The newspaper used to cost $1 (each! every day!) and it was full of ads. Probably about as much percentage of area as a typical news site today. There must be a balance between "no payment" and "no ads" - the optimum…
Sounds like if you pay Cryptolocker to recover your files then you can have you money frozen too. Perhaps this is a good incentive to stop people paying extortionists.
There certainly are. Iphones smuggled into mainland form Hong Kong are sold at a premium. Whatever the reasons for that are among the conditions that Apple must have conceded to to sell legally in the mainland.
Actually, yes. Any water shortage in a developed area with cheap water isn't actually a water shortage, it's a mismanagement or incorrect pricing. California can simply produce more water if they really need it, which…
Not stupid, but they either didn't understand or relied on the placebo effect and didn't perform experiments that were actually useful at distinguishing helpful from harmful or useless medicines - AND communicate that…
Do you mean poorly thought out or just different opinions? If the latter, perhaps you can show why you disagree?
He seems to mainly be talking about discrimination against gays, though doesn't say it directly. I wonder if he really means it that Apple won't discriminate against pedophiles, incestuous couples or the grey areas on…
"Logically, if immigrants were “stealing” jobs, so would every young person leaving school and entering the job market" It's bizarre that people don't see this. Anyone concerned about immigrants is surely, logically,…
These articles appear from time to time but they never give any sensible reason. Just take it as given that languages must be saved. This one has a long diversion into indigenous medicine - not something that needs a…
This just means the last speakers are hoping to pass their insecurity problem on to another group of new "last speakers" to suffer it for them. Nothing against an individual having that desire, but for a 3rd party to…
They nest inside each other as the picture shows. This is clearly a low-labour product. Though I think if you have a lot of people needing a house, there's already a pool of excess labor available.
A surprising fact about wood is that large-section wooden beams can perform better in a fire when there's a lot of flammable material around. They burn slowly from the outside so they take a long time to fail, making it…
Really? Isn't speed limited by the amount of light that can be received in a small lens like on a phone?
There have been some fairly monstrous cases of unions crippling their industries (printers, watersiders). I think that might have put some people off the idea. Not to say all unions are that broken but it seems that…
Talking about committing a crime isn't thoughtcrime. It's perhaps better called a "speechcrime". It's already illegal for all sorts of things. Conspiracy of course is one way. There's also incitement and threats, as…
Traditional conservative values are relative. Western women are forbidden from going topless in public even though men are allowed. They also can't show their pubic hair but can show their head hair. The differences…
Not quite. I was trying to show that even today we're not very enlightened by comparing blacks with pedophiles. These are both groups of people who have been seen as "inferior" and "acceptable to abuse" simply for…
You only have to look at the present to see that we aren't properly enlightened yet. Look at the range of sexualities that are still criminalized: pedophilia, bestiality, incest. We make a show of being accepting of…
Curious what advantage that gives. Isn't quickly loading big programs what SSDs are for? That's why I got one. A program shouldn't be writing to its program files folder if you're worried about large amounts of data…
Price fixing is a good thing? "“Five or six years ago, a bunch of women on the site who did erotic massage got together and were like, ‘What if we all raise our rates by $20?’ And it totally worked. That can't happen…
A possible measure of good is "does it harm people" but that ends up excluding everything, so add details like "does it harm people who are powerless to avoid that harm". You can decide right and wrong by yourself…
> If they are all for equality and against "arbitrary lines", they can start by paying those immigrant workers the same... I agree, but it would have to come with granting an H1B to every applicant or having an open…
> Perhaps because of this thing called patriotism, a.k.a. "do not piss where you live"... Serious question - why patriotism for their country in preference to their state, country, city, continent, or planet? I've heard…
It's strange how action which has apparently helped to lift tens of thousands of poor Indian workers out of poverty is portrayed as a "scandal". There's clearly a big labor pool willing to work for lower pay than…
It does say 98% of private key transfers are not between the SIM supplier (Gemalto) and the carrier. It explicitly says those could be hacked more easily but are out of their hands. I have little doubt that many…
The newspaper used to cost $1 (each! every day!) and it was full of ads. Probably about as much percentage of area as a typical news site today. There must be a balance between "no payment" and "no ads" - the optimum…
Sounds like if you pay Cryptolocker to recover your files then you can have you money frozen too. Perhaps this is a good incentive to stop people paying extortionists.
