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by sgift 7y ago
So, when you produce the acceptable code faster you can go home earlier? No more work in a week? If not, you are paid by the hour, you just wish you would be paid for producing acceptable code by the deadline (me too btw).
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by sgift 7y ago
You probably think of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NORD.LINK ? Building is in progress.
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by sgift 7y ago
If that is the case then it shouldn't be a problem to ask IARC to make a new monograph. That this doesn't happen tells me that the case isn't as simple here as you say.
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by sgift 7y ago
The IARC didn't "ignore scientific data", they came to a different conclusion based on weighting multiple studies available against each other than the one Monsanto would have preferred. It is precisely the job of the IARC to
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by sgift 7y ago
> conclusion reached by experts worldwide. A relevant group of the experts don't agree with the conclusion, namely those working for the IARC/WHO.
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by sgift 7y ago
> Did we really not know that prior to 2016? Did we really not know prior to Snowden that the NSA, GCHQ and all the others spied on the populace? There's a market difference between knowing in the abstract and understanding it as
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by sgift 7y ago
> I think there is a thin line between ethical advertising and unethical psychological manipulation. That line runs between "let's think about this as an interesting thought experiment" and "let's do this!"
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by sgift 7y ago
> Given the amount of guns (100+ per 100 people), and that some have a stockpile while others have none, you're taking your life in your hands if you want to break in and burglarize. Yeah, and you know who has probably one of these
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by sgift 7y ago
Seems to be one of the main risks for any specialized circuits, if I understand you correctly. You always have to guess "will this really be relevant long enough to invest the money to bake it into hardware?" .. and if you guess
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by sgift 7y ago
Would be an interesting case. After all, 'Inglourious Basterds' was allowed to show them and it seems hard to argue how that movie is different from a Wolfenstein game.
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by sgift 7y ago
It's a bit more complex with the UN than normal diplomatic immunity (it is not a country after all). A bit of Google tells me that specialists working for the UN have the same protections as UN officials for the purpose of their mandat
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by sgift 7y ago
You are correct, swastikas (and other symbols of the national socialists) had to be replaced/removed in Germany in the past. Nowadays games have been recognized as art form and a game developer can request admission to the German marke
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by sgift 7y ago
> I find it interesting that there's a disproportionately large amount of these kinds of stories that come out of the US (compared to other western countries). From what I gathered this is rooted in the difference between the regula
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by sgift 7y ago
> The doctor is just running off a standard checklist for one of among 50 almost exactly alike cases during his workday. "What do you mean it takes two weeks to build that software? IT IS SO EASY"
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by sgift 7y ago
The doctors job is to decide which lab tests are needed based on checks they can do and their expertise.
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by sgift 7y ago
If you want full user choice about this you can use nightly or use a community packaged version with the option to disable the checks enabled or compile it yourself and enable the flag. It's not impossible to do that.
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by sgift 7y ago
No one remotely disabled anything. There's a certificate deployed with Firefox. The certificate Firefox used to check addons was only valid till yesterday. So, when the browser started next time it couldn't validate the addons and
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by sgift 7y ago
> Call me a dreamer, but I believe unbiased reporting should be the goal of journalism and I associate a "political bent" with poor quality. If you want "unbiased reporting" you get articles like: Angela Merkel ate As
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by sgift 7y ago
> Given the reception of No Man's Sky, I would say that the advantage of spending money on things that will remain forever in the future is that they will never disappoint you I think it's important to add this: No Man's S
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by sgift 7y ago
Anthem for the most current example.
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by sgift 7y ago
> The $20,000+ backers do strike me as crazy, yeah. I have the same feeling. Yeah, it's a bit crazy to throw so much money at a game. But it is also crazy to throw that much money at a car or any other hobby. But no one blinks an ey
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by sgift 7y ago
I disagree. Now it's opinion vs opinion. I could play a few missions, did a bit of bounty hunting, a bit of mining. I've played "finished" AAA games which had less. There's much to do, but the game is in a far bette
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by sgift 7y ago
Variant of charity. Or company sponsored. Also has a sustainability crisis where maintainers burn out left and right.
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by sgift 7y ago
> SEVENTEEN YEARS. GOOD LUCK, COMRADE. You fail to show how that's worse than the version in other places. All you have is an "appeal to anti-communism"(1). Not having to fear that you loose your living space because some
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by sgift 7y ago
That the US does bad things does not invalidate the bad things China and Russia do. You sound like someone who gets a speeding ticket and answers "but everyone else is speeding too! Why do you punish me?!"
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by sgift 7y ago
> I’m also fairly sure that Jetbrains would take kindly to license requests from open-source projects and academia. They do: https://www.jetbrains.com/buy/opensource/
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by sgift 8y ago
> They have no independent foreign policy Where do you get that idea? Germany is one of the most active countries in diplomacy and is at odds with the US all the time.
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by sgift 8y ago
More people start to realize the risk of a dictatorship as a world power compared to ten years ago when it was all "they are such a big market" "You can get things cheap there" "It's a different culture"?
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by sgift 8y ago
I wonder if they wait for the right moment (e.g. when Android gets replaced with whatever Google tries to replace it with) for a new play on mobile or if they really are "done" with it.
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by sgift 8y ago
Additionally, I think it's a bit rich when a company that is based 100% on another open source project under a permissive license (Apache Lucene here) cries that someone else uses a permissive license in the same way they do.

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