em-bee

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931.
by em-bee 9mo ago
we are not talking about banning the import of regular products, but about donated or second hand items that are sold for next to nothing, half of which is useless junk. the point is to not allow these inferior imports to undercut local pro
932.
by em-bee 9mo ago
well the laws have just been changed. so i'd say we should observe what effect they will have.
933.
by em-bee 9mo ago
this is not about protecting businesses. this is about providing jobs for locals. many african countries are struggling with that. providing an income for everyone is important. keeping everyone satisfied is too. not to mention not loosing
934.
by em-bee 9mo ago
my suggestion would not remove the vouch option, it would just make it ineffective. people using it would not notice. the system would still indicate that you vouched for a message.
935.
by em-bee 9mo ago
that's how you protect your local economy. that's pretty normal everywhere. in europe people go on strike if imports threaten their livelyhood. dumping cheap clothing on an economy that can't handle it is not really helping.
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by em-bee 9mo ago
through demand at first. clothes designers are hopefully going to demand smaller batches to avoid getting punished for overproducing. but if that doesn't work, then yes, maybe regulation is necessary. tricky though because manufacturin
937.
by em-bee 9mo ago
i think we are actually agreeing. i am not talking about making kills unvouchable in general but i am suggesting how an unvouchable kill could be implemented without to much effort. the unvouchable kill should of course be only applied to a
938.
by em-bee 9mo ago
nobody buys the local style because it is more expensive than the imported stuff. as a result the local style dies out, or it doesn't get a chance to be developed in the first place.
939.
by em-bee 9mo ago
this is not destroying things to create jobs. this is about globalization negatively affecting local culture. clothing especially represents culture. if people can not afford to create their own clothes then that has a negative effect on th
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by em-bee 9mo ago
maybe this will force factories to change their process. with manufacturing getting cheaper, smaller batches become affordable. at the extreme we can now print books on demand, and improved 3D printing allows one-off items in many more area
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by em-bee 9mo ago
more important than an indicator it would probably be useful to somehow disable vouching for a killed account. i don't know if it is possible to set the flag counter to some high number so that vouching simply has no effect or to an in
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by em-bee 9mo ago
hiding not meaningful changes is not enough. when a block in python changes the indentation, i want to see that the block is otherwise unchanged. so indentation changes simply need to be marked differently. if a tool can to that then it wil
943.
by em-bee 9mo ago
don't vouch for comments by this user. it's a bot. see the discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46998432
944.
by em-bee 9mo ago
don't vouch for comments by this user. it's a bot. see the discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46998432
945.
by em-bee 9mo ago
when it comes to AI, is there even a difference? it's an attack either way
946.
by em-bee 9mo ago
the account was taken over by a bot. see the discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46998432
947.
by em-bee 9mo ago
the account was taken over by a bot. see the discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46998432
948.
by em-bee 9mo ago
i most certainly saw them as neither dead or flagged. now i see three other comments as alive: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46997839 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46996890 https://
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by em-bee 9mo ago
you are right about straczynski, but i'd prefer to see a new scifi series by him rather than a reboot or continuation. ok, a spin off maybe. jeremiah was pretty good. (i haven't seen sense8) but i just see that he was approached t
950.
by em-bee 9mo ago
you missed one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46998241 ;-P two actually: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46988519
951.
by em-bee 9mo ago
i saw a flagged comment and thought who the hell would flag that? it makes no sense. was going to vouch for it, but i always check the comment history which is where i noticed that all comments had a suspiciously similar pattern, and i foun
952.
by em-bee 9mo ago
i am not claiming that it is forbidden to remember things. but the laws against recordings are pretty explicit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_call_recording_laws if you make a recording, transcribe it, the de
953.
by em-bee 9mo ago
are you asking for permission? without permission they could not be admissible because they were obtained illegally.
954.
by em-bee 9mo ago
i'd love to see a computer game like GTA with those features.
955.
by em-bee 9mo ago
many muds have/had those. there is intermud too. i guess ifmud just had the critical mass to keep people interested in communicating even though they stopped playing.
956.
by em-bee 9mo ago
same here, i keep my game and tech groups on different accounts. that's one thing that keeps me from joining facebook. it doesn't allow pseudonymous identities.
957.
by em-bee 9mo ago
assuming something wrong is fine, even getting upset is ok, feeling hurt, and expressing that is also ok, it's a misunderstanding after all. these things happen. but the next step is to talk about it. what is wrong is to immediately th
958.
by em-bee 9mo ago
i'd try to find out what is behind the reaction of the woman you are seeing. threatening to break up is in itself unhealthy for any relationship. if my partner thinks it is ok to make such threats then i'd end the relationship rig
959.
by em-bee 9mo ago
yes. it is possible that i can get a real credit limit too, but i didn't check. these debit like credit cards put a different light on the statistics. as some people here have said, europeans don't use creditcards, and then someon
960.
by em-bee 9mo ago
it is what i get when i ask my bank for a credit card. it says credit card on it, and it is what i use when a credit card is called for. as i said, it is possible that i can actually get a real credit limit on the card, or possibly the bank

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