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Comment #23457347
He means relativistic speeds which is optimistically .01c making the trip take 300k years. He doesnt actually mean violating physical laws.
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Comment #23407306
Why doesnt china have the freedom to choose what commerce they want to engage in? If the US didnt want the chinese selling HP servers to Iran, they should not have sold them to Chi…
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Comment #23342716
Using firefox doesn't address the fundamental problems of current internet business models and permissive web standards. Chrome doesn't lock you in to google services. It shapes we…
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Comment #23340719
GDPR and CCPA are just the beginning. Regulation will absolutely play a role in the fight for internet privacy. I sympathize with the libertarian instinct, but the only way to ache…
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Comment #23340577
The left and right need new parties uncorrupted by business, imperialist and foreign interests.
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Comment #23312695
Cadence's point is very valid. Mozilla gets funding by charging search engines to be the default in Firefox and that isn't changing anytime soon. I wish people didn't instinctively…
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Comment #23312612
I think thepiratesailor's point is that mozilla ISNT doing it.
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Comment #23275156
This means the death rate is probably not being vastly underestimated. That hypothesis would require >80% of cases to be symptomless
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Comment #23243934
That's my point. Thanks, I didn't know dole meant a small part of benefits. I thought it just meant any kind of welfare.
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Comment #23243897
I think you've had a bit to much to think, bucko. https://www.christianpost.com/news/fast-food-chains-lobby-go... https://cms.qz.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/file-20171009-... Ha…
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Comment #23243747
>stop all immigration Regan's amnesty for over 3 million illegals: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128303... Bush doubles immigration: https://immigration.law…
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Comment #23243571
This is an american perspective. In the UK, people are proud to be "on the dole" and very few support restricting it. EDIT: Of course brits will still look for work. My point is th…
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Comment #23242868
Medieval French village https://www.solosophie.com/medieval-town-of-dinan/ Modern Bagdad https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y2BD66C-W58 I dont find any descriptions of specific surgerie…
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Comment #23235637
How?
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Comment #23235633
Reducing travel from Mexico has been a popular position in the Us for decades.
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Comment #23232391
If that definition were taken, and people were moral, you could infinitely blackmail moral people by threatening harm.
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Comment #23232365
That likely depends on how effective we are at eliminating it in the coming months. I doubt it will become endemic in Korea or Singapore. I wonder if even influenza could be errati…
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Comment #23232289
Bubonic plague, tuberculosis and polio still exist outside the West, but they don't cause much inefficiency here. I doubt doing some ongoing testing for SARS now that it's been mos…
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Comment #23232151
If the movement restrictions cost lives, why are total fatalities down? (even including SARS deaths)
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Comment #23065553
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martingale_(betting_system) Gambling with unlimited amounts of other people's money is going to be profitable. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics…
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Comment #23065402
Informative and entertaining: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfhAC2YiYHs
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Comment #22999190
The public absolutlely paid the price in the form of bailouts. If those banks had been allowed to fail I would agree with you, but they knew they'd probably be bailed out from the …
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Comment #22981486
Subtlety is not a conspiracy.
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Comment #22972447
The problem is that software engineers are paided poorly compared to bankers, executives, and a myriad of other occupations relative to how it used to be 30 years ago. Even doctors…
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Comment #22972339
Feminists are always promoting numerous and spurious explanations for why women seek out non-technical roles The qualities of women themselves being a sexist and therefor a priori …