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by flexie 9y ago
Then, isn't that what the Roman Empire underwent as well? Language stayed, territory diminished, religion only gradually changed, most technologies and societal structures only gradually changed (just like in USSR or British Empire). T
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by flexie 9y ago
They had as much (or rather as little) to do with ‘nations’ as the Roman Empire. Vast conquered areas, spanning several religions, languages, and etnicities.
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by flexie 9y ago
Did the British Empire collapse? Yes (and it’s political influence seems to continue it’s diminishing). Did the collapse happen while the life of ordinary Britains improved greatly? Yes. Did the USSR collapse? Yes. Is the quality of life fo
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by flexie 9y ago
Look at the map I linked to. It’s the same in New York State, Texas and California.
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by flexie 9y ago
If you exclude tiny Prince Edwards Island, the most densely populated Canadian province is Nova Scotia (with 17.4 Canadians per km2). More than 90 percent of Americans live in states have higher population density than the densest populated
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by flexie 9y ago
Containers, cell phone networks, the Internet, internet banking etc is infrastructure that has been built and implemented in the rest of the Western World as well, many places to a higher degree or more advanced than in the US, while still
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by flexie 9y ago
When is the last time America built any impressive infrastructure? I'd say in the 70s. Most airports, most of the interstate highway network, most subway systems, bridges, tunnels, and dams were built from the 1930s and on to the 1970s
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by flexie 9y ago
American antitrust legislation is completely different from European competition law. It's by no means given that the result will be the same in the US or that the fines would be similar. Also, I doubt that most Missourian voters care
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by flexie 9y ago
The important question is what $300,000 is to the attorney general. For 99 percent of us it's more than we could hope to save up in many years.
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by flexie 9y ago
That would be a sound assumption. Why else should a Silicon Valley billionaire give 300k to someone running for attorney general in a Missouri? Is he just interested in justice being pursued in a small Midwestern state he doesn't live
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by flexie 9y ago
Tesla currently has a lead in: - battery range (the tech and battery production capacity doesn't disappear with the manager) - charging network (passing 1,000 stations) - autonomous driving (miles recorded and in all kinds of traffic a
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by flexie 9y ago
Oh come on: If the fact that Moscow owns part of Twitter and Facebook isn't HN worthy, HN simply isn't following politics and tech. This leak is inherently intesting to HN or nothing is.
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by flexie 9y ago
Am I the only one seeing the irony in this being posted on Trustpilot, a website letting contractors and other businesses pay hundreds of dollars not to destroy their reputation?
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by flexie 9y ago
Name one company that would exist without the government. Breitbart itself wouldn’t. It’s an Internet media and several technologies used on the web were developed with government money. And without government financed primary education few
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by flexie 9y ago
People here downvote all the time once discussions are political. Don't bother. What I wrote applies more to civil war than to war between nations (where citizens can be forced to war by governments). Of course, in reality the line bet
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by flexie 9y ago
There is a huge difference between the well educated but for now unemployed Catalan, 28 year old, only child (or with one or two siblings), always well fed, always warm, maybe living with his parents, maybe sharing a flat somewhere, all his
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by flexie 9y ago
I cannot imagine that it ends in a civil war. Civil wars happen when you have 1) a lot of young men, 2) who have little to lose, and 3) who are used to living a life with not much more comfort than that of a soldier (maybe even less) The yo
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by flexie 9y ago
And yet again someone on HN spends 5 mins reading about a company and concludes that the company has forgotten / misunderstood / miscalculated / is hiding something entirely fundamental to their business model. Look, this is
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by flexie 9y ago
He's referring to Germany after WWI, not generalizing or referring to America as you do. What other way is there to read his comment?
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by flexie 9y ago
Are you suggesting most Germans didn't know about holocaust or that it didn't happen?
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by flexie 9y ago
What's with the funny German? Are you saying you are an EU sceptic or are you mainly a germanophobe? You know that different dialects of German were just some of the many languages spoken in the Holy Roman Empire, and not the official
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by flexie 9y ago
Very disturbing. EU needs a "federal" police force to investigate such things. Regardless of what the prime minister says, and we should assume his innocence, we cannot assume that his government will investigate it when he's
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by flexie 9y ago
Governments have heavily subsidized combustion engine car makers.
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by flexie 9y ago
Any company, whether it's our pet tech company or a boring bank, will have to let go of what they believe is under performing staff at some point. Some companies manage to do little by little so no-one notices, some do it in bulk once
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by flexie 9y ago
How does a buyer know that there are no hidden liabilities in your GmbH? Does it come with your personal representations and warranties securing that?
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by flexie 9y ago
I think people in general don't care about Silicon Valley. When they do care, they generally loath SV, but not for the reasons stated in the article. People want the great monopolists regulated because they act like monopolists. People
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by flexie 9y ago
In the great HN tradition of complaining about headlines; Shouldn't this have been SlowmoPython? Watching a program execute line by line at real speed would be a short movie.
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by flexie 9y ago
On fiverr you can buy quite decent illustrations from $5 and up. It would work well for so many scientific articles. I bet their readers would appreciate great articles like this accompanied by drawings and other illustrations instead of ju
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by flexie 9y ago
Your use of the words poor or fallacious are indeed poor. There is a huge difference between a) the usual situation where some people don't participate in a regular referendum or election that most of the population and all authorities
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by flexie 9y ago
I agree. That's also the only way to make sure the no voters participate.

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