DoughnutHole

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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
Ireland is an unusual case because we grant citizenship based on your connection to the island rather than the country, ie pretty much anyone entitled to British citizenship on the basis of being from Northern Ireland is also entitled to an
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
Many animals are extremely social - they'll attack you for taking the group's resources, they won't necessarily have any individual resources. At the extreme end you have things like ants with no individuality, but you also h
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
Other countries have managed economic miracles without mass suicidal tendencies. Plus, that explosive growth has ended. South Korea escaped poverty and now its growth rate is comparable to western countries with much better suicide rates.
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
It’s not even remotely the same, it’s nearly 50% higher than the US (which isn’t doing that great either). South Korea has the 10th highest suicide rate in the world.
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
Well he seems to advocate getting rid of the stupid and industrious. The stupid and lazy can be put to work and will probably get something harmless done, they just can’t be trusted with anything challenging. The stupid and industrious are
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
The existence of pre-internet distractions doesn’t negate the potency and pervasiveness of post-internet distractions. Yea bored kids have always found ways to entertain themselves in class. But this is a matter of scale. Kids being able to
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
Even an “ad-free” Netflix plan is infested with promotion of their in-house productions.
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
Great point on competition in schools. The competitive focus of sports in schools rewards those that are already athletically gifted while shaming and discouraging the mediocre. That's great if the purpose of PE is to create elite athl
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
Today's high school grads wouldn't do well because their education covers entirely different topics. They don't learn Latin and Ancient Greek, and history and geography don't focus almost entirely on Ancient Greece and R
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
> and those were the sort of people applying. Those were a tiny minority of the people applying. Nothing in that entrance exam requires an academic outlier. All it requires is a classical liberal arts education (Latin, Greek, classic lit
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
That's a weird distinction you've constructed to make it sound more okay to be offended if you feel you hold the more traditional position. > take offense (idiom) : to become angry or upset by something that another person ha
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
At the very least qualifications and licensing should be required for anything critical, or for any engineers writing software that does work that would otherwise be done by a legally liable licensed professional. Components at every stage
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
Potatoes have a GI of about 70, comparable to white rice or white bread (pure glucose is 100). So pretty bad. The “potato diet” will only lead to weight loss if you’re eating fewer calories than you’re expending, same as anything else. You
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
Leaving starchy foods to rest for a decent amount of time after cooking results in some amount of the starch converting into “resistant starch” which the body can’t convert into glucose. So a given portion will be less blood glucose spiking
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
What have you added with this comment? He’s offered a short opinion on the behaviours of two companies and made something of an ethical judgement. Why disparage someone for daring to have an opinion?
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
It was an entertaining story that could be followed minute-by-minute. It was funny that a single ship could get stuck with such a huge impact on the global shipping industry, so people were tuned in. And you could follow day by day with the
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
The Mac Pro & Mac Studio made up 10% of Mac sales, which are in turn only 10% of the business. What percentage of those users bought the Pro Display? And what percentage of those bought the pro stand? It's an overpriced periphera
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
I don’t think vast suburban single family home housing developments, big box store parking lots and Wendys drive thrus are the drivers of technological development you’re making them out to be. The overwhelming majority of environmental deg
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
The floor space of an actual Dublin Georgian townhouse is frankly enormous - the houses seem narrow but they’re very deep. We’re talking 5000 square feet between the 4 floors in a country where the average house is 1000 square feet. And tha
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
I wouldn’t characterise 1% as an “extremely small chance”, especially considering the prevalence of the disease, especially if it’s possible to develop it on your second or 3rd infection. Would you play Russian roulette with a gun with 10
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
Just because the US got a useful ally in the long run doesn’t mean that the military objective was met. That wasn’t the objective of the war. The objective of the US once they pushed back the initial invasion in the Korean War was to destro
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
But if the costs can be passed on then that’s a means for emitters to differentiate on cost. If manufacturer A emits more and passes the tax onto the consumer, manufacturer B can undercut on them on price if they’re more efficient. Right no
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
The target is really industry. If no one has to pay the cost of emissions no one has any incentive to change. Look to the oil crisis of the 70s for examples - it was a bad time but the cost of fuel spurred a surge in sale of small cars bec
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
If there’s a negative externality to the fuel it should be priced-in, which is really all carbon tax is intended to do. You can still use gas but you have to pay for the environmental cost upfront. The carbon footprint of electricity usage
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
They’re just trying to muddy the waters. Just shouting that someone has an “agenda” is enough to make some people uncritically drop any facts that are uncomfortable. In this case it’s honestly silly. News publications started widely publis
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
Probably the most pompous drivel I’ve read all year. This isn’t a software blog post. It’s a juvenile political screed with some tech buzzwords.
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
English became the lingua franca of science because of the decline of German science following the world wars. English became the language of commerce due to the commercial dominance of first the British Empire and then the United States. S
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
Blaming extroverts/introverts is a red herring - it’s down to the nature of the work. Whether they’re introverts or extroverts a programmer’s job tends to require a lot of solo focus. There’s collaborative aspects of course but it alwa
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
The speech culture of France and Germany is very different to the US as well, it's not just the dictatorships of the recent past. Nazism as an ideology is illegal to promote in Germany. Use of Nazi symbols outside of an artistic or edu
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by DoughnutHole 3y ago
> For me it was at best a slight help if I was trying to find a celebrity that had impersonators. That's exactly why it was useful. Major institutions and public figures have impersonators, some satirical and others intentionally mi

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