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by village-idiot 7y ago
But the market isn’t iOS devices, the market is smart phones. And in that market Apple does not have a monopoly. If you start declaring that the market is the specific store or product, then literally every single product and service is a m
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by village-idiot 7y ago
That’s factually false. You can side load apps, plenty of enterprises do it.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
That’s like complaining that IKEA has a monopoly within IKEA stores.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
> You understated 2. Its more correctly described as hatred. So? Political opinion is not a protected characteristic, because it's a choice and it affects others. I hate literal Nazis too, and pretty much nobody sane thinks that thi
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by village-idiot 7y ago
That's more an argument to stop buying so much crap than it is an argument to buy a wasteful vehicle.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
> They were criticising developers who worked on Gab Sure. But remember, criticizing the developers is also free speech. > presumably with the aim of removing Gab as a platform. You're making up their aims, but again, free speech
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by village-idiot 7y ago
What you’re proposing sure sounds like a logical fallacy to me. It sounds like you’re accusing others of having the following thoughts: 1. Trump supporters are fascists 2. I don’t like fascists 3. Trumps supports are overwhelmingly white 4.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
You can fit a few semi trucks in the gap between France’s political norms and China’s. Comparing the two is just silly. Furthermore, if you’re positing that France is wrong in some absolute sense to do this, all you’re doing is just imposin
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by village-idiot 7y ago
Different countries have different norms around political speech. Report at 11.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
> I've never really understood the 'safe spaces' line of argument. Because it's a disingenuous argument, and it's always been about: 1. Making one side feel like the victim, which maintains coherence 2. Playing t
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by village-idiot 7y ago
I'm not sure how you got from someone criticizing what’s posted on gab to suppression of free speech, but it makes me think you have absolutely no idea what free speech really is.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
GP isn't recommending that congress ban Gab. They're just using their own free speech to condemn it.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
North face is two companies under one logo. One is a hardcore mountaineering company, who makes equipment where the owner dies if it fails. Their tents and sleeping bags can be found in the most inhospitable places on earth, including Evere
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by village-idiot 7y ago
It turns out that Wikipedia is a really bad organization to piss off.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
Also an effective strategy to get uncontested rides, I assume. Of course, occasionally you’re going to get low rated passengers who are just straight up assholes. So there’s some risk.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
In principle I agree; if I were to hypothetically verbally abuse my drivers, ought I not eventually be banned? If I walk into a local bar and am an asshole to the staff, eventually my photo will be put up next to the bouncer’s table on the
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by village-idiot 7y ago
Accident of history and sheer momentum. We had the cash and research institutions during the beginning of the digital age, and as a result we have the brain trust for both programming and hardware design. Remember that a huge percentage of
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by village-idiot 7y ago
Willing to bet your savings on it? I'm not.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
I'm not sure about other animals, but 400ppm is a long way away from toxic for humanity. Poorly ventilated indoor environments can easily hit 1200-1500ppm. You've got to hit 70,000 to 100,000 ppm before you start running the risk
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by village-idiot 7y ago
Can you provide more on the last paragraph? That sounds fascinating.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
I do the latter implicitly. Any place that’s crowded enough to have ID scanners sounds like my own personal hell.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
They’ll just raise the bar to “well, no enforcement personnel went to jail, so we’re in the clear”
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by village-idiot 7y ago
No, it’s because of the perception of utility and self-sufficiency. Trucks are very similar to sports cars, they’re sold on the perception of capability and the way the driver perceives themself, not around how the vehicle will actually be
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by village-idiot 7y ago
The chicken truck tax is pretty easy to avoid, you just need to bolt a few final parts onto the vehicle in America and call it final assembly. This is why the Subaru Brat, a light truck by all definitions, came with some very dangerous plas
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by village-idiot 7y ago
When’s the last time a large US navy vessel was in a situation where exceeding limits was justifiable due to tactical needs? I’d probably wager that WW2 was the last time.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
People with the strongest opinions about regulation and “middlemen” often understand the least about what they do and why.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
For a long time you didn’t even need two accounts to wash trade on Bitfinex, it would match two orders from the exact same account. So of course a lot of the volume is fake, the question is how much?
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by village-idiot 7y ago
At a certain point it’s impossible to take this as a coincidence.
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by village-idiot 7y ago
They took over, but there’s still an argument for spy planes; satellites arrive on their own schedule in predictable orbits. This makes it very hard to get timely photographs, and it makes them easier to defend against. A spy plane could ge
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by village-idiot 7y ago
I in particular am interested in the vitamin K2, which comes almost exclusively from organ meats. If I had to bet on one nutrient that’ll get the “duh you should’ve been eating X” in a century or two, it’d be K2.

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