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by vacri 9y ago
> ProtonMail takes the opposite approach and by default, does not monitor or record user activity, not even IP addresses. Hrm, where's the pricing? Oh, it's based on "Messages per day" and "Folders / Label
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by vacri 9y ago
So the head of a science department should be snubbed because they're supported by a team doing work for them? Since when did science become A Pursuit Of The Lone Hero?
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by vacri 9y ago
... and from your link, almost all the countries were over 20% in 1975 as well. Plenty of them have barely changed. > but the rate is still up more than 20% since 1975. 18.5% for adults in 1975 vs 21.8% in 2016 Nitpick: a rise of 20% o
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by vacri 9y ago
So of your 'six' citations, [1] is a book I don't have access to, [2] and [4] aren't citations at all, and [5] and [6] has nothing to say about companies getting better at their thing. It doesn't say much for '
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by vacri 9y ago
There is - just don't do your business in China or the US if you want that. Most developed countries fall in-between those two extremes. Of course, the disadvantage is that it'll be harder for you to crack the lucrative American m
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by vacri 9y ago
> evidence of plausibility is easy to come up with. Cool, it's easy: then provide some, please. Provide some citations for it rather than just accepting the common knowledge, since common knowledge is often wrong. > asking for
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by vacri 9y ago
Yeah, "I doubt that" is a claim set in concrete that requires support, whereas "A possibility" requires no support for any claim at all. I made no claim about greater moral fiber, but if you think that past generations d
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by vacri 9y ago
Jeez, talking about begging the question. No, not 'essentially every culture in every country worldwide' has an obesity problem, so your strawman doesn't even fit.
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by vacri 9y ago
Why are you asking for evidence for my claim, and not the parent's "another possibility"? I'm getting tired of this new fad of dismissing someone's comment by demanding evidence for it.
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by vacri 9y ago
But your examples aren't 'facts', they're 'opinions'. Unless we're going to just throw away the definition of 'fact', we shouldn't be pretending that those example claims can possible be &#x
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by vacri 9y ago
> I doubt people's willpower has changed much over time. I doubt that peoples' capacity for willpower has changed, but that the exercise of that capacity has. There's a lot less personal discipline than there used to b
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by vacri 9y ago
Teenagers are minors, but not "children". Painting them as "children" leads to silly things like a 16-year-old being considered a child right up until birthday 17, at which point they can join the army. Holes appear in t
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by vacri 9y ago
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/?field.tag=unity8-desktop&... They look like they have only had half a dozen bugs lodged in the last six months. Doesn't seem too vibrant for an actively-developed desktop.
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by vacri 9y ago
If those things aren't charity, then let the red states relinquish the extra money they get from the blue states (+ texas), and see what happens to their police and other government services. I am playing a little fast and loose with t
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by vacri 9y ago
If they're going to do that, they may as well just drop the dot.
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by vacri 9y ago
Apple got to where it is (=more liquid cash than the US government) off the back of good looks and fashion.
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by vacri 9y ago
> are likely focused on selling or some core feature set that is hard to create Isn't this what "their clients often have no other choice" means?
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by vacri 9y ago
> Charity is not a legitimate role for government. Charity is the raison d'être of government. A government is there to run your society. That means doing things for people, even if it's just printing passports and employing
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by vacri 9y ago
Duolingo is not a game, but a language learning app. One of the most important parts of learning a language is to stick at it. The payoff for taking Duolingo's bet is that you get better at the language that you're using Duolingo
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by vacri 9y ago
Yes, digital textbooks can have all those nifty things, but usually don't. And cross-referencing something in a digital textbook? Forget about it. In a paper book it's so much easier to flip back to check something out than in
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by vacri 9y ago
#1: Realise that work is the way of the world. You'll need to get used to it. If you're burnt out after only 18 months at a job (and it's not the fault of a bad job etc), that's a problem you're going to have to sol
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by vacri 9y ago
> Aside from buying ammo or survival rations, what's something proactive that I can do? Yep, stop focusing on the movie-style end-of-the-world apocalypse, where it's just you and your guns versus the raiders. Instead of plann
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by vacri 9y ago
Baby rhinos don't have horns (they grow a bit like hair), and these are not domestic animals. It's like saying "why not tag all the mountain lions in the US, then you know where they all are".
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by vacri 9y ago
> He was 21. People calm down and mellow out as they get older; violent crime is the purview of young people. This is one thing that is so often overlooked. Someone who is violent at 21 and gets a long sentence doesn't come back o
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by vacri 9y ago
As gardnr says, you need to solve this problem by involving the clients. Trying to fix this without some DNS fiddling is going to waste your time and you'll have nothing to show for it. The world changes, and adaptation requires mainte
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by vacri 9y ago
Another very happy buildkite user here. It's extremely flexible and the crew just keep adding feature after feature.
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by vacri 9y ago
For [2], the analysis is a bit off. For the mix/max age settings, there's not all that much difference between men and women for max age - for example a 30yo has a max partner age of 36 regardless of gender, and a 45yo has a max p
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by vacri 9y ago
Meh. In Roman times, France, Germany, Spain, and the British Isles were all relative backwaters (Germany not even that) that didn't have much innovation anyway, so considering those places 'darker' in 500-1000CE is somewhat m
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by vacri 9y ago
There's going to be little fallout for the users of this ID card. It's too expensive to break for all but the juiciest of targets - the people that need to worry are folks in enterprise and government.
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by vacri 9y ago
> or any other of the vastly cheaper alternatives On how many of these vastly cheaper alternatives is it possible to simply spin up a fleet of a thousand machines?

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