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unmole
3y ago
Slavery, extortion and kidnapping are not scams though. And you'll notice that in all these cases the victims would have been better off if their tormentor simply did not exist. Would employees be better off if their employer didn'
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unmole
3y ago
So, the ~9 Million people who live in New York don't have jobs other than catering to the privileged ?
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unmole
3y ago
DX is Developer Experience .
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unmole
3y ago
I'm sorry, on what timeline has India gone down the tubes?
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unmole
3y ago
> countries with the most stable marriages tend to be ones in which arranged marriages are much more common These also happen to be countries where women have terrible economic prospects and divorcees are treated as social outcasts. I h
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unmole
3y ago
It's a pointless organisation that only exists to stoke Britain's ego. Let's just kill it.
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3y ago
Good fucking riddance. The games are probably the most high profile Commonwealth event. Once they're completely scrapped, it'll be easier to kill off the Commonwealth altogether.
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unmole
3y ago
> Isn't PPP per capita a better measure of quality of life than nominal GDP per capita? No.
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unmole
3y ago
I don't remember the details but I don't think I had any trouble with Fedora's installer. But I spent way to much time trying to figure out how to modify the guided partition scheme that OpenSUSE picked.
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3y ago
> better options Any pointers for alternatives?
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3y ago
I switched to OpenSUSE after an year with Fedora and ~14 years on Ubuntu. The installer had me scratching my head. After my first attempt I too ended up having to enter the decryption key twice. The installer definitely could do with polish
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unmole
3y ago
Right, 500 of the largest public companies in the largest economy, is equivalent to a magic money box. It's not like they collectively have hundreds of billions in revenue or anything.
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3y ago
> I hope I am making sense here Sorry, no.
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3y ago
Beautiful
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unmole
3y ago
Most clients allow you to mute threads. You could also send emails from the most egregious offenders straight to trash.
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unmole
3y ago
Email threads?
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unmole
3y ago
I pay to skip ads wherever that's an option. I do use an ad-blocker because ads are annoying. What I don't so is pretend my ad-blocking is a grand crusade for privacy.
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unmole
3y ago
My comment was absurd because it was itintended to show the absurdity of the original comment. It makes no sense otherwise.
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unmole
3y ago
If you want to pirate because it's easier and cheaper, just don't pretend it's a moral choice.
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unmole
3y ago
Not only do you get to take stuff for free, you also get to feel smug about being an activist . Amazing.
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unmole
3y ago
> I don’t know a way to check in advance if a Google Play book is DRM‐shackled. Atleast the web interface makes it clear in what format the book is downloadable in.
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3y ago
Yeah, screw the author who actually wrote the book and the publisher who financed it. Only the freeloaders and parasites matter.
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unmole
3y ago
Interesting how your grand principled stand doesn't inconvenience you in any way. Now, you could choose to not read books that don't meet your high moral bar for distribution. But screw that, you can have your cake and eat it too!
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3y ago
I trust if you spend a few more minutes, you will be able to figure out the idiocy of the original argument.
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3y ago
There are no jurisdictions that consider copyright infringement literal theft either. But here we are.
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3y ago
It can also say: > We belive out stock is undervalued, so we will buy it ourselves. This will reduce our cost of capital and generate value for our shareholders in the long term.
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3y ago
The bulk of Twitter's active userbase seemed to consist of people whoabsolutely hated twitter but were addicted to it. The overwhelming majority of products are bought because they are perceived to be useful. Loving a social network
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3y ago
How old are you? I ask because this is puerile nonsense.
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3y ago
Q: What's the difference between filesystems and databases? A: Marketing.
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unmole
3y ago
Turns out appointing a hipster anti-trust activist with minimal experience to head the FTC wasn't a brilliant idea.
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