Mirioron

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by Mirioron 7y ago
By persuading them. It's also much less of a problem that a small country as a bad actor takes advantage of the system compared to big countries abusing smaller ones.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Are you sure? Because I just created a barebones hello world. It works fine as a temporary add-on, but I can't install it from the file. Says the add-on is corrupted. Then I downloaded a working add-on. It worked fine when installing f
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by Mirioron 7y ago
I think both of your responses here apply to both situations. Your comment about how people who felt attacked won't feel any less attacked applies to the British as well when it comes to the IRA. Your comment about how the British trea
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by Mirioron 7y ago
I actually am using Brave and Chrome. They're similar enough that they more or less feel interchangeable.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
You bring up a good point. I think the reason I feel this way is that Google's screw ups didn't inconvenience my usage of Chrome, whereas Mozilla's have inconvenienced my usage of Firefox. What made me initially switch to Chr
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by Mirioron 7y ago
How is it possible that people weren't held accountable for this? And how come the US government still hasn't tried to remedy the situation? Are those people going to be held in captivity with no charges until their death?
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by Mirioron 7y ago
> Stop using chrome. Honestly, wtf?! Firefox is awesome. I think plenty of people have found Mozilla to have made some poor decisions over the years. It feels as though you have to choose between two options that aren't great, so i
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by Mirioron 7y ago
But VAT is already collected on internet businesses. I really cannot imagine that it's not collected in this case.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
As a European, I thought so as well. I really can't imagine that they're not collecting VAT.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
The reason the EU's system is so similar is that the circumstances are similar. If you don't require unanimous approval on critical issues then why would smaller countries ever join with Germany, France, Italy, and the UK around?
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by Mirioron 7y ago
But historically, authoritarian systems aren't very stable. China might very well collapse if they make some bad decisions. I think an authoritarian system is more likely to make bad decisions, because people that decide things are fur
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by Mirioron 7y ago
> NATO was there to keep the Russians out and the Germans down. I don't support this organization at all in current year; it is simply a tool of US imperialism Without NATO, the Baltics would probably already be a part of Russia ag
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by Mirioron 7y ago
At least Americans are vocal about it. Here in Europe we seem to have just given up on freedom and liberty. Just look at how many limitations freedom of expression seems to have in various European countries. Imagine being fined for insulti
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by Mirioron 7y ago
You're right, the current taxation systems are already very complex. Governments have done a very good job at obfuscating the tax burden. Sales taxes (VAT), income taxes, and payroll taxes are all largely the same thing - they are all
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by Mirioron 7y ago
> Why not just use existing sales tax for retail transaction (which e-commerce is). My guess is that they already do. The government just wants more tax revenue as usual. Tech companies are just a good punching bag right now. Edit: I ca
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by Mirioron 7y ago
In US terms. What if we look at the same numbers in global terms? Suddenly many of the people complaining about the 1% are the 1% themselves. According to the global rich list website if you earn above $33k a year you're in the top 1%
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by Mirioron 7y ago
What you say is true, but when people usually talk about inequality, they're talking about inequality in a specific country. In your example that would be inequality inside a single village rather than between the villages. Also, with
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Then perhaps living in the Eastern Sahara is not a good choice?
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by Mirioron 7y ago
But taxing capital is not possible and probably a bad idea. This will require you to list everything you own to the government who will then evaluate the worth of it. I really can't think of much else that's a worse violation of p
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by Mirioron 7y ago
But cell phones provide a lot of value. It might not necessarily be vital value, but it certainly makes people's lives significantly better.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
AMP is literally the reason I switched to DuckDuckGo.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
I don't see what there is to figure out about what we should do with the carbon we sequester from the atmosphere. It seems to me that the only thing we can do is dump it into the ground (maybe as plastic?). That's where the carbon
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by Mirioron 7y ago
While I think your criticism about the example given is good, you're still only addressing the specific example given. The parent poster was trying to illustrate why gender parity might not actually be the ultimate goal. The example mi
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by Mirioron 7y ago
But the difference in your case is that we don't expect, nor care, whether math majors and non-math majors end up at the same destination. It's okay and expected that math majors will end up learning more and becoming better at ma
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by Mirioron 7y ago
I don't really agree with the parent poster, but you don't really need someone to tell journalists what they can and can't write to get them to push your agenda. What you can do instead is to hire people who share the ideas y
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by Mirioron 7y ago
I think that is the parent poster's point. They tried to do something that to them seemed like it would help people, but ended up in a scandal instead. This is how apathy spreads.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
> A sickness where hatred for peers is harbored for years until it festers and explodes out in a violent way. Could part of the problem be bullying? I've watched a lot of American movies and any time a school is depicted it has som
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Imagine you're a teenage girl and you need to carry sanitary products with you. I imagine that for some of them this is essentially a nightmare scenario. That's a direct harm to kids.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
It's essentially the same thing as air travel safety vs cars. What seemed to work for air travel is to make it into trivia so that any time this point comes up somebody repeats back the trivia.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Yes, it's a good idea, but being forced to carry a device around with you that is used to track your movements is not okay. Parents need to be able to say no to that.

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