Mirioron

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by Mirioron 7y ago
Yeah, you wouldn't spend that on the military. It would be spent on "the world police" that require rifles, APCs, tanks, jet fighters, and carriers to "enforce the law". The larger you make your administration the g
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by Mirioron 7y ago
> In developed countries, I see no reason why there would be any need for "massive transportation" of either goods or specialists at a scale that would make a significant difference to viral spread. Because of economies of sca
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by Mirioron 7y ago
But it makes sense to think that way. The ones who know the local situation best are the locals, not bureaucrats thousands of miles away. And when it comes to empathy, then those bureaucrats tend to have little of it towards the people affe
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by Mirioron 7y ago
> So far the politicians listened to expert advice which is precisely what I expect from them. And to oir luck the testing infrastructure in Germany is much better than in nearly every other nation (which also means the numbers are close
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Doesn't even have to be that. It would even be interesting to know what has been figured out based on the folding even if it hasn't led to any improvements in medical treatments.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
The market might often lack it, but isn't that simply an untapped resource? After the crisis is done the company can go on claiming how much they did to help far and wide. It's hard to find a better advertisement, especially since
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by Mirioron 7y ago
> If shelters were sufficient we wouldn't have people sleeping rough. Sure you would. Some people don't want to ask for help and some people don't know that they can ask for help. Just having shelters isn't the whole
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by Mirioron 7y ago
> And by "Left" they mean the very minimal/basic social services, such as don't let people lose two legs but only one because the $1k insurance per month doesn't cover that. I wonder how failed is the USA when co
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Don't you already have basic shelter and medical care though? Shelters exist and doctors can't turn you away when you're in an urgent need for medical care. I think what's needed is beyond basic .
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by Mirioron 7y ago
> They've only relatively recently started to do something resembling policing of these things. I'm unconvinced that this is even a good thing. It's really hard to police that without seeming biased. Take this new story a
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Wouldn't whatever legal entity Facebook has set up in Australia just declare bankruptcy? They can't exactly levy fines at a company that's not in their jurisdiction.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Sure, and then you sink more into the locked in Apple ecosystem. What do you then do if Apple one day decides to start using all that data that they have?
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Is Apple actually pro privacy? Or do they just brand themselves as that, while not really caring much about it?
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by Mirioron 7y ago
This is ridiculous. I'm actually speechless by how insane this is.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
It's normal here that kids aged 7-8 and up usually go to school on their own and come home on their own. Then they stay at home on (or go out to play) until their parents come home from work. So, can't you just leave the kid at ho
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Well, if capitalism is the problem, then why don't the socialist/communist countries develop the drug instead? Or alternatively, the community could come together and they could work on coming up with the treatment as a group. But
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by Mirioron 7y ago
> So the big name brand drug companies just buys them all up. And because of that they no longer face competition from generics. They own both the name brands and the generics. Didn't something like this happen with Martin Shkreli?
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by Mirioron 7y ago
> Anyway, what happens when messaging with ciphertext becomes illegal? Does that mean that implementing your own protocol becomes illegal too? And even your own programming language.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Or just regular text. Or algorithms with PNG or binary blob seeds.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
I don't believe that they'll get fixed. It'll just be filed under "huh, that's terrible!"
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Minimum wage in Bulgaria (part of the EU) is €3,743 per year . Now imagine someone that's not full-time employed. €20 for them is not nothing. For them that would be the equivalent of someone earning $100k a year having to pay $500 to
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by Mirioron 7y ago
The crap hitting the fan scenario is when people are barred from payment because of something non-illegal that they did. It's a third-party payment service, so it's possible.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
They can't identify you, provided that they don't pair that data up with anything else. Eg just a few trips where you didn't turn your phone location off on the bus would be enough to know which card is yours. Even if you tur
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by Mirioron 7y ago
> Things that give companies a productivity boost, while also avoid taxes. Shovels, cars, tractors, computers, pens, paper etc? A truck driver can do the job of many cart drivers! And a cart driver can do the job of people who carry thi
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by Mirioron 7y ago
What opened my eyes to all of this is when I saw a video of a seal raping a penguin. I knew nature was brutal, but that was an aspect I had never considered. Then I started noticing more and more information about it. Made me appreciate hum
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Don't forget teaching them how to swim on their backs.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
You can also swim on your back and it tends to be much less tiring than swimming normally.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
It's the reason I decided not to switch back to Firefox. I want to run my own extensions without anyone else's approval.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
This seems like a good idea to me. Maybe have some kind of a clause that this notification has to be easily understood by the user so that it won't be hidden in a wall of text.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
The interesting thing is that one idea behind the copyright change in the EU is to alleviate this point. I don't think it'll work, but that's what the politicians touted it as.

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