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andsoitis
29,367karma·9,780submissions·May 6, 2022
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wow. what a story.
3 pts
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Did you end up getting a ride to the airport in time for your flight?
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I might consider reframing. For instance, instead of enumerating the list of features, enumerate what you want to accomplish , which is really something different. And then see whether that can help …
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takes too long to vote.
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what is free software?
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This article gets into it in a lot of detail — https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2020/10/28/new-te... …
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Collaboration is a means to an end, not a goal in itself.
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If an unborn child is really independent of the mother's body, then you should be able to take it out - it is independent after all! If it doesn't belong to my body, what responsibility do I…
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In most states, first-degree murder is defined as an unlawful killing that is both willful and premeditated. So, it comes back to my first argument - if you really think that an abortion is the murder…
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> convinced that many many pro lifers are entirely sincere. If someone truly believes that an abortion is murder, then logically the penalty for an abortion should be the same (all else being equal…
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> to murder their unborn children It seems to me that if you truly believe that an abortion is murdering a human , then the penalty should be the same as the murder of a human who is already born.…
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> Video. YouTube. That's is the successor of Flash Flash is interactive.
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> No, you can't give yourself a "discount" and say well we charged ourselves zero dollars so we owe no taxes. Pay taxes on the market rate. Either make it free of cost for everyone …
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I read a book. Went to the gym.
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> that they use to identify themselves for the rest of their lives. while most humans are given names by the parental unit.
dolphins are a step ahead and will thank us for all the fish one day.…
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a) As a hiring manager (not at Twitter, but at another tech firm), we prefer to have recruiters to help us source and evaluate engineering candidates (instead of doing everything ourselves, given we a…
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No, he is still trying to get out of the purchase agreement he has signed.
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Courageous, but seems to be an immature decision and tactic to me. They haven't even figured out a name for the project and chose to instead signal "death to nim".
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Interesting train of thought. Do you think that we in the west are then more closely responsible for the repression of people in China than what we admit to ourselves? We want cheap things? Oh, this …
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> If my remarks today elicit accusations of Sinophobia, from an authoritarian CCP, I trust you’ll see the irony. I love that he takes on the false equivalence we see often employed to deflect.
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Your eight year old has never been online? Not even on your phone or at a friend’s house or at school?
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> Even as an adult how many of us get scammed. Even cops do! We need antivirus software and firewalls for our brains. It’s coming.
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And being a kid 25 years ago was nothing like it was 50 years ago.
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My bet is that for many (most?), they already have their minds made up (or set in a particularly strong direction) on almost any topic you could present. Since the curiosity and openness to expand or …
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> Most spies and subversives of this sort I dream of having a friend who is a spy. How did you meet spies and subversives of this sort?