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by xdennis 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tur-T%C3%BCrkiye_Cumhuriy...
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by xdennis 4y ago
> That's very anglocentric You must be confused. Nobody is saying Turkey should change its name in Turkish. This is about the name in English. And English should be Anglocentric.
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> The correct form would be "Me and Mel accused her". No it isn't. You'd never say "Me accused her". If you don't like the inversion its perfectly fine to say "I and Mel accused her", but usin
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There's a 84 minute documentary about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V58kK4r26yk
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Seems like a feature. Packages shouldn't update themselves. That's what package managers are for.
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> That’s because the ethnicity of a criminal is usually not a relevant detail. Come on, don't be coy. There are many things which aren't relevant like where the criminal is from or how old he is. The reason they hide the ethnic
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by xdennis 4y ago
It should be payed every year, not just when sold. Joe Nobody pays property taxes every year, not just when he sells his meager house.
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> what do you propose should have happened Every unit of time (year or month) you have to declare what stocks you own and you get taxed based on how much they're worth.
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> WSL is part of Microsoft's internal push to embrace open source. WSL is part of Microsoft's push to eliminate Linux. Microsoft has always weaponized support. With one hand they support Linux binaries and with the other they f
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> Wide spread law breaking (covid lockdown laws) Under a Labour government there would have been much more covid laws to break. The conservatives have been terrible, but socialist governments around the world have been much more tyrannic
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You can't be a master in the abstract. I think it's reasonable to say that a React master needs to be familiar with a great deal of the React ecosystem. Otherwise you're diluting the meaning of "master".
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I think you think that because you want to. But it's simply not true. Internet classifieds destroyed newspaper ads. Apple destroyed Nokia. It is a zero sum game to a certain degree. I'm not saying you should feel sorry because you
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by xdennis 4y ago
Rights are only asserted when someone thinks to limit them. You also don't have the right to breathe air because no one has been so insane as to ban that. I can't think of another time an entire city was placed behind a paywall, o
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by xdennis 4y ago
Your suggestions seem to come with a bit of spite, but if they protect consumers I'm all for them. I'm not sure how interchangeable car parts are, but what the EU is doing is requiring things that are known to work: you could alwa
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by xdennis 4y ago
> Using different browsers and setting them as default is already possible in iOS. They are just forced to use WebKit as the rendering engine instead of Blink or Gecko. That's like saying gay people can legally marry in Saudi Arabi
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Do you also want Apple to improve security by not allowing sideloading on their PCs as well?
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> Hands. Off. My. iPhone. Nobody is forcing you to sideload anything. The way I see it, you enjoy a walled garden where many people are competing to provide you with apps. But they have to follow Apple's directives. The EU is also s
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Same here, except the only times I noticed something doesn't work in Firefox but does in Chrome, it was because of my aggressive use of ad blocking and privacy plugins in Firefox.
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> you know this just means more chrome right? In practice, probably, but at least you'll also be allowed to install Firefox. And things don't last forever. Another browser can always gain the crown from Chrome. Without this leg
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Or worse, bundle things together. So if you want to remove some junk it also removes essential things like being able to call somebody.
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This allows more companies to compete with Apple on their platform. Let's say you want to start a payments company. You can do that now. This gives consumers and small firms more freedom.
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The EU went after IE when it owned the web. They can go after Google if it keeps abusing its search monopoly to push Chrome.
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by xdennis 4y ago
> defining shows you watch for nostalgia (eg. Seinfeld, Friends) But what about new viewers? As someone who is too "young" to have seen them originally, I don't find either of those to be funny. But something much older, s
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by xdennis 4y ago
> Quality matters if you care about having a cash cow and not just a one off. I'm not trying to be provocative, but how do you explain superhero movies then? They all seem to be the same and are a huge cash cow. IMHO, if you throw h
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I think it's because "equity" is a code word used by people who think equality is bad.
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> Everything is still the same except the color of the guys skin. That's exactly what people mean when they say wokesters use people's cultures as skins, with no content. If you wanted to add African representation, let's
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If you look at the original pitch GRRM gave for ASOIAF, many of the plot points never happened (like Jamie murdering everyone ahead of him, blaming Tyrion, and taking the throne for himself). You say that the problem is the execution. I thi
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> As a society we already processed and answered this question in the late 00's Yes, but I think this is being revisited. Vinyl continues to grow for example. Some of us are going away from single devices which can do everything, bu
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Did you see the note next to China? It says the figure doesn't include re-education camps and internment camps.
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by xdennis 4y ago
The Economist is British. But in any case, it's whataboutism because police brutality has nothing to do with what is happening in Hong Kong, where the central government is removing local autonomy to impose totalitarianism.

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