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3,140karma·1,202submissions·December 12, 2023
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Can you really disregard its imperialistic history here - the foundation of the American economy was built on slave labour and colonisation (even if it was a late player), and you wish to completely i…
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Quite true - and even with democracies like Japan and India, it is quite apparent from their early history that they were kind of autocratic democracies with one large party / leader / famil…
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But how many are still staying in Canada? US figures are low because after Europe it is one of hardest country to move to. I am from India, and what I see is that most indians who wish to emigrate cho…
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True. It's easy enough to be distracted by the confusing message that TVs and Movies provide us about what women want in a man - the thing to remember is that most of these is targeted at fantasi…
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Which settings are you specifically referring to in uBlock O? I didn't find any 'click-to-load' option for 'Block media elements larger than' option?
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For a country that heavily depends on immigrant labour, I find Canada's economic policies weird. As is, the shit weather they have make it a very unattractive place to live compared to other deve…
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Oops! My mistake. A reddit user points out that this is not a reputable site: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/evie-magazine-bias/ QUESTIONABLE SOURCE A questionable source exhibit…
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And that's how you tax the poor and the middle-class, and restrict their mobility by not investing in affordable public transportation. (Don't forget that in the US, you are forced to own a …
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It would be the "right thing to do"™ if New York already didn't collect tax on the vehicles purchased. These include - registration fee, vehicle plate fee, county use tax, sales tax, ti…
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Federation is the future because politics demands it. As more and more social media platform turn into an intelligence gathering and an information warfare tool, countries around the world will make s…
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Good move. At least they understand the threat of digital colonisation. Wish my country, India, did so too. Instead we are just leaking more and more personal and private data.
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In many countries, iMessage isn't that popular and other messengers thrive. Why do you think ios forced all these other messenger apps to integrate with the OS call records - so that it can still…
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But how exactly do you increase the diversity? Our diet tends to be mostly staple / regular. And probiotics and limited fermented foods are the only input "sources" I know of?
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Developers shouldn't support App Stores to begin with. Have you heard of Minix, Windows Mobile and Sailfish OS - without developers a platform dies / cannot survive.
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You are right. American farmers certainly deserve a lot of credit for advancing the Right to Repair movement in the US.
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When good journalism flourished, newspapers and TV "forced" alternate views on the public too. That is the missing factor on the internet that leads to radicalisation, as you can choose to m…
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For sure, Java developers need to use a tool like yours to distribute their app. My experience with some Java applications was that running it triggered an attempt to download (I assume) the JRE, whic…
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Could be due to HN title's limit? For example, I tried to submit a story with this title - Google blocks man’s email account over nude childhood photo; Gujarat HC issues notice to firm - but it…
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Now this may seem like a silly question, but if I only want to run Java apps on macOS, what should I install from MacPorts? Searching for "JRE" gives no results. Searching for OpenJDK gives …
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> Apple have the right approach ... Planned obsolescence through SoCs with no literature for system developers, soldered CPU, RAM, SSDs etc. and possible part-pairing on laptops and desktops was …
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Actually, they had been moving towards towards soldering ram and SSD. So this is kind of a positive step back. Thanks frame.work ...!
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From what I understood, the judge is making a distinction between content posted by third-parties and the platform algorithms that served these contents to their user. If the social media platforms di…
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