Udik

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by Udik 7y ago
> No, I think they’re trying to support the industry. What other plausible motive would there be for the inaction? This is the "if you don't agree with me, you must be paid by someone" conspiratorial thinking. In particula
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by Udik 7y ago
It suggests that I hate self-righteous people who present their own views as universal facts about what absolutely can and cannot be done. I think this is how the space of everyone's freedom is steadily retreating, and I'm sick
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by Udik 7y ago
One could also say that having an abundance of a cheap, low quality resource, steers the economy into exploiting it instead of learning to use better alternatives. In the case of low-skilled immigrant workers, this means not being forced to
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by Udik 7y ago
> There is no need to import food, we could just start exporting less. Are you going to pay the unemployment salary for the people who currently work in the agricultural sector?
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by Udik 7y ago
> Moving the production to a different country would be a solution, since the Netherlands is currently producing way more nitrogen per area of land than other European countries. Isn't this just because it is producing highly effici
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by Udik 7y ago
I don't think it is easier than driving a car- somehow it feels even harder. Driving is a very well defined task: you are sitting in a precise position from which you get a well defined and purely visual input, and based on that you op
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by Udik 7y ago
That is never gonna work. Seriously. Cutting hair is a highly manual job, requiring precision use of a number of different tools- some pretty dangerous- on an irregular, soft and constantly moving surface. Covered in, well, long, irregularl
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by Udik 7y ago
I guess it's just because the difference between BC and BP is irrelevant for most archeological and geological purposes, and referring to a specific year for something that happened 200 million years ago doesn't seem to make much
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by Udik 7y ago
No, if the female ancestor is, for example, your grandmother on your father's side, the maternal lineage is broken. Basically Jewishness is in the mitochondrial DNA.
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by Udik 7y ago
Even more interesting is that the article claims this person managed to trace back her maternal lineage for 22 generations (!), and found out that it was an unbroken Jewish maternal lineage. What a curious combination for someone who previo
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by Udik 7y ago
As I said, the majority "is concerned", but at the same time doesn't really want to take actions. Because being concerned is free, taking initiatives can be very, very expensive. Just look at what happened in France when the
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by Udik 7y ago
Rebel against the majority? Because the government doesn't act because the majority doesn't want it to, despite vague propositions. Want to tax your own fuel and heating? Want to stop flying? Want to put millions out of business i
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by Udik 7y ago
> Secondly, the best way to build something good is to have more data. The best way to build something good is to have talent, intuition and ideas. There are people creating wonderful things from a single idea without a minute of market
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by Udik 7y ago
I've checked that page and it seems pretty balanced to me- though I don't know the subject and might be mistaken. As far as I understand, Copernicus was born in a mixed German and Polish speaking area that had joined the Kingdom o
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by Udik 7y ago
A million is peanuts for Musk. Would you feel deterred if you had to pay $1 every time you want to defame someone?
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by Udik 7y ago
He said he was a pedo, then reiterated, then told others to "stop defending a child rapist", then said "you don't think it's strange he hasn't sued me". He might have been joking all along, but jokes like
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by Udik 7y ago
> Google giving ranking incentive to sites that are faster seems like the exact sort of thing they should be doing. Really? I thought Google's purpose was to find information in the web, not to give me fast links. If I am looking fo
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by Udik 7y ago
> "to suggest a group of our colleagues have traits that make them less biologically suited to that work is offensive and not OK" That quote is plain stupid. I assume my colleagues to be all qualified for the job because they&#
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by Udik 7y ago
> So Google wants to reflect the consumer base Which includes a good portion of extremists of all kinds, illiterates, drug dealers, etc. And of course, half of it is made of people with below average IQ. You want your company to employ t
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by Udik 7y ago
"I banged my head on the same issue before for weeks/ months/ years and ended up using sshd".
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by Udik 7y ago
I think the article misses entirely the point and the problem of virtue signalling, which is not hypocrisy in my opinion. Because the problem with virtue signalling is more on the "virtue" part than on the "signalling" p
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by Udik 7y ago
I heard you're idea's and their definatly good.
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Flammarion Engraving(en.wikipedia.org)
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by Udik 7y ago
The funny thing of this conversation is that the legal BAC limit for driving in the US and Canada is 80mg/100ml. In my country is 50mg/100ml. So at least some of you self-righteous people are happily driving with the same BAC as I
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by Udik 7y ago
I disagree. I know very well the difference between driving blind drunk and carelessly and possibly very young ("I drive great when I'm drunk") and driving extremely carefully, basically never going beyond 40km/h. And of
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by Udik 7y ago
Define drunk . I drive beyond the limits (probably, I don't know it for sure) quite often. I go very slow, drive very carefully on roads that I know by heart, and hadn't had a single accident in twenty years.
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by Udik 7y ago
> there was at best a 1/6 chance of the mission succeeding. If you had the chance to go to the moon but knew you had about a 10% chance of success (the odds improved substantially with later missions), That doesn't seem very pl
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by Udik 7y ago
Exactly. The victory of Trump over Clinton is a random occurrence- the difference in the polls was very small; but what the nation considers normal, how it reacts to events, what it considers worth discussing- and how that discussion can be
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by Udik 7y ago
I think you might be overlooking the depth of cultural attitudes and the size of cultural differences between populations. From the stuff you're taught in school, to what you learn in the family, to common sayings, to the shape of your
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by Udik 7y ago
I have very little doubt that countries are like their own people. If anything, for the simple fact that democratic governments are the expression of the people's predilections, fears, shortcomings and traditions. When an emotional und

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