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by AlgorithmicTime 6y ago
That's not incitement to violence unless he actually has the means to do it. If you tell a joke in bad taste, it's not incitement.
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by AlgorithmicTime 6y ago
Those are technological changes. Once technology made slavery obsolete, it was banned. Once technology meant women could be as productive as men, and could control reproduction at will, they were given equality.
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by AlgorithmicTime 6y ago
The old saying goes "Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, that's why I shit on company time."
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by AlgorithmicTime 7y ago
Genuinely, yes! If you have a child, you need to consider your child's needs and best interests ahead of your own hopes and dreams and desires. And if that child's needs are better met by taking a decent job in a lower COL area th
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by AlgorithmicTime 7y ago
Minsky is accused, with no hard evidence. RMS is likely correct that Minsky did not know the girl's age or that she had been coerced. So, assuming Minsky did have sex with the girl, he had no way of knowing that what he was doing was i
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by AlgorithmicTime 7y ago
Eh, Alps SKCM are nice, but buckling springs are better, and still produced by Unicomp. Also, it's kind of a renaissance of keyboard switches right now. Kaihua is putting out some interesting designs.
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by AlgorithmicTime 8y ago
How is it any different than letting them use the mail? You can't combine the First Amendment with censorship.
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by AlgorithmicTime 8y ago
Your lungs don't have taste buds, those are in your mouth. You take the smoke in your mouth, mainly. You might pump it through your nose, too.
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by AlgorithmicTime 8y ago
It's not impossible for Google to do, it's unjust for one nation to regulate the conduct of a company in every country.
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by AlgorithmicTime 9y ago
I... don't really see the problem with this?
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by AlgorithmicTime 9y ago
Not typically. Unless you're claiming that by working in the city and commuting home to the suburbs, people are being subsidized by the city. But that would be silly.
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by AlgorithmicTime 9y ago
Social censorship of speech is nearly as dangerous as government censorship of speech. We need to have a robust norm of not trying to silence people for dissenting viewpoints
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by AlgorithmicTime 9y ago
You can harvest the yeast from live beer and grow the yeast for use in your own beers.
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by AlgorithmicTime 9y ago
Beer with live yeast still suspended in it, rather than filtered out.
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by AlgorithmicTime 9y ago
She should contact Ken White at Popehat for free speech legal advice. He likes to help people with finding a first amendment lawyer who will work pro bono.
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by AlgorithmicTime 9y ago
Until that actually causes the US to stop increasing the proportion of renewable energy, I'm skeptical it's an issue.
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by AlgorithmicTime 9y ago
IIRC, the sinking of Louisiana is more related to the channelization of the Mississippi. Without the sediment formerly delivered by yearly floods from the Misssissippi, the land is eroding away.
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by AlgorithmicTime 10y ago
You can't just punch people in the face because they're Nazis. There's no way to do that that doesn't lead to an escalating violence cycle.
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by AlgorithmicTime 10y ago
There's not really one incumbent in that market. There's a million small transportation brokerage firms which intermediate between shippers and trucking companies. Generally, the shippers will get better rates going through a brok
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by AlgorithmicTime 10y ago
Containerization alone is probably responsible for half of that.
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by AlgorithmicTime 10y ago
Actually, a 1900 to 2700 lbs. shell (depending on type).
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by AlgorithmicTime 10y ago
Well, that's not true. Many Aegis cruisers and destroyers are now armed with SM-3 missiles which are capable of anti-ballistic missile and anti-satellite.
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by AlgorithmicTime 10y ago
When did Cuba have a functional democracy?
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by AlgorithmicTime 10y ago
>Who are the "boys in Tehran" who know that Israel has 200? CIA spies? The negotiators? Diplomats? The Iranians. The Iranians know that Israel has approximately 200 nukes pointed mostly at them.
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by AlgorithmicTime 10y ago
It's not merely xenophobia, though that is a factor.
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by AlgorithmicTime 10y ago
We haven't built a diesel-electric submarine in decades. Our nuclear subs are top notch, but Taiwan does not want to operate nuclear subs, it's too expensive.
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by AlgorithmicTime 10y ago
Feral flocks of chickens? Possibly, it costs more to feed the chickens than the chickens provide in economic benefit? Avian influenza spreads like wild through chicken populations and from thence to poor families?
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by AlgorithmicTime 10y ago
The one thing it does do is push responsibility for init scripts off of package maintainers onto upstream. Which explains it, I believe.
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by AlgorithmicTime 10y ago
But... no one's imposing. The people of France are choosing to consume cultural artifacts provided by netflix, et. al. The French bureaucracy is basically telling the people that "no, we know better than you what you want." W
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by AlgorithmicTime 10y ago
Why?

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