There certainly are. Iphones smuggled into mainland form Hong Kong are sold at a premium. Whatever the reasons for that are among the conditions that Apple must have conceded to to sell legally in the mainland.
Actually, yes. Any water shortage in a developed area with cheap water isn't actually a water shortage, it's a mismanagement or incorrect pricing. California can simply produce more water if they really need it, which…
Not stupid, but they either didn't understand or relied on the placebo effect and didn't perform experiments that were actually useful at distinguishing helpful from harmful or useless medicines - AND communicate that…
Do you mean poorly thought out or just different opinions? If the latter, perhaps you can show why you disagree?
He seems to mainly be talking about discrimination against gays, though doesn't say it directly. I wonder if he really means it that Apple won't discriminate against pedophiles, incestuous couples or the grey areas on…
"Logically, if immigrants were “stealing” jobs, so would every young person leaving school and entering the job market" It's bizarre that people don't see this. Anyone concerned about immigrants is surely, logically,…
These articles appear from time to time but they never give any sensible reason. Just take it as given that languages must be saved. This one has a long diversion into indigenous medicine - not something that needs a…
This just means the last speakers are hoping to pass their insecurity problem on to another group of new "last speakers" to suffer it for them. Nothing against an individual having that desire, but for a 3rd party to…
They nest inside each other as the picture shows. This is clearly a low-labour product. Though I think if you have a lot of people needing a house, there's already a pool of excess labor available.
A surprising fact about wood is that large-section wooden beams can perform better in a fire when there's a lot of flammable material around. They burn slowly from the outside so they take a long time to fail, making it…
Really? Isn't speed limited by the amount of light that can be received in a small lens like on a phone?
There have been some fairly monstrous cases of unions crippling their industries (printers, watersiders). I think that might have put some people off the idea. Not to say all unions are that broken but it seems that…
Talking about committing a crime isn't thoughtcrime. It's perhaps better called a "speechcrime". It's already illegal for all sorts of things. Conspiracy of course is one way. There's also incitement and threats, as…
Traditional conservative values are relative. Western women are forbidden from going topless in public even though men are allowed. They also can't show their pubic hair but can show their head hair. The differences…
Not quite. I was trying to show that even today we're not very enlightened by comparing blacks with pedophiles. These are both groups of people who have been seen as "inferior" and "acceptable to abuse" simply for…
You only have to look at the present to see that we aren't properly enlightened yet. Look at the range of sexualities that are still criminalized: pedophilia, bestiality, incest. We make a show of being accepting of…
Curious what advantage that gives. Isn't quickly loading big programs what SSDs are for? That's why I got one. A program shouldn't be writing to its program files folder if you're worried about large amounts of data…
Price fixing is a good thing? "“Five or six years ago, a bunch of women on the site who did erotic massage got together and were like, ‘What if we all raise our rates by $20?’ And it totally worked. That can't happen…
A possible measure of good is "does it harm people" but that ends up excluding everything, so add details like "does it harm people who are powerless to avoid that harm". You can decide right and wrong by yourself…
> If they are all for equality and against "arbitrary lines", they can start by paying those immigrant workers the same... I agree, but it would have to come with granting an H1B to every applicant or having an open…
> Perhaps because of this thing called patriotism, a.k.a. "do not piss where you live"... Serious question - why patriotism for their country in preference to their state, country, city, continent, or planet? I've heard…
It's strange how action which has apparently helped to lift tens of thousands of poor Indian workers out of poverty is portrayed as a "scandal". There's clearly a big labor pool willing to work for lower pay than…
It does say 98% of private key transfers are not between the SIM supplier (Gemalto) and the carrier. It explicitly says those could be hacked more easily but are out of their hands. I have little doubt that many…