Jochim

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by Jochim 3y ago
I'm curious as to whether you believe that's a positive or a negative.
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by Jochim 3y ago
It's usually blocky compression artifacts that show up at 720p and some 1080p encodes. They're most noticeable in dark or fast moving scenes. On Netflix, The Sandman looked abysmally bad at 720p. The complex backgrounds became a g
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by Jochim 3y ago
The answer isn't to go back to women requiring a husband. The problem is that companies were allowed to capture all of the value of women's emancipation, to the detriment of everyone. Women joining the workforce should have meant
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The peak in the 60s occurs a while after the pill was made available in the UK and begins to trend downward before it was made more easily accessible. Contraceptive measures are not an explanation in and of themselves. They provide no infor
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The taboo of living together as a couple before marriage has largely disappeared. As a result, there's less incentive to get married as a matter of "moving forward" with your life. Prior generations experienced marriage as a
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The early immigration certainly caused issues between two groups and I do think that the decision to support the zionists of the time was incorrect. For many, the purpose seems to have been to reduce their own Jewish populations. While stil
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by Jochim 3y ago
I was referring to the period after the war. To be clear, I don't think that having escaped the holocaust is a negative. > If not in Palestine a real effort should have been made to take them in other places, yet no one was doing it
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> That's not entirely accurate. It's fair to say that it wasn't directly created by them but their actions in the years prior did lead to the end result. The UK administered the region and had committed to making it a &quo
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I don't think the situation is particularly inscrutable. Israel receives a greater degree of US support and benefits from it to a greater degree. Other ME states are aligned with the US out of convenience, the sale of western weapons p
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by Jochim 3y ago
Apologies, I didn't intend the comment to come across that way, it was too flippant given the topic.
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> to those who say all of Israel is occupied land. The former makes sense. The latter is extreme. In what way is it not? The state was created by western powers less than 100 years ago and has aggressively pursued European and US immigra
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> ISIS was a bunch of European guys who got radicalized and then travelled to the middle east; The prevalence of British and American accents whenever the IDF is interviewed was certainly surprising.
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I'd expect compensation from most of the content I visit, which usually ends up being SEO trash. I'm not sure how you'd solve this without manually approving each page.
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The UK has an awful standard living for how wealthy it is. For example, if you happen to be classed as a "worker", rather than an employee, you do not have a legal right to leave work or take time off to care for a sick family mem
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A significant part of the reason prices in the UK are so high is that our approach to spot pricing grossly overpays renewable generators when gas prices go up.
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by Jochim 3y ago
Weren't there changes in the last few years that mean benefits in kind are now treated as taxable income? I know I recently began paying tax on employer provided health insurance for example.
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by Jochim 3y ago
Weird, I've never seen a self checkout in the UK that doesn't provide the option to select no bag or key in 0 bags.
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by Jochim 3y ago
If you're robbed by bandits you can choose not to travel on that road again. That doesn't mean that you weren't robbed the first time.
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by Jochim 3y ago
Maybe they took inspiration from Uber?
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Where do users come from? People trying out the software and enjoying it. I'm quite glad that the emacs maintainers care about this, as I'm sure I've benefitted greatly from the contributions some of those people will have ma
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by Jochim 3y ago
> I get it; this is maybe to please the newer/younger crowd This seems to miss the point of these changes. If you're only concerned with your own workflow then almost any changes that you didn't specifically request are an
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> enacted by free riders who wish only to benefit from the effort and concession of others? You mean like doing something once and then expecting to be paid for it in perpetuity? Expecting to be paid for the efforts of others, decades af
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by Jochim 3y ago
There's nothing social about intellectual property law. It's been shaped by and to the benefit of corporations who would have us paying royalties to the descendants of the man who "invented" the wheel if they had their w
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by Jochim 3y ago
FWIW I agree personally. I find that stating a position too strongly sometimes leads to a debate about semantics rather than the merit of the explanation/justification. My opinion is that inequality destroys people's ability to re
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by Jochim 3y ago
> 1. Wage data actually shows that the poorest are actually experiencing the highest wage gains, in percentage terms. Inequality is actually decreasing. 1. The wealthy don't typically look to increase their wages, mainly because it
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by Jochim 3y ago
You're in your own bubble if you think 43% is close to normal for the majority of the population.
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Inequality is like an infection, weakening the immune system and allowing owners of the press, politicians, and agitators to spread populist ideas that would otherwise be laughed off. Inequality makes possible our current situation, where t
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> Would you be willing to articulate why wealth inequality is bad for society? I am fairly certain that wealth inequality globally is higher than it was in 2000. At the same time, well the poorest globally are doing much much better on a
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The problem is that the CPI is pretty awful at identifying how much the expenses of those struggling most have changed, despite it being one of the figures most commonly brought up in discussion. Someone who could only afford to purchase th
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by Jochim 3y ago
Unlike the wildly successful US model, where everything is made elsewhere and the majority of the population is one major illness away from bankruptcy. Sorry junior, no tertiary education for you.

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