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Comment · 4 years ago
Jails do not exist to rehabilitate prisoners, they exist to separate them from society.
Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
Unbiased search is impossible, so DDG should be deliberately biased?
Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
That's a press release for an unpublished paper disguised as an article.
Comment · 5 years ago
Anything interesting that happens at a school board makes the news now because everyone there has a phone and internet. What exciting scoops do you think we're missing?
Comment · 5 years ago
I can follow a few people on fb to get the same content that local newspapers provided. For free. Where's the downside?
Comment · 5 years ago
https://outline.com/DMNUXu

Most of the article talks about post-retraction citations

Comment · 5 years ago
Many things improve but go down in price. Can't articulate fully but it instinctively feels like a rationalisation rather than a reason.

>It's basically an early bird discount.

When has that not been a marketing tactic

Comment · 5 years ago
>the idea is that the product becomes more valuable over time as a result of more features being added

I have a hard time believing that's the main motivation

Comment · 5 years ago
>As I mentioned, I, as a lone tax payer, who made less then £100k, paid more in taxes in FAANG combined in the UK.

Only true if you think companies shoulder none of the burden of VAT, income tax etc.

Comment · 5 years ago
In reality you'd just get a situation similar to Japan.
Comment · 5 years ago
Fair. From ~40% share of global gdp in the 60s to ~25% now

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