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karlp

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    Comment #27378243

    > Honestly is it any less "baked in" than the pre-eminent Western powers? Because it's _less_ "baked-in". Germany just recognized their part in a genocide, China has yet to acknowl…

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    Comment #27367997

    So don't have those fraudulent solutions?

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    Comment #27346617

    As someone who doesn't work in advertising but is insterested in the space, I find your comment interesting but it doesn't help you are not providing much data for your hot take ei…

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    Comment #26980446

    > Just off the top of my head: - 2001 raid on Armando Diaz. That's 20 years ago, if there is widespread abuse, you'd have something in mind more recent.

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    Comment #26974225

    > Personally I don’t understand why violent horror as a genre exists, and literally cannot empathise with people who enjoy it. What's wrong with it as entertainment?

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    Comment #26043994

    > How do you understand something like 'withdraw, with conversion' or 'withdraw, let your bank handle the conversion', without language? Is there an obvious image or button shape t…

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    Comment #25643828

    So we should throw away public spending because people can't be bothered to check on their politicians once in a while?

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    Comment #25590863

    But what if something important but unseen is broken? You can't look for that and it's dangerous

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    Comment #25289623

    > As far as I know, I can't personally sue these companies for this, and if the ICO does nothing then what's the law is meaningless. Couldn't you sue ICO then?

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    Comment #25057421

    I think the OP is referring to negative studies involving cannabis that receives funding from opposing groups. Alternatively, you have all the suspect studies describing miraculous…

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    Comment #25023210

    > The reason it's important is because it would be the end of the gaming console model if they were forced to accept anything onto their app stores. Which would have pretty broad i…

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    Comment #24866269

    https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2018/01/18/five-reason...

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    Comment #24737920

    Thank you for your work, some of those are amazing!

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    Comment #24705509

    First one I found: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Cloud_Print

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    Comment #24677336

    > It tends to show up the least in WEIRD places What do you mean by that?

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    Comment #24566776

    What a surprise they share board members!

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    Comment #24411794

    What's the point of your belief if you know it can't happen?

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    Comment #24290732

    This is amazing, it looks really useful to easily code new sounds, but it seems not in real time? I would change the name though, with pypy, pypi and pip it seems it will lead to c…

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    Comment #24226300

    It sounds really deep, but there doesn't seem to be any truth to it? Wikipedia mentions internal problems and conquest by a neighboring kingdom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingd…

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    Comment #24173868

    Unlike other people I find the portraits surprisingly diverse, I expected to see very white faces considering most "realistic" representations are from white actors and white statu…

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    Comment #24108036

    That just sounds like work, you write and get money for it ... like a writer. On top of that those websites are almost always terrible, full of long article saying nothing.

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    Comment #23931473

    Considering they were only lending to one person at a time, it does seem like the lawsuit is uncalled for.

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    Comment #23649834

    Couldn't a gambler say exactly the same thing?

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    Comment #23235950

    As someone without a bone in the fight, I find your language quite inflammatory, it's a bit excessive to use "backstab" and "gaslighting" IMO.