Hondor

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by Hondor 10y ago
Without high prices, how would you keep people out of the most desirable cities? Birthrights? Lottery? Application essays? Immigration restrictions at the city level? Or not keep people out but let them become shanty towns? Rent is a way to
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by Hondor 10y ago
Can you identify a specific type of disaster which would destroy all bunkers around the world without evaporating the oceans?
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by Hondor 10y ago
In older news - entire Google Play store removed from Android phones in China. Google cooperates by preventing its play store app being sideloaded and disallowing app downloads from its website to a computer or phone without the play store
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by Hondor 10y ago
It doesn't make sense to demand businesses give money away any more than it makes sense to demand that random people do. Do you want me to give away most of my income too because some people are poorer than me? Are you setting an examp
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by Hondor 10y ago
It's not fashionable to say, but what a beautiful example of the free market working. California has attracted high value businesses so it's worth more to operate there. They're pushing out the low value ones because they can
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by Hondor 10y ago
Why ban Chinese money, not local money or money from other countries? What's your actual goal? To keep rich people concentrated in the places they came from? Transferring money internationally is already a pain in the ass. You want to
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by Hondor 10y ago
You can't predict the property market. It's kind of financially risky to put your entire investment into not just a single sector of the economy or a single industry but a single property! What if you'd bought your house in D
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by Hondor 10y ago
That's unavoidable anywhere population is growing. We don't have a right to buy a house where we grew up. Or maybe those kids can ask their parents to sell their house to them at far below market value. You're asking someone
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by Hondor 10y ago
It's sad how few people worried about this back when it was most extreme. Now people are already in prison, already dead, or already have criminal records for life, and the incarceration rate is falling. It seems like too little too la
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by Hondor 10y ago
The TPP extends copyright terms in other countries. The new president opposes that deal. So there's a bit of hope.
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by Hondor 10y ago
Why do we need to preserve access to so much work? The world already contains more than enough old literature for anybody to read in a lifetime. There are plenty of other types of work that have always been lost - construction, acting, cook
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by Hondor 10y ago
You're confusing conservation with animal welfare. They're two different goals which are often contradictory. You may be right that killing poor people would be a solution to poverty. But we don't do that because we think sa
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by Hondor 10y ago
And all the CPUs in the world have a 20 billion brains worth. Despite the large number of transistors, they're still not organized in a way which makes them intelligent, no matter how many times you multiply them.
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by Hondor 10y ago
Isn't it a good thing to record data that helps solve a murder? The police are still getting it with a warrant and presumably from physical access to the device, so it's not the same worry as bulk monitoring.
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by Hondor 10y ago
Way down the bottom, we see the problem is solved for at least the next year: "Early in 2016, under American prodding, the Iraqis reopened negotiations with Trevi S.p.A., the Italian firm. In September, a team of engineers, hired at a
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by Hondor 10y ago
IP that's taken out of the jurisdiction where it's theft is illegal isn't really stolen. It's not like stealing a TV where the person who used to own it loses it. The reason it causes a problem is that the customs aren&#
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by Hondor 10y ago
Doesn't regulatory arbitrage mean following the regulations but taking advantage of loopholes in them? So it's not illegal. That seems a bit different from breaking them, possibly paying a fine, and still profiting anyway. The lat
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by Hondor 10y ago
What's wrong with regular Fukushima scale disasters? They're not very deadly. We already have frequent mining disasters in the coal industry and don't care about that. If anything, nuclear power needs less safety to reduce co
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by Hondor 10y ago
There's a photo of one made of glass blocks in the comments that made it click for me.
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by Hondor 10y ago
The point of being debatable is that it's not obvious what the best answer is. If it didn't load all the tabs, then you'd see an outdated version of the page when you clicked on a tab, or it'd load when you clicked on i
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by Hondor 10y ago
I know of Chinese manufacturers making parts for US customers using out-of-spec metric materials that happen to also be in-spec for imperial. Eg a 6.5 mm steel plate that was made too thin for the 6.5 mm tolerance might be within tolerance
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by Hondor 10y ago
They didn't impersonate letsencrypt so that doesn't apply.
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by Hondor 10y ago
If a business is welcoming such regulation, it's probably already doing it right and trying to keep out the competition that's undercutting them by doing it dangerously. Really, if a restaurant owner didn't want his customers
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by Hondor 10y ago
The definition is: "any vehicle equipped with technology that has the capability of operating or driving the vehicle without the active physical control or monitoring of a natural person..." [1] Seems like Uber is right as long as
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by Hondor 10y ago
I like your license choice. Is there a reason you chose Unlicense over CC0? I've never heard of it before. The text is a bit shorter than CC0 which is nice. Creative Commons recommends against using CC licenses for software so as not t
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by Hondor 10y ago
“Causing the unnecessary use of opioids by current and retired U.S. military service members shows disregard for their health and disrespect for their service to our country,” Why does any problem affecting veterans become disrespecting the
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by Hondor 10y ago
That real time typing reminds me of chatting via direct modem connection to your friends. It gives a slightly better awareness of the person's feelings. Instant messengers now don't seem to do that, I guess the latency on the glob
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by Hondor 10y ago
The rewards roughly do reflect this. Ordinary investing isn't clearly better or worse than investing in property. The problem is that ordinary investing requires many years of self discipline while paying a mortgage has the bank holdin
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by Hondor 10y ago
More likely people choosing not to have kids, which is a trend appearing in rich countries. Population growth is mostly fueled by poor people.
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by Hondor 10y ago
Wouldn't it be an unfortunate accident of history if the same frequency works for humans and having a mains frequency of 40 Hz would have automatically prevented Alzheimer's through most people's daily exposure to CRT TV scre

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