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by happosai 10y ago
Like any market, it's not free but created to favor some condtions. Permits for high-rise housing are harder to get than to build a mcmansion far away. True cost of roads does not get paid - the reason why highways are full is that peo
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by happosai 10y ago
Very frustrating how people fail to see the full context. However, it is also useful in this case. The engineering, marketing and CEOs of companies doing autonomous vehicles are aware of the huge negative media potential a single accident h
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by happosai 10y ago
There is little need to be open minded when laymen challenge educated scientists. Climate denial has all the same mechanisms as Evolution denial. It all tends to boil down to the idea "But the scientist have an against religion /
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by happosai 10y ago
Where I've lived, the flats made in 60s to 90s had rather varying soundproofing. Worst case you could hear neighbors chatting and their babies crying, best only bigger noise. But apartments made since 2000 have had excellent sound-proo
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by happosai 10y ago
Assanges version is "The rape charges are fake smokescreen used to extradite me to USA via sweden". Now this fails the Occam'ss razor. If USA cared they would extradite Assange directly from UK, Swedish detour adds nothing of
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by happosai 10y ago
The "too late" comments are depressing since they totally lack insight (who hasn't noticed the dominations of gits?). Yet also here in HN specifically you would expect people to cheer for pivoting into something new. Thanks f
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by happosai 11y ago
"sure UNIX is nice, but you need a mainframe for REAL work" "sure NT is nice, but you need a UNIX workstation for REAL work" "sure mobile is nice, buy you need a windows PC for REAL work" I crunched to inbox ze
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by happosai 11y ago
Keyword "seems". by eliminating competition around him, Putin is building a power vacuum to happen when he is inevitably gone. The idea that dictator is needed to stabilize a corrupt society isn't completely wrong. But it req