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> ...there was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently (shakespeare) Why defer to a baseless "probably" when you can easily check what is known about the past? Wikipedia doesn't put the blame on ref
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3y ago
> Regardless of the type of healthcare (nationalized, private, etc..) the dental health industry is still getting paid, the only diffference is who is doing it. No, one difference is who is doing it, another one is the sums being payed.
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3y ago
They died at young age, miserably?
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3y ago
I'm not saying there isn't such a country, but the countries with national health care that I know about don't or don't fully cover dental health (presumably because one can live in perfect health with a rotting mouth a
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3y ago
> Mathematicians don't give a shit about arithmetic Sure, once you know how to multiply you don't care about it. But try learning first year CS math without being able to multiply without perfect command of the multiplication t
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3y ago
Every society where's education is available. There are different approaches to who and how to cover the bills, but someone must do, if no one else is covering the costs, the educators do.
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3y ago
You can try migrating to a country with better life expectancy projection
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3y ago
Does inflicting self torture should be considered as time spent living?
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3y ago
I'm sure that's the correct answer, and that their very best was invested in analyzing the max profit strategy (as they should). What I'm wondering if it means that the minimal price they can offer the service with at profit,
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3y ago
Like a reflex, comments blaming solutions for complex challenges are being emitted. Alas, no alternatives are ever offered. Shall we limit all technology to what can be contained in a single box? should we just ban countries, companies and
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3y ago
Difference between written and spoken language is common if not universal. Some languages, Arabic for example, the two are so remote they are in a state of Diglossia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diglossia
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3y ago
I sure hope not. I don't have definitive first hand experience though as my kids are not old enough to have to use a computer and they haven't grow much interest in that direction. When my dad's first PC arrived home it was f
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3y ago
My issue was with the sentence from the article that you have started your comment with its quote, and described as so true and so powerful. In contrast to how you perceived that sentence, it had an immediate and strong negative effect on m
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3y ago
The screen isn't too small to use web browser presenting site that looks just like the app, obviously. It is too small for comfortably reading or using the browser in general, so using the phone's browser for searching stuff on go
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3y ago
Not only it is not working, believing it does work with regards to other people, especially one's children or pupils (with or without ADHD) can be toxic and harmful. I have been too lazy to stay on track on many things, yet on others I
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3y ago
Research shows that there's genetic disposition to being a morning person or night owls . Sure, humans can adapt to any routine, or at least to many routines that are going against their nature, but at least with regards to some areas
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3y ago
That's not what I said, I live half my life within browsers. But big chunk of the population that you are probably not thinking about is not like that. My mother in law is using browser to read on her computer, and will never do that o
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3y ago
I find it extremely naive, and I highly doubt there's lack of unsuccessful people who hold similar views. Maximal versions of the belief are actually quite fashionable from time to time, "The Secret" book for an example. In r
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3y ago
The app my accountant provide me - a white-label finance app with the firm logo on it - used to be native. The developers had issues with updating the app to support a change in the camera API and I couldn't scan papers. They sent me g
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3y ago
It's amusing that you are certain that you know his customers better than he does. I believe that you are utterly wrong, and if not most than certainly many people who use public transport and smartphones have never or nearly never bee
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3y ago
Of course I can enable Wayland - I have option to enable Wayland for GDM, and I can use Gnome over X or via Wayland. The fact that it is protocol have nothing to do with the ability of disabling and enabling, I enable and disable protocols
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3y ago
I use Nvidia with X server, and it's great. You are very decisive but other people could have different experience.
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I'm not sure you get to decide what is controversial and what's mainstream without hard numbers behind your statements. As a single datapoint, I can say that systemd is awesome but Wayland is still crap, whenever I try to stick wi
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3y ago
Not sure what you mean, about half the people I know are not on the web at all, or just browsing mainstream news sites occasionally. Then there is the group of people who use social media to some degree and are online a lot. These are 2 dis
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4y ago
"...caring for the sick by glorifying their suffering instead of relieving it" seems bad enough.
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Others did try, before and after he did. Are you arguing that all that was needed to get Facebook to where it is now is owning Facebook at the time and having the access to engineering team? There is the whole problem of hiring them, managi
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> His only other big thing besides getting lucky with Facebook itself is the metaverse To take something like Facebook from very successful college site into the behemoth it is now with luck alone one needs a particularly shining star.
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4y ago
An IT manager in a company that is my client have extremely terrible memory. He is well aware of his shortcoming, ask people to remind him stuff they ask for and is important to them, and himself writes down in notebooks everything he need
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> . IMHO giving a prompt to generate image is amazing but isn't a product because you can't actually produce useful stuff(it's great as an exploration tool Israeli hip-hop band Shabak Samech created their last clip frame b
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4y ago
It was my experience as well until recently. To reproduce, try searching few terms on google.com, not using the address bar but on the actual site, quit, go to the site again, enter the input section and it suggest you past searches. If it
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