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by Zarkonnen 10y ago
Thing is that Switzerland is a super-expensive country. 1500 would not actually be enough to live on. You can get 4000 working at the till at a supermarket.
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by Zarkonnen 10y ago
"Grubby", "unwashed", "infiltrate", "degeneracy". Quite the word choice.
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by Zarkonnen 10y ago
It does put a damper on things, but yeah, it's not uncommon for more or less the same thing to come up every decade or two. Evergreen topics include immigration reform, nuclear power, and whether Switzerland needs an army.
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by Zarkonnen 10y ago
Coming from Switzerland, this is not at all surprising. No one expected this initiative to pass. It was really more of an attempt to get a conversation started, and it's succeeded in that. As a (tentative) supporter of basic income, I&
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by Zarkonnen 11y ago
O jotun idaho I barely knew thee. What fructose carriest thou in thine womb? Is it not true that the eldenbrecht is your mother and the fruitbat your father? Do you dance alone in the moonshine, leaves leaving dappled patterns on your skin,
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A Kickstarter campaign abuses Pepper and Carrot's license(kickstarter.com)
2 points by Zarkonnen 11y ago|0 comments
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by Zarkonnen 11y ago
This looked interesting but I feel like I am missing several levels of context here. What's the other kind of design that isn't like those eastern european apps? What's dribbbbblization?
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by Zarkonnen 11y ago
AFAIK a plausible thesis for why overweight is correlated with better health is that the extra fat means greater energy stores in times of crisis. Basically, if you're thin and you get sick or injured, your body doesn't have the r
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by Zarkonnen 11y ago
Tulip bulbs! Got your tulip bulbs right here!
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by Zarkonnen 11y ago
Yep! That's pretty much how I got my start in programming. :)
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by Zarkonnen 11y ago
I too worry about troubles and political instability in Europe, but actually because of people with your political views. We're feeling the squeeze, economically, environmentally, but instead of fixing our societies to be fairer, we&#x
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by Zarkonnen 11y ago
Ah, that's what the guardian has started using!
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by Zarkonnen 11y ago
Can someone give us a backgrounder on what the split in the ffmpeg community is about?
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by Zarkonnen 11y ago
According to the analyzer, "Kill the unbelievers and wear their skins as crowns." is mostly open and agreeable.
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by Zarkonnen 11y ago
Ah, good old Markus Kuhn. Always up for poking security features using any way possible. If you're interested in this kind of thing, you should read https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/ which is UoC's security res
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by Zarkonnen 11y ago
I'm all in favour of funding for anti-aging research if the money gets taken out of our beer and circuses budget. What I object to is the way the article insists that aging is some kind of low-hanging fruit we could pick if only we rea
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by Zarkonnen 11y ago
Everything I've read on the topic of aging suggests that it too, is not a single problem with a single solution. There is no "senescence switch" that can be turned off. Our bodies break down in a myriad of ways, and to "
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by Zarkonnen 11y ago
Yes, we can take preventable diseases as an example instead, if you prefer.
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by Zarkonnen 11y ago
One day, an anti-dragonist on a speaking tour visited a town. When he arrived, most of the town's inns were already full, and he had to make do with a small room in a small in in a run-down part of the town. The next morning, he stood
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You can't fight here, this is the war room(zarkonnen.itch.io)
1 points by Zarkonnen 11y ago|0 comments
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by Zarkonnen 11y ago
The Solution (Bertolt Brecht) After the uprising of the 17th of June The Secretary of the Writers' Union Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee Stating that the people Had forfeited the confidence of the government And could win
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by Zarkonnen 11y ago
I think it's probably more the constant belittling, criticism, and massive power imbalance that was stressful? sigh
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by Zarkonnen 11y ago
Pretty conflicted about this story. I am... not surprised by any of the details in it, and I'm not fond of startup founder hero worship. But I'm uncomfortable with this kind of public airing of grievances. If Musk wrote this kind
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A generative grammar for trolley problems(zarkonnen.github.io)
1 points by Zarkonnen 11y ago|0 comments
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by Zarkonnen 12y ago
Yeah, the negative visualization aspect very much reminded me of stoicism.
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by Zarkonnen 12y ago
Can someone give some context to this? I'm just seeing a corporatey website with some all-caps text and my eyes glaze over.
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Skullcoin: A modest proposal(zarkonnen.com)
2 points by Zarkonnen 12y ago|0 comments
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by Zarkonnen 12y ago
So you are putting the rights of people with more money above those with less money. It's not a natural law that this is the case, it's still a political decision.
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by Zarkonnen 12y ago
Thanks for that - I was trying to figure out how to respond, and you did it much better than I would have.
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by Zarkonnen 12y ago
Nice textbook phrases. What does it matter whether laws are broken or not if the result is still people not paying their taxes while benefiting massively from society. If the best you can say about someone's behavior is that it's

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