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by belorn 2y ago
The legality of the event is know. It was illegal, as deemed by a court of law. The question I was after is if the concept is ever moral or reasonable to deal with protestors with methods outside the legal system. Common methods are the mil
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by belorn 2y ago
> before civil society (via it's police force and/or government) says "ok, that's enough". Can you elaborate why it is "and/or government". Why is it acceptable that the government by-pass the norm
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Gas turbines can not do that if we include the cost of pollution. Currently we do not have anything that has low capital cost, high operating cost, overall cheap, and carbon free. Natural gas just trade pollution, a problem for the future,
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Those sounds interesting and is likely a nice achievement, but averages really hide the critical information here. What was the min and max, and how did they deal with periods of low supply? Denmark is a nice example why this matter. During
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by belorn 2y ago
There is actually some funny history around that, since after the world war 2 there was laws restricting news papers from publishing national secrets. One case was a map that the military official accidentally leak themselves, but which was
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by belorn 2y ago
A few months ago in Sweden we had a major news story about a journalist who went under cover as an employee of a political party media department in order to follow a story. They explicitly took the job in order to leak information which th
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by belorn 2y ago
It is the same conventional wisdom that held that the Swedish state prosecutor would never break Swedish laws in order to keep a prosecution indefinitely ongoing. Naturally the US had no plan to charge Assange the same day that the Swedish
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by belorn 2y ago
No, this was companies doing it. They controlled ports, rail and roads (or what ever roads that may exist in remote areas), and controlling in-going supplies was a matter of policy and enforcement. Mining and railway companies where once ve
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by belorn 2y ago
In the past there was a fairly common practice to create a monopoly by outlawing people from importing food to a local economy. People may recognize the concept of mining towns, company stores, or its role in debt slavery. The practice back
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by belorn 2y ago
In my country (Sweden) we do not have a specific age restricting law regarding purchasing porn. What we do have a generic law that forbid any film in cinema and TV broadcast from being viewed by children under 7, 11 and 15 years old if view
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by belorn 2y ago
I am going to make an interpretation that you think age restrictions are good public policy in general, and asking why others disagree. In the edit you say that "we all appear to agree that age verification is an acceptable goal",
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> If you completely separate identity from age checking using some cryptographic method, the loophole is that a single identity token with an adult age can now be used by everyone, everywhere to tell websites that they are above a certai
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by belorn 2y ago
A European who receives healthcare in the EU can’t demand that the provider delete their medical record if the provider has a legal allowed reason to keep the record. This is a fundamental aspect of GDPR and part of the central message in t
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by belorn 2y ago
Could you give a example of such ISP? I have seen ISP block all DNS traffic beyond to their own server, but those have been fairly locked networks like hotel wifi. It is much cheaper, safer, and less fragile to just block everything and for
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by belorn 2y ago
It is times like this that I recommend technically inclined people to try setting up your own dns resolver and see how minimal impact a few/handful of milliseconds on first access has on the internet experience. Practically all popular
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by belorn 2y ago
There are a few reasons for that. The primary being that sharing a physical book do not count as copying, but sharing a digital book does. The second reason is that libraries tend to operate under government control, and governments has don
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by belorn 2y ago
Germany has plans to stop sales of new combustion engine cars after 2035. Significantly, they do not have similar goals for new fossil fueled power plants. If they could just scale renewable energy then they would issue such plans, but they
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by belorn 2y ago
Sweden is perfectly energy independent as long they don't export. Existing nuclear and wind production is perfectly able to produce the wast majority of energy that get consumed, and national hydro power has so far capacity to last thr
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by belorn 2y ago
A persons right to exist is not political. There are however a bunch of things which is political like: Laws governing universal health care, laws governing minors rights to make decisions as minors, laws that makes distinctions between gen
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by belorn 2y ago
They could merge /var/tmp and /var/cache, with the intention to discourage future use of /var/tmp. With users, programs and admins already using /var/tmp as a persistent cache, a name change seems lik
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The metabolic system is like a ecosystem, where every intervention has a fairly large spectrum of unknowns. Probiotics can do harm, just like antibiotics, or it may do nothing, or it may improve health or reduce symptoms. Generally it doesn
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by belorn 2y ago
The initial key word I would start with if someone is interested in studying this concept would be "replication crisis". Wikipedia has a good starting off point with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_c
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If we look at the claim that "ukrain invaded russia", we can lable that as war propaganda with a pretty clear intent, especially if we can source the claim to Russian military or government. The facts such as which specific solder
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by belorn 2y ago
"already disproven bullshit" is what meta studies are for. In regards to the covid pandemic there are now plenty of those, and unsurprisingly few people liked what they showed. No one likes it when facts do not conform to cultural
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Opinions supported by provable facts is what distinguish a scientific dissertation compared to a political statement. Politicians do not generally support their opinions with provable facts, and while they can consult with scientists to for
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In locations with very predictable weather it makes perfect financially sense. Knowing when supply is high and when it is low makes predicting prices accurate, and the number of recharge cycles each year are fairly guarantied. Add a large a
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It is less that fission-prevents-global-warming, but that removal of nuclear plants has a very strong positive relationship with the construction of new fossil fueled power plants. Sweden as an example did not use fossil fueled power plants
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The third part that is also about certain is that we'll be dealing with climate change, since we are not stopping burning fossil fuels. Instead we are building new fresh power plants fueled by fossil fuels with planned operational life
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Let say you had 1kg of radioactive material that produced 10x the lethal level of radiation. Let say this material has a half life of 6 seconds. Question 1: How many seconds until its below lethal levels. Question 2: How many years will it
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by belorn 2y ago
Fossil fuel companies best bet right now is to focus on natural gas and oil, to be used in thermal power stations. When power prices fluctuating, they can get more of the money from customers using less fuel, hitting the grid when supply is

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