pgsimp

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by pgsimp 5y ago
Since the explosion of kids identifying as trans is a rather recent phenomenon, it seems likely that there is no good research on the outcomes yet. The people identifying as trans who were studied ten years ago may be very different from th
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by pgsimp 5y ago
I also know many people who have seriously hurt themselves while helping friends moving - shot backs, destroyed knees. I guess it is fine while you are still young and poor, and have few possessions. But as soon as you can afford it, you sh
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by pgsimp 5y ago
How are the small businesses supposed to update their websites, if there is no backend? You can't expect them to write HTML. Not sure if suitable WYIWYG editors are still around, or if Word exports to HTML have become usable.
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by pgsimp 5y ago
OP didn't actually mention compensation as a pain point.
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by pgsimp 5y ago
It's a pity as it ranks #1 in this site about economic freedom: https://www.heritage.org/index/ I wonder if there are better lists that sort countries by actual freedom?
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by pgsimp 5y ago
People invest massive amounts of time to build a following and create content on those platforms. It seems reasonable to ask that it can't be taken away from them at a whim. However, in theory, they should have read the contract before
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by pgsimp 5y ago
The producers sign the contracts with the people they meet in person to make the videos, so they can verify those same people signed the contracts. A web site has no way to check if the contracts are real. People can just upload made up doc
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by pgsimp 5y ago
That assumes all thumbnails or pictures hash to the same value. Why would that be? There can be different algorithms, resolutions, crops... And there can be millions of thumbnails to check.
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by pgsimp 5y ago
You bring forth one expert to support your claim. I am merely pointing out that there are other experts with differing opinions.
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by pgsimp 5y ago
Lots of people also write books. And the Stanford Prison experiment has received a huge amount of criticism by now, afaik. Also being famous does not automatically make you an expert. Edit: googled citation for criticism of the SPE https:&
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by pgsimp 5y ago
You can always find people believing all sorts of things.
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by pgsimp 5y ago
How will the sites in question learn of that court order? YouTube is one centralized site, that's different to the internet as a whole.
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by pgsimp 5y ago
Maybe it is OK to ask money for such a service? I think in general that kind of service does exist. You can pay people or companies to try to remove as much as possible of your content from the internet.
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by pgsimp 5y ago
I am not convinced that is is bad for consumers. Occasionally I see people talking about their porn addiction. But it can also boost people's mood. I don't know why some people seem to get addicted, but it clearly doesn't hap
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by pgsimp 5y ago
Does it actually host so many illegal videos? It is difficult to verify those claims (as certainly one can't simply go there to search for some child porn, and usually the videos will already have been removed when a story is published
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by pgsimp 5y ago
Or maybe it is just media companies trying to exert power and blowing up issues out of proportion. Just because some media outlet writes a dramatic article, doesn't mean politicians should rush to instantiate new laws to appease the jo
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by pgsimp 5y ago
How could that even work in practice? Everybody who is visible in a video has to do some kind of VideoIdent and clearly state their consent? YouTube should have to do the same, btw.
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by pgsimp 6y ago
No, women who are pretty without makeup do exist.
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by pgsimp 6y ago
"They've all been bought by foreign companies." But were the local owners forced to sell? And is there an actual issue with them selling to foreign companies?
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by pgsimp 6y ago
It sounds like reinventing the wheel. Why not import the knowledge, rather than develop it again from scratch? Maybe you can imagine it could work with chocolate, but take something more complicated like cars, computers or phones. It seems
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by pgsimp 6y ago
The thing is that many places that are nice stop being nice when they are filled with lots of people. I like to talk about living by the sea, near a nice beach. That's a limited resource. Of course you can build skyscapers by the beach
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by pgsimp 6y ago
"living in desirable locations will still cost more, and will still be allocated via a market to those who can pay the most." But then the demand of "giving everybody a shot at what they want" is not fulfilled. The peopl
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by pgsimp 6y ago
How is that supposed to work? I would expect the tax to be factored into the rent?
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by pgsimp 6y ago
I don't think building costs are the main issue with availability of housing. You need the land to build on - and not just any land, but land in desired locations. How are the artificial mega cities in China doing? Didn't they bui
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by pgsimp 6y ago
I live in a city with high rents. What would it look like if everybody had a shot at fulfilling their economic dreams? Let's say their dream is to live in the center of the city, in one of those flats that now cost 2 million dollars. S
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by pgsimp 6y ago
My protection against phishing is my password manager. If the site is fake, it won't find the password for it.
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by pgsimp 6y ago
Everybody thinks that, because it is the leftist agenda and pushed in all media channels (who also happen to compete with social networks for clicks). The ultimate goal behind that narrative is of course censorship and control. I'm dis
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by pgsimp 6y ago
Authenticator Apps?
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by pgsimp 6y ago
Maybe "not a lot of money" was a bit misleading. It really depends on what you want to achieve. I agree that it feels like a lot of money for spending it on a gaming PC (I have the same debate with myself). But since you are a hea
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by pgsimp 6y ago
The point of Ethereum is not really to be a distributed computer. It also seems misleading to describe it that way, as it doesn't distribute computations. Every node computes the same thing.

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