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> Don't get me wrong -- I don't much care for Assange [...] Why has this blase paragraph become so common? Want to defend Trump's actions on X as consistent with a past president? Include a paragraph on how you don't
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I believe the study referenced by the article is: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4974898/
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That article appears to have been flagged and removed before it hit the front page.
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Why is this marked as a dupe? Past shows no other submissions. No moderator comment indicating what this is a dupe of. What is this a dupe of?
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> But I wonder to what degree insurers and businesses could affect the decision making: if you're not immunized, we won't cover your hospitalization; and refuse to hire people who's immunizations aren't up to date. Yo
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I agree with your first sentence, but it's not just about monetary cost. Saudi Arabia is Iran's strongest rival in the Middle East. Finland cutting off arms sales has negligible geo-political cost. But the US cutting off arms sale
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Typically, such conspiracy minded people are referring to Israel, which supports Saudi Arabia as an opposing power to Iran. There is a long history of conspiracy theories of secret Israeli/Mossad control of the US government.
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> Apart from usability most systems eighter rely on things that are hard to change (biometrics), things that can be copied (keyfiles, cookies, software) or things that can be stolen (hardware token). Actually... When you log on with a pa
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Email services offer 50 gb of data storage for free. It's not so crazy that you'd want to load a substantial portion of that data into memory in an "offline mode" or while doing full text search across the database. Yes,
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> Additionally, the SEC would likely investigate if this did happen The phone companies all denied providing metadata to the NSA when the story first came out. I couldn't find the WaPo article from the same week, which I remembering
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> This seems to be implying that [...] rape [...] where "the perpetrator did not threaten to harm or kill the victim" are not "real" rape. This feels like a misreading, considering this section (which you quoted): >
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> Do you think that Ts'o just needed you to step in and explain how domestic sexual abuse is rape and that he's just being insufficiently awesome[0]? Am I missing the back story here? The poster explicitly says he is not trying
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> my restaurant chain's POS systems Just to state the obvious, home versions of operating systems aren't designed to run POS systems for businesses. That's what professional and enteprise versions are for.
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> Would you take up the job if the salary was reduced on day one? This is a labor law violation, because it's obvious, even to government regulators, that it's unfair to the employee. I would hope everybody would object to labo
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You can get a fair amount of entropy out of names, and there are often multiple name type questions (somebody's maiden, friend's nickname, favorite teacher). Luckily it's hard to hammer customer service reps with repeated att
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> How much conflict has been spawned due to the UN Partition plan which created Israel? Why would you brame a UN agreement from 20 years earlier instead of blaming the countries which violated the peace treaties they signed only 8 years
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> simply offers a deal that Qualcomm can choose to accept or not With China's culture of corruption, "or not" comes with a giant asterisk of "will face harassment from the communist party"
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> When journalists want to create a fake narrative, what they do is say "people are saying this" and then show a few tweets to support them. Even though almost nobody really may be thinking in those term. What do you think when
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> Since politicians killed Yucca Mountain and didn't come up with an alternative Harry Reid. It's important to emphasize that this isn't a complex or bipartisan problem. It's one very powerful individual supporting hi
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Burden of proof goes the other way here. This is why (one of the reasons) bogus DMCA complaints are never prosecuted. You need to prove that they believed you hadn't read the complaint and knowingly went after you anyway. We only perse
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I looked through the article but couldn't find a study to back your claim. Can you please look link directly to a study that specifically looks at the most successful members of the underprivileged and compares them to the laziest memb
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> the other party will be found guilty of disrupting your business by having you get into court for complaints without legal grounds. Dubious. The other lawyer will claim they believed you had read the complaint and therefore that they w
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> we also have lots of studies showing that the best of the lowest socioeconomic class almost never do better than the laziest of the uppermost socioeconomic class. Could you point me to one? I've seen a number of studies on average
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From the publication? Why? The article is self written - it's not all that surprising that an author would seek out a friendly outlet - ensures publishing in full, drives advertising views (money) to 'friendly' places. You ca
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> And MacOS is generally considered the easiest to use and most secure desktop OS. Yup, that's why most non-technical users and also system administrators prefer it! (Oh wait, that's Windows and Linux)
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Skype accounts are Microsoft accounts. That's why the sign in page says "email, phone, or skype." But Microsoft did a spam purge as well, that's why Skype is usable again. If your Skype account was compromised and being
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I didn't downvote, but my mental reaction isn't positive. You don't think anybody in Redwood City would want to go to a place like that? If you want to ban strip clubs and casinos, then ban strip clubs and casinos, but from y
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The party platform isn't the beliefs of every member of the party. Indeed, it's be absurd if every member of either party agreed with every line from a multi hundred page platform.
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I'm not quite sure I understand. Calling "shenanigans" generally means disagreement but your second sentence is entirely consistent with what I wrote - the company had overscaled and needed to eliminate redundant positions, r
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While I'm not deeply familiar with the legal systems of all of these countries, I know at least one, and probably several, or the countries that maintain 'sharia law' still define rape as a property crime. "Was" her
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