candiodari

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2491.
by candiodari 8y ago
And the alternative would be ? (Note: those poor people need to be able to do 30-40kg groceries, at a distance of, say 5-10 kilometers, when they're 50 years old)
2492.
by candiodari 8y ago
> This is not true. Copying material internally to a company is distribution. If you (person or company) don’t have the rights to copy, then it is illegal. If you do have a license, then it's legal distribution. It's only distr
2493.
by candiodari 8y ago
Actually because internal distribution at companies is generally considered to not be distribution because it's the legal entity that is the company that's using it. The internal employees actually watching/changing the conte
2494.
by candiodari 8y ago
Yeah, and let's just pretend that your implied argument, that looking at the other values measured finds that they, in toto, mean the brains are equal. Of course that's very far from the truth. It's funny: your statement is p
2495.
by candiodari 8y ago
Yeah. The truth is that before, local and state governments could effectively carve out their tax revenues out of the federal government's tax revenues, with limited impact on what their constituents would pay in total tax. That ended
2496.
by candiodari 8y ago
Reading from the article, one gets quite a few quite damning impressions: 1) fentanyl is apparently mostly delivered just through mail. Mail is apparently not inspected at all and walking into a post office with dozens of envelopes/pac
2497.
by candiodari 8y ago
Can we please shortcut this discussion ? Yes, if EVERY state, including Russia, China, Japan, France, UK, India, Pakistan, North Korea ... verifiably killed it's nuke program, then we can talk. Until then: https://en.wikiped
2498.
by candiodari 8y ago
Weird, I've read in the news multiple times that these cameras "accidentally" caught some sort of criminal. From people wanted by the Dutch IRS to people "running from youth services". They were particularly proud o
2499.
by candiodari 8y ago
Humans are group animals. Try and stalk an individual wolf in a pack as an individual (even with a rifle) and let me know how it goes. You'd be lucky to live and tell the tale. Humans are the same. Getting the better of an individual h
2500.
by candiodari 8y ago
Laws cannot stop a technology that is easily availabe, like number plate scanning or face recognition. Nothing can stop it. You might just as well outlaw knives (they are in fact illegal in many European countries, which has done nothing ab
2501.
by candiodari 8y ago
You don't get the full extent of the damage. You are making the assumption that the government and police departments are the only ones that will do mass-surveillance. You could not be more wrong. Everyone will do mass-surveillance. Ev
2502.
by candiodari 8y ago
Well, we have multiple court cases to prove that one of the applications of the police's and CIA's power to monitor phone conversations is checking if your (not-quite) girlfriend is "cheating" on you and attacking, as a
2503.
by candiodari 8y ago
... which is done as a matter of course in many countries. Hell, the Netherlands does this for all cars, always, "to send speeding tickets". They are scanning and identifying all cars, whether or not they have reason to suspect an
2504.
by candiodari 8y ago
Very interesting. This would only apply to the largest of dinosaurs though, wouldn't it ? The kind that's just not ever going to chase anything.
2505.
by candiodari 8y ago
Trained humans can maintain a speed of ~20kph for hours (as in plural). Peak speed for a few seconds (which is what would be required to escape these animals if reaction time is not the problem) is ~50 kph for humans (but only for 10 meters
2506.
by candiodari 8y ago
Luckily, when cars crash (or just dride) they never hit anything like houses or people. Oh wait ...
2507.
by candiodari 8y ago
This ignores that, unlike cars, 1950s planes are built from scratch today. Meet the most popular aircraft in history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessna_172 The only updates are new engines, the aircraft's contr
2508.
by candiodari 8y ago
DNA has a half-life. If you find 100gr of "intact" cells, it's not going to be a problem to extract the DNA.
2509.
by candiodari 8y ago
Just wait until they realize that these were not warm blooded animals and thus the large ones, including T-Rex, would have moved slower than large African animals (probably a lot slower), the fastest of which are about half as fast as norma
2510.
by candiodari 8y ago
So first, you forget to mention: 1) a nuclear power plant that's in operation for ~10 years, then melts down releases less radiation than a coal power plant that's in operation for 10 years. (another issue is that if somebody prop
2511.
by candiodari 8y ago
All you need to do to kill someone's belief in the Big Bang theory is tell the entirety of it. You know, a little more than just the very beginning. Once you get to point out that a part of the theory says that a solar system sized bal
2512.
by candiodari 8y ago
I think the point would be that Microsoft certainly makes products for a profit. And let's be honest: they're pretty useful products. At best, in their case, it's their side projects that we have issues with.
2513.
by candiodari 8y ago
Well, yes. However, we should look at illegally: it's going to make it much easier for sites to exist in areas where there won't be any enforcement. So it's going to kill European sites, not anything else. Effectively Europea
2514.
by candiodari 8y ago
EU elections aren't selecing the people who make laws. That's the commission and the EU council. By that standard the Soviet Union, China and Saudi Arabia are/were democratic too. They all have/had elections. Elections t
2515.
by candiodari 8y ago
Well my opinion is that the EU shouldn't exist. A non-democratic state controlling democratic states seems to me to be a spectacularly bad idea. But I'm a consultant and I've worked and work for these people, mostly indirectl
2516.
by candiodari 8y ago
> The GDPR really spells out that you can't ask for consent / basis to do one thing and then flip around and do more with it. That's not how reality works. Laws, despite god knows how many attempts, don't change that.
2517.
by candiodari 8y ago
Well, if the intent behind the legislation was to protect personal data, presumably they would have modified their own behavior before regulating. But they haven't. Makes things clear. They also control the enforcement mechanism. Let&#
2518.
by candiodari 8y ago
This is why I think we don't have inflation. Very low loans, and for managers personal careers it is actually beneficial to do this. The more of this is done, the more others are forced to do the same. This then results in lower inte
2519.
by candiodari 8y ago
German food is better the more you get to the South.
2520.
by candiodari 8y ago
Exactly ... it's a trap, moving somewhere cheaper for reasons of saving money.

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