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BandicootGood5246 t1_ja0dpxc wrote

Well sometimes their responses go a bit more off the rails if your prod them, but it's like any software bug.. they're not a perfect product.

I don't know why they got so much flak for imperfections, it's kinda like a very knowledge person you can ask questions from, or a search on the internet, they're not gonna give you the correct answer every time, but a lot of the time it's pretty good

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_first_ t1_ja0b3fz wrote

Sites managers who do not wish their content to be indexed have to update a file present on pretty much every website in existence named robots.txt. They should also decorate their pages with a tag named 'noindex' for the case where a third party site links to your pages. All major web indexes will honor either or both settings.

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Smith6612 t1_ja08eyp wrote

Maybe. I've seen BitLocker enable on the BYOC Framework laptops and an Acer laptop I have at home with fresh Windows installs. The Frameworks came without OEM editions of Windows, and unbundled keys. The only device I'd think would have BitLocker enabled by default would be the NuVision 8" Signature tablet, which shipped with Windows 10 originally.

The systems without BitLocker enabling automatically would be my desktops.

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BAG1 t1_ja07yfa wrote

100, due to nature of fractions and our pesky base 10 math, is the highest percentage possible. There's just no way around it. If you think you gave it your all last time but this time you really gave 110%, no, you didn't. THAT was your 100%. (And it probably wasn't even your 100% because that's what people say when they want you to think they did more than they actually did.)

And that's what grinds my gears.

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Prophayne_ t1_ja06teg wrote

I'm with group of assembled numbers. The good of everyone is a societal problem, what's good for myself is an individual one. If the government is telling me not to wear masks in a pandemic, they have failed their end of the bargain and have done society a disservice. It is now my problem. I'm gonna go buy some masks and flip the ole red white and blue the bird.

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FreekFrealy t1_ja046rq wrote

He certainly had access to experts who understood that I have no doubt tried to impress on him the reality of what would happen.

But he saw his problem "Journalists need money" and tried to find a way to treat a foreign company as a cash pinata for that need even though they had neither the justification or even the necessary leverage to do it.

He's a smart guy and definitely had the matter explained to him. Problem is you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. There's another saying that doesn't perfectly apply in this situation but is definitely in the same vein: "Don't bother trying to make a man understand something that his paycheck depends on not understanding".

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CrucioIsMade4Muggles t1_ja03ivh wrote

>If you abandon your principles as soon as its convenient then you don't actually have any principles.

And if your principles get people killed, then having principles is demonstrably not virtuous.

>Besides, wearing a mask wasn't going to kill anyone to begin with so your hypothetical is kinda useless.

It was going to deprive medical professionals of masks, which would lead to them getting sick and causing a shortage of healthcare professionals in the face of an unknown and deadly pandemic threat. Yes--it was going to. My hypothetical wasn't a hypothetical--it was an objective description of what was going to happen and what they avoided.

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547610831 t1_ja039uu wrote

>You're arguing for the principle of freedom of speech, but the moment any principle causes more harm than good, that principle should be immediately abandoned.

If you abandon your principles as soon as its convenient then you don't actually have any principles. Besides, wearing a mask wasn't going to kill anyone to begin with so your hypothetical is kinda useless.

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