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by antientropic 7y ago
The linked article is in the Opinion section, so no, it does not necessarily reflect the stance of the NYT and accusations of hypocrisy are therefore unfounded in this case.
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by antientropic 7y ago
> Europe does not have freedom of speech What an absurd statement.
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by antientropic 7y ago
Nukes have been used in anger only twice in history and it wasn't over a declaration of independence. They're really not very useful as an offensive weapon. If (say) Tibet declared independence, there is absolutely no chance that
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by antientropic 7y ago
> the only alternative to further European integration is another war False dichotomy. Surely the same level of integration, or even a slightly lower level of integration, will not necessarily lead to war. EU members were already quite
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by antientropic 7y ago
I don't get it. How is a word like "civilization" less elitist / more pragmatic than "civilisation"? How is that a revolution? Is there any evidence that these minor spelling difference had an effect on the suc
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by antientropic 7y ago
Alleged backdoor. There are a lot of allegations against Huawei but not a lot (if any) concrete evidence.
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by antientropic 7y ago
It was actually already widely known thanks to the TTIP negotiations (see e.g. https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-ttip-fears/ ).
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by antientropic 7y ago
> Like many with a background in programming languages and their implementations, the idea that safe languages enforce a proper abstraction boundary, not allowing well-typed programs to read arbitrary memory, has been a guarantee upon wh
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by antientropic 8y ago
It is false that there are "exactly ZERO transfers" in the EU. Sadly for Italy however, it is a net contributor of about 5 billion a year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_the_European_Union#E...
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by antientropic 8y ago
I think your comment misrepresents the article. A quote: "That Hardin’s tragedy was advanced as part of a white nationalist project should not automatically condemn its merits. But the facts are not on Hardin’s side. [...] [E]arly past
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by antientropic 8y ago
It's absurd to say that Wikipedia has an "insanely high barrier to entry". You click "Edit" and that's it - you don't even have to create an account. It's hard to imagine a lower barrier to entry. Of
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by antientropic 8y ago
That's taking about external migration (refugees and illegal immigrants), not internal migration under the EU's freedom of movement. Of course, the latter was a major factor in the Brexit referendum, so I wouldn't say it&#x27
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by antientropic 8y ago
That argument also applies to any democracy (or indeed any polity larger than a household): why should the people in my town have a say over the laws in the adjacent town?
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by antientropic 8y ago
But the parliament and (more indirectly) the council were chosen by the people to exercise power on their behalf in democratic elections.
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by antientropic 8y ago
These are pretty weak arguments to get rid of the EU. In many democracies, the government has the power to propose legislation. And what democracy doesn't have backroom deals?
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by antientropic 8y ago
Democracy does not mean that you always get what you want. A majority in parliament and the council were in favor of this law, so you can't say it's undemocratic.
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by antientropic 8y ago
Well, looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_Netherlands , it shows Dutch GDP per capita (in EUR, nominal) up by >14% since 2007. You used GDP in USD, but to me that seems somewhat misleading: just b
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by antientropic 8y ago
> They made it so difficult and so scary to warn the other states to not even try to think about an exit. How is it difficult? You trigger article 50 and in two years time you're out, no questions asked. Whether it's scary depe
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by antientropic 8y ago
> Unemployment in Europe as a whole (including Eastern Europe) is ~20%. According to [1] unemployment in the EU-28 is actually 6.7% as of November 2018. Of course, there are some European countries that are not in the EU, but I doubt tha
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by antientropic 8y ago
The polls were not that bad: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-polls-are-all-right... . It's just that the outcome of US presidential elections can be changed by relatively small shifts in a handful of swing
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by antientropic 8y ago
Isn't that pretty much tautological? Yes, if you impose gender quota, then you're obviously going to get more women. The empirical question is whether the organization is better off as a result.
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by antientropic 8y ago
What's up with the absurd absolutism? Absolute free speech does not exist anywhere in the world, including the US. That's not the same thing as "no free speech". BTW, the decision you linked to is about Austria, not the
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by antientropic 8y ago
FWIW, the book gives a more detailed description of the assumptions/limitations of pbrt here: http://www.pbr-book.org/3ed-2018/Color_and_Radiometry/Radiom... E.g. it doesn't handle things like polarizati
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by antientropic 8y ago
"The hardware" did not support more than 1 MB. The 8086/8088 had a 20-bit address space (reflected both in the segmentation model and the address bus), so that limits it to 1 MB.
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by antientropic 8y ago
What is weird about them?
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by antientropic 8y ago
For the purposes of this discussion, it doesn't matter whether system() uses clone() or fork() - they have the exact same problem that they have to do a non-trivial amount of virtual address space setup, and can trigger OOM if you don&
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by antientropic 8y ago
I did Google it and I found 1.7 million refugee applications in Germany in the period 2008-2017. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_migrant_crisis#Asylum... ) Where did you get your 5 million from?
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by antientropic 8y ago
Indeed that's the point: > The team compared the position and velocity measurements from GRAVITY and SINFONI respectively, along with previous observations of S2 using other instruments, with the predictions of Newtonian gravity, ge
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by antientropic 8y ago
There is no "unspent income tax" in the Netherlands. There is however a tax of 1.2% on savings and investments over 25000 euros.
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by antientropic 8y ago
In unrelated news, 500 sheep killed themselves by jumping off a cliff in Turkey: http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/500-sheep-die-in-mass-suici...

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