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by zakk 10y ago
Do you have any evidence that payment processing companies are dropping business customers because they fear lawsuits?
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Correct, I suppose that an active enforcement of free speech could be defined as a new right, maybe that wasn't clear.
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You didn't get my point. I'll try to make it clearer. Nowadays the right to free speech is enforced in a passive way, so-to-say: "Congress shall make no law [...] abridging the freedom of speech". However the Constitutio
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> These boundaries don't appear to have anything to do with the First Amendment. In my opinion they have a lot to do with the First Amendment. When a few big players can effectively and arbitrarily put someone out of business, that&
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by zakk 10y ago
Two or three big players in the credit card market can effectively shutdown a business. Honest question: do we need better enforcement for the First Amendment rights in the current digital era? Shop owners cannot decide who enters in their
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by zakk 10y ago
I see... Well, if you're sure that the battery is the problem, and you're willing to pay, you can have it replaced by a third-party, or you can replace it yourself buying a kit. It'll be cheaper and void your warranty, which
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by zakk 10y ago
Are you sure your iPhone is not cover by this program? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/21/apple-rep... Mine had exactly the same symptoms, and got a new battery for free!
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by zakk 10y ago
> mode_t is unsigned, so MODE_INVALID < 0 can never be true. Wouldn't GCC complain about a comparison which is always true?
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So increasing emissions. That's very bad.
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Coolest thing I saw today. It's like Neo entering the Matrix.
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by zakk 10y ago
MacPorts user here. It keeps ALL of its stuff in a single directory, and you just have to add it to the path. All package managers screw up from time to time, however MacPorts mistakes/inconsistencies are easily fixed, Homebrew has alw
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by zakk 10y ago
You didn't get my point. If women in Sweden are doing the same career choices as in Saudi Arabia, as a matter of fact one can rule out the society as a factor. Unless you want to believe that Saudi Arabia and Sweden are equally oppress
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by zakk 10y ago
Besides your anecdotal evidence, there are strong proofs that the society is NOT influencing a woman's choice too much. A gigantic survey (I could find references if you are interested) has shown that from ultra-repressive environments
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Have you tried using it as a lossy compression algorithm for images? The position, shape, orientation and color of the primitives should provide a rather synthetic representation of the starting image.
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by zakk 10y ago
So don't assume that what applies to humanities applies to every research field. As you may or may not know, on Nature Communications (and on many other journals of Nature Publishing Group) you can only publish open-access, so that&#x2
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Your last sentence is completely false, at least as far as the physical sciences are concerned. The most prestigious journals have a publication fee. I know for sure that Nature Communications has a pretty hefty fee, more than 5000$, google
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by zakk 10y ago
I've published nine, the tenth is under review. Whenever I published an article most often I got my references corrected, some grammar errors where spotted during the publishing process (I am not a native English speaker), also my arti
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by zakk 10y ago
That's incredibly stupid. The publishing of scientific papers has a cost, in terms of editorial service, proofreading, typesetting. This cost will be paid by scientists, rather than by the readers. In other words, the papers will be fr
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by zakk 10y ago
While reading I had the feeling that the author was reverse-engineering open source software...
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by zakk 10y ago
I'm sorry, but I really don't get your point. Honestly it look like some kind of anarchy-ish wishful nitpicking. You cannot see how a peaceful splitting of a country is way different from terrorism. You cannot see that human right
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by zakk 10y ago
> States do make new laws Of course they do. You didn't read my reply thoroughly. I just said that if you believe they have no right to exist, you must also believe that they cannot have a right to make laws. > a referendum to sp
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by zakk 10y ago
> states have no right to exist Quite a big assumption you make. If states have no right to exist, they obviously have no right of making new laws. Here we are discussing about a law proposal, so apparently everyone believes in the right
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You are implying that a new law to address a new phenomenon will necessarily destabilize the country. Of course it's not so, some laws are required to face a new threat and stabilize the country.
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by zakk 10y ago
Nonsense. Accounting for all deaths together is a great way of losing focus on each problem. Drownings account for roughly as many deaths as police in the USA. Should we seek for different, specific solutions or treat all deaths as if they
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by zakk 10y ago
I would love something similar for Facebook...
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> do you think that the euro is the only reason? No, it's not. It exposed some structural problems of the economy which could have gone unnoticed for, say, ten or twenty years. Italy has a very high state spending, which is not matc
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by zakk 10y ago
Devaluation definitely worked for the Italian economy. This plot shows the difference between the Italian GDP per capita and the Eurozone average GDP per capita. The vertical blue line marks the day the exchange rates between European curre
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> Shouldn't he wait until the actual negotiations come to an end? The negotiations will be done by the government. Mr Farage will have no role in the negotiations. Why waiting for something you have absolutely no role in?
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Call the people who acted as referee to thank them. You should do that anyway. In the process mention that "one of the other referees gave a mixed references, so I couldn't get the position", without accusing him directly. Se
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by zakk 10y ago
The Higgs boson represent an exception, and is the result of quite a complicated mechanism. And if the new particle were a Higgs-like boson it would be even more surprising. Except for the Higgs boson, the usual picture is that matter parti

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