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by hansbo 4y ago
I don't think anyone expects the Nordic model to be free. Higher taxes in exchange for the associated benefits is what has been decided by the government, elected by the people. Of course there will be people against it, as well as peo
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by hansbo 4y ago
Let me expand on Godwin's law a bit: "I [50M] started a war due to my people needing lebensraum, and a lot of the other great powers ganged up on me. I find this completely unfair to be marked as the aggressor, since Poland is not
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by hansbo 5y ago
Not only risk aversion - they were really early in digitizing their baseline services, so many of them have quite old mainframes by now. It's difficult, expensive, and, as you said, risky, to change old code that the whole organization
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by hansbo 5y ago
Yes and no. You can have plenty of commitment for 5 years, and then you feel like doing something else and your commitment decreases. Infidelity doesn't mean the whole relationship has been bad. My point is, there is an expectation tha
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by hansbo 5y ago
Divorce doesn't mean regret though. You can have a wonderful time with a partner and then decide the you want something else later, at a different point in life.
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by hansbo 5y ago
But even if you deep dive enough, there are discrete values, like in Quantum Mechanics. And as long as you have discrete values, you have integers, no? So integers do not seem only like human models, they seem to me as something innate in t
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by hansbo 5y ago
I view this the same way. Determinism vs randomness says nothing about free will. I think the problem with arguments regarding free will is that it's very hard to define (like consciousness for that matter). I am my brain. My brain con
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by hansbo 5y ago
I find it difficult to wrap my head around as well. One way you might think of it is not space expanding, but all objects shrinking. If everything shrank to half size, including wave-lengths and velocities, the size of the universe would do
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by hansbo 5y ago
Historically, I believe this is true for all Norse cultures. The most common surnames in Sweden (like Andersson) are afaik based on the most common given names when surnames were changed to be static in families, which was a gradual process
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by hansbo 5y ago
I'd like to think I am good at it as well, but I doubt it. The number of times I've felt I've understood something, but then realized I could not answer follow-up questions or explain it properly to a third party, is uncounta
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by hansbo 5y ago
What would you say is its baggage?
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by hansbo 5y ago
Yeah, but if humans keep existing for millions of years, then the probability for a turtle on the Galápagos Islands to live in the time between when humans started seafaring and when humans visited the islands would be extremely small compa
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by hansbo 5y ago
Seems like no article links to Boundary Vector Field. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Boundary...
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by hansbo 5y ago
Here is the article I believe the parent is referring to https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/05/insider/capitalized-black... I think it was rather nuanced. Several reasons given: 1) The capitalization of Bla
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by hansbo 5y ago
I'm on them now, though I used snus before, not cigarettes.
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by hansbo 6y ago
There is a difference, but there are countries where it is illegal despite it being true. Sweden is an example of this.
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by hansbo 6y ago
Defamation is illegal in plenty of non-dystopian countries.
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by hansbo 6y ago
I find the public opinion has change drastically - nowadays pretty much everyone I socialize with agree the current and growing wealth inequality is absurd and unsustainable. Large numbers are very difficult to understand, which is why I th
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by hansbo 6y ago
"Almost every" is an exaggeration. While most do, there are quite a few with unicameral legislature, and they do not work worse than bicameral ones. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicameralism#/media&#x2
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by hansbo 6y ago
What problem did it solve before?
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Brexit: In crisis, without fanfare, UK finally ends the EU era(theguardian.com)
3 points by hansbo 6y ago|0 comments
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by hansbo 6y ago
I also had complex partial seizures - borderline, I think, because I retained consciousness, but lost the ability to speak and understand language. I remember going skydiving many years ago, and filling out a form where they asked whether I
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by hansbo 6y ago
Tom Lehrer did a funny song about New Math: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIKGV2cTgqA
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by hansbo 6y ago
All their games have been reactionary, though? It's not like Diablo was the first hack and slash, nor Warcraft the original RTS. Blizzard's strength have always been refinement - take an existing genre and make the very best versi
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by hansbo 6y ago
It's hard to imagine an emulated version of a human having a consciousness, however. What is it that separates transistors firing randomy from a CPU executing specific consciousness-generating instructions? I find these things thought-
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by hansbo 6y ago
Also, don't be disappointed if boys just want to be fathers. It's one of the most important and noble jobs there is. Don't discourage it because you don't think it's as important as what you do.
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by hansbo 6y ago
So it turns into more of a management role, and less like hard labor. Still not really retirement.
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by hansbo 6y ago
It is also one of those cases where one word in English becomes two words in a different language. Play as in playing a video game, or chess, or something similar, is called "spela", while play as children do is called "leka&
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by hansbo 6y ago
You say it's not rare, but I can't remember ever seeing it before reading this article.
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by hansbo 6y ago
Eukaryote life did not appear until after the Oxygen Catastrophe though.

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