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by xster 9y ago
Man, Putin must be riding in on his bear and assassinating every single state employee if 'heavy targeting' gets them this result. Let's look at the top posts today on r/politics: - Cards Against Humanity buys plot o
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by xster 9y ago
>Can those amounts of gas realistically be shipped to Europe? Wait, isn't that why we're funding Al-Nusra and all manners of terrorists in Syria and overthrowing the Ukrainian government? To stop it from happening.
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by xster 9y ago
It's like fisheye and ultra-HDRs. Nothing wrong with them. Just too different from how our natural lenses and retinas work.
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by xster 9y ago
I think the whole point of the article is that simple OIS isn't enough.
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by xster 9y ago
You can also just get the Motion Stills app
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by xster 9y ago
Very sensible explanation.
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by xster 9y ago
ya, surprised too. I always thought this is just how everyone informally does multiplications in their head.
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by xster 9y ago
Though to paraphrase what you're saying, if we just forget about all other petition types (sounds like they're not interrelated anyway, at least on the supply side), it still means India has ~10x the amount of EB seekers vs China.
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by xster 9y ago
Please please don't spoil the book for others while writing comments.
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by xster 9y ago
Jesus, I didn't know there was such a huge disparity between India and China
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by xster 9y ago
Ralph Nader but joining the resistance gets you hunted down by the PR AT-ATs
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by xster 9y ago
Is that really the problem though? Most of the junk that makes it into my mailbox are from real businesses that probably stands to go bankrupt if they had to change their domain name. But they all have to spam because that's what the m
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by xster 9y ago
Not a flippant response: Curious why this isn't the default mode of operation: - Business sends spam - Gmail users mark spam as spam - Gmail starts putting all emails from business as spam for all Gmail users - Business fails
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by xster 9y ago
Why not spamdecoy.net? It does the same thing and you never give your real email to anyone (though forward cat is open source so it's probably ok), and you don't have to set up anything before you use the temporary email.
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by xster 9y ago
I imagine it can't be the most profitable market to write spams in Cantonese. [subtitle: it's like sending spam in Glaswegian]
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by xster 9y ago
This might be a flippant response but I feel like my original response still applies (in that not everything need to fall into idealogical dichotomies). I feel like seeing the word 'socialistic' (which wasn't really the point
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by xster 9y ago
Might just be rhetorical at this point. I'm just thinking would this be similar to "x% of people believe they belong to the (y < x)% of people who don't have any cancerous cells in their body" and then saying cancer d
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by xster 9y ago
I think it's worth taking a step back and looking at the grand scheme. Everything is a non-binary spectrum. As an example, if you temporarily suspend societal norm (which is what I'm challenging here), to think that we have the au
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by xster 9y ago
I think you might be overemphasizing that relationship (or underestimating its consequence). As a counter example, we can say China can't possibly enforce things like seat belt or drunk driving without political reform but those are la
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by xster 9y ago
Yet another corporate lobbyist type response - You can't have net neutrality, it'll confuse customers - Food origin labeling? Bad, people will realize we have no idea where food came from. - Single payer? But it'll un
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by xster 9y ago
Vancouver is more geographically restricted than San Francisco. Didn't prevent it from becoming a world renowned example of how to do city planning right https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouverism
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by xster 9y ago
Seems like a forced dichotomy. Hong Kong is 70% green space. That's vastly higher than San Francisco at ~13% and has a more reasonable commute.
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Whole Foods “free-range” chicken supplier in overcrowded miserable conditions(theintercept.com)
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by xster 9y ago
Sorry, it was an overly snarky comment. I don't think any basic income proponents are suggesting that it be funded as a purely net-additive expense on the budget. I wasn't necessarily suggesting that we can get basic income while
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by xster 9y ago
60% of Democrats voting on a defense budget increase [1] more than double the amount Trump proposed? Of course, insta approval, zero public interest. You want to lift Americans out of poverty or provide education? Ridiculous pie in the sky.
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by xster 9y ago
Ah now she's the vanguard of the progressives like she's the vanguard of party unity and Sanders is the saboteur in the Democratic Party despite her still trying to strong arm super delegates despite complete popular losses all th
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by xster 9y ago
How do you know the guy didn't just shave his beard? :)
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by xster 9y ago
Recourse? Of course there are! You can subscribe to paying them protection fee that's very vague on what it actually does and that you can't unsubscribe without faxing and snail mailing them forms. Totally reasonable.
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by xster 9y ago
A power plant that don't have a scrubber is likely still less polluting that 10000 power plants that have to weigh 150kg and that have an equally low likelihood of having any environmentally friendly implements.
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by xster 9y ago
Not that I'm saying either side has moral superiority but also to keep in mind is that YouTube isn't a monolithic entity. It has its own contracts and obligations with its creators and label companies. When Microsoft's offici

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