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by esarbe 5y ago
> I assume they allow some driving on the old road for emergency vehicles and moving trucks? Usually there are, although they are shared by pedestrians, bicycles and cars/trucks alike.[0] There has been some valid criticism with reg
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by esarbe 5y ago
In a nearby city they replaced a 6-lane street with a tram line; those with handicaps get better public transport and nowadays all newly built public transportation is accessible. Public transport or bicycle is the way to move and there are
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by esarbe 5y ago
Yes, it is. Cars are killing our neighborhoods and our communities, they rip apart municipalities and are so horribly inefficient. In a nearby city they replaced a 6-lane street with a tram line seamed by trees, walkways in both directions
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by esarbe 5y ago
Haha, yes! Bring on the downvotes. It makes me remember how much you would love us all to be silent about the atrocities committed in Tibet and forget about the displaced people. Not going to comply. :D
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by esarbe 5y ago
I see what you did there.
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by esarbe 5y ago
Exceedingly odd.
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by esarbe 5y ago
> Have you ever belonged to a club or nonprofit or something? Yes, I have. Actually I'm part of the founding team of a nonprofit engaged in developing software to make parliamentarians' voting behavior transparent for their con
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by esarbe 5y ago
Having a cop point a gun at you because he thinks you are possibly in the process of committing a felony is reason enough for suspension in many European countries like Germany and Switzerland, for example. I know that this discussion is ab
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by esarbe 5y ago
Because the voters have accepted the representatives that chose them.
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by esarbe 5y ago
What confuses me every time a topic like this comes up... Why the heck are there so many people defending tax frauds? It's not as if we are talking about your mom&pops shop here; these are multinational corporations that leverage b
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by esarbe 5y ago
It feels so wrong to defend China here but... .. they've actually quite some affirmative action in place for native non-Han cultures. This is primarily to play them off the Han and to not give local independent movements too much of a
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by esarbe 5y ago
Peter Watts; Blindsight, Echopraxia. Be prepared for a wild ride.
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by esarbe 5y ago
Greg Egan is so good. The last few books didn't quite click with me, but Diaspora is a book I return every few years. If you are reading this, Greg: I want to have your book!
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by esarbe 5y ago
As I mentioned before; I didn't really like TBP and it's siblings. I can however recommend Diaspora by Greg Egan. Or Blindsight and Echopraxia by Peter Watts. "Human" beings in "extreme situations", indeed.
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by esarbe 5y ago
> let alone a nation of over a billion people. Maybe it wouldn't be that hard if China just let go some of the people that are not that into being part of China. I hear there are some guys and gals in Tibet that have a suggestion in
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by esarbe 5y ago
> In order to have a unified world (e.g. the Chinese world), you need a minimum of common ground I agree. I doubt however that a tyrannical dictatorship is necessary to achieve that. There are plenty of examples where people have agreed
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by esarbe 5y ago
That's a false dichotomy You can have a country that's not confused about it's place in the world and without one half of the population wanting to kill the other half and still have freedom of expression and democracy.
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by esarbe 5y ago
Coward here, too. The perfidious thing is that even emigrating doesn't put you out of Xi Jinping's grasp. It's well documented how pressure is applied to vocal opponents of the new Leaders policies by going after their famili
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by esarbe 5y ago
It's a very apt description.
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by esarbe 5y ago
I found it similar in style to the Foundation trilogy; trying to be very scientific but with very weak characters.
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by esarbe 5y ago
I didn't really enjoy the three body problem. While the science part was nice, the characters were just plain out boring and forgettable. In those aspects it's very similar to The Foundation trilogy. Didn't enjoy that one eit
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by esarbe 5y ago
Consciousness is nothing more but the final arbiter of attention. As such it must have a way to evaluate situations, including our own internal state and this is done by emotions. Emotions are our default approach interpret a given situatio
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by esarbe 5y ago
Climate change is very much an existential threat. Do you remember the political crisis in Europe created by the Syrian refugees? Those were about 6 million people. How do you think our political systems and societies react if there are sev
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Pipeline company paid Minnesota police for arresting and surveilling protesters(theguardian.com)
298 points by esarbe 5y ago|80 comments
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by esarbe 5y ago
Haha, me so funny! People are donating the source code to their privacy focused browser and documenting their efforts! Let's belittle their efforts and make fun of them by throwing unfounded claims! Yay!
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Study shows 14% of world’s coral lost in less than a decade(theguardian.com)
4 points by esarbe 5y ago|0 comments
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Scientists officially list 23 species as extinct, including largest woodpecker(livescience.com)
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by esarbe 5y ago
In all honesty, that's the suitor they are toying with, isn't it? As long as they can squeeze some more profit out of the common people, there's no reason not to do it. (Just see how Amazon treats it's workers.) It'
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by esarbe 5y ago
And isn't that exactly thing that makes this 'unfair'? If this was a way that everyone could use to lower their taxes, I would have no issue with such practices. But - as you rightly point out - if that was the case, these lo
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by esarbe 5y ago
> They see it as a kind of gilded age lords and their servants. The vexing thing is that everyone thinks that they are going to end up on the "lord" side of this duality. I think this is the biggest lie of the 20th and 21th cen

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