Tichy

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by Tichy 14y ago
Uh, as a customer I have had lots of problems with PayPal, too. They are not only a problem for vendors.
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by Tichy 14y ago
The same probably goes for all the other traits (blonde vs brunettes, cup sizes, and so on). At least they are pretty useless without a comparison to the average female population.
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by Tichy 14y ago
"Closest was 1.5 unemployment in 1944 (which, to be fair, is really impressive.)" Could using up surplus workers in a world war have anything to do with that?
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by Tichy 14y ago
I think school should take up as little time as possible, so that kids are free to do things on their own. Since boarding schools are 100% all the time, I don't like that idea at all.
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by Tichy 14y ago
I suppose anything you already know could be described as a platitude. Doesn't mean everybody else knows it already. Apparently the people currently responsible for education don't know it yet.
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by Tichy 14y ago
"For almost two years they had been personally liable for what me and my friends were up to." I don't understand this part. Shouldn't the investors have seen the insurance through themselves? It seems mad to rely on other people for that ki
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by Tichy 14y ago
What are you doing?
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by Tichy 14y ago
Aren't most heroes in books impossible creatures impossible to be lived up to? I still think there is a lot more content in Ender's Game than in Twilight. The message of Twilight is basically "be depressed and broody, and a shiny vampire wi
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by Tichy 14y ago
No, it's not freedom if your only option is to get a job at some company and then slave away in a boring job until retirement. There may be a safety net against losing your job - but it ties you to said job. And all those safety nets need t
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by Tichy 14y ago
Won't non-driverless cars go extinct anyway, since cars don't last forever? Also I think horses are banned on some streets these days, like motorways... It also seems to me that the transition to driverless cars will probably sneak up on us
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by Tichy 14y ago
It seems they went all big plan offices, no small offices at Google?
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by Tichy 14y ago
My first thought was "those people are high" :-)
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by Tichy 14y ago
Except that most of those costs (and lets include pollution) are externalities borne by other people, not by the actual car drivers. If people would have to pay the real cost for cars, things might look different.
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by Tichy 14y ago
Rotating Locomotion in living systems: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotating_locomotion_in_living_s... Technically they are apparently not wheels because the whole animal/plant rotates, but I'd argue that nature worked out the wheel princ
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by Tichy 14y ago
And yet, within 100 years, horses completely disappeared from our streets. I think you underestimate the capability for change. Even today, cities introduce pedestrian areas or limit the number of cars to certain areas, or they have special
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by Tichy 14y ago
I think it is "safe" only in the sense that people are more expendable in third world countries. Probably poor people who don't have cars and have to cross streets on foot are even more expendable.
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by Tichy 14y ago
Where I live shops are within walking distance, and since we have a kid we switched to having lots of food delivered once a week fresh from the countryside. I am especially bullish on that delivery service. Sure, they use a car, but one sma
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by Tichy 14y ago
I personally also don't know how to farm, so I can somewhat relate. My hope would be to find some books on farming...
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by Tichy 14y ago
Still, would knowledge go away today? Interesting to consider what would be the minimum sensible size for a modern society? For example perhaps acquiring raw materials like iron would be a huge problem?
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by Tichy 14y ago
Because those products are free. Even the Nexus Phones are probably free, as in Google makes no money with them.
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by Tichy 14y ago
Calling comments dismissive is rather dismissive in itself. I don't see what is wrong with pointing out a better option (in the opinion of the commentator) in a succinct way.
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by Tichy 14y ago
Accepting credit cards requires custom programming, too, and I think it also comes with a fee.
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by Tichy 14y ago
BitCoin itself is not anonymous, although you can attempt to make it so. But anonymity is not the main selling point of BTC.
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by Tichy 14y ago
How long will the end of the world last? What are the usual reasons given for the failure of civilization to rebound?
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by Tichy 14y ago
You mean something like the church?
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by Tichy 14y ago
Good point. Perhaps one way to reduce hobby related stuff is to do as much as possible in hacker spaces or similar things, so that you don't have to own equipment yourself.
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by Tichy 14y ago
Donate stuff to Oxfam or libraries. I've long resisted getting a Kindle, but now I am very happy for every book that is not taking up space. Some larger things you can probably give away via classifieds or just putting them on the curb with
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by Tichy 14y ago
Nice story, but I think if you are invited to a banquet hosted by the Queen Mother, it doesn't really count as an anecdote for "anyone can do it".
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by Tichy 14y ago
That article doesn't seem contain much meat besides Assange not liking the film the author of the article made, and a list of people who fell out with him. Bad article...
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by Tichy 14y ago
Sorry if I only reply now, I was traveling. Also, I can't think of a useful comment. I just see it very differently, and the reason I ask "why has it to be categorized as sexist" is that I worry about the implications. For example if it is

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