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by waqf 10y ago
I agree, this is different from the classic Oxford comma ambiguities and I'm surprised more people aren't pointing this out. That being said, omitting the conjunction is a thing that people actually do ( https://en.wikip
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It does sound like a scam, though. Creating a commotion to distract as many agents as possible and hold up the line is exactly how you would do this; and it's still unexplained why the woman accepted a MacBook that wasn't hers (di
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by waqf 10y ago
What's the good? Creating employment without needing to go to the expense of having a competent system that looks after passengers' belongings (or their bodily integrity)?
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By demagoguery I mean demagoguery — I mean highly charged oratory, persuasive whipping-up rhetoric ( https://youtu.be/ZFD01r6ersw?t=40 ).
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I think a lot of people do, but it's best not to rate it too highly. It's a lot easier to communicate clearly and effectively when your propositions are simple, and it's a lot easier to have simple propositions when you'
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by waqf 10y ago
If married filing jointly is sexist, why does it have the same income brackets irrespective of the sexes of the people in the marriage?
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But leaving aside whether the advantages accrued to one ethnic group or another, didn't colonization increase the economic output on those land masses? Overall, I mean (unquestionably it was destructive too).
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> incentive structure for the police That assumes that the police's incentive is simply to convict as many people as possible. Which, if true, raises other concerns.
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Without also reforming healthcare up front, that would move a lot more people into the "y'know what, I'm better off without health insurance" bucket, which would accelerate breakdown of the health insurance market. But I
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By "have" kids do you mean: be the biological parent; finance materially; or spend time looking after? Because solutions start to appear if you separate these things. For example, one thing to try would be (reverting to) a society
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by waqf 10y ago
C'mon, the Egyptians had arbitrary precision numbers.
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Yes, it's similar to the fallacy committed when people say "I have reduced my problem to an instance of graph colouring, therefore my problem is NP-complete."
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The rest of the book (including the other three volumes) is excellent too, just so we're clear.
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> What's true is true, regardless of how we feel about how beautiful it is. I think that's, in a certain sense, not really correct. Without some form of Occam's Razor, you can't do science — or at least, you can&#x2
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by waqf 10y ago
Blogspam, the actual source is https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/24/technology/anthony-levand...
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Well, of course it is. Who would name a fruit after a colour? It only seems surprising because the colour is more mentally salient, so there's a cognitive bias toward assuming it's the original ( https://en.wikipedia.org
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by waqf 10y ago
Fine, point taken, I amend my example to: seems like the OP doesn't remember actual honest-to-God Red Book CDs, which it was both practical and (in the US) legal to rip (format-shift) for personal use.
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> Autocorrect incorrectly assuming the word you want to use replaced that message taking three days to arrive at its destination. Seems like you don't remember email on your PC. > Content wrapped in DRM replaced that content n
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> Vienna (CH) Er, are you referring to Vienna (AT)?
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Credit cards seem tailor-made for this case, because they give you four weeks or so interest free and then start with the usurious rates.
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The status quando , perhaps — or the Zeitstand.
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Doesn't price fixing just result in new rentals being impossible to find, because demand at the fixed price exceeds supply?
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> If you are from Belgium or something, you have to find friends from other countries. But country boundaries are not the only cultural divisions, and national/international is not a simple dichotomy. Belgians in the US might hang
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Would you also hold the post office responsible if they delivered such material? Or the telephone company?
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I don't understand your point. The fourth and fifth bullet points are intended precisely to make the third bullet point concrete. Technically they should probably have been formatted as subbullets of the third point, but other than tha
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Well, the worst probably involves being abducted and tortured, but I'd expect that to be only if you were at least suspected of being a particular known person of interest. I think the worst likely case if you're just generally
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It depends on your exact threat model, but when your attackers are state agencies you should probably be assuming that the telephone network is compromised anyway.
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A few years ago, for foreign travel, one used to buy a new SIM card at one's destination. These days, I'm thinking I might just bring my SIM and buy a new phone at my destination.
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I'm curious, can you tell me what bad experiences EU passport holders have, or fear to have, at UK airports?
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Your argument begs the question. You might as well argue "The fact that you were able to write a new novel around the word 'the' that you copied from my novel seems to suggest that the word 'the' is a separate work

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