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by shjake 3y ago
A lot of those discoveries couldn’t be proven for many years after the deaths of their authors. So it was hard to tell how significant they were. A lot of the things that Galileo said couldn’t be proven either. In fact some were outright wr
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by shjake 3y ago
> the Church accepted that the Ptolemaic model wasn't valid - the Church took an active part in asserting that "heliocentrism is heresy". It was not that straightforward. The Tychonic model was already accepted and general
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by shjake 3y ago
> Sure... and they were wrong. They weren’t. Theology was the primary (pseudo)scientific approach used to explain the law of nature at the time.
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by shjake 3y ago
The scientific advancement claim is weird. It was also very slow during ancient Greek/Roman times and technological progress remained a somewhat foreign concept. Arguably European/Byzantine society was already quite a bit more adv
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by shjake 3y ago
> Again with the projection. I mean… Do you always make so many random assumptions about the thoughts and lives of people you don’t know and know absolutely nothing about? Let’s play this game.. Maybe your job is just not very demanding
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by shjake 3y ago
So one person buys/rents an expensive house just to be closer to the office and not have to commute. Somebody else makes the decision to live 1.5 hours away to save money. How would travel time compensation work in this situation? Why
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by shjake 3y ago
If it’s in your contract then yes but if you were hired to work in an office but allowed to WFH for some time because of company policy I doubt it would be seen as such even in the UK
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by shjake 3y ago
I do hope this is sarcasm…
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by shjake 3y ago
Archeologists classifying every object they can’t explain the purpose of as a cult/religious/ritualistic item is a bit of cliche. I wonder what future archeologists might think about some of the stuff we have in a couple of thousa
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by shjake 3y ago
It’s interesting that English only became the primary global language after British empire had already collapsed… Also the British subjugation native populations and forcing to speak English doesn’t really explain its prominence outside of
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by shjake 3y ago
I’m sure most customers are more aware of fake/faux/synthetic leather than vegan leather. It’s an attempt to rebrand it since those terms generally have negative historical connotations
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by shjake 3y ago
Faux leather or synthetic leather seem honest enough. IMHO “vegan” implies it’s made from plan material and/or biodegradable if not edible
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by shjake 3y ago
I’m unaware of many places in the EU where it’s socially acceptable to walk into a store take a bunch of stuff and leave without paying and without the staff or the police doing anything about it…
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by shjake 3y ago
Yes because murdering people and harvesting their organs is very similar to using imprisoned people as a very cheap source of labor.
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by shjake 3y ago
Well be fair the overall decrease in crime rates over the last several decades seems to be somewhat correlated with increasing incarceration rates..
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by shjake 3y ago
What proportion of them are in prison for possession of small/personal amounts? And is imprisoning people who are smuggling/distributing hard and potentially very dangerous drugs really that controversial?
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by shjake 3y ago
if there are no reports of “ anti white crime ” in California however it’s not uncommon in Texas is it more likely that white people are never the target of hate crimes in California or that is’s under reported there (or over reported in Te
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by shjake 3y ago
> I find it interesting that there was no anti white crime reported in CA but it was the third most reported hate crime in Texas Isn’t that a fairly good indicator that the data is not necessarily comparable between the two states?
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by shjake 3y ago
Is the definition of what constitutes a ‘hate crime’ the same in Texas and California? (Probably one of the main reasons which explain the situation in Sweden) Are people in Texas just as willing to report it as in California? etc. I’m not
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by shjake 3y ago
> In 2020 California had more hate crime than Texas Well there were significantly more cases of rape reported in Sweden than in most African or South Asian countries (and I mean up to 40 times more or so…). Something similar might be at
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by shjake 3y ago
It might be the outcome of racist policies or general racist attitudes but they are statistically correct. There is a high correlation between between ethnic or racial makeup of a certain area and crime and gun violence. I’m not sure simply
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by shjake 3y ago
What particularly is lacking in iOS itself that would prevent anyone from developing a functioning cloud/remote sync app? Working with the filesystem was very tricky in the past but this is no longer the case with https://de
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by shjake 3y ago
Other third party cloud storage providers seem to have no issue developing decent apps and there are APIs that allow them to be integrated in a similar way icloud is. So I’m not sure this is entirely on Apple…
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by shjake 3y ago
> iOS literally doesn't have "just there for storage" directories that are not icloud. Either you use the photos pool, or you use icloud, or you use per-app directories that are local to each app. Isn’t this no longer the
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by shjake 3y ago
> without complimentary meals on their flight. Everyone literally spends around 12 hours between dinner and breakfast without eating What about second breakfast?
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by shjake 3y ago
They earn a lot from Fortnite sure. Unreal engine is not technically open source, I’m aware that their revenue from it is that significant compared to Fortnite and they make money by taking a share of revenue from it’s users. Not sure how a
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by shjake 3y ago
Direct or indirect support from various corporations generally.
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by shjake 3y ago
> registered to your dog. Not all countries permit this In Lithuania you don’t even need to register anything. You can just buy a bag full of sim cards in any supermarket completely anonymously.
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by shjake 3y ago
Generally they seem to be leaning towards applying different standards to game consoles and ‘general purpose’ computing devices. Which I don’t think is completely unreasonable. The gaming market also is much more diverse and competitive. Wh
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by shjake 3y ago
The EU law doesn’t seem to allow that though.

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