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by smsm42 4y ago
If politicians do right things for selfish reasons, it's much better than them doing wrong things for idealistic reasons, in my book.
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by smsm42 4y ago
I'm usually not the one to praise Biden, but here he's doing the right thing, and well within his rights. Yes, the timing is obviously related to the elections, but that's how the politics is played - you do things that the v
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by smsm42 4y ago
That sounds accurate. Plants do have tons of chemicals, some of them may have very potent effects on the body chemistry. Unlike homeopathy where the proposed effect model defies physics, there's nothing implausible here, the problem wi
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by smsm42 4y ago
It'd be the same thing if the chiropractor was actually sitting on the other side of the planet and would do movements that'd hurt you if you were in the same room with them, but the theory were that since the action is so weak as
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by smsm42 4y ago
I think the pharmacy has part of the blame. They know which of the products are homeopathic. To mix them with other medicine or to put them separately is their choice. They can do better, they just don't care enough to invest the minim
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by smsm42 4y ago
It would be easy to reconcile it - just have a separate shelf clearly marked "Homeopathic remedies" and people who asked for it would have the easiest time finding it, while people asking for the real thing would not be confused.
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by smsm42 4y ago
I don't think EBCDIC use is mandatory. It was a while ago, but I did some ports for that Unix, and I don't remember EBCDIC being an issue. Of course, z/Linux is even easier.
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by smsm42 4y ago
BTW z/OS has Unix subsystem, which enables it to run practically any modern Unix software, including all modern script languages, etc. which are actively used. So there's no urgent motivation to change the platform for those who&#
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by smsm42 4y ago
Yet another step sleepwalking into the dystopian future. Sure, it's some ad account, who cares. But imagine one of the digital ID projects going mainstream, and the government adopting it, and you doing something as a kid banning you f
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by smsm42 4y ago
> that led to Voxer sharing its patents Wait what does this mean? Isn't the whole point of patents that it's supposed to be public? If so, how could you "share" them any more than you already did when publishing the p
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by smsm42 4y ago
Yes, but Katakana is also sometimes AFAIK used for spelling out words that otherwise would be written with kanji, and sometimes for emphasis (like italics in Latin script).
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by smsm42 4y ago
I don't think this is the case - when pipes are installed, they are exposed to seawater, and they are segmented, and there must be a way to replace the damaged segment without having to redo the whole pipeline. It won't fill the w
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by smsm42 4y ago
> Besides, there isn't much left that sanctions don't already target. Frozen Russian assets, AFAIK, for now remain frozen. They could be un-frozen and directed to other owners. There's pretty much zero political risk towar
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by smsm42 4y ago
Pipelines can be fixed. If Germany behaves. There's always a choice. Also, there are other ways to get the gas and the oil there.
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by smsm42 4y ago
Why not? If it is stopped by the Russian order, Russians violated the contract. If it is stopped because unknown terrorists blew up the pipeline, it's force majeure, Gazprom is in the clear. Also, they have one more pipeline left. Whic
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by smsm42 4y ago
> they've been wanting to get that pipeline approved and operational Not recently. Recently, they pulled out a string of excuses to send less and less gas over (turbine bing repaired, sanctions, etc.) to show Europe their leverage.
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by smsm42 4y ago
> Per my knowledge US is the only country which stubbornly (and illogically) considers Sunday to be the first day of the week; No, in Israel Sunday is the first day of the week too, because the weekend is Friday-Saturday (Shabbath). In H
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by smsm42 4y ago
They didn't have too many personal names in general, IIRC about 20 or so commonly used, including numeric ones (there's even Decimus - I guess they had big families). And looking at how Ceasar is always Julius Ceasar (while his pe
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by smsm42 4y ago
Colloquially, lot of places use 12h - it's always "we're going to the restaurant at 8", never "at 20" or "at 20:00", at least in the countries I've lived or visited. But officially it's stil
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by smsm42 4y ago
And he can't wait to tell the Internet how proud he is about that.
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by smsm42 4y ago
You don't have to be a genius to see the facts. Just somebody who is not working very hard to not notice what is going on. > None of the web services/app you mention block specific visitors; only accounts So? How the situation
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by smsm42 4y ago
> Who do you know would want to work for a company that did that? Pretty much anyone who works for Twitter, Facebook, Google, Paypal, Venmo, Amazon, Microsoft, Gofundme, Mailchimp, Tiktok, Reddit, Nextdoor, and many other tech companies
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by smsm42 4y ago
> Fact-less conspiranoia. I love how people reflectively answer with cries of "no evidence!" to something that presents the evidence about exactly the thing they are claiming has no evidence. I get a distinct impression that th
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by smsm42 4y ago
I am being regularly asked by my healthcare provider which drugs I take, on each visit's checkin. They'd be happy to have the Rx, but in many cases the patient doesn't even have one - it's buried somewhere "in the s
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by smsm42 4y ago
The same that happens now when somebody stills your identity and ruins your credit history. You'll have to live in a bureaucratic hell for the next couple of years. And yes, as a compensation, you'll get the $6.99 worth of service
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by smsm42 4y ago
They are already testing out digital IDs. Now link that to the social score... and make the browsers and the sites exchange these data on the background, and make frontend services providers refuse connections from non-supporting browsers a
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by smsm42 4y ago
So this gets me thinking. We know Cloudflare will boot a site if they really don't like them. Now, what happens if Cloudflare doesn't like you ? I mean, really really doesn't like. Maybe, you said something wrong online or p
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by smsm42 4y ago
Only is you see "functionality" as "code being run in production". A lot of things then don't improve "functionality" - design documents, comments, use cases, tests, documentation, tutorials, etc. Proper s
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by smsm42 4y ago
> well, let's just say, you're far more likely to tell someone you're on Lipitor (a brand name, for marketing) than "atorvastatin". The part missing here is that there's a doctor in the middle that knows ab
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by smsm42 4y ago
I don't think somebody would be more confused to learn that payment service also deals with fraud (which is something a lot of people are aware of - every payment service on the face of the planet has now warnings about fraud) than hav

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