Asbostos

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by Asbostos 11y ago
Yes. If you're living hand-to-mouth, then you're already having a problem. Things have already gone wrong. It's too late to put the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff and only worry about people when they fall off - which e
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Ironically, pretty much all of us are bigots in various ways, we just don't know it because we believe we're right. Eat meat? Drive a car? Pay taxes to a militarily aggressive and murderous government? Buy luxury goods while poor
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by Asbostos 11y ago
This is harsh but true. If you're at risk of losing your job, and you need all that income just to survive - without saving anything - then you're already not in a sustainable situation and should fix it while it's easy, not
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Isn't California the most economically successful state in the US? Also the most progressive. However terrible the idea is, it isn't doing much harm to California compared to other states. You might not agree with the results of s
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by Asbostos 11y ago
But that's what most people want. If they didn't want it, they wouldn't keep voting for the same two parties or not bothering to vote. Why not just accept that the majority likes it that way, even if you feel it gives bad res
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by Asbostos 11y ago
What I've started to realize about people is that you can't influence them all with deterrents. No matter how long the sentence, or how permanent the memory of the justice system (8 months in prison for robbery, 50 years later), n
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by Asbostos 11y ago
local busk pail? I'm not denying there were a lot of horrible things, but largely temporary and more psychological than financial. Even the son being held in jail for 2 weeks doesn't seem as bad in the long term as losing your inc
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by Asbostos 11y ago
It sounds like the only serious, tangible problem that happened was that Amy's employer (Ingalls) fired her because she was the victim of hackers, and then she couldn't get a new job because future employers didn't like what
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Being scary doesn't necessarily mean dangerous. Perhaps the steep cliffs actually keep people paying better attention than a narrow road with parked cars or trees along the side which may feel more comfortable but might be equally dang
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by Asbostos 11y ago
This analysis doesn't lead to any relavent conclusion at all. It just shows more vehicle accidents of any type than cycle accidents. It needs to at least be scaled by the ratio of bikes to other vehicles on that road. Without even any
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by Asbostos 11y ago
I think that's exactly what they're doing. Since they have to pay the government's negative interest rate on the deposits, they don't want free deposits. The article mentions how other banks have done the same thing by i
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by Asbostos 11y ago
I have a feeling that the idea of owning things is going to become a crazy old-people's complaint. Perhaps younger generations will be happy with their remote-wipeable phone apps, viewed-then-gone movies, hired rides in someone else&#x
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Converting RMB to USD is restricted. Individuals can only exchange $50k per year from RMB to USD legally, though there are guys parked outside banks with piles of USD they can sell you.
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by Asbostos 11y ago
I think western people see ghost cities as bad because for westerners, that's what happens when a city is shrinking and people are leaving, like Detroit. In these Chinese cities, it's just the other end of the process. The start o
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Why not? Is there a requirement that every city which once existed continues to exist? If it really can't sustain itself, then why is it there?
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Absolutely not! I can't stand TVs and projectors that try to be too smart with inputs. If you're the TV, you don't know that I'm about to plug my computer in and I've selected the input before connecting it. Otherwi
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by Asbostos 11y ago
It really glosses over this with only a brief mention that's immediately dismissed: "It’s true that these groups are slightly more likely to suffer from heart disease and some other life-threatening conditions in the first place.
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Even UEFI? Even no Windows when you first bought the computer?
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Once you start grouping people into big lumps like "student" and "old", it opens up a rat's nest of unfairness. What about disabled people who aren't old? What about old people who are very rich and healthy? Et
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by Asbostos 11y ago
If you buy a computer, this has never been true. You only get a license to use the software that comes with it and not complete freedom to do what you want. For example, you can't copy Windows off your computer on to your friend's
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Don't forget Tesla did this with some of their earlier Model S's. Preventing use of the full battery capacity on cheaper versions. It's obviously standard practice in all commercial software too. The whole idea of selling sof
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Currency controls yes, strict no. It's a sieve. Most countries actively manipulate their exchange rates to help boost exports. That's normal. They do it by adjusting interest rates and setting various policies.
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by Asbostos 11y ago
I think largely politicians are very intelligent and competent. What they're not though, is open about their own thoughts. That's not their job. Their job is to reflect what their supporters (financially and votingly) want. If the
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by Asbostos 11y ago
It would help conventional law enforcement. Most violent criminals probably don't put enough forethought into their spontaneous attacks to properly avoid notice by the NSA. Unfortunately the NSA doesn't seem to use their resources
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by Asbostos 11y ago
It sounds about as hopeless as many things in science. There are too many researchers and no good objective measurements of success. Even the author essentially said "I prefer to fund people according to whether they have recently publ
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by Asbostos 11y ago
The UK has a similar problem making cars. It's a kind of urban legend that you shouldn't buy a UK built car because the workers are so incompetent and bits will fall off. People I've met trust Japanese cars more. That's
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Being close to failure isn't a requirement for visibly bending. For example, see wire rope or cloth. Anything very long and thin can flex a long way without much strain on any individual part of it. Low FoS yes, but even if you doubled
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Really? Arguably ISIS would never have existed if the US didn't invade Iraq, destabilizing it and leaving a power vacuum. Also creating increased hatred towards the west in the process. I'd say using peace as a response to 9/
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Static linking may be bad for security but good for saving hours of frustration. It's a trade-off and it's not clear that security is automatically the most important thing always. Just look at any forum about some open source sof
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by Asbostos 11y ago
There's now an idea that that robustness principle was backwards. The classic example being web browsers which were so liberal they encouraged all sorts of weird non-standard web pages which now have to be supported forever. If a PNG a

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