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Molaxx

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    Comment #17673933

    It's hard, these apps are built by a huge amount of people to maximize attention hogging and addiction. Fighting addiction without going cold turkey is nearly impossible. Awareness…

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    Comment #17643167

    I don't get why they don't use lotteries. Have a grade cutoff, then choose at random. You should get unbiased results. The remaining bias is grade bias which would reflect poor sch…

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    Comment #17482867

    Mean while corrupting and wrecking other countries healthy(ish) national health systems? No thank you.

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    Comment #17418394

    The issue isn't fakes, it's the fact over medication is a real problem. Thank heavens that where I live drug advertising is illegal. After a visit to the US and encountering the br…

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    Comment #17373845

    So they'll drop it on the driver?! The whole setup was an accidental waiting to happen. Uber executives should be held responsible or this will happen again and again.

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    Comment #17181268

    But it's not just studying a phenomena. "driving desire" is an intervention and usually a neutral way of describing massive exploitation of human cognitive failings for purposes of…

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    Comment #17181102

    I wonder if this shipping fees asymptote is the reason Amazon never shows me shipping rates until the last possible moment in the checkout process. That drives me crazy. They don't…

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    Comment #17059148

    Why is this an AMP link and not a direct link?

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    Comment #17006628

    Why do you consider 170000 law abiding citizens as potential suspects? That's an extremely paranoid approach to law enforcement, especially when according to basic criminal law, th…

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    Comment #16932895

    It seems Google is more sensitive to false positive than false negative because of their very good compensation and the relative high demand for Google jobs + the unbalanced high c…

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    Comment #16884107

    Which malicious actions by telegram? Providing their customers with private communication not eavesdropped by the russian government? A government linked with the murder of politic…

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    Comment #16875248

    I think the problem is market economy. Media organizations are businesses which are organisms that focus on the bottom line. I.e. making as much money as possible. Usually the only…

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    Comment #16785318

    I don't see anything about nationalistic sentiment in that wiki page. Still I have no idea why you replied to my comment in the first place. It had nothing to do with what I posted…

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    Comment #16785149

    That's pretty Orwellian. It completely muddles the water and make it very hard to separate opinion and fact. Sounds dangerous to me. Anyway, let me get it straight. you didn't mean…

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    Comment #16785082

    Claiming something is based literally means it's based on something. That something is usually expected to be some fact or some research. If that something is just your opinion, th…

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    Comment #16785030

    I never said sovereign states aren't a good idea. I believe they are, but I also believe the nationalistic sentiment is a double edged sword. But all of this has nothing to do with…

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    Comment #16784996

    I believe the title is clickbatey. The article clearly states that only 2% of affected devices were in Iran, while the Lion's share was in the US. Could someone fix this?

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    Comment #16784989

    Let me guess, it's well funded by Goerge Soros and a cabal of old Jews. But seriously, non of what you said is "well based" you should at least provide some sources when you use th…

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    Comment #16784867

    > Given the recent surge in nationalistic sentiment among young people in the tech community in the last decade What?

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    Comment #16658451

    It's really weird that an app so lacking in security has a reputation for good security and privacy. In Israel there's a huge phenomena where the illegal weed trade went telegram (…

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    Comment #16513597

    How is that legal? Microsoft took on antitrust lawsuits for bundling its browser with its OS. This seems much worse.

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    Comment #16473745

    Huh? In what way is it biased? I'm sure that if China wants talent to come, then they should be happy about this free publicity.

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    Comment #16471708

    Is there any example of this assembly style of programming in Lisp?

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    Comment #16471683

    Very nice explanation for the initiated. Thanks!