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by gonvaled 9y ago
The catalan government is full of opportunists - like every government - rightly implementing the wishes of the overwhelming majority of catalans: a democratic referendum.
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by gonvaled 9y ago
Pretty difficult since a unilateral declaration of independence is due in the coming days / weeks.
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by gonvaled 9y ago
Perfectly right. But I fear that the opposition of the spanish government to a well organized referendum leaves us with this second rate opinion poll as the best we can get: 90% for yes, with 40% turnout. Pretty bad managed by Spain.
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by gonvaled 9y ago
The spanish government could have chosen to let all voters participate, by creating the right framework for a once-in-forty-years popular poll.
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by gonvaled 9y ago
There was no yes campaign because the non-independentists were against the right to vote. Nevertheless, turnout has been quite high.
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by gonvaled 9y ago
It's not a joke: it's the best you could get given the constraints.
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by gonvaled 9y ago
Increasing mass will require changing Jupiter's momentum in order to get a stable binary. The rest of the planets will go wild, true.
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by gonvaled 9y ago
You brought it up?!
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by gonvaled 9y ago
Genes randomly failing, or maybe subtle calculation that an adult monkey is more food than a baby monkey.
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by gonvaled 9y ago
Discarding system losses, an elevator without counterweight will also use 0 energy for the up/down cycle (assuming load goes up and some time later down): the energy invested while pulling up the system can be recovered when descending
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by gonvaled 9y ago
We are discussing hypothetical life forms, different to the ones on Earth. Obviously we can not use a definition of life which only applies to earth-based life: we need to generalize more.
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by gonvaled 9y ago
Trickle down is a completely uninteresting tautology: money is used by the wealthy, so it "trickles down". The more interesting question is if, while tricling down, people improve their life quality. Far from true.
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by gonvaled 9y ago
It is extremely difficult to integrate in a foreign society. Even a good language level will only carry you so far. In my opinion, Western Europe, US and Canada are quite open, and let people, if not integrate, at least mind their own busin
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by gonvaled 9y ago
Why is having a monarchy that nobody voted to get rid of more democratic than having a president people voted for? Why is your elected president hijacking the telephone network worse than your unelected queen hijacking your tv network?
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by gonvaled 9y ago
Sure, Turks could also have rejected Erdogan (they voted for his reforms a couple of months ago). What are you trying to say? And what was the last time that the UK voted to be a monarchy? Because Turkey voting recently makes it arguably mo
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by gonvaled 9y ago
Holy cow! The closest I could find in Amazon.de [1] is selling for 2200€, and it has only 8 GB RAM. Do you mind sharing how much did it cost you, and where did you buy it? [1] https://www.amazon.de/Lenovo-ThinkPad-2-6-GHz-67
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by gonvaled 9y ago
Since my main development environment is Linux, having to work inside the VM is actually making this problem more difficult: 1. I have problems getting used to the Mac keyboard 2. I have problems getting used to the keyboard mappings inside
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by gonvaled 9y ago
Only windows pcs with corporate software packages are officially allowed into the VPN. Macbooks are tolerated, anything else does not exist.
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by gonvaled 9y ago
Can not get used to keyboard / mouse of macbook
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by gonvaled 9y ago
Which thinkpad model? Screen size? Weight? I must carry three (!) laptops with me: shitty windows that I nearly never boot, macbook pro for webex (!) and not to get in trouble with bosses in meetings, and my beloved 17" asus, with ubun
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by gonvaled 9y ago
Please correct me, as this is only my personal understanding of how botulism works. What kills me? Only the toxin. Neither the bacteria nor the spores are directly lethal. How does the toxin get into my body? A) I eat it, from food contamin
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by gonvaled 9y ago
Nature does not care about our definitions, and properties are usually on a gray scale, not black-white. Inert gas have very low reactivity [1], but they can still react: > Nonetheless, low reactivity—instead of no reactivity, as had for
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by gonvaled 9y ago
I managed to completely miss that, sorry.
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by gonvaled 9y ago
Lots of assumptions.
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by gonvaled 9y ago
Why “outside EU“? Not an stated requirement. You could as well say “and move to a country starting with P“ ... Specially considering that UK is in the EU.
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by gonvaled 9y ago
My point is that anything is poison, depending on dosage. Even water, the basis of terrestian life, although I know I am stretching the analogy there. But yes, water will destroy your cellular membranes if exposed to it in big quantities
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by gonvaled 9y ago
Interesting, but is it doable? It is not only breathing that needs refactoring: how do we resist very low pressures? What about radiation? What else needs a complete overhaul?
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by gonvaled 9y ago
What is poison? Water is poison: drinking 50 liters in 1 minute will kill you.
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by gonvaled 9y ago
I wrote hastily, and forgot to point the most crucial observation: I do not care about Trump's supporters, but I also suspect that he does not care either . But even that is not the most salient point: it does not matter if my suspici
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by gonvaled 9y ago
Agree. If Abnb wants to disrupt the hotel market, build cheap and good quality hotels.

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