bluecalm

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by bluecalm 2y ago
One of those is not like the others. Speeding drivers kill innocent bystanders. Obesity, cigarettes or what not will just kill you. Speeding in a car is like swinging a machete in a crowd.
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by bluecalm 2y ago
Most people go below 130km/h on an autobahn. German drivers are pretty good and aware. In comparison in Poland we have way more speed related accidents on our highways even though there is a speed limit. It's because we have a lot
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by bluecalm 2y ago
What other "pet issue" kills 40k people a year and injures 50-100x of that? It's a huge issue which warrants radical steps.
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by bluecalm 2y ago
Yeah but it's about utility of cars but speeding in cars.
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by bluecalm 2y ago
I was wrong about absolute numbers, still if you subtract suicides and gang infightings reckless driving kills and hurts way more people. >>Gun utility: small Car utility: large It's not about cars but speeding in cars. You can e
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by bluecalm 2y ago
Speeding kills much more people than guns. It also kills much more innocent outsiders (a lot of gun death are suicides or gang infightings). It also introduces atmosphere of terror on public roads making walking or cycling dangerous. It&#x2
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by bluecalm 2y ago
C has pointers. It's often very difficult or impossible to deduct if an array was written to or not. It's possible in some cases (local array and lack of pointers of the same type in the scope) though so yeah, a warning would be u
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by bluecalm 2y ago
It only works for simple variables where initialisation to 0 is counter productive because you lose a useful compiler warning (about using initialised variable). The main case is about arrays. Here it's often impossible to prove some p
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by bluecalm 2y ago
Don't forget the most important scarce resource they require: space. We waste so much space for parking and other car friendly infrastructure there often is not enough left for a a bike line or even a sidewalk let alone some actually p
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by bluecalm 2y ago
My friend does some trades in watch market as he gets access to limited editions from time to time (if you know right people in dealerships you can sometimes buy a watch out of line if the original "subscribed" buyer doesn't
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by bluecalm 2y ago
The argument "cutters" are making is that there is enough money but also too much waste. Case in point are consulting firms discussed here: they charge you 3x rate of their employees. You could have been paying 2x to get better em
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by bluecalm 2y ago
Yeah, sure those are needed but they are not the reason you have to jump through hooves and pay ridiculous deposits just to rent an apartment. I know quite a few landlords. None of them would complain about stricter rules and obligations wh
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by bluecalm 2y ago
I am for that as well. Build dormitories as housing of last resort. Limit tenants rights to make eviction of non-payers easier. As it is landlords take all the risk and it makes life of honest tenants much expensive and more difficult. It s
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by bluecalm 2y ago
Limiting tenants' rights is good for vast majority (95%+ at least) of tenants. The way it is there are more and more obstacles (insurance, requiring proof of contract/work, very high deposits etc.) to just rent an apartment or a h
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by bluecalm 2y ago
My comment was in relation to the one about the monkey making a photo. You are right though, I haven't read the case and just relied on comments to assume the court rejected the copyright claim "because it was created by AI"
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by bluecalm 2y ago
Isn't AI just a tool here like any other? Sounds very inconsistent to me. It would be better to narrow copyright protection but grant it more liberally imo. Non tech people deciding on tech cases. In the next episode we will get AI pai
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by bluecalm 2y ago
Short term rentals fulfil important function. There is real demand for it. The problem is that it's expensive or just impossible to build anything and that it's very cheap to own. The solution is known: significant land value tax
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by bluecalm 2y ago
High earners in America has it much better when it comes to healthcare than most Europeans. Public system means you (as a high earner) are paying a lot (because in most EU countries it's based on % of your income) and you still wait i
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by bluecalm 2y ago
That's an argument Trump is betting on. I find it very disappointing that his opponents shout that it's clearly unconstitutional without addressing the point. Reasonable way to approach it would be to try to understand what the au
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by bluecalm 2y ago
>> I'm talking about cash here. Cash is literally an article of faith and nothing else. It's not backed by any asset. It's backed by contracts to pay it back. There are powerful institutions employing people with guns a
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by bluecalm 2y ago
Money we are using now is backed by obligation of people to pay it back and very well developed institutions that enforce it. If you hold 100$ you know someone, somewhere needs it to pay their debt. If you hold Bitcoin no one ever needs to
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by bluecalm 2y ago
You can say that banks manage risk of lending and charge for that. Imagine that instead everyone can take a loan from a government without any checks. Soon financial system would collapse as a lot of irresponsible or too optimistic people w
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by bluecalm 2y ago
Previous Trump's admin was more friendly than Obama's/Biden's towards Poland. For example they removed need to apply for a visa to visit; the process to get those was time consuming and frankly humiliating. Another thing
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by bluecalm 2y ago
Doesn't it go directly against EU common market rules? I mean, I can start a company in Germany with the sole purpose to buy chips and sell them to a Polish company. If EU interferes that would be breaking the main purpose of it - a co
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by bluecalm 2y ago
Because public school system sucks, invites abuse from both other children and the teachers and is designed for the lowest common denominator. It's not rocket science that parents who have means to give their kids something better do s
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by bluecalm 2y ago
He is by far the best in all formats but there is some luck in chess and the best player doesn't always win - like in most competitive games/sports.
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by bluecalm 2y ago
Man, we are talking politicians here. Trump wants protectionism, border control, lower corporate taxes, less environmental and other regulations that makes doing business more difficult. Those are just a few clear policies he campaigned on.
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by bluecalm 2y ago
Magnus was just being honest man. You seem to succumb to a common thinking fallacy that people who express criticism or negative opinions about something or someone must be jealous, conceited or just negative people in general. Meanwhile he
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by bluecalm 2y ago
But Democrats didn't campaign on policy. Watch any interview with Kamala and you will struggle to fish out anything specific on any issue. Watch interviews with Trump and he speaks clearly and specifically on most issues. You can disag
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by bluecalm 2y ago
I don't think it's fair to blame software engineering. Bugs happen, especially where there are no incentives to not have bugs. First of all justice system is to blame. Sentencing someone on assumption that some complicated softwar

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