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by thaway2839 4y ago
I find all the comparisons to previous technological changes lacking for one very simple reason. Previous technological changes never had granular data on individuals the way today's technological revolution does. Since most such piece
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Because deflation kills economies while controlled inflation is necessary to have an economy. A deflationary currency means you are better off keeping your money under a mattress than using it (either as an investment or an expense). Which
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The Daily Mail lacking integrity is not news.
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Good point. A lot of the best Netflix content is stuff they've bought from the UK that they rebrand as "Netflix Original" in the US.
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by thaway2839 5y ago
I think an important part about therapy is the fact that you really do have to be willing to jump around a bit before you find a therapist who you are comfortable with. All the therapists I've come across have been excellent at what th
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by thaway2839 5y ago
It's, in fact, the opposite of free speech. Now, there may be an argument that Twitter, for example, has become such an integral part of the public square that the government SHOULD compel Twitter to allow every form of speech on it. A
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by thaway2839 5y ago
The comment literally states that it's one of the questions they ask, which is the exact opposite of a gotcha question. And the specific question can lead to a conversation, which may "reveal" the answer (obviously, I don&#x2
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by thaway2839 5y ago
I think at this point Apple does not see macOS (from the user perspective) like a traditional GUI OS. It used to be that OSes provided window management, file management, some basic file handling, and APIs and framework to build and connect
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It's funny because giving people with poor credit loans they couldn't repay is exactly what led to the financial crisis and what we villainized the banks for.
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Chase is now offering further extended payment options much like Affirm, etc. Might as well just go with your bank itself, instead of adding another 3rd party merchant into the mix.
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Are there any alternatives that don't do stuff like that? For example, the only realistic mainstream alternatives, Edge and Chrome, have you literally logged into the browser with your MS/Google accounts, and can associate everyth
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Do you drink water out of every faucet? You just need it for the one faucet in the kitchen you'd be drinking water out of. Would that completely eliminate all your lead consumption? No, when you are brushing I'm sure you swallow s
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by thaway2839 5y ago
That's another thing Instagram might replace though. It really feels Instagram is the new Facebook, which is great for me, because there is no expectation to be on Instagram within my circles so I can avoid social media, and pseudonymo
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Maybe defaults should not be designed to capture personal information. This indicates a massive need for GDPR or something like it, as opposed to the opposite. The lack of disincentives to collect personal information is why so many softwar
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by thaway2839 5y ago
India and Pakistan became nuclear powers in 1998. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokhran-II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagai-I India and Pakistan then fought a war in 1999. https://e
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That's not comparable. Ukraine had weapons it gave up. None of these countries had nuclear weapons. Although, while not being comparable, it's still true that the US's invasion of Iraq definitely hurt nuclear non proliferatio
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Will you be factoring in the cost of an accident (you can adjust the rarity of the accident to get your expected value) destroying the entire economic engine of the state? A lot of nuclear closures make no sense. Germany's indiscrimina
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by thaway2839 5y ago
Annual checkups are just that. 1) Body weight measurements. 2) The doctor talking to you about whether you have any medical or life concerns. 3) The doctor sharing advice on diet improvements, smoking improvements, exercise plans, includin
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by thaway2839 5y ago
I'm sure you ask your employer to dock you a day's worth of pay every day you're not 100% at it. You wouldn't want to reward bad work now, would you?
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Not by not tipping the server who can legally be paid less than minimum wage by their employers.
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I think most of us would prefer that. Unfortunately the US has a tipping culture enshrined in law. So businesses can legally pay their employees who may potentially receive tips far below minimum wage.
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by thaway2839 5y ago
You can choose not to have "Western values" imposed on you. Don't use the products whose creators' values you don't agree with. It's even easier in software with its widespread and thriving open source ecosyste
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The argument appears to be that browsers give you a lot of things for free that SPAs need to recreate. But that's not true in practice. In practice most SPAs are created on top of a handful of extremely well tested libraries/frame
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by thaway2839 5y ago
Working at a high quality fine dining restaurant in any capacity is hard work. I don't think it's possible to do it unless you actually enjoy it.
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> make dietary restrictions known during the reservation This can be the difference between an Apple like "magical" experience and one that is still great, but nonetheless might be a little clunky (although, as you point out, t
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by thaway2839 5y ago
At some places you may even want to set aside money to have a cheeseburger at a fast food joint afterwards. But that's not a bad thing. Filling you up may be part of a fine dining experience, but it isn't necessarily so, and it&#x
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And Ukraine not joining NATO also sparked a Russian "response".
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One could argue that maybe the developers of the app were optimizing for the right things. Usability, performance, etc., as opposed to disk space.
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I'm sure the coal plants that were shutting down until crypto miners bought them is just pure FUD. And I guess Satoshi's paper on Bitcoin, which shows that Bitcoin is fundamentally run by whoever has the most CPU power, which has
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by thaway2839 5y ago
I'm currently using Linux (Ubuntu 21.10 on a 2015 Core i3), Windows (on a 10th gen core i7 laptop with lots of RAM but an iGPU), and macOS on an M1 Mac Mini, macOS definitely feels the slowest. I suspect if my Windows laptop was closer

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