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by asjw 7y ago
Electric cars have tires, that produce a lot of the dangerous micro plastic
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by asjw 7y ago
They are just addicted to it, but they don't like it If they really liked it they will learn to drive well We could also say that people like alcohol or drugs, but the truth is that it is addiction That's why they are heavily regu
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by asjw 7y ago
Many cities cannot support building more tunnels. And tunnels cost a lot of money anyway and aren't built overnight
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by asjw 7y ago
It's the same principle behind outlawing cigarettes, alcohol before a certain age, guns... Oh wait!
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by asjw 7y ago
Bad movies without mentioning Troma entertainment movies (like the iconic toxic avenger) or "Il bosco 1" (evil clutch in English) or Peter Jackson's bad taste?
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by asjw 7y ago
In my opinion the problem is that CSS apply styles and positioning to markup Components have been a solved problem in desktop apps for decades You have layout and styles applied to components positioned in the layout What's really pr
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by asjw 7y ago
There will always be money around, even if it's not cash dollars You're talking about people on the edge of society, rightfully so or more they already have many ways of making deals Meanwhile cashless in a country like Italy coul
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by asjw 7y ago
Bitcoin is useless for this use case At a certain point they will start to ask you "where did you get this coins?" because sooner or later you'll have to convert them to real currencies Cash is still a better option, there ar
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by asjw 7y ago
We're not social, we are tribal, we need to show dominance on our peers and in person it works best. Being the king of slack serves no purpose. What Bezos does (if it's true) is just apply common sense (let's solve this real
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by asjw 7y ago
It's so sad that Xanadu never took off. It was envisioned exactly like that
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by asjw 7y ago
Many more people die for too much sugar or cigarettes than for defense projects...
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by asjw 7y ago
If you have the metadata regarding phone usage or engagement you know when it's the best moment If you can process the images on the phone for cheap (modern phones can do that) you can send only the relevant metadata
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by asjw 7y ago
That's just part of the show It's deception
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by asjw 7y ago
Violating anti trust laws and being anti competitive is taking money from people's pockets and making their life worse
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by asjw 7y ago
Classes by definition are about wealth If you're unable to manage your money it's your fault, but you're not working class
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by asjw 7y ago
Ah! The joys of a labour system where everything is about money! It costs me nothing to get a new job and if I have to move for an interview I could even ask a refund for the expenses...
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by asjw 7y ago
Or because they genuinely don't like it, like a study in Sweden where a lot of women are free to chose any career they won't and avoid STEM, because there are a lot of other ways to be successful when there is more equity than STE
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by asjw 7y ago
Most of the time you already know the answer: copy pasted from somewhere else or too much to do, too little time. "Can you walk me through it" is also something I would ask to a student, not to someone whom I'm sharing the wo
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by asjw 7y ago
I believe ginormous agglomerates of money and power backed by predatory (and probably with criminal intent) capital investors, with no other ethics than make money in any possible way are the root of all evil, politicians are just elected r
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by asjw 7y ago
USA is a worse oligarchy than USSR ever was. https://mronline.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/US-Territory...
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by asjw 7y ago
We already phisically change completely every few years. We still don't know if we stay we or become something different. Experience says we are not the same person we were and we often feel disconnected from who we were or who people
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by asjw 7y ago
It should go together with respect
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by asjw 7y ago
Because US healthcare suck. It's a fact.
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by asjw 7y ago
And killing journalists, and imprisoning political opponents, and controlling the media and, yes, straight up lying, because no other voice can be heard, so it's impossible to publicly fact check their lies.
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by asjw 7y ago
They are just 4 different angles of the same fact. Lying and misreporting are two different things.
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by asjw 7y ago
In Europe we understand the difference between being biased and lying.
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by asjw 7y ago
Meanwhile you can force feed beef and get expensive steaks at any of the fancy NY steak house downtown
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by asjw 7y ago
But it's an inversion of innocent until proven guilty nonetheless. People will find loopholes anyway. It's not even hard in this case.
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by asjw 7y ago
What is the right direction? Right by which metric?
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by asjw 7y ago
The difference here is that the oncologist doesn't just observe. The oncologist deals with the consequences of the observation: communicate with the patient, gives advices on treatments, makes a therapy plan, deals with families, answe

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