say not smoking is the easiest thing. I haven't drunk alcohol in years. So, also more easy than loosing weight. And so on.
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> Obesity is the easiest preventable thing under your control that you can directly influence to assure that an early death does not come, you are coping and desperately trying to twist what I said. Do you know this from experience or ar
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> The point you did ignore was: Rust is being sold as magically making software safe and people selling that completely ignore the fact that logical bugs are also a thing. There are straw men and then there are straw man armies. This is
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Come again? Lucene, Solr, Kafka, Zookeeper, httpd, CouchDB, .. and that's just the top of my head.
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So, someone should put all of the free and open source software at risk (if the "we guarantee nothing" part of their license doesn't hold ground for them it holds ground for no one) because you want to attack the ASF for not
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So, no evidence. Just FUD. Got it.
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Tor browser.
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> That doesn't mean that it is unconscionable to pay people at that income level If that income level is the poverty line: Yes, it is.
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I very much doubt that Firefox and most other internal software didn't do this until recent years though usually in a more ad-hoc manner, i.e. "oh look, that code does what I want ... but eh .. how can I add that as dependency, fa
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> Morocco, Libya, Algeria have vast areas of desert ripe for Solar which can be exported via HVDC under the Med. The EU currently learns every day that depending on unreliable countries is a bad idea for your energy needs. But I think w
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> just increase their insurance premiums to reflect the higher risk of being hospitalized if/when they catch it. That's usually not possible with universal healthcare.
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I cannot read the full WSJ article and the teaser doesn't support your statement that he's on a "mission against China", only that "I feel very clearly led by God to do this". Since the teaser doesn't make
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And non-western countries were very adamant that Ukraine is an European problem and they don't want to take sides. Why exactly is it the responsibility of "the West" to do something first? Let other countries take the lead fo
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> I think you're getting at the crux of it here. The question is, how does one of these businesses "prove" to investors that they are less likely to fail? By having a business plan. That's why banks (at least over her
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There are two BSL4 labs in Sub-Saharan Africa. One in Gabon, one in South Africa.
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> In addition, most of these checks are provided in other languages or linters for those languages. Linters are inferior to things the compiler catches for the same reason test cases are inferior: They are not enforced. If the compiler d
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It's not about influence. To take an example from a sibling thread: If you live in Turkey and write negative about Erdogan you get charged with terrorism. It's something people can only afford to do if they are reasonably sure the
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Because it isn't true. The GP is either intentionally misleading people or they are as out of touch as TV execs were when they proclaimed that streaming will never be more important than TV channels. Also, since Nintendo Switch Online
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It obviously isn't cash, it isn't even money - that's the reason the amount received is stated in something else, namely dollars, which this has to be exchanged into to be useful. What happened here is a wire transfer, not di
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The problem is enforcement. Rich country gives non-rich country money. Non-rich country still destroys rain forest. What now?
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> It's not a question of "possible". It's a question of "probable". Let's just say the topic of "probable" hasn't the best track record right now and still hope for the best.
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> There's no autonomy, just endless pressure, confusing directions and last minute reactivity. So, software development in a nutshell? Maybe I only have seen bad examples, but I've never seen the agile/scrum/whatever-
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The meme at this point has a second part that almost no one bothers to quote and answers your question: https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-762f32a6dbfbecc4ec824b... If you never properly fund something then you shouldn&#
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The idealism to cynicism pipeline. Unfortunately, it's often true, even if you try to do something against it.
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Probably a mix of not having much to loose, trying to gather some good publicity and fear that the regulators would see them as some kind of "repeat offender" and punish them harder than Apple, Google et. al. if they dragged their
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At the end of the day the main problem of Firefox is that it fights against companies (ab)using their market power in one market to foster their browser on people. - Google: Try to use anything made by them with another browser and without
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> Maybe it would be better just to let things break and force the issue? I think it would be better, but unfortunately it won't happen. Too much money riding on it. I still hope newer versions of http continue to be designed to be m

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