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by vivekd 9y ago
You can sue. I'm not sure where you are but most places have something called small claims court where you can sue for small amounts of money without hiring a lawyer. Most small claims court don't have the authority to make them r
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by vivekd 9y ago
It would probably also create a boom in prostitution - with the accompanying drawbacks. Job Cohen, the former mayor of Amsterdam lamented in crime organizations and human traffickers taking advantage of their lax prostitution laws
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by vivekd 9y ago
Well no we can't make the sex trade disappear, but we can certainly make it more difficult and by extension less prevalent. While I agree that the current measure is overblown, I do understand where the people behind the legislation ar
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Air-breathing electric thruster could allow for almost indefinite space missions(space.com)
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Asia could run out of commercial fish stock by 2048(cbc.ca)
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by vivekd 9y ago
I don't know why people are down-voting you, you make an excellent point - what benefit could having phone and text meta-data possibly have for generating targeted advertising?
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Dinosaurs Developed Frills and Horns to Attract a Mate(newsweek.com)
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The woman who saved Stephen Hawking's voice and gave the tech to those in need(cbc.ca)
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by vivekd 9y ago
To be fair it's not the same thing at all - because the whole point of the article is that by all accounts we shouldn't fit into the hole we're in, we should have been wiped out of our hole long we even had a chance to evolve
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by vivekd 9y ago
Python - because I suck at programming and it's easy - also because I don't do it professionally it's more of a hobby for me
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by vivekd 9y ago
Okay someone explain this to me because I don't get it - how can we get the sample of a 40 000 year old specimen and tell that it's species had interbred with humans. I mean - Neanderthals are pretty closely related to us us, coul
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by vivekd 9y ago
> “pre-1900 texts on alchemy, astrology, magic, and theosophy, I don't understand, what's really the use of any of this stuff except for their insight into history and as precursors to science. There's no way any of this
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by vivekd 9y ago
Ecigs have helped me quit smoking and they are the only thing that worked for me. However, out of all the smokers I know, I only know one other person who managed to quit smoking and stay quit with ecigs. The vast majority of people I kn
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by vivekd 9y ago
Jonathan Bricker makes an excellent point - since the app has no risks of side effects why bother making it prescription only?
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by vivekd 9y ago
If someone offered me this case, I would probably decline it on grounds that I didn't see a reasonable prospect of winning. Equifax still hasn't revealed any data about how it was hacked, without that information it's hard to
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5.7M year old human-like footprints found in Crete(theconversation.com)
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15 mysterious fast radio bursts detected from a distant galaxy(news.nationalgeographic.com)
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by vivekd 9y ago
Yes, that's amazing that you were able to find it.
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by vivekd 9y ago
I can't remember the post, but I remember a while back there was a guy on here who said he used to work as a scalper. I remember he said that despite talking about attempts to get rid of scalpers, the reality is that ticket master and
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by vivekd 9y ago
The courts do prefer it, but from a legal perspective, as an adhesion contract with boiler point terms, the arbitration clause shouldn't have been enforceable.
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by vivekd 9y ago
So letting people who were legitimately wronged receive justice and fair compensation in court for that wrong is "litigiousness" and therefore bad? First, I think you misunderstood what litigiousness means. Second, merely labeling
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by vivekd 9y ago
In ordinary contracts that's true, but this case is different because it's more of a continuing contract It is not a one time performance like washing a car or shoveling a driveway or buying grocheries. It is a continual term con
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by vivekd 9y ago
See, I don't know how meaningful the chemical not psychological distinction is. I mean doesn't every thing we feel have chemical components?
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Astronomers Detect Four Earth-sized planets orbiting the nearest sun-like star(phys.org)
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by vivekd 9y ago
How do you know that the group doesn't generally share those opinions if those opinions are considered "inflammatory" and stating them can be punished. Maybe they're just afraid to speak up.
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by vivekd 9y ago
So let's say someone wanted to put forward diversity policies at a workplace to create a more equal number of black and white workers. Perhaps the reason citied is that discrimination has led to disproportionate representation of the r
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by vivekd 9y ago
We have this thing called diversity policies, and some people agree with it, and some people disagree with it. The people who agree with it are free to present arguments about why workplaces are discriminatory and why diversity is valuable
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by vivekd 9y ago
But the memo wasn't a political document, it was a document about google's diversity policies that was geared towards starting a discussion and changing those polices: Here is a copy of the memo https://gizmodo.com&#x2F
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by vivekd 9y ago
but we know that's not true. In the case of Christianity it arose in rural areas and was opposed by urban governments. Also, it did not spread in conjunction with urbanization but instead spread suddenly.
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Hackers at a competition break into US voting machines in minutes(thehill.com)
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