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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I'm glad the global server admins have finally applied the 1.18 "Caves & Cliffs" update.
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
It might be quicker to just invite all non-Turkey NATO members to join a new treaty, and then plan to secede from NATO some time in the next 10-20 years (so that Putin can't claim to have ended NATO). The new body could even be called
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
To be fair, there are already a lot of regulations about who can drive a car (on public roads) and which sorts of cars can be used. Be careful that you're not inadvertently asking for social media to be regulated more like cars. Fortun
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
"Oh, a sarcasm detector. Oh, that's a real useful invention."
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> Please explain how you divide the 1000 children into two equal groups The fact that the scientists are seemingly prepared to allow 500 of their test subjects to die, and then use that as an excuse not to consider their outcomes, is pre
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> To that end, the Turnaway Study followed almost 1000 women across the country for 5 years to see how having an abortion, or being denied one, affected their physical health, mental health, finances, relationships, and children. For com
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Whose governments are you talking about? The EU predicts that the aggregate population of its member states will peak in 2026: > The EU-27’s population is projected to increase from 446.8 million in 2019 and peak to 449.3 million in 202
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
That would still maintain the illusion that citizens are choosing who represents them, though. With gerrymandering, and SCOTUS thinking money is speech, it would be more honest to let corporations have voting power proportional to their ma
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I agree, and I would go further: Identity is a human right, and it is not to be seen as a privilege granted by governments, nor should we ever give governments the power to revoke people's identities, or require people to "earn
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Here is a series of headlines that give the best explanation of this architectural change that I've ever seen: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18411779
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
If you're implying that it's such a small amount, then why doesn't the government fund it from general taxation instead of this stealth tax? Also, taxing basic necessities like energy is a regressive type of tax. It will be
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> the services of the ISP are used by a third party to infringe copyright or related rights in the territory of that Party. Given the trouble Google has found itself in over News, Images, and Books search, and YouTube videos, surely ISPs
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I take your point, but just about anything would be cheaper than the track and trace program: > The NHS Test and Trace programme has been criticised as an "eye-watering" waste of taxpayers' money which did not achieve its
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> A new law means new nuclear reactors can be funded by adding a small levy to people's bills during their construction. Does that mean that by deliberately slowing down the construction, a company can claim more money through the l
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UK’s nuclear power push will add to energy bills, ministers say(bbc.co.uk)
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> the front page gets filled with spam, because that's what you get with "zero censorship". Commercial messages are not entitled to the same protections as political opinions, so no one is asking for "zero censorship&
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Because the publisher is choosing to publish based on the identity or opinions of the customer. To give another controversial example, there's a difference between a manufacturer choosing not to produce customized cakes, and a manufact
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> there are already sites that prevent even copy-pasting of text unless one disables javascript. Worse, there are sites that prevent even viewing of text unless one enables JavaScript. Anyway, to assist the GPP, and inspired by your
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
What if I told you that SCOTUS has previously acknowledged that corporate (negative) speech deserves less protection than citizen (positive) political speech? This is why state governments can require that companies put warning labels or nu
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I will concede that you are right about the average "rich white socialite in New York", but I was hoping you'd have some data to back your claim that "The middle class vote Republican." It doesn't actually seem
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Or he could have phrased it this way: "I didn't want to be invited to your dumb party anyway!"
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
If this law prompts Twitter to allow Trump back onto their platform, that could save Elon from the backlash he would face by implementing that change himself. More likely, though, Twitter will be careful to phrase its moderation decisions i
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I think the "gerrymandering-ness metric" you are looking for is called the "Efficiency gap". The problem, of course, is getting everyone to agree what the acceptable range is for this value, and to make it the law. htt
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> Finland as both democracies and [constitutional] monarchies I really appreciate your detailed exposition of this complicated issue, but I can't help picking up on this one example you used. To quote a character from Die Hard: &qu
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> the Senate because it's not gerrymandered You make it sound like there aren't partisan considerations that go into deciding which states are added to the union.
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
The real test for your hypothesis will be what happens the next time the Republicans get the presidency, the house, and 50% of the senate. If the senate still acts as a moderating force (and doesn't push through extreme new legislative
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> let the government dictate the morality (like it should) Here's a radical alternative, though: Let the people decide what is moral, and force the government to follow those moral principles. I'm hopeful that if you asked p
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I think on balance Approval Voting would be an improvement, by removing the spoiler effect and allowing new parties to emerge (and old parties to split), but you're right that burdening voters with difficult strategic questions is not
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> the legislature would have 5,000 people in it — clearly not realistic. Perhaps one solution would be for those 5,000 people to be entrusted with the job of picking (for each bill being considered) 100 "second-level representatives
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
What data do you base that on? "Among voters earning less than $100,000 (78 percent of voters), 55 percent said they voted Democratic, 43 percent Republican. Among those earning $100,000 or more, 47 percent voted Democratic and 52 perc

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