aivisol

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by aivisol 6y ago
> Today the quality of governance in East Asia sets the global standard. The leaders who turned their countries around, such as Deng Xiaoping in China and Lee Kuan Yew in Singapore, planted the seeds of knowledge, internationalism and or
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by aivisol 6y ago
I agree with you totally. There is one problem, however. That those will be our children in which we invested, who will have to take care of them while they are old. That is not fair.
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by aivisol 6y ago
Having kids is definitely a major inconvenience and huge financial burden, that's for sure. If you look it from that perspective, then there are almost only cons and no pros. But if this the only perspective you can look at this, then
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by aivisol 7y ago
Yes, but you still don't leave your door open when leaving your house even when everybody perfectly knows that trespassing is a crime.
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by aivisol 7y ago
Reader view in FF did the trick (in EU)
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by aivisol 7y ago
I am Eastern European and I actually lived under Soviet socialism when I was an adult already so I experienced it first hand. The number of people died in Gulag in our country was way higher than the number of people died in fascist concent
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by aivisol 7y ago
That is indeed a fact what socialism under communist party rule is. Those who have never lived under such regimes have not a slightest idea what they are talking about. This is extremely sad that our memory is so short lived and only 30 yea
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by aivisol 7y ago
That illustration of 1889 should be an error: there is electric oven, toaster, radio and wall clock - isn't it bit too early for those items?
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by aivisol 7y ago
I am sorry, but Cuba is not democracy. It is "Unitary Marxist–Leninist one-party socialist republic" (see Wikipedia) which in practical terms means no free speech, no political parties (except ruling communist), state controlled m
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by aivisol 7y ago
Not sure. The article 25 is "General framework for the temporary reintroduction of border control at internal borders" I cannot find where it says border can be closed. It says "border control" can be reintroduced. There
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by aivisol 7y ago
Interesting, I did not know that. I thought that it is allowed to implement border checks within Schengen, but not to close borders completely. Do you know where is that stated/regulated? Does it say for how long it can last?
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by aivisol 7y ago
Do you know if there are any working examples of that in a history? The ones which work on a state level at least and are sustainable in a long term? And how would that be done democratically? Do you just vote for the expropriation and dist
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by aivisol 7y ago
I have this paranoid feeling that officials will now use this pandemic as a shield to attack on privacy on all fronts. Just right now there are few more posts on HN about the same (one more about EU, and another about Toronto). Fight agains
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by aivisol 7y ago
In Spain no walking, biking, jogging etc is allowed. If you have a dog, you can walk it max 100m from your home. But as I said above, we, adults can understand and cope with it easier than kids. And sadly, when we make our decisions, needs
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by aivisol 7y ago
One thing that stroke me yesterday looking at my 13-year old is that children actually suffer more than adults. While we are allowed to take occasional walk out of our homes ( groceries, etc), they are totally locked up - no friends, no sc
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by aivisol 7y ago
Do you have any details about this? As an amateur astronomer I am concerned about increased number of objects in orbit and their eventual fate. How the quality of deorbiting system measured? Have they deorbited any yet and their success ra
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by aivisol 7y ago
I happen to own couple of medium sized amateur telescopes and relatively cloudless and dark skies. I have started to convert them into remote observatories so other people can watch stars remotely. It is on early stage though.
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by aivisol 7y ago
True
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by aivisol 7y ago
Why? All unicorns are blue, aren't they?
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by aivisol 7y ago
Have you seen a good implementation yet?
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by aivisol 7y ago
> "this will change the world and bring internet to rural areas while the reality is that if it is difficult (and expensive) to deliver internet to rural areas using 3G/4G, it will be more so with 5G with its higher frequencies
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by aivisol 7y ago
Softdelete - its a very popular concept.
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by aivisol 7y ago
I still own a MB with OM616 [1] engine. It does not need an alternator when it runs. Even to turn fuel supply on/off it uses mechanical valve which is on the dashboard. It turns 40 this year but it starts in a split second even in cold
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by aivisol 7y ago
One cylinder engine has no distributor, but AFAIK coil is still needed. Where do you get high voltage for ignition from?
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by aivisol 7y ago
It can probably survive. It is just a coil, and a capacitor across the contacts. Diode rectifier in the alternator might be the weakest point.
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by aivisol 7y ago
Yeah, same for me. I wonder if the sliding window is on the side, so the pilot has to actually stick his head out to see where they are going?....
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by aivisol 7y ago
Which fluctuates only within some 25feet range, not bad at all.
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by aivisol 7y ago
or Charlie Chaplin in "Modern Times" (not barber, but you have an idea)
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by aivisol 7y ago
That absolutely is. You could be better with 48 or even 24 volts, but then you are out of luck if you want to power a majority of devices which are 12v. So your only option is to go for USB-A wall socket which essentially is a wall-wart hid
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by aivisol 7y ago
What it is to do with capitalism? Are (existing or former) communist states better to wildlife? Do you have any facts?

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