anoncake

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by anoncake 6y ago
Yeah I really don't care what some liberal think tank "thinks". And I'm not going to have this ideological discussion here, it never works out.
602.
by anoncake 6y ago
There is no evidence for that. Markets don't randomly stop working because you tax people – they would be quite useless tools if they were that fragile. > Generally interfering with social processes through top-down cookie cutter me
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by anoncake 6y ago
Since the damage caused by severe nuclear accidents is essentially permanent, we cannot recover from them. So in the long run, we cannot afford even an accident per century, and thus, cannot afford nuclear power. Also building enough nuclea
604.
by anoncake 6y ago
Where do you live that just about everyone has a hand tattoo with some sort of rose and the word "more" on the knuckles?
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by anoncake 6y ago
You cannot demonstrate the safety of something by pointing at an example that did not go as terrible as it could have.
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by anoncake 6y ago
Killing a predictable number of people each year is not danger, it's damage. The danger posed by hydro is real, but entirely negligible compared to nuclear. But of course we should replace fossils by renewables and phase them out be
607.
by anoncake 6y ago
Okay, I should stop using sarcasm on the internet. You're completely right.
608.
by anoncake 6y ago
> I didn't say that nuclear plants are being built to create plutonium. I said that they were being kept around because of the skills and tech - it's a more or less cost-neutral way of keeping a ready supply of nuclear engineer
609.
by anoncake 6y ago
It's also unsuitable as a long-term solution and too slow to build for a a short-term solution. So all it is is a distraction.
610.
by anoncake 6y ago
I'm sure our nuclear plants are safe against all foreseeable dangers. So only unforeseeable dangers are a problem. I can't foresee any, so we're safe?
611.
by anoncake 6y ago
Are you seriously claiming that adware is the only way for a programmer to make money?
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by anoncake 6y ago
If property can be rightfully inherited, either the descendants of whatever Pharaoh/other ancient Egyptian or the successor state of ancient Egypt are the rightful owners of what was taken from them. If your property may end up in a f
613.
by anoncake 6y ago
No, it's a sign that some people have way more money than they need. Which is a waste as long as other people have to worry about getting food on the table.
614.
by anoncake 6y ago
Which suggests non-coop payment networks are more successful in the market. It does not tell us anything about whether they are actually better for anyone.
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by anoncake 6y ago
It's a spoiler if surprise enhances the enjoyment. If there are works for which that is not the case at all, they cannot be spoiled. I'm not aware of any, are you?
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by anoncake 6y ago
If making gay marriage illegal violates the Taiwanese constitution, the people had already decided they want it to be legal. If they don't want that, they can change the constitution.
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by anoncake 6y ago
No, the law would be "decided" by judges. But actually they just make sure it's consistent with the constitution, which is higher law. If you don't want a part of the constitution to be enforced, why should it even be th
618.
by anoncake 6y ago
Which is shortsighted. If competition did not benefit consumers, there would be no need for it anyway.
619.
by anoncake 6y ago
It's like they want white racists to actually have a point.
620.
by anoncake 6y ago
Free software is not about seeing the source code.
621.
by anoncake 6y ago
It's safer not to.
622.
by anoncake 6y ago
That's piracy. You wouldn't download a car [seat]!
623.
by anoncake 6y ago
When everyone who will ever want to see it has done so. So never.
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by anoncake 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrant . I'm done here.
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by anoncake 6y ago
It is – legitimately – a big issue for the parents of transgirls who do want transwomen (women) in women's sports.
626.
by anoncake 6y ago
If you have that control for long enough to effectively replace the court, then that defense mechanism has failed.
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by anoncake 6y ago
No, I think you missed that we were indeed talking about Germany.[1] If you want to change the topic, you should have said so :) [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26578639
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by anoncake 6y ago
> that's cute, but do you think it would change anything if Myanmar's constitution had included such clause? Perhaps not, but Myanmar isn't full of Germans. > Laws, and constitutions, are useful, but in the end: politic
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by anoncake 6y ago
I told you the facts. If you think you know better how my country and its culture work than I do and if you think you know our laws and the history behind them better than German lawyers and historians, I can't help you. > As would
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by anoncake 6y ago
> If that was how it was meant to be understood, it could have easily been written explicitly by making it a recursive clause. It could. But why explicitly write down things that are obvious anyway? > More likely, the authors of entre

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