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by hash872 4y ago
India and Pakistan fought a war in 1999 despite both sides having nuclear weapons, if I'm not mistaken
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by hash872 4y ago
Didn't the US win the First Gulf War? What else would you call that?
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by hash872 4y ago
Your link gave me 280,333 Uniswap monthly users on February 1st 2023 (and 253k on Opensea). I think my POV remains unchanged
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by hash872 4y ago
Can you please name what these specific use cases/'legitimate things' are? I'd take literally 1 example. My experience (full disclosure of priors: I don't think they exist) is that crypto enthusiasts always vaguely
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by hash872 4y ago
If everyone had to wear an N95 mask we'd need to permanently shut down the entire bar & restaurant industry, given that the masks are obviously not doing anything when people take them down to eat and drink. That would be millions
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by hash872 4y ago
Eh, to be fair to his argument, 'unemployment' is just a survey measuring who is actively looking for new employment but can't find it. Most developed countries have a higher rate of prime-age (25-60) employment than the US.
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by hash872 4y ago
Employment contracts will prevent mass shootings?
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Ask HN: Why on Earth does Europe have 3 month notice periods to switch jobs?
39 points by hash872 4y ago|149 comments
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by hash872 4y ago
The big problem with sortition (which Landemore appears to be arguing for) is that it's uh non-democratic. Instead of allowing citizens to vote for their representatives, you're literally removing the fundamental basis of democrac
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Ask HN: Why is Toptal so successful?
2 points by hash872 4y ago|0 comments
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by hash872 4y ago
I abstained for 6 months last year and it really had no effect in any way, mental or physical. Don't mean to be a contrarian, just wanted to supply a different data point
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by hash872 4y ago
>Your claim IS FALSE Because we discovered that- just like for literally of all human history preceding it- wealthy men do in fact like having sex with young prostitutes. This means that 'JFK was assassinated by the mob or anti-Comm
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by hash872 4y ago
This is a classic example of a fallacious argument. Just because (whatever about Epstein, an n of 1) is true doesn't mean that JFK was assassinated by the mob or anti-Communists, or that 9/11 was an inside job, or that US election
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by hash872 4y ago
So, does the GPDR (or the CCPA) prevent this for EU citizens? I'm a bit of a GPDR skeptic, but coming from a place where I'd like to see improvements in privacy legislation and more clarity. Is this specific practice, transmitting
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by hash872 4y ago
Without getting into the rest of this- gambling is fairly normal all over the world, in most cultures, and in most other developed countries (Britain especially). The US, in spite of its libertarian reputation, is still weirdly Puritanical
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by hash872 4y ago
Ashlee Vance's biography of Musk (from a few years ago) had a fun similar story. Someone inside Tesla wrote a letter, I believe complaining about product defects, which was printed by a media outlet. Figuring that the leaker printed th
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by hash872 4y ago
Big agree. I downloaded it in 2020 and was mildly amused by the videos, but I didn't see the supposedly addictive qualities that everyone (including on here) was talking about. Since then, the algorithm has gotten much worse and I don&
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by hash872 4y ago
Well a mandatory cover charge would probably be effective, the same way that higher taxes on alcohol have been proven to be effective. Towns could make bars share IDs on one server, you have to check to see if a customer has already been se
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by hash872 4y ago
My public policy idea is that we should limit bars & restaurants to serving customers 3 drinks, and also have a mandatory cover charge to get in. I think it's rather strange that we that we have these licensed, socially acceptable
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by hash872 4y ago
Hasn't China repeatedly invaded parts of India's mountain regions though, and killed Indian troops? My understanding is that even though tensions have cooled a bit recently, Chinese troops have still not pulled back. Generally inv
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by hash872 4y ago
The US doesn't impose secondary sanctions on Cuba, and a number of European countries have been doing a brisk business with Cuba for 50+ years now. In particular Spanish countries have a number of investments there. In other words, 75%
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by hash872 4y ago
>get people elected who will write things clearly into law You can pass whatever law you'd like now- the existing judiciary can simply decide that it doesn't apply or isn't 'constitutional', and their decisions a
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by hash872 4y ago
What? No. I'm not talking about adding tons of judges to the existing