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Wasn't the 'protest' of overpriced or non-existent public APIs for popular websites really the additional server cost due to endless web scraping? The whole concept of a general st…

> All we need are the right people to vote. None of the wrong people. And then we can bribe [20th century respelling of educate] the right people to vote the right way. Then democr…

This is true, but the tradeoff is that now your central DB is a bottleneck that is difficult to scale. Having the applications keep a cached version of the db means that when one o…

My current driver is a pre-2010 vehicle. I really don't want to buy any of these newer cars. Maybe I can import one from Cuba.

> Yellen has just broadcast that FDIC insurance is essentially unlimited Although I agree with the Treasury's actions here so far, this is a potential issue. They should instantiat…

Its not so much a problem for the government to be metering out private keys on proof of heartbeat, but rather that it will always want to tie them to an actual identity. Nobody wa…

Play is important to a child's development. Try to refocus and retain that the context of the conversation is about medical interventions not playground games. It is self-evident t…

> Declaring the body to be correct and the mind wrong seems arbitrary... Hardly, our understanding of the human body is more experimentally valid and much more aesthetically develo…

There will never be a clear cut definition of health, but most people can innately tell what a well regulated body looks like for their culture. For instance, most Americans know t…

It's not really the conflict directly so much as the sanctions campaigns that followed. Russia and Belarus are the number one and two suppliers of a basic fertilizer component, but…

I agree for one-offs and for simple mappings. If I had to do this problem as part of some personal workflow used only by myself, then I would just use `pandas` or some equivalent f…

> Globalization will live on, but only for countries who align themselves with the West. I think your treating 'globalization' as equivalent to 'American-style liberal democracy' i…

> attempted assassination That "Where's Nancy?" line comes from the report of a single police officer on scene, none of the others heard it. We don't have the cam footage or sound …

Poster didn't even talk about giving additional time, just faithfully fulfilling their end of the employment contract. It's bare minimum respect to your coworkers and clients/users…

So proposing a hypothetical. If the only issue here is obligation to the U.S. financial system what if the only on-off ramps to e-coins were cash only? So as an individual, I conve…

History did not start in 1913. Income is not an asset, they have been two different things for longer than the United States has existed as a country. Most governments in recorded …

This is hyperopic viewpoint. Because it would only remove the violence in our neighborhood and not the violence 1000s of miles away. This plan is not worth pursuing. We can grant e…

I guess we differ on what rights are. I am arguing that a right to privacy including financial privacy could be a natural right and its recognition or lack thereof alone by the _cu…

Hasn't precedent already been set for privacy protocols? I know the government tried to stop encryption by listing it as a munition, but they eventually lost that fight on first am…

Privacy exists even if the government violates it due to their tax schemes. A _right_ to privacy may even exist as a natural human right. If a country decides collectively that thi…

This is not how public health messaging works, or how media narratives in general function today. The CDC, being a public health agency, had a definition of vaccine that was intend…

Not to accuse any one person specifically of anything nefarious, but I do find the historical timing of these articles bemoaning self-hosting of email rather odd. Currently, there …

I guess it is always just sort of gross to view such blatant discrimination head-on regardless of where its happening. I suppose in the U.S. we just sort of brush this under the ru…

> NBC News and The Washington Post both accessed an internal chart from Facebook that showed the top three derogatory terms its automated systems removed in the month of June were …

I use only virtualenv and have never really had any issues with it for separating out my project environments. Perhaps this is more of an issue with larger projects, but I also not…