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by corty 6y ago
Not really, the insurance won't make things right in an instant. They will usually compensate you financially, but often only after painstaking evaluation of all circumstances, weighing their chances in court to get out of paying you a
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by corty 6y ago
Going bankrupt is a plan. However, it is a somewhat more involved one than it sounds, at first. That's why there should be a corporate lawyer advising on stuff like company structure, liabilities, continuance of pension plans, ordering
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by corty 6y ago
Just abandon it. International treaties are mostly hindrances to progress because re-negotiating them is considered hard to impossible. States should aim to be free from such obligations and reduce the amount of applicable treaties as far a
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by corty 6y ago
Preprint often looks better. I've had publishers send papers to offshoristan where they redid everything including the graphs to match their layout, introducing tons of errors, typos (yes, really...) and problems that even almost 10 ro
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by corty 6y ago
What guarantee is there that this will reduce ads in any way? If cable TV taught us anything it is that you can charge outrageous amounts of money and still force your customers to watch ads. Paper newspapers are also full of ads, even the
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by corty 6y ago
I could if I weren't also prone to overfilling the mug so carrying it around needlessly was a bad idea :)
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by corty 6y ago
To reduce dripping before carrying it over to the wastebin. At least that's why I do it.
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by corty 6y ago
Cars getting larger and heavier is a byproduct of environmental and safety regulations coupled with the consumers' desire for a constant amount of usable space and payload. More exhaust cleaning and more complex motors cost weight. S
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by corty 6y ago
And special-purpose-font/script CDNs don't improve load times any more because browser caches are partitioned by domain nowadays. So using a CDN for fonts or scripts just increases your downtime probability and your GDPR headaches
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by corty 6y ago
I think it might be necessary to just frame speed as a problem everyone can relate to, Ferengi as well as developers. One possibility for speed as in latency would be to pre-agree on a latency budget (as in realtime-systems: if you exceed t
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by corty 6y ago
Nope https://qz.com/224275/heres-how-indias-least-windy-places-ar...
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by corty 6y ago
Moore's law was famously exponential, until it wasn't, because there are physical limits. Grain per hectare made some noticeable jumps, but no growth or even negative growth due to organics. Limit now is probably what the ecosyste
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by corty 6y ago
It has, the only obscuring factor is China's one-child-policy and Europe's and North America's decline. The rest is still very much in exponential growth. Only the last 20 years at best saw some possible downward trend, but t
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by corty 6y ago
And how much can we increase agri productivity? Will it grow exponentially along with the population? Otherwise, we will need that land.
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by corty 6y ago
Well, we are currently removing the last big forests like Amazonas for agriculture. Have the population double again, then it's gone for certain.
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by corty 6y ago
The problem with that refutation is, population growth is O(2^n), available space is O(1) and available food is limited by available space and energy. Maybe there will be advances in science, increasing food production. However, to keep up
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by corty 6y ago
Yes, I agree completely. Nuclear can be safe and sensible, but we do need to get rid of a bunch of old crap first.
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by corty 6y ago
Yes, on a synchronous grid. Yes, everyone does it. Yes, it works. You seem to be thinking in a binary manner, the plant is either on or off and there is some big central regulator doing the switching. But that isn't how it works. Plant
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by corty 6y ago
Nuclear isn't as inflexible as you think. A usual change rate in power output is around 10%/min, so you can go from half to full in 5 minutes. Far away from days or weeks. Here is a nice comparison: https://de.m.wikiped
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by corty 6y ago
You still have to remember that the Fukushima reactors were also old and crappy designs. That TMI was as harmless as it was came from the things we learned, Fukushima predates that. Tepco also refused to upgrade or improve several safety me
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by corty 6y ago
Well, Germany until very recently, comissioned new lignite plants and is still actively mining lignite in areas that are still being expanded. There is some political turmoil about that, but at best, fossil fuels have plateaued. Also, for c
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by corty 6y ago
Privacy and anonymity are distinct, but strongly correlated. Without anonymity, there will always be enough metadata to hang you with. Using Signal as a surveillance-evasion-tool will get you into trouble in a lot of the more unsavoury corn
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by corty 6y ago
There is no legal mechanism because such exist mostly for criminal law and civil and public debt collection. So the EU maybe cannot use most of the enforcement mechanisms, except one: You can be fined some amount of money, creating a public
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by corty 6y ago
> How is this GDPR compliant? It isn't, really, but the question whom to prosecute is complicated. Clubhouse gets the contact list data from you, the user. Usually, somewhere in the ToS, there is a little thing where you confirm to
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by corty 6y ago
There is more, however not everything is still valid or valid for every table type in MySQL: https://sql-info.de/mysql/gotchas.html
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by corty 6y ago
Agreed. As with strong typing in programming languages, I do prefer a database to be strict in rejecting invalid inputs. MySQL does two bad things here: It accepts an invalid input plus it interprets it creatively, producing something the u
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by corty 6y ago
PostgreSQL: "your date 2020-02-31 isn't a date, fix that" MySQL: "2020-02-31? Whatever man, I'll just enter something..."
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by corty 6y ago
Journalists' job isn't to point you at real original information, it is to keep you from accessing the real stuff and to come back to their newspaper.
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by corty 6y ago
It doesn't really matter, but it is a funny coincidence that a cleric, as a representative of one kafkaesque institution is being censored by Twitter, another kafkaesque institution.
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by corty 6y ago
> No hidden behaviours, no overly complex syntax, nothing like that. Arrays vs. slices and standard functions dealing with slices are full of weird behaviour, unnecessarily complex syntax and obscure features. Like, why are there even ar

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