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by Veen 5y ago
> It's also really depressing that the entirety of our pop culture is copyrighted, mostly by large faceless corporations. But if those faceless corporations hadn't paid for our pop culture to be produced and distributed, it wou
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by Veen 5y ago
Rice farmers have a monopoly on the rice they grow—if someone else takes it without permission and sells it they are considered thieves. But it doesn't really make sense to compare physical goods and creative goods like that. You can&#
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by Veen 5y ago
The OED is a historical dictionary that records over 1000 years of the language's development. It aims to be a complete dictionary of the English language from its origins to today. It frequently adds new entries and new examples of ol
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by Veen 5y ago
One of my favourite possessions is the Compact Oxford English Dictionary, which is the full 20 volume OED microprinted into 2 large volumes. It comes in a case with a magnifying glass. It's too unwieldy for everyday use, but it's
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by Veen 5y ago
The goal is not to replace common words with less common ones, but imprecise words with more precise ones, especially those with connotations and implications that more closely fit the surrounding writing. There's a place for plain, ut
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by Veen 5y ago
Well, yes, ending freedom of movement was one of the reasons the UK population voted for Brexit in the referendum and then gave the Johnson government a massive majority in a general election in which ending freedom of movement was a key ma
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by Veen 5y ago
Only those who sell direct to consumers. Companies who sell to distributors and retailers in the EU work with different rules.
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by Veen 5y ago
I'm not suggesting they should. Germany is free to have whatever visa rules it wants. But it's a bit of a stretch to blame the UK government for them.
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by Veen 5y ago
So, German visa requirements are somehow the fault of the UK government? Nothing stops the German government from relaxing visa requirements if they choose to.
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by Veen 5y ago
Over half of UK citizens agree with you, although I'm not sure how simply repeating the majority opinion helps with this conversation.
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by Veen 5y ago
I think the discourse is still too politicized to get a clear view either way. Most outlets synthesizing data from multiple sources have a political axe to grind about Brexit, whether pro or anti, so your best bet is just to look at economi
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by Veen 5y ago
What's stopping them getting a visa if they need one? I don't understand this xenophobia point: post-Brexit, the evil xenophobic Tories changed the visa rules so that 3 million Hong Kong citizens were entitled to live here. https
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by Veen 5y ago
I suppose we'll have to wait and see how things shake out. The same arguments you've made about the EU finding new markets applies to the UK too. > the UK in whatever folly takes them over their nationalist cheese ambitions It&
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by Veen 5y ago
The UK is the third-biggest importer of goods from the EU after the US and China. It's an enormous market for EU goods which the EU most certainly needs. The UK is also the only nation in the geographic area except France with anything
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by Veen 5y ago
In fact, the rules around importing whole milk products direct to the consumer have nothing to do with Brexit negotiations. It's a rule that was introduced by the EU in December 2019 and it applies to all third-party countries. It&#x27
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by Veen 5y ago
I think the point is that compuational processes are an emergent property of matter, but not matter. It's like how when I look at the plant on my desk, I see a green thing. The "experience of greenness" isn't composed of
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by Veen 5y ago
Yes, but the insanity lies in the lack of decent public transport, not in the holiday-makers desire to travel around.
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by Veen 5y ago
> Never heard of the phrase "squeezing blood from stone" because well there is no blood in stones. That's the point. You can't squeeze blood from a stone because there isn't any, i.e. it's fruitless to try b
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by Veen 5y ago
This how I learned various technologies. I often re-implement my personal invoicing system (I'm a freelance copywriter) in whatever technology I am interested in: i) PWA with a react front-end, ii) AWK-based invoice processing iii) mas
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by Veen 5y ago
I just opened the article in a different tab. Something is amiss with their paywall implementation.
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by Veen 5y ago
The Audile page suggested Jackie Gleason singing Christmas classics, which is certainly different to what I would normally listen to.
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by Veen 5y ago
Visiting or living in foreign countries for business or tourism is not "colonialism".
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by Veen 5y ago
I’ve never understood the fascination with communist-era and brutalist architecture among Western Europeans and Americans of a particular political persuasion. There’s so much more to Middle and Eastern European architecture than that. But
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by Veen 5y ago
So you see lots of people disagreeing and assume the author is right? If everyone was agreeing would you assume he's wrong? It doesn't seem a particularly intelligent heuristic.
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by Veen 5y ago
Does that calculation change if the goal is not to bring minerals back to earth, but to mine them and use them in situ to build habitats and the like? I imagine a bunch of sand and iron and ice would be quite useful in those circumstances
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by Veen 5y ago
This article assumes that we'll solve any possible resource problems through ingenious innovations, but that no possible innovation will ever make asteroid mining economically feasible. Perhaps that's true and it will never be wor
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by Veen 5y ago
> bombard my Mum with gambling ads I get loads of financial scams, especially crypto scams. It used to be Russian wife services and gambling. Probably because I turned off ad personalization for my Google account, so I get the lowest gra
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by Veen 5y ago
I may have been hanging around on Hacker News too much, but I can't decide whether your comments are sincere or an attempt at parody (I hope it's the latter, or I pity Mr Krumins' employees).
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> By and large, our industry is young, male, white Is it? This story is about Apple, and according to its figures 47% of employees are white and about two-thirds are male. If the two-thirds male figure is consistent across ethnicities, a
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by Veen 5y ago
Because when a doctor prescribes Percocet and you go to a pharmacy to get it, you don't accidentally end up with fentanyl instead. That only happens when you buy it illegally from a dealer.

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