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scoon1329

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    Comment #25837829

    > Yes, appeals to authority aren't much use in the present climate. So, that's why he needs to offer convincing evidence. It sounds like he offers none (I haven't read it, just rel…

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    Comment #25835481

    > In other words, current investigations do not support evidence of harm. You missed the exception he mentions. "IARC is the outlier in this respect, having determined in 2011 that…

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    Comment #25504773

    > ...I think it's pretty fair to label them based off of that one comment. For content that abhorrent, any number of occurrences above zero is enough to tell what kind of person a …

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    Comment #18292443

    It may not affect the validity of the argument, but it may suggest something about the motivations of the person making the argument. Each person's idea of where something sits on …

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    Comment #16550939

    The industry makes software for grandma's protection so that grandma can feel like she is safe using a computer to talk to her grandchildren. In other words, the industry does this…

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    Comment #15969600

    The issue is more complex than just a bigger pipe. As a site owner, you pay a service provider (or cloud hosting service or whatever) to offer you a certain amount of bandwidth to …

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    Comment #15969569

    From what I understand, the difference is that even if you pay more for that faster internet, you may still not load sites as fast because they haven't paid the ISP for their traff…