jdck1326

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by jdck1326 2y ago
My point is that our personal views on his positions and character are irrelevant. You seem to be discussing a different point.
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by jdck1326 2y ago
How bad you or I think he is is irrelevant. If the people's decision is overturned when the elite do not like it then the country isn't any kind of democracy.
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by jdck1326 2y ago
source?
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by jdck1326 2y ago
Elo. Not acronym, named for its inventor Arpad Emmerich Elo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system
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by jdck1326 6y ago
>your patronizing comment comes across massively condescending Not the case if you give the comment a charitable reading.
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by jdck1326 6y ago
It could also be a moderation thing. If the people working on the website mostly just speak English, then it will be much easier for them to moderate an English-only website.
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by jdck1326 7y ago
Relevant Utah Phillips story: https://youtu.be/j9c1vSIpHA0?t=97
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by jdck1326 7y ago
>A hoax is a falsehood deliberately fabricated to masquerade as the truth Perse probably didn't know it was a hoax.
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by jdck1326 7y ago
I'm not sure the person was speaking about the law or current rules.
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by jdck1326 7y ago
One flaw in your reasoning is that often times people are willing to pay for things which are bad. For example, the Holocaust was bad (a lot of good people died), but people were willing to pay for help in carrying out the Holocaust. Theref
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by jdck1326 7y ago
>not a recipe for happiness And certainly not a recipe for morality
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by jdck1326 7y ago
And risk upsetting Israel?
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by jdck1326 7y ago
It seems like you're suggesting that there aren't massive biological differences between a wild human and a crow. This is false. Humans have many biological faculties that crows simply do not have. For example, the wild, untrained
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by jdck1326 7y ago
Surely the goal should be to be accurate rather than balanced?
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by jdck1326 7y ago
He could set up a twitter clone for almost nothing because there are already fully working free software alternatives.
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by jdck1326 7y ago
Not all of the time. Way too much chance involved. But enough to make a profit on average.
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by jdck1326 7y ago
If one didn't mind breaking even rather than making money one could create a search engine which is free software and have groups/people host their own instances.
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by jdck1326 8y ago
My ISP banned 4channel.org/lit ... a place for discussing literature and philosophy. Bit dumb.
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by jdck1326 8y ago
>guns are not readily avaliable in New Zealand yeah, about that
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by jdck1326 8y ago
The private company one is worse
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by jdck1326 8y ago
Doesn't bother me. I think it's generally safe to assume comments here are made in good faith.
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by jdck1326 8y ago
I didn't disregard your overall point, I just made a comment that didn't happen to relate to it.
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by jdck1326 8y ago
There aren't millions of high IQ people applying and vying to work at Google.
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by jdck1326 8y ago
I only see it on the mobile site. It's found to the right of the heart button.
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by jdck1326 8y ago
When I was about nine I used something called misoft basic! on ios. Not exactly what you're asking for but it did the job.
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by jdck1326 8y ago
... but not gooderer than if the time spent on luxury housing was spent on affordable housing instead
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by jdck1326 8y ago
But there's a difference between being middle of the pack (113/211) and being one of the poorest countries. I'd also argue that GDP isn't a great measure of NK's wealth.
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by jdck1326 8y ago
>social media is bad for everyone disagree
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by jdck1326 8y ago
I normally just say "it's a twenty minute walk" or "it's a five minute drive"
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by jdck1326 8y ago
I guess if you live somewhere where everyone has a car it makes more sense. I forgot I was on an American website for a moment.

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