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by Udik 6y ago
To summarize many comments: A debt is something that gave you value in the past. If nobody ever got value out of it (in comparison to an equally feasible debt-less solution), then it was just a mistake, not a debt. A debt is something you p
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> "China is bad" is just the excuse here. Wait. "China is bad" is not necessarily an excuse, it might be an end in itself. Populism needs enemies and threats to find and maintain support. By demonizing China (as it di
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Hey hey. You're opposing loyalty, authority and sanctity to fairness. This is already a caricature of ideological positions different from yours. Most people you violently disagree with have probably a different view of fairness than y
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Security and privacy are just like those 200 metres waterproof watches they were selling in the '80s. Most people who bought them hardly went deeper than their bathtub. You buy the concept, and caring about the expensive details is a n
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> the tone at the beginning seems to be in a derisive tone I am frankly curious of what exactly you perceive as "derisive" in the first part of the article (first paragraph?). I have to say that I subscribe to every single line
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What you call "dog whistles" are just opinions different from yours, expressed in terms you're not used to. Get out of your bubble.
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This stuff annoys me to no end: "white flour is ‘a pure starch so nutritionally void’ that by law vitamins must be added back into it. White flour must be fortified with calcium, iron, thiamin and niacin to make up for the fact that th
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Which means that if this rate of installation continues, in 20 years you'd have replaced about 100% of the power requirements of today in nameplate values- but the actual production is at best 20%-30% of that value. So in 20 years yo
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This isn't true. I remember anti-nuclear movements in the 80s and they were rooted in the fear of radiations and nuclear accidents. "The China syndrome" was released in March 1979, a few days before the Three Mile Island acci
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I think that if we decided to stop using fossil fuels entirely, we would replace them much quicker with nuclear power than with renewables. Saying you don't want A because it would take too much and instead you want B which you don&#x2
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Well, how many decades would the proposed societal changes and a transition to 100% renewables require? What would be your alternative plan to cut global co2 emissions by 30%-40% within the next, say, twenty years?
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> addressing this problem (of global antropogenic climate change ) requires some quite radical changes in the way our society works I don't think so. 27% of our CO2 emissions are in electricity generation. Replacing every non-renewa
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Proposing anything of substance would mean having recognized at least in part the validity of the arguments coming from the opposite end of the political spectrum, with the risk of supporting the attached ideology. Which is hard to do. But
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I agree. Green movements predate the dominance of climate change as an environmental issue; they began in the late 1970s in Germany as a brand of socialism. The "four pillars" of the original German Green party are listed on Wikip
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It's telling that the actions proposed by the report are a laundry list of socialist reforms (I mean socialist in a neutral, technical way: no judgement implied). Examples: "wealth taxes", "public investment, including t
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Are you sure you're not classified as rich by that report? Top 1%: >$100k/ year Top 10%: >$35k/ year
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No harm, it's more that after a certain amount of generations the information becomes pretty irrelevant. You arbitrarily choose to follow certain lines (for prestige or historical significance) and necessarily disregard others. Going b
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‘Tenet’ and the twilight of Hollywood’s power(ft.com)
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Exactly. It's one of those movie-trivia articles to keep up the interest in a movie. Part of the marketing budget I suppose.
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The message you're replying to argues that a car that refuses to go on certain roads is exactly equivalent to a car that does, because its owners are free to buy the other car. This is a complete non-sequitur, and I am surprised someon
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by Udik 6y ago
Uh? I'm not sure I understand your question. The argument doesn't apply because we're talking about the quality of the phone , not the generic freedom of its users. Of course the users are free to use a different phone. Actu
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You can use vue-class-component and vue-property-decorator as described here: https://class-component.vuejs.org/ You get to define your components as classes with their methods and properties, and can declare props and watc
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At which point I think China should ban iPhones. You cannot allow a company to sell to your country a product from which your country's most important applications are banned.
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But do they decide? Can they actually read the comment and decide it's inflammatory? Or do they just expose comments that people like to engage with (filtering out only the most obvious insults)?
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Just ask people if they think climate change is an existential threat. If they answer yes (as will most people who are opposed to nuclear energy) then ask them if they think nuclear energy is an existential threat too or just extremely dang
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> yes you can try to ask the owners. But what do you do, when they refuse? The same thing they would do if you didn't want to pay them: you sue them. For abusive occupation of your pictures. I am being paradoxical, but the point I w
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I wonder- if I need to pay royalties to share a picture including a building, can I sue the owners of the building for popping up in my pictures? If I am an instagram influencer, can I ask owners of buildings to pay me for the space they
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I might understand the point if what you were trying to sell was a picture of the tower- that is, if the image of tower itself were the reason people are paying for something. If it's just part of a crowded the background, though, as
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So much for "Freedom" tower.
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A thousand years ago California had droughts lasting centuries . This article puts things in perspective re. wildfires: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03781... Before the 1800s,

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