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I'm not a tankie, fuck Stalin, but the stat is correct: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_rate

I don't know how well we know China's figures, though.

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Legally the output of the training could be considered a derived work. We treat brains differently here, that's all.

I think the current intellectual property system makes no sense and AI is revealing that fact.

I found this video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4838DPW9ETo&pp=ygUQY3ViYW5vcyBlbiBydXNpYQ%3D%3D

And they claim they were told they would rebuild cities destroyed in the war, but not take part in it. So they were expecting to go to Ukraine, just not as soldiers.

I don't have a lot of trust in any of the parties involved in this, I'm just reporting it.

Also Terraria is a lot of fun and more replayable than most $70 games.

It's kind of funny how you are wrong in every way.

  • Union workers earn 20% more.
  • You shouldn't work while injured. Worker's comp is a thing.
  • You pay a dime to get a dollar.
  • It's not abuse to take sick time, but you already stated people should work injured.

Thank unions.

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I did not know the answer so I looked it up. Fiberglass is hard to recycle and it isn't done much. A lot of nuclear "waste" is actually spent fuel which can be reprocessed and used again.

Obviously it would be better to improve recycling of fiberglass but as it stands today, nuclear waste might be recycled more often than fiberglass...

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In the US a lot of workers don't get paid if they don't show up to work because they have no paid time off.

In the US they often combine sick days and vacation days, so if you miss work while sick, you are using your vacation days, which are very limited.

Uh, what? Most Catholics aren't circumcised, that's an American thing.

Reddit has employees and servers in Europe, including EU countries. GDPR most definitely applies.

Every smart TV is a dumb TV too. Mine has some smart stuff, I think, but I have never used it, and it has never been online.

It's just the cost of a banana!

For all we know this is their luxury buy of the month.

Why is it shameful to be behind Namibia and Costa Rica?

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I don't know about Windows, on Linux it's at the function level, and some cases are tricky.

A lot of those are condos where you get cable and Internet bundles together, and you don't even have a choice. Others might be getting a bundle but only using the Internet side. I was sick with the first for years.

Maybe you're just a bigot.

As others have mentioned, the Galaxy S5 was water resistant and had a replaceable battery. Phones are generally not water proof, so don't go dunking them in water expecting them to work. Use a case for that, also if it floats all the better.

Adding a sealant when you close it isn't a huge chore, although it's nice to be able to just replace the battery without any tools, it's better than charging. Also it would still be water resistant until the first battery change.

Watches have replaceable batteries while having replaceable batteries, too.

As a side note, if you drop electronics in water, take the battery out before taking them out of the water, so that the short doesn't destroy them. The battery will be toast, but that's cheaper to replace.

Could you say more about Quebec and proportional representation? I tried searching all I found were some articles about Quebec hating non proportional representation.

I live in the US were as far as I know proportional representation is not a thing, which is incredibly useful to maintain the two party system. I come from a more civilized place with proportional representation and universal healthcare and it hurts so much to see how broken this country is.

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Nice rant. I was born and raised in a "third world country" with better transportation than the US despite much lower density. In fact it would rank just under Oregon, so 39 stated are more dense than my country.

California does not have good public transportation, neither does a lot of the East Coast, for that matter. I have lived on both coasts and the Midwest, and visited over 35 states. Public transportation is mostly crap with a few exceptions in the core of a few Metro areas, and the NE.

Public transportation advocates want more than to add buses and trains, you are misrepresenting what we ask for.

In some games storyline matters, in others... not so much. Games with a storyline trend to be less replayable in my experience. One exception I can think of is This War of Mine, that game is really depressing.

This post is more reasonable and well written than plenty of stuff I have seen from actual right wingers. I worry when people cosplay too hard, sometimes it becomes real.

Thank you, that guy is so bigoted he didn't realize I was calling him out.

You don't have to be rich, it takes a couple thousand dollars, the problem is to not become homeless afterwards...

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It's not that Apple makes amazing stuff, it's that other companies really put out barely shiny turds.

Look at the zune, the tech was fine, or so I have heard, but it looked like an ugly brick. Seriously, a regular red brick looks better, even a yellow brick does.

I have a Subaru, and while I love it, the infotainment system is garbage. Clearly there was no effort to make it look good and usable.

UX is hugely undervalued, I wonder if one of the reasons is because you don't notice good UX, it's not in the way, but you noticed bad UX. So good UX without a lot of marketing is invisible.

They're probably banning it in local elections.

You're welcome! Tankies are idiotic, I don't understand the appeal, they think they're edgy or something.

Thank you, it's just crazy how bad the electoral system is in the US.

Pointless side note: autocomplete wrote "electrical system" above and that is also true.

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https://www.popsci.com/story/environment/why-us-lose-power-storms/

The US ranks 126 by percentage of renewable energy production in the world. Also this has nothing to do with the quality of the grid.

You might live in an area where the grid is good, but a lot of the US is an embarrassment. Propane had a storm this winter that left a lot of people without power for several days. Texas is... Texas it can't handle cold or hot weather. California's grid main purpose seems to be starting fires.

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So you don't want to include the two most populous states that account for 20% of the US population?

Texas being a leader in coprophagia doesn't make it not the US.

It may not have been your intention but your comment came out dickish. Since your English is so good you should be able to phrase things better.

The side car says this community is about technology news. I don't think they should list everything it's not, but maybe clarify if news about the tech industry are wanted or not.

Immigration is complicated, and you are thinking only of "legal" immigration. It is extremely common for people to ignore those laws. And a job is not always required, no.

You (generic you) don't need to really emigrate to a country to receive treatment, you could go with a tourist visa or visa free and get treated, then go back to the shitty country without universal healthcare where you live.

In my home country everyone has access to healthcare because it's a human right, so by law it doesn't matter what your immigration status is, you will get care. This includes cancer treatment, for free.

Mad at Pepsi? Haha that's a funny way to put it. He got fired when he butted heads with Sculley, the former PepsiCo president, that he had hired, and the board sided with Sculley.

Giving credit to Apple/NeXT for software made by a different company is creative. The same logic applied to Microsoft makes things interesting.

I'm aware of the history, but I don't think you understood what I wrote. An app store was written for NeXT by an independent company, without Jobs' involvement.

Would you give credit to Bill Gates for all windows software written while he was CEO?

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Apple did not invent the term "app", "app store", or the concept of an app store. There was an app store called App Store for NeXT in 1991 that Jobs knew about, and many similar systems in the intervening years.

The only thing different about Apple's app store was the restriction on users' ability to install apps from other sources.

Jobs was great at business, not at tech.

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