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by zchrykng 7y ago
If it is an exact mirror with no differences, there is no reason to use it. Either it will start to diverge, or it is pointless for it to exist.
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by zchrykng 7y ago
No one is arguing that it is illegal (at least at the moment), but it is a really shitty thing to do. As anyone with even a semi-common last name, it is basically impossible to find a TLD using it. Not because people are using them for anyt
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by zchrykng 7y ago
No, but Google would be more than happy to put the later on their main search page. Not really any different. Microsoft controls Windows and uses it to advance corporate goals. Google owns their search interface and uses it to advance their
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by zchrykng 7y ago
Definitely a situation of non-nefarious uses getting nuked along with the nefarious ones. Not sure I would really blame Apple as much as all the horrible people who made it necessary for Apple to build this. They probably should allow more
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by zchrykng 7y ago
Read through the entire thing... mostly sounds like a pretty normal attempt to get some kind of affiliate revenue from Nextdesk. And it doesn't look like there is anything in the emails that says "pay us or we will decrease your r
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by zchrykng 7y ago
I don't think anyone is arguing that the value to society is the same in both circumstances. But unless you want some kind of authoritarian state, it isn't your business what someone else does with their money. Assuming they didn&
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by zchrykng 7y ago
That isn't the argument though. The original comment was saying that buying a tenth car is somehow inherently immoral, which it isn't. If I've earned the money I have honestly, it isn't anyone else's business what I
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by zchrykng 7y ago
For anyone who believes that the medical industry is a net loss on society, I have a house to sell you on Mars.
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by zchrykng 7y ago
Where do you think the "unproductive" shareholders got the money they used to invest? Sure, some of them had wealthy families and they are using that, but at root all wealth came from someone who was productive at some point.
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by zchrykng 7y ago
I thought I recognized the name of this place. It is featured in the game Shadowrun: Hong Kong [1]. Highly recommend it, lot of fun. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowrun:_Hong_Kong
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by zchrykng 7y ago
Mostly the place where everything sucks. It is a nasty self reinforcing problem. See some of my other responses for more context. Wasn't trying to imply that black people are natural disposed to committing more crimes, just that curren
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by zchrykng 7y ago
Thanks for the link, will take a look.
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by zchrykng 7y ago
Bleh, yeah. Hadn't seen that before. Not a fan on the War on Drugs, especially not after reading that. On the other hand, I'm strongly in favor of enforcing the laws on the books, and if there is a bad law it should be changed, no
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by zchrykng 7y ago
Already responded to a few other similar question. Absolutely not what I'm saying. There are lots of factors driving the different rates, and black people are just on the wrong end of a lot of the trends. My original post was probably
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by zchrykng 7y ago
Black people aren't predisposed to commit crimes more often than anyone else. It is just that a higher percentage of them grow up poor and/or with just a single parent, which are factors in likelihood to commit crimes, which leads
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by zchrykng 7y ago
Everything I've read also indicates that it is mostly or entirely driven by economic status. White people who grow up poor and/or with single mothers are also highly likely to end up in prison compared to the normal population. Th
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by zchrykng 7y ago
We can argue all we want about how ineffective and/or misguided the War on Drugs has been, but that doesn't change that fact that crimes are crimes. Were some of the sentencing guidelines structured in a racist way? Maybe, I'
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by zchrykng 7y ago
The higher crime rates leading to higher incarceration rates is probably a bigger factor than "white racism". Edit: Making this edit to clarify what I'm trying to say, since several responses has tipped me off to how it could
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by zchrykng 7y ago
Not trying to defend the practice. I'm just annoyed by all the people who only complain about it when their preferred party is hurt by it and not when it goes the other way.
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by zchrykng 7y ago
If you've paid attention to the history of gerrymandering, you would know that both sides do it when in power and complain about it when not.
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by zchrykng 7y ago
I'm a CPA, and I pay another CPA specialized in taxes to do mine. Our tax code is far too complex. Basically no one can just sit down and do their taxes and be sure that they are paying the minimum amount they owe.
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by zchrykng 7y ago
If the malware comes from a domain they own, it is their fault. If they can't be bothered to handle their own ads or pick a better ad vendor, they can pay up for the damage they served up to my computer.
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by zchrykng 7y ago
> Sometimes the other side is objectively wrong both morally and effectiveness. The thing is that both sides feel that about the other.
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by zchrykng 7y ago
Ah, good to know. Haven't tried Chromebooks in a while because I didn't want only a browser. Might revisit when this hits stable.
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by zchrykng 7y ago
Yeah, could definitely be a combination factors. Mostly I think it is that people who care about design have frequently gravitated toward the mac because of their nice design.
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by zchrykng 7y ago
> It has plenty of differences from Mac OS, but most of them are positive. Like what? The lack of all desktop software? It is only even halfway decent if you live out of a web browser.
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by zchrykng 7y ago
The biggest problem with that idea is that you would need to convince the developers who write Mac software to also develop for Linux. There are some really powerful pieces of software on Linux, but almost none of them are designed half as
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by zchrykng 7y ago
You have to actually look at it to use it, which makes it categorically worse than the older real keys. Also until you have access to it on desktops and all of the laptops it doesn't make sense to adapt your workflow to it if you use m
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by zchrykng 7y ago
Mostly exists to protect iOS users from all the security issues that browsers always seem to have. Not that Safari doesn't have security problems, but Apple trusts themselves a lot more than the other companies for security.
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by zchrykng 7y ago
Nothing Apple is doing prevents people from writing good native apps for any of the other platforms. They are just forcing developers to meet a miniscule quality cut off to be in the App Store.

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