dendriti

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by dendriti 3y ago
You sure do have a LOT to say about Audible, despite demonstrating here a clear lack of understanding of how the service works, its market position, how much it charges, and so on. JAQing off in defense of a monopolist is a bad look.
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by dendriti 3y ago
The government is deeply involved in the "free market", like when it defends trademarks, copyrights, and contracts by force or threat of force.
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by dendriti 3y ago
The story in D4 is fantastic "for a video game". It's still a shitty video game story that wouldn't succeed in any other medium.
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by dendriti 3y ago
I don't think this is a very accurate description of how things work in Germany. It's exceedingly rare in any Western jurisdiction for the aggrieved party to press charges. This power is usually left to government prosecutors, w
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by dendriti 3y ago
So you're not going to admit you were ignorant or just lying?
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by dendriti 3y ago
Libertarianism has been exposed as bullshit over and over again. To dismiss these well-documented concerns as "ideological defense mechanisms" is just sad. FWIW homeopaths and chiropractors use the same sad defense.
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by dendriti 3y ago
There are PLENTY, certainly thousands and probably tens of thousands, of works which represent this monster's "view/ideas/philosphy" and weren't written by a deranged murderer. So you can understand the concer
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by dendriti 3y ago
I can access BBC.com and Medium.com from Malaysia without a VPN or alternate DNS server.
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by dendriti 3y ago
Most of what jobs?
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by dendriti 3y ago
Nearly every time a user whines about being banned from a subreddit by evil mods for "muh different opinion", they were just being assholes.
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by dendriti 3y ago
The Right's devotion to truth and honesty in politics and society should serve as a beacon to us all.
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by dendriti 3y ago
If I use ChatGPT to "hallucinate" a source, and post it here, am I lying?
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by dendriti 3y ago
Yes, my tenants certainly do. Thanks for the support.
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by dendriti 3y ago
Why is this a non-story?
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by dendriti 3y ago
If you are copying your passwords into the clipboard, you've already failed at using a password manager. Might as well just use an unencrypted text file.
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by dendriti 3y ago
Wow, that sounds awful. Any proof?
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by dendriti 3y ago
Who said anything about "entitled"? Folks are ALL OVER this thread using emotionally-loaded language, because it's hard to argue for ads any other way.
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by dendriti 3y ago
Anti-piracy folks love to use bullshit loaded terms (such as "piracy" itself) to justify some megacorporation taking over shit on my computer. Adblocking is now "cheating"?`
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by dendriti 3y ago
Let's not forget that a significant part of the first world ships much of their trash to the third world, often illegally.
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by dendriti 3y ago
There's been a bizarre shift in discourse about privacy in the last 15 years. When most of these posters were young, they actually cared about keeping their personal information private. The idea that you would carry around a device
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by dendriti 3y ago
Nobody mentioned anything about lack of disruption except you. Moving those goalposts.
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by dendriti 3y ago
Apple earns more from gaming than Nintendo.
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by dendriti 3y ago
It's difficult to separate Persian history from Islam during the Golden Age of Islam in Persia.
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by dendriti 3y ago
Well shit. Does your "Canada Fiber to the home" come with unlimited fast storage for free?
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by dendriti 3y ago
Of course they are 'limited functionality' kiosks, they exist to print boarding passes!
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by dendriti 3y ago
This tracks, actually - Spain (or Spanish monarchs) ruled the Netherlands for over 170 years.
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by dendriti 4y ago
Fashion is LITERALLY what you just defined.
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by dendriti 4y ago
Malaysians commuting across the bridge make up about 10% of Singapore's workforce - huge, to be sure, but nowhere near the ratio seen in Monaco.
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by dendriti 4y ago
It's hard to take this author seriously when he makes a big error in the first sentence (non-Muslims are allowed to enter Medina). Additionally, the population of Saudi is not anywhere near 100% Muslim.
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by dendriti 4y ago
If you're limiting support of Z-Libs to only those 'slightly technically inclined', you're leaving a lot of support on the table.

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