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by troad 4y ago
I keep reading the headlines, wondering how exactly they to ban TikTok. Does TikTok not have some kind of First Amendment right to speak? If they can ban TikTok, why not the Fox News / MSNBC app? Also, what exactly are they proposing
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by troad 4y ago
People realise they're being stalked, they don't know what that means though. Techie people are convinced non-techie people don't know they're being tracked. They do! Ask your smart non-techie friends what they think a
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by troad 4y ago
That would be very uncommon / probably illegal in Europe. If there's one thing Europeans love, it's paperwork!
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by troad 4y ago
Mastodon, like Twitter, is full of people saying extreme things for attention, but it differs from Twitter in that there's no one to make fun of those people, because that would be 'negativity'. For that reason, I tend to fin
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by troad 4y ago
I'm sorry to hear about your experience! I feel like noting that my primary driver has been Kubuntu on an (nvidia) laptop for a few years now, and it's been the most pleasant experience. Sure, you get rough edges every now and aga
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by troad 4y ago
> Unpaid wages pierce the corporate veil I didn't know this! Can anyone direct me to the relevant law?
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by troad 4y ago
Involuntarily exposing your colleagues to pornography would more than suffice to create a hostile environment for the purposes of sexual harassment law. Good luck convincing your HR / legal otherwise.
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by troad 4y ago
Please don't use my identity for political scaremongering. There is no comparison between Russia and Florida for gays (or political dissidents).
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by troad 4y ago
> Does that make my work output immediately tainted and the company has to immediately file for bankruptcy? No, much easier just to fire you. You’ve shown a disregard for what is almost certainly company policy, and created legal risks
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by troad 4y ago
> Something like 80% of Australian languages are from Indian-derived language families This is wrong. No known relationships exist between any Australian Aboriginal language and any language from India. For much of far northern Australia
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by troad 4y ago
Quality, presumably. If the publication is typeset in print, graphics can be a hugely important part of the visual presentation of an article. A well resourced publication will be able to hire an artist to create graphics which playfully en
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by troad 4y ago
Defining a problem by reference to the amount of the legislation proposed to tackle it seems somewhat backwards. By that logic, Europe has a much greater gun problem than the US does, and its people are terribly confused by the geographic o
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by troad 4y ago
> The flip side of it is exploitative large commercial almost-monopolies which do their best to make you spend money you shouldn't on things you don't need. Markets full of almost exactly the same deal dressed up so many differ
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by troad 4y ago
There really isn't a lot of multi-country advertising in Europe. You're going to run into bigger problems than showing correct VAT rates - language being probably the most obvious one, but also different regulatory requirements fo
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by troad 4y ago
You are right, though I’d add that the EU correctly reflects Europeans’ policy preferences here. European voters, more often than not, seem to believe they can have their cake and eat it too: free public services that remain competitive and
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by troad 4y ago
This is a strange comment; maybe I'm not understanding it. 1) Starlink is available on the internationally recognised territory of Ukraine, with the support of the government of Ukraine. The unlawful presence of Russian troops in Ukrai
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by troad 4y ago
I wish this wasn't written largely using a gray font on a gray background, because it's a pain to read.
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by troad 4y ago
> In what kind of world does a strong jobs number, implying a strong economy, sink stock prices? > There is a clear dichotomy between the 'financial' economy, and the actual economy. The pre-eminence of 'Shareholder val
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by troad 4y ago
> A lot of this is related to inequality, value of labour detaching from wealth, and the increasing unaffordability of life. Inequality is declining by every measurable metric in the United States. Edit: To answer the folk naysaying wit
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by troad 4y ago
Can you point me towards some evidence of that? I’m not saying you’re wrong, I’m genuinely interested.
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by troad 4y ago
This is the way. You don't even have to argue, it's usually enough to confidently note that you disagree with the points being made. In a group setting, that's all it takes to prevent a false impression of consensus from emer
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by troad 4y ago
Very sad news, after all the recent optimism about using COVID vaccine-ajacent technology for fighting HIV. Fingers crossed there’s lessons to be learnt from the data set.
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by troad 4y ago
> the lgb alliance (a boring trans-hate group) Can you direct me to any place where the LGB Alliance officially affirms “trans hate” as their core message? Seems like a remark that fails the barest minimum of common sense thresholds, in
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by troad 4y ago
> I would say that if you are doing something the US government has a significant interest in prosecuting, you might want to reevaluate your life choices and think about whether it is something you ought to be doing in the first place. S
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by troad 4y ago
If it was a bona fide investment and you are without notice of any wrongdoing - no, I’d say you’re not. Presumably your nefarious investor holds some kind of ownership interest that can be sold by their trustees/liquidators to raise fu
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by troad 4y ago
Being an Anglophone who spent most of 2022 criss-crossing Europe, please direct me to where this European Wild West capitalism is. European elites enrich themselves by legislative capture. In any true Wild West capitalism, European elites w
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by troad 4y ago
> The great success of the EU is that it has stopped the member countries from going to war with each other. You’re confusing the EU with NATO. The EU has no role whatsoever in defence policy, and can claim absolutely no credit for peace
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by troad 4y ago
I respectfully disagree, it still introduces a lot of unnecessary friction. Being in a Czech supermarket, for example, is confusing, because I don’t instantly know what “79” means, or whether “279” is cheap or expensive. The exchange rate i
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by troad 4y ago
> With all due respect to Croatia and the lovely people that live there, they cannot compete globally with Germany in any interesting export market. This fails Econ 101. Gains from trade occur even if one country is absolutely worse at m
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by troad 4y ago
> The model of mechanical royalties already exists in the music industry. I refer to your earlier post, though: > …could provide access to every work ever published, pay authors, and eliminate both the need and practice of piracy. I d

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