SideburnsOfDoom

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by SideburnsOfDoom 2mo ago
"England" is meant because that's the scope of the health service "NHS England" (1) > That would insinuate they don't care about Scotland though. You forgot the other states of the United Kingdom: Wales and
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by SideburnsOfDoom 2mo ago
> There may be an end to the damage done to their global reputation, but it's not here yet 80 years down Let's not forget that in the early part of the 20th century, Germany was the powerhouse of mathematics and sciences such a
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Traditional economics is wrong: Donald Trump has proved it(eastangliabylines.co.uk)
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by SideburnsOfDoom 2mo ago
> The second wants to own an EV because it's green and efficient For suburbanites with off-street parking, overnight charging and few road-trips or long distance commutes, an EV is these days simply more convenient to operate, and h
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by SideburnsOfDoom 2mo ago
IDK if it's a complaint about London per se, but it's definitely not typical of much of England. And yes, you can say the same about e.g. Amsterdam vs. The Netherlands. And others. But also, neither of them were literally isolat
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by SideburnsOfDoom 2mo ago
> In my experience, most large companies do treat not being able to ship code (i.e. deploy to prod) as outages. In my experience, we treat "not being able to deploy to prod" as an warning light, because our ability to fix an ac
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by SideburnsOfDoom 2mo ago
A while ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36739279
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by SideburnsOfDoom 2mo ago
I am told that Left Hand Drive is marginally safer (all other things being equal) because of the preponderance of right-handed people. Driving on the left of the road places the right-handed driver's dominant hand on the wheel and domi
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by SideburnsOfDoom 2mo ago
> It would be way more annoying for LHD countries to change to RHD As a complete aside, 1 country has done this: Sweden on 3 September 1967 and "It was by far the largest logistical event in Sweden's history" https:/
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by SideburnsOfDoom 3mo ago
Could you expand on that please - what exactly do you mean and how did you arrive at that conclusion?
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by SideburnsOfDoom 3mo ago
To add to this, Russia recently attacked Ukraine's post and parcel infrastructure (1). Does this not very simply constitute yet another large scale attack by Russia on civilian infrastructure? But mostly, this site in Russia is a legit
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by SideburnsOfDoom 3mo ago
> The “minimum” means minimum price. But "worse on purpose" products typically decrease the quality (and cost to make) without decreasing the sale price to match. It's exploiting the product's reputation for being pre
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by SideburnsOfDoom 3mo ago
Not quite. "Getting worse" is discussing a mechanism where a product first has a good reputation, for good reasons. It's not "minimum viable". And then the company proceeds to exploit that reputation for all it&#x27
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by SideburnsOfDoom 3mo ago
> the issue with too big to fail is that it can equivalently be rephrased as too big to learn. it is certainly phrased that way, i.e. "There Is No Alternative (1) to bailing the banks out, we can't just let them fail - all the
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by SideburnsOfDoom 3mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptocracy
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by SideburnsOfDoom 3mo ago
> That gambling actually led to people getting those homes. The people losing them was the correction. Well, yes but there is a distinction between "led to" vs "losing them". The first is indirect, the second is not.
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by SideburnsOfDoom 3mo ago
> Sunk cost fallacy is not relevant to future investment Outside of future choices, what in the world is sunk cost fallacy in fact relevant to? Do you understand words?
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by SideburnsOfDoom 3mo ago
Not to disagree with you too much, but > I am still shocked Spain/Italy and USA are considered 'first world' countries. They're a mix. Rural southern Italy isn't the same as e.g. Milan or Venice. I've walked
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by SideburnsOfDoom 3mo ago
> The classic reply to this is that inequality reduces the agency of people to make decisions in the society - IOW it causes _power_ inequality. Yes! > But the reply to that is that it is orthogonal to the discussion. Bafflegab. >
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by SideburnsOfDoom 3mo ago
It's not "90% tax" it's 90% or similar tax rate at the highest band, which most people will never reach. Despite you showing your bias by phrasing option 1 to look childish, I think it's more or less what happened,
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by SideburnsOfDoom 3mo ago
> Perhaps they realised it’s not a good policy? Citation needed that it's not a good policy. Parent comment explained why it was good, and your reply is "or perhaps it was actually bad". There's a simpler explanation
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by SideburnsOfDoom 3mo ago
> the poltical demands trans people make in the explicit name of trans rights necessarily entail enlisting the state to help destroy gender distinctions This is hysterical in both senses of the word, and also nonensical.
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by SideburnsOfDoom 3mo ago
> Last time it was opposing LGBTQ and racial discrimination and now it is technology Wut? None of those 3 things are like the others. This is gibberish.
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by SideburnsOfDoom 3mo ago
> Non trivial number of people believe that everyone is equal in abilities. really? Have you ever met anyone like this? Cool story, but also another straw man - not relevant to the article and to "We should absolutely aim to lower t
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by SideburnsOfDoom 3mo ago
> Attempting to use the government to destroy hierarchies is utopian yes, "destroy hierarchies" is utopian. But that's a complete straw man version of "reduce very high levels of inequality that have highly visible p
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by SideburnsOfDoom 3mo ago
North Korea has an official ideology of "Juche", and "The goal of Juche is to establish a self-reliant state" (1) It may not be like that in practice. But nevertheless, self-reliance is in their stated goals, and North K
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by SideburnsOfDoom 3mo ago
> at most, 52% of the voting British public Indeed. And, At a point in time ten years ago. In voters who skewed older. See the Voter Flow diagram: https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1pj8kzd/voter
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by SideburnsOfDoom 3mo ago
> I'll keep a log of system time to detect any "jumps" and then "behave normally" if I detect this. This makes no sense, the system clock would be set before the suspect package is even pulled down. There isn&#x2
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by SideburnsOfDoom 3mo ago
> And if every malware developer worth their salt now introduces code to "wait out" that period of time, we're back to square one. Of course this is an arms race, but the time setting inside the sandbox doesn't need t
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by SideburnsOfDoom 3mo ago
> My wife and I recently went on a 7 week holiday around Europe. Yes, USB-C is very common in Europe, and indeed worldwide. And this is partly as a result of European policy: > One common charging solution for all > USB-C is the c

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