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by axiomsEnd 5y ago
From perspective of some people, like here, countries from ex-Soviet block do not exist and do not make sovereign decisions about their aliences. It's really weird to read (mostly US-based, left-wing) authors who simply forget about wh
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by axiomsEnd 5y ago
Oral contraceptives are not as comfortable and easy to use as condoms, which are available everywhere. Taking drugs just to avoid pregnacy would be an alternative probably for people in relationships (instead of sometimes problematic womens
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by axiomsEnd 5y ago
Can you show data that shows how much productivity has fallen? Also, how productivity and wages change in last 30-40 years. From what I know, although wages in low and middle jobs stagnate, the productivity now is extremly high. Also, in wh
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by axiomsEnd 5y ago
Japan : the one and only country in history with violent and brutal chapter in it's history. It's about losing wallets...
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by axiomsEnd 5y ago
I love Western Culture as a term. In Central Europe it meant whatever was on the right side of Iron Curtain (mostly liberal democracy and all what comes with it), then Iron Curtain dissapeared and it got second meaning as white, Anglo-Saxon
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by axiomsEnd 5y ago
If a war is just a TV news about no-one-really-cares part of Europe it's easy to treat it as another topic for debate and partisan discussion about USA. Because from my perspective this is main shift of the discussion - Russia, Ukraine
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by axiomsEnd 5y ago
Not sure where Peppa Pig and Baby Shark land on the politics compas.
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by axiomsEnd 5y ago
How much can you forage in North USA or Europe outside season, and, regardless of season - without getting in troubles with law?
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by axiomsEnd 5y ago
Do you have any research papers linking microplastics in fish with certain cancers, and how/why is microplastic in fish is more harmful than... All other microplastic we i gest?
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by axiomsEnd 5y ago
It sounds a bit like being shunned from some controlling church.
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by axiomsEnd 5y ago
So elected officials of one kind are making decisions based on the merit, and other elected officials are making decisions based on... Hating their voters, I guess?
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by axiomsEnd 5y ago
Are there any trading companies in countries without non-compete clauses? If yes, that would suggest that this isn't cost of lack of non-competes.
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by axiomsEnd 5y ago
Isn't this more about playining on historical sentiments? In Polish-speaking internet russian trolls won't shut up about UPA and Wołyń massacre.
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by axiomsEnd 5y ago
Just to be pedantic : three. Poland has a direct border with Russia in Kaliningrad Oblast.
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by axiomsEnd 5y ago
Look at the map, they are attacking Lviv which is as far as something can be from Donbas. They are almost at the Polish border.
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by axiomsEnd 5y ago
And why exactly Canada's turn is more intresting than, for example, Ukraine and Russia on a brink on war? I live in country, which for the last 7 years made a sharp turn towards rather literal authoritarism, but probably due to the iss
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by axiomsEnd 5y ago
Slate Star Codex put it nicely "The moral of the story is: if you’re against witch-hunts, and you promise to found your own little utopian community where witch-hunts will never happen, your new society will end up consisting of approx
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by axiomsEnd 5y ago
Or it may that this community is international, so you either have tech talks, or a pile of discussions about politics in every part of the world.
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by axiomsEnd 5y ago
But we never took that step forward fully. We are constantly using icons in real life (trafic signs is one example) when we want to communicate small dose of information, to everyone, in short amount of time. That's why we use icons -
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by axiomsEnd 5y ago
Original story : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30150343
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by axiomsEnd 5y ago
He allows it in his country, which has a lot of fossil fuels and a giant, unusable freezer called Siberia. This is a nice PR move, and a good way to get some money from hard to track sources, which may be a good idea if you are trying to st
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by axiomsEnd 5y ago
Instant messaging in 200x was based on "naked content" that could be parsed by anyone, so there was a lot of different programs supporting various forms of communications. If you weren't a programmer you simply relied on 3rd-
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by axiomsEnd 5y ago
The problem is that people for some reason are living in cities for thousands of years and this helped in progres of science/technology/art. It's a symbiotic, not parasitic relationship.
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by axiomsEnd 5y ago
People do not exist outside their circumstances. Being raised in religion/hateful worldview, without contact with outsiders and shunning doubtful members of group (alienating and shunning are really popular in such circles, in more or