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by xdennis 3y ago
> EU countries where I lived before settling in the US it would be unthinkable to include race in these policies. Depends on the country. As usual, Romania isn't really a EU country. We have reserved places for Gypsies in universiti
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by xdennis 3y ago
You cannot compare the gender of words across languages. Gender is a property of words, not the concept it refers to. For example, you say that boot is feminine in both French and Spanish, but look at how it is for various synonyms in Roman
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by xdennis 3y ago
I think those are ingrained culturally as many cultures associate the sun with kingship. But the thing about gender is that it is a property of a word, not the thing it is referencing. So synonyms could have different genders.
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by xdennis 3y ago
They no longer want you to create a React app by itself[1], but instead use Next.js, Remix, Gatsby, or Expo. [1]: https://react.dev/learn/start-a-new-react-project
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The sad part is that much of what makes programming hard is the fault of programmers (primarily the endless churn, but others too).
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by xdennis 3y ago
> slighting your identity I'm not a strong male, so it's not slighting anything. But I don't like it when basic truths are denied. If you look at Ukraine, pretty much all of the assault forces are made of men, the sex this
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by xdennis 3y ago
How is this unsafe for McDonalds?
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That's not how the law typically works. Laws provide their own definitions because dictionaries describe how the language is typically used, not in a precise manner.
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by xdennis 3y ago
I'm far more worried about the people who think a man should die because the sign must be obeyed at all costs. It's telling that 70% would apply immoral guidance. "Just following orders."
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Yes. Proponents of abortion (a neutral term) use terms that minimize the actions they are taking to deceive and lessen the guilt of what they are doing. * terminating the life of a fetus isn't "infanticide" it's a "
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The difference is immaterial in the third trimester[1] when it becomes viable and the only difference is whether it's outside or inside. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetus#/media/File:Prenatal_dev..
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by xdennis 3y ago
> The Romanian and Albanian languages both spread to their present areas from the Central Balkans For those who don't get the subtext, people here are having a political debate disguised as a linguistic/historical debate. OfSan
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> It's ultra common in many european countries. I assume (as always...) that by "European" you mean "western European", because in Romania you wouldn't be caught dead wearing shoes inside.
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> My question is how much room is there improve that efficiency as production scales and improves. I'm no expert on the matter, but it will likely never be competitive with real meat in either taste or price: - You need a lot of exp
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Why would real meat increase in price (other than normal stuff like inflation)?
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On the right, because that's where most people are accustomed to find them. But they weirdest thing is that the buttons are colored instead of having meaningful icons.
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Apple people are always like this. They always find justifications for their company. If you ask an Apple guy why does the mouse have the charge port on the bottom, making it unusable when charging, he'll say Tim Apple has perfectly en
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by xdennis 3y ago
> Why did reddit choose to charge app developers (causing financial uncertainty) for API requests instead of charging the end-users? My theory is because they want to kill off third party access.
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> They have actively thwarted attempts by the likes of Facebook and Google to track me. Why would you want to outsource enforcement of individual rights (to privacy) to private companies? Privacy should be enforced by the government (lik
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by xdennis 3y ago
I think 'friendly' is the wrong way to look at it. I'd characterize it as "text-dense" vs "spacy and image/video oriented". The second is more immediate, it takes less concentration, so it attracts mo
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by xdennis 3y ago
You think it's democratic if the investors picked him? That's not democracy, that oligarchy. But in both cases I don't think that democracy is what you want. In the case of subreddits, it doesn't matter because you can a
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by xdennis 3y ago
> Nobody cares about opinions of some dipshit. One individual, sure, but the opinions of millions of non-experts are valuable. They form the majority of buyers so their aggregate opinions matter to marketers. And they often trust the opi
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That's not what he said. He said: > Profit maximization is often in conflict with sustainability. The head count increased ten fold since Spez took over. This is because VCs want billion dollar companies, not some moderately profita
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> Effective July 5, 2023, we will limit access to mature content via our Data API as part of an ongoing effort to provide guardrails to how explicit content and communities on Reddit are discovered and viewed. Such a silly justification,
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Why was he a racist? The Carthaginians weren't very different from the Romans.
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"Better" is your personal morality. Whenever people are doing too well they invent hardships for themselves. No one who is struggled find food will come up with random rules about should and shouldn't be eaten.
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No one is saying we should do everything animals do. But when it comes to basic things like eating, the fact that non-human omnivores eat animals is a good indicator that we should be doing the same.
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> For us, it's a choice. Yes, it's your choice, and your choice to consider it "cruel". Don't force your choices onto others.
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Are you also horrified by videos of kittens eating live mice?
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> The best an eye can discern is roughly 20 microns The size of an object doesn't matter. What matters is how it gets projected onto the back of your eyes. There are 120 million rods (black and white) and 6 million cones (color) in

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