Mirioron

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by Mirioron 7y ago
> I'm sure the NSA has implants in the EU systems but they're not dumb enough to just hand them out on USB drives that can be traced back to them. Why not? The US was found to be spying on Merkel and nothing seemed to come fro
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by Mirioron 7y ago
While it does remove edge cases, the code also becomes more opaque. At least to me, functional style programming seems much harder to read and then reason about.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
But since we're talking about small sites and small businesses, how many of these will actually be able to afford to go to court to argue this? In every system mistakes are made and corruption exists. Why word it in a way that seems to
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by Mirioron 7y ago
> I would say such a fine to a mom and pop would be dissuasive of doing business at all Welcome to the EU. They've pulled these stunts before. When they introduced changes to digital VAT collection the lawmakers "forgot"
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Then perhaps regulation is necessary if this is their level of scrutiny?
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by Mirioron 7y ago
I think the web is already a lost battle. It'll just take time (a lot of it) for the control to fully sink in. But I think that once this control becomes mainstream then there will be something else with more freedom. Some form of an a
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by Mirioron 7y ago
A curfew like that doesn't make sense. I would consider this to be extreme government overreach. In a free society you are allowed to study as much as you want and you're allowed to teach as much as you want.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Then there are people like Gustl Mollath: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustl_Mollath You make it sound like this is only used for good and that nothing can ever go wrong with this system. That's not true. While y
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by Mirioron 7y ago
This reads like satire. Surely there are better ways to deal with the problem than using the police. The police probably also have better things to do. In fact, this reads like it's a parody of the US war on drugs. It's so misguid
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by Mirioron 7y ago
I use Discord every day. I would say that there are issues about once a week or few weeks where text messages are delayed by 10-30 seconds. Some of them don't arrive either. Using it for text communication at those times is challenging
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by Mirioron 7y ago
You struggle with audio settings in discord just like you do in Skype, ventrilo, and teamspeak. Most of the struggles with audio are not with individual programs, but rather your audio hardware, the OS, and its settings. (Windows updates lo
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by Mirioron 7y ago
I find it hard to use a mouse with fewer than 9 buttons or a shift function on one of the buttons. I'm too used to having lmb, mmb, rmb, back, forward, copy, paste, enter, Ctrl+shift+t bound to the mouse. This is in addition to the scr
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Well, no. You simply tax their activities in other ways. Things like VAT and income taxes for employees etc.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
VAT is charged on the consumer of the product. It is as the name says: a value-added tax. Let's look at an example of a physical good. Let's say the VAT rate is 25% and you buy a graphics card for €500. 25% is added as VAT which m
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by Mirioron 7y ago
> The only real answer is to lower ave standard of living (in other words a western lifestyle needs to be recalibrated downward) This is palm oil we're talking about. The ones whose standard of living that this will reduce are the
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Europe's forest cover has been increasing for a while. Europe has 25% of the world's forests while being 6.8% of the world's total landmass.[0] Europe, as a continent, is only about 20% larger than Australia. South America is
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by Mirioron 7y ago
> Who is responsible for evaluating risk in these situations? Nobody. This is one of the downsides of a democracy: the leadership changes enough that by the time long-term consequences hit those leaders are not in politics anymore. It&#
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Because grams, kilograms, megagrams, gigagrams, teragrams, petagrams, exagrams etc.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
This seems like it could actually work. If you made this tariff equal to the corporate tax rate then won't you generate the same amount of taxes?
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by Mirioron 7y ago
On the other hand, if this is done for political purposes with demands, then Facebook's problem will go away when they capitulate. That will mean that they can continue doing what they were doing. If they're actually guilty then t
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Facebook might have decided to simply do less business, because the risk wasn't acceptable with the taxes added. When the cost of doing business is higher then less business is done.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Here's the million/billion/trillion dollar question: how much is a brand worth? Clearly it is worth something. Facebook can do the most inane thing, but if they put their brand on it then it will have some value. To me this i
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by Mirioron 7y ago
The more I learn about what goes on in the world the more I ask myself "who does this benefit?" and many conspiracy theories seem to make a lot more sense. Governments and other large organizations have such a long and common hist
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by Mirioron 7y ago
I noticed at one point that this is the main reason why I consume half the stories I do. I want to discuss and daydream about the stories I read or watched.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
There is nothing inherent that makes dictatorships violent. Yet they are. But maybe there is something inherent that makes them violent after all? It's simply not obvious at a glance that they're going to be violent. I'm not
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Unions can become corrupt too. After all, it's an additional organization and when money gets involved...
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by Mirioron 7y ago
> It viewed it as the prime ticket to true independence/security. It's true though. Nuclear weapons with delivery mechanisms are about the only thing in the modern world which will make others back off. In every other case you
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by Mirioron 7y ago
So, where does that leave advertising? The entire purpose of advertising is to get somebody to spend money on a product they otherwise wouldn't have.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
While I think that the way he has figured out how to input symbols quickly is really cool, I wonder if there wouldn't be a better way. Our autocomplete systems can close brackets and all those nice things. Maybe voice commands could un
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Does it actually work though? What I've found is that the positioning of the forearms and where the weight of the arm rests tends to be the most important thing about avoiding wrist pain.

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