blargerer

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago (16 children)

Quick searching suggests she hunts them with the traps but has to release when she's over her quota or the season is over.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (6 children)

That's a weird way to frame things given that a sizable majority of North Irelanders don't want to reunify.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Using breaks is completely standard in some situations. Using breaks and continues can be very useful and still end in clearly understood code in some other situations. It is however, very easy to end up with nonsense code using both, and if its an introductory course just telling you to ignore them isn't that crazy an idea.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (13 children)

That's not a fiscal policy. A country or block of countries can be right about 1 thing and wrong about others.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

50% tends to be the approximate price a retailer will have purchased an item for from its distributor. If they are selling something at 50% they are likely losing money on that sale given operating costs. It's either a loss leader or they are emptying back stock.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Of course the labs location isn't a coincidence. They built the lab that studies corona viruses near a huge natural reserve of bats infected with corona viruses.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago

It's 4-chan so who knows what the interaction was actually like or if it even happened, but his stated objection was to how he was treated for asking not for them saying they didn't have it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If the intent was to keep up with inflation in a way that maximizes local profits, pegging to the US dollar makes no sense. The games wont sell at this price in any appreciable number. Steam could have easily used other tools, like some dynamic pricing model, to maximize local profits. The only thing pegging to the US dollar does is combat key resales, as the comment you are replying to implies.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago

The original set of them was, but by the time of episode 4, basically none of them would be.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I'd sooner caution against gatekeeping.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think the mainstream liberal take is probably very aligned with yours. You have to go further left to get a different opinion. But I hold such an opinion so to give my perspective: I don't give 2 shits about punishment for punishments sake. If anything I only see that as causing more harm. What I care about is reducing net harm. There have been countless studies that have shown that severity of punishment is an extremely poor deterrent. Often times perpetrators are more concerned with the social impact getting caught will have on their immediate contacts over how long they'll be jailed for, and frankly, just don't think that they'll get caught at all. If we take that for true, and my goal of reducing net harm, the value of jail becomes reforming those who can be reformed, and keeping those who can't locked away from the rest of society. Neither of these things are intrinsically tied to any period of time. And because of how we treat ex-cons in society currently recidivism rates get worse for having been in prison. Possibly because they can't get legal work, and possibly because the social reputation damage has already been done, so that fear is no longer holding them back.

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