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by chki 5y ago
No, the US did not write the German constitution. It was written by German politicians and lawyers. The Allied forces definitely had an influence on the constitution and requested certain things to be in the constitution (human rights, fede
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by chki 5y ago
I don't think anybody is arguing whether killing innocent activists is wrong. But the implications of the headline are different if the increase in murders correlates with an increase in activism. That could for example imply that acti
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by chki 5y ago
Op has edited his comment, see my edit.
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by chki 5y ago
Using an obviously derogatory term for trans people really doesn't help your point at all. It hints to the possibility that you have a personal belief that sees trans people as unnatural and because of that belief it's easier for
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by chki 5y ago
But you at least have to admit that it seriously undercuts the credibility of that site if they engage in every conspiracy theory out there. It's very hard not to simply dismiss somebody else's arguments if they believe that the H
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by chki 5y ago
What you describe as "fascinating" is just a crazy conspiracy theory. The link you give also just throws homosexuality and bisexuality in there as well and while not exactly saying that all those things are "unhealthy for a s
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by chki 5y ago
> That existing risk was already at the limit of acceptability. Do you actually thinks so? I've never heard that aspiring teachers are thinking about their increased risk to illnesses, especially since many have children of their ow
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by chki 5y ago
That doesn't make any sense and it's not how it works in a number of other countries. You could (for example) make it illegal to send these pictures instead.
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by chki 5y ago
The whole article is leaning a little bit too much on the "what if"-part of things. First it will be important to see whether their first at-scale Prototype actually works next year.
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by chki 5y ago
> And I'm afraid that last 0.1% of aquisition is pretty much impossible to obtain deliberately unless you abandon your native language. Even your English, whilst technicaly good, has a couple of flags But those last .1 % are not ver
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by chki 5y ago
But I would claim that nobody has ever said "flight times from London to Sydney will go down to 2-3 hours in 10 years". Si the above example does not really make sense.
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by chki 5y ago
The distance from London to Sydney is 17.000km. The current flight airspeed record is 3.500km/h. I would doubt that anything close to 8.500km/h is physically possible without using rockets. That's the speed of the fastest mis
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by chki 5y ago
> Fourth depends on the fill level of the vessels. I don't think it does.
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by chki 5y ago
Maybe they would need to cut that specific line but apart from that? As far as I recall, everything else should be fine.
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by chki 5y ago
At what rating do you play? Around 1200 on chess.com? I don't see cheating as a big problem online for two reasons but I only play on lichess, not on chess.com. First of all it's not that bad to play against a cheater once in a wh
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by chki 5y ago
> No, they only have to satisfy the legal requirements of countries where they have established organizations. Which for Google and other companies means basically most countries, right? For example they have an office in Malaysia ( http
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by chki 5y ago
>The GDPR does apply to non-EU based services That's only correct with regards to the processing of data subjects who are in the European Union. See Art. 3.2 of the GDPR.
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by chki 5y ago
No, that's not correct. As an EU citizen living abroad, using non-EU based services, the GDPR will not apply. It would also be impossible to enforce something like that.
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by chki 5y ago
It's completely unreasonable to look (for example) at the situation in Brazil and question the enormous death toll of COVID-19.
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by chki 5y ago
>Ad hominem attacks are worthless in a discussion of ideas. Some of the conspiracy theories are part of the twitter thread. It's entirely reasonable to discuss these here, especially if the thread and account get this amount of atte
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by chki 5y ago
These are literally two out of the first four paragraphs I read when clicking on that link: >Dearest Friends & Fellow Americans, The eminent trial of our Age is upon us. Those whose courage fails them now, who shrink from the fight,
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by chki 5y ago
I mean it's one project out of 145 featured on their website. Looking at their financial statement for 2019 it's certainly a very small amount compared to other projects which include for example funding medical research.
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by chki 5y ago
> it's a thinly veiled employment opportunity for the heirs that does very little actual charity I'm looking at their financial report for the year 2019 and that's just not true. They are a very complex organization and si
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by chki 5y ago
OP (and others in this thread) might not want to reveal their IP address or their Wikipedia username.
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by chki 5y ago
> A Wikipedia 2.0 is needed... one where edits are put into a queue rather then having someone come in ten minutes later and delete your edit simply because it is live immediately. This is how some language versions of Wikipedia work, fo
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by chki 5y ago
Why not simply post this xkcd-Comic instead of linking to an overly complicated search engine result? https://xkcd.com/793/
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by chki 5y ago
> Beijing is the currently accepted western name. In the English language, probably. I'm not a native speaker of English and momentarily forgot that "Peking" is unusual (although – in my defense – the English Wikipedia pag
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by chki 5y ago
Yes you are correct, that's an important thing to look at. Apparently the main energy usage which causes the 1.5kwh number is drilling, I'll see whether I can find some sources. If it's actually drilling that makes a big diff
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by chki 5y ago
Interesting calculation! But the point of shifting electricity usage from refineries to car batteries still stands: Apparently it's 1.5 kwh per liter of gasoline [Edit: this might not be accurate, or might be mainly related to drilling
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by chki 5y ago
Fun fact: Stuttgart is considered to be one of the worst cities in Germany with regards to air pollution, because of the geography ("Stuttgarter Kessel"). But the difference between any other German city and Stuttgart is obviously

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