Hondor

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by Hondor 10y ago
Donating to politicians doesn't directly get laws passed. Voting for them does, and voting is only done by individuals no matter their wealth. If the people of Florida want solar, they shouldn't vote for that anti-solar governer.
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by Hondor 10y ago
Big companies probably have more pieces of software that increase the chance of one of them having trouble with null, or they're overly cautious because they know they have that risk.
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by Hondor 10y ago
The early auto industry? They'll likely think we're crazy looking at our current auto industry. Who doesn't know anyone who was killed or seriously injured in a car crash?
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by Hondor 10y ago
Sounds like a good idea. If politicians were held accountable for their actions for their whole career, they might actively look for the long term better policies instead of blindly mirroring whatever nutty ideas their current round of vote
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by Hondor 10y ago
Having a campervan without a toilet might bite you in some places. New Zealand used to be a great place for this but a couple of years ago they made it illegal to sleep in such a vehicle just about everywhere except designated pay-per-night
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by Hondor 10y ago
While there may be value in preserving those cultures. What tends to happen is outsiders say "We want to preserve that interesting way of life in case it's useful to us oneday. Hey you natives with nothing better to do all day, wh
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by Hondor 10y ago
Something people seem to have missed. The lawyers did the case on a contingency fee basis. That means if they lost, they would get nothing. They took a risk so the judge is rewarding them for taking that risk.
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by Hondor 10y ago
Common experience tells us we make decisions without consciously thinking about them all the time. When you do something a bit silly and someone asks "why did you do that?", you try to make up reasons when really you didn't k
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by Hondor 10y ago
IBM also caused $100,000,000 waste on New Zealand's failed INCIS police computer system.
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by Hondor 10y ago
The idea of the cartel is that nobody would want to sell their diamonds cheaper when they can sell them for more through deBeers. They don't want to get into a price war with each other since then every player will lose.
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by Hondor 10y ago
You'd lose the definition of angle as arc length / radius, which would make your proposed unit just as arbitrary as degrees - most formulas involving angles would need to contain a conversion factor. You'd also lose the small
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by Hondor 10y ago
The reverse is true for metric pipe threads. They're named with mm but are actually the same dimensions as the inch threads. Luckily the inch numbers have only an arbitrary relationship to any dimensions of the thread anyway so nobody
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by Hondor 10y ago
Your example of mm is not true at all. There's no need for 3 significant figures for electrical wire size. Where I am, it's 2.5mm^2 for 10 A circuits, 1.0mm^2 for lighting, etc. The 2nd digit is always a 0 or a 5 so it's even
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by Hondor 10y ago
Yep. These are also the people causing housing price rises by voting for local governments that'll protect their investments and disallow more rapid new construction or smaller lot sizes.
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by Hondor 10y ago
Are there examples of very lightly regulated housing markets in developed countries? Does that really lead to bad things like people say? I know it can cause slums in poor countries. But would California or Vancouver somehow fail if they al
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by Hondor 10y ago
Wouldn't a better culture fit be picking people who don't like to dogmatically promote their personal political beliefs, whichever side of the fence they're on? I've worked in groups where many members loved argueing and
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by Hondor 10y ago
Sure he was more traditional and self interested. But his actions were nonetheless essentially "good" in the same way He informed people that they were having their telecommunications secretly listened to. Just because it was for
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by Hondor 10y ago
Before Snowden and Manning there was the more old fashioned Ronald Pelton who was just released from his 30 years in prison last year for revealing information about submarine phone tapping. His motives were different but he was still treat
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by Hondor 10y ago
It's 3 wolves and a sheep voting on what's for lunch. If they had a referendum that only allowed landowners to vote, guess whether they'd choose policies that increased or decreased property values? Same if you ask citizens i
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by Hondor 10y ago
You're saying you only want to vote for a party that could win. Why? For the satisfaction of feeling like you made a difference? If the polls showed that the "greater evil" party was winning by a large margin, would you vote
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by Hondor 10y ago
Are you really saying this could lead to war between Europe and the UK? That seems entirely unlikely unless some other major disaster happens, and in that case they would just quit the EU anyway if it suited them.
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by Hondor 10y ago
People can already build robots with guns that run around shooting people, but they usually don't. We still have laws to protect us from that. Nation states have the resources to build armies of gun-shooting robots and they already do!
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by Hondor 10y ago
You probably didn't arbitrarily give that to yourself. If the company decides to give employees discounts for some reason, like staff retention, that's quite different from just picking up whatever you like from the warehouse and
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by Hondor 10y ago
This is one of the not-very-international startups. Only available for merchants in 2 or 3 countries last I checked. I don't think small companies can do true international payment processing because of the labor needed to handle all t
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by Hondor 10y ago
Can you give some examples? I know in America there are lots of startups doing it, but what about the rest of the world? I looked into Skrill a few years ago which seems to be just as international as Paypal, but also with just as horrible
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by Hondor 10y ago
Chewing gum can also increase intelligence. So it's easy to see that the effect of games can be hard to isolate from other factors. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19356310
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by Hondor 10y ago
Works in horse racing.
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by Hondor 10y ago
I tend to feel the same way but there are often safety reasons. You can't have a popular sport where the winners are the ones who push themselves closest to death. g-forces causing harm to drivers: https://what-if.xkcd.com&#
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by Hondor 10y ago
Thanks. So it sounds like port forwarding is the major barrier. That and having to remember your IP address and update it every time it changes. I wonder if IPVv6 would help here? Would we expect to get a static IP address for a device that
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by Hondor 10y ago
It's big enough to matter. 2000^5 ~= 60^9 so it's as strong as a 9 random character password which is usually regarded as strong enough, and far better than a typical 1 word with 3 or 4 special characters mixed in.

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