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Comment #47808165
First of all yes. Secondly, it's the dumbest comparison anyone could possibly make. The difference with a porn website is as follows: - the age check on porn sites are notoriously …
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Comment #46841120
> That's a cute loophole you thought up, but whatsapp's marketing is pretty unequivocal that they can't read your messages. If Facebook says it, then... Sorted!
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Comment #45739303
When you grow up to be an adult, you will understand that "objectivity"is a fiction. And an encyclopedia can absolutely do that and still present factual information based on actua…
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Comment #45739258
I wonder if something called "context" and the socio-economic direction might have something to do with it. "I think we gotta hand it to Apartheid because schools were very slightl…
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Comment #45739227
Ah yes, America. The place where you get beaten to death for being a fascist asshole. It is well known. Famously.
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Comment #45739211
No you can't. You also don't seem to understand "apologetics"?
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Comment #45650337
You could make smart inferences based on past and very frequent occurrences. Or you could just say "there is no way the thing that constantly happens over and over again has happen…
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Comment #45227555
No. They currently do cooperate and they go get the odd bad press about this. So doing what they actually claim to do would change nothing. Their current stance is just a cop out.
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Comment #45227518
Sorry but doubt. The whole "we have only received two emails" is a classic move of every company caught with their pants down. Considering Proton's history, they don't get the bene…
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Comment #45227460
Which the reddit fanatics on their sub are bending over backwards to defend and explain away when there is no two ways about it tbh.
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Comment #45187473
The only cloud storage that has a decent Linux client is Dropbox. Koofr is a decent cloud solution. Their client is horrendous across all platforms and lacks the most basic functio…
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Comment #45187438
Here is the thing: Dropbox has no business being anything other than a cloud storage solution. Stop trying to do everything, it's too difficult and too expensive. Find what you're …
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Comment #45039592
If "being a Chinese national" is an argument for "not trustworthy", I'm sorry but "being an American national" also becomes an argument for "not trustworthy". By about 400% more (a…
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Comment #44593523
The complaint is essentially that Gemini exists in the first place. Something that on one even needed.
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Comment #44593479
What the OP of that comment and yourself have missed is that Google is not trustworthy enough to give it permission, which the user you're responding to pretty much suggested as a …
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Comment #44520662
How do you fix a bug you can't reproduce?
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Comment #44520587
How do you fix a bug you can't reproduce? It's a genuine question because I'm puzzled here. A very small number of users have this bug (and tbf, it's a really bad bug), and are una…
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Comment #44502262
Yes, we know. We are not saying "privatize the browser" because as you rightly pointed out, privatisation is a guaranteed route to the utmost corruption.
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Comment #44100413
> I do think AI could be a better language tutor than an average language teacher, but I don't think Duolingo's approach is very effective. No offense, I can tell you're neither a …
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Comment #44075073
> The style the author presents is vivid, uses powerful imagery and metaphor and finally, at times, is genuinely funny. More qualitatively, the author incorporates a unique identit…
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Comment #43948664
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Comment #43691808
Damn, the culture they have bred and actively maintained is now going to be turned against them? It might end up making them more sympathetic people on the long term. They might re…
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Comment #43691745
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Comment #43177253
Two countries can be fascist at the same time. And it's not like the UK and the US aren't known for exchanging the worst of the worst with each other all the time.
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Comment #43077095
"You just re-enable it". What world do you people live in? You do realise that the amount of "fraud" being discovered barely registers as a rounding error, right? That there is no …