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by yks 10y ago
DJT and his associates hint that only a subset of the population have a right to their beliefs, others should keep their mouths shut. That seems like a problem worth going against and it may become acute rather sooner than later.
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by yks 10y ago
That's a tactic of the Russian oligarchs, they make money on Russian resources through personal connections utilizing lawlessness and inequality and they don't care about the country and its people's welfare at all since thei
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by yks 10y ago
In many places they really want to give you a flat price which is about 2x of what would come up with the meter
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by yks 10y ago
I was not living in the US during the Iraq War debates but wasn't that the situation that the mainstream media projected pro-war views? In that sense the debate panels were arguing with the state propaganda basically, weren't they
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by yks 10y ago
> Both these stances [eternalism, nihilism] are wrong, factually citation needed. Author throws around too many unsupported claims to be taken seriously. And then "nihilism is wrong" becomes "this stance is unworkable&quot
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by yks 10y ago
> instead of taking a comically bad example On the contrary, my example is probably the best you can get because the point I'm making is the equivalence between one government and another, or between US presidents and Castro is a fa
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by yks 10y ago
If everything is equally bad, would you prefer to be brainwashed in North Korea or South Korea?
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by yks 10y ago
then a lot of people will try to run from the hungry mobs when time comes. or suppress them by force, redistributing their money to the force of course, so much for hard-earned income.
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by yks 10y ago
Recent events show that "sovereign territory" is a somewhat fluid notion.
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by yks 10y ago
I generally like the full web version, but the mobile app is atrocious. Why, why on Earth can't I see the list of last searches or at least last played songs.
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by yks 10y ago
Using the opulent language Orwell argues against in English language tests like IELTS is a sure way to increase your score.
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by yks 10y ago
We use multiple identity providers for users to sign in to our website and we have 2-stage login form to either redirect a user to the identity provider their organization uses or to use our native login/password authentication. As for
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by yks 10y ago
You make it sound like $50/hr devs are stupid and not able to devise such a clever trick but reality is not like that. Sure there is a difference but it's not in your example, the pre-uploading feature was hardly there in the firs
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by yks 10y ago
More anecdotes: every single urgent care center I visited is 2hr+ wait; then I opened my Blue Shield CA online doctor registry and called some — do not accept new patients or available in a month. For rich people/folks with wonderful i
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by yks 10y ago
No. iTunes is probably the worst piece of widely used software out there. It's just a UX nightmare, hard to grasp how to do things, almost impossible to grasp what the consequences of doing things are.
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by yks 10y ago
I think that is the point, there will be too many people "that can't work" due to tech innovations. It all makes sense if you think about welfare not as "these slouches are rewarded for the laziness" but as a price
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by yks 11y ago
Exactly. I don't understand this popular craving of immortality. If you look at the current society and add immortality, you just get horrific dystopian future, where by the way majority of the world is still mortal just enslaved by po
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by yks 11y ago
This is a good point, but isn't it the agriculture which mainly drives the overexposure? Even if it isn't I doubt that this is a reason why antibiotics are prescription-only. Almost every other group of pharmaceuticals in the US i
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by yks 11y ago
> Some people in the survivalist and "prepper" communities say you can take "fish antibiotics" This and food supplements, little-known or mostly unregulated chemicals, you can buy them online on your own. But as long
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by yks 11y ago
When I first started reading about American health care being a foreigner I saw a persistent argument that in single-payer system "people will die in lines". Yet here in the United States the lines in medical institutions are grea
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by yks 11y ago
In this thread people stress how it is important to learn new things. And then how showing interest in a new thing (Machine Learning) is a red flag. Go figure.