Mirioron

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by Mirioron 7y ago
> If it is more lucrative than growing food, does that mean you can buy an equivalent amount of imported food and pocket the profits? If that was the case then it would be an example globalization at work. If the infrastructure for tran
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by Mirioron 7y ago
If people voluntarily choose those jobs then doesn't that mean those jobs are better than the alternatives they have? It also provides a pretty nice service.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
It looks even more amazing when it's cloudy and the ground is covered by snow. You can go skiing in the forest at night and you won't need any additional lights.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
If eaten too much then heavy foods can cause a stomach ache if you lie down soon after eating. If you remain standing or sitting and do things then you might not even notice it.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
And in this video you would witness how trees became the dominant lifeform on Earth and have remained as such ever since.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Shouldn't we want this to actually end up in a landfill? That would be at least some kind of a carbon sink.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
There's some truth to the comment. You can't have people become so complacent that they just trust people on their word. You need somebody to actually verify that what they're doing could actually work. Take Theranos for exam
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Sure you can. You can make a legal requirement that somebody has to be licensed to sign off on things that require the license without fining for the use of the word. Imagine that you're an engineer in Germany, you go to Oregon and som
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by Mirioron 7y ago
I can understand why he couldn't be hired as a licensed engineer because of that, but that doesn't make him not an engineer. He wasn't arguing over something that relies on local standards anyway. A second is a second regardl
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Are there jobs, other than being a judge or politician, where you are not liable for errors?
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by Mirioron 7y ago
How come tumblr sold for so little though? You would think that a site like tumblr would be worth far more as a way to influence the media.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Even if we can't get more. It's not like we're using it in a nuclear reaction that turns aluminium into something else. The aluminium is still there.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
But we're not actually running out of those resources though. They just end up in forms that are much more difficult to utilize (they cost more), but the elements are still there. With enough energy and need it can just be reused. We&#
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Does Germany require passing an ice course or training in the snow/on ice?
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Do judges lose their jobs after successful appeals? I'm sure it has happened, but this seems like an incredibly rare event. Yet lawyers who do their jobs poorly (even ones defending criminals) can get fired from being a lawyer and have
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by Mirioron 7y ago
At what point are judges liable here? They play a vital role in our society yet a lot of what they do seems to be based on precedent established on a whim.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Are you talking about the same New Zealand that literally has a government position called Chief Censor? The same New Zealand that tried to censor sites after the attacks? The same New Zealand that then went on to push for weakening free sp
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by Mirioron 7y ago
> But it does work. I was at a restaurant there. Some girls are chatting, and they walk away to go get something, and just leave their bags there unattended. Why? Because it's an authoritarian country - people aren't going to s
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by Mirioron 7y ago
If the NSA can't keep its employees from abusing their spying tools to spy on their neighbors then what chance does law enforcement have?
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by Mirioron 7y ago
> Two months before the collapse of Bear Stearns, the first investment bank claimed by The Great Recession, The New York Times ran a story entitled, "Can banks self-regulate?" Clearly, the answer was no. To nitpick on this quo
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by Mirioron 7y ago
> Almost all those things you hear about are either campaigns of harassment or incitement to violence. I rarely hear about those. Almost all of the cases that make international news are about police "checking someone's thinki
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by Mirioron 7y ago
I absolutely loathe software in my native language. I will go out of my way to avoid it, because it makes everything more complicated.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
China is a special case though. They're large enough to populate their own internet with things. Most countries aren't that large.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
That's really interesting to know. Thank you for your perspective!
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by Mirioron 7y ago
But they do make you feel like you're doing your part. I wonder how many people are just satisfied with that and whether it wouldn't have made more sense to push other solutions instead.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
> If an extra charge of $10 / month for everyone in Europe would 'solve' the problem, why don't we do it? Considering how much excise taxes Europeans pay on their gasoline, you would think that climate change would a
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by Mirioron 7y ago
I'm curious: what do you think about the police in the UK going after people that post mean tweets on Twitter? Does it erode your faith in the police even further?
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by Mirioron 7y ago
This is politically very difficult to do though. It will be seen as being soft on crime. A system focused on rehabilitation requires the public to not be as bloodthirsty as they are in the US. They need to given former felons a chance after
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by Mirioron 7y ago
But I am already thinking about what the code should do. The problem is that if I read functional code I get bogged down in the details of what limits are set by the operations, because they're usually not as explicit. It's like r
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by Mirioron 7y ago
If anybody wishes to explore, here's an example: https://www.eesti.ee/en/

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