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by simiones 3y ago
I believe the much more contentious problem is the prohibition of using mascots on packaging when these warnings are applied. That is bound to hurt sales much more, especially for the lucrative childhood obesity market.
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by simiones 3y ago
> they might glance at the nutritional label, and see that the sugars are only 7.5% and think: that's pretty good, I'll have one, not seeing the 100 ml gotcha. [Basic level duplicity] > The only thing that will alert you is
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by simiones 3y ago
No, the error path is a distinct concept from the success path, in almost all situations. The success path implements some kind of business logic, and will be highly specific to the task at hand. The error path almost always does nothing mo
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by simiones 3y ago
It seems that you are trying to take the position that Ok/Err are similar to if/else in that neither is more or less expected than the other. The very names chosen in Rust show that this is not how most think about these two cases
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by simiones 3y ago
> In addition, with this crate, you will also get the information that this error was returned in washing_machine.rs:3562. Thanks, I guess? Yes, that's awesome. I can either dig into the code myself or at least forward it to the pro
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by simiones 3y ago
> They are delusional about the gains it will give them though. A life of crime does not in fact pay. This is far from obvious. Plenty of criminals have lived either their entire lives or at least decades in quite remarkable luxury. Plen
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by simiones 3y ago
Saying that someone hides their selfish motivations behind high-minded rhetoric is not infantilizing. We don't owe it to anyone to believe what they say, even if they say it plainly and clearly. When someone's every move brings th
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by simiones 3y ago
I should have said "invading another country that hasn't attacked you or your allies previously". Taking an invasion back to the original invaders is much more justifiable. My point was that starting a new war has virtually n
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by simiones 3y ago
> I disagree. Hitler thought jews made Germany weaker. In fact it was the exact opposite: the Nazis made Germany weaker. Why do you believe that Hitler honestly believed this? Why is not much more plausible that Hitler saw that many arou
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by simiones 3y ago
1. You claimed that the difference between the cop and Hitler is one of scale. The poster above was explaining that it's not: had Hitler gassed a single Jewish person, just like the cop shot a single knife wielder, Hitler would still b
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by simiones 3y ago
There are plenty of examples of historical people who conquered and subjugated others because they believed that it would make them rich and powerful. Some were right, some were wrong. Some proclaimed various other motives (bringing peace,
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by simiones 3y ago
> Villains are heroes of their own story. This is an assumption about the internal motivations of villains that we don't have any access to. In general, making assumptions about the internal workings of the minds of historical peopl
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by simiones 3y ago
The web was invented in 1989, became a public project in 1991, and JavaScript support for it appeared in 1995, Java Applets the same year, with Flash and ActiveX following in 1996. So it was a static document model for ~6 years, and an app
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by simiones 3y ago
NATO member Romania, to be clear.
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by simiones 3y ago
It's not particularly high when there is an active war between Russia and an almost-NATO country, supported by NATO, with fighting happening right at NATO borders? I would say it's perhaps never been higher since the Cuban missile
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by simiones 3y ago
> Microsoft Teams requires Microsoft Edge to run. Where exactly did you get this idea? It runs fine on both Chrome and Firefox on desktop, including voice, camera, screen sharing. They also have desktop apps, including a .deb for Linux
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by simiones 3y ago
The problem is that, per the spec, the following must hold: if("abc" == "abc") { System.out.println("correct"); } if(new String("abc") != new String("abc")) { System.out.println(&quo
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by simiones 3y ago
The discussion goes like this: 1. RFK Jr claims he has been doing research on bio weapons and he claims that the advancements in this area are mind-blowing 2. He then starts talking about how Covid-19 allegedly targeted certain groups less
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by simiones 3y ago
What is a more favorable interpretation of what he said? If he doesn't want to imply Covid-19 was a bio-weapon, why does he bring it up out of nowhere in the middle of some musings on bio-weapons? Why does he keep using the words &quot
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by simiones 3y ago
This musing about vaccine safety is quite obviously not some rigorous rationality, it is a simple dog-whistle to attract the rabid anti-vaxxers while not immediately alienating those who rightly view this as an unacceptable position. Vaccin
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by simiones 3y ago
No, we are comparing coerced "entertainment" with coerced labor. The people who feel compelled to spend every last dollar they own on a game are not doing it for entertainment - they are victims, and something in their psyche ha
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by simiones 3y ago
How often does anyone donate millions of dollars with no strings attached, especially to a university?
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by simiones 3y ago
Governments obviously give people plenty of things back for their taxes, so taxes are in no way "taking the fruits of your labor for free ".
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by simiones 3y ago
Companies are actively working to make it harder. Some games now launch without microtranscations of any kind, or with cosmetic-only ones. Then, after they gain popularity (and thus hook you in), they start adding more and more pay-to-win t
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by simiones 3y ago
The same way we can revoke NetBet's gambling license, right? The government could easily require a gambling license (or a "random gaming" or a "f2p game" license or whatever form it takes) to be able to distribute a
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by simiones 3y ago
There are many multiplayer games, especially on mobile, where the more you spend, the more powerful you are. One of the more infamous recent examples was Activision-Blizzard's Diablo: Immortal, where the most powerful items were locked
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by simiones 3y ago
Same with cheap shoes - I get to buy new cheap shoes every month, subsidized by child slave labor in some far away place. Or, perhaps I should feel some moral qualms about riding on the suffering of others. And make no mistake: most F2P gam
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by simiones 3y ago
You don't allow teenagers to gamble, and revoke the licenses of gambling places that don't enforce this.
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by simiones 3y ago
Well, one answer could be: if we as a society look at this and decide that it does more harm than good, why allow it at all? There are many other forms of entertainment available, so what is lost by eliminating this easy-to-abuse choice? It
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by simiones 3y ago
I did use Lync back in the day, and it was the same as Skype for Business (which was anyway just a re-branding of Lync as far as I remember). There were a few Outlook-Lync/SfB integrations as well, but mostly those were part of Outlook

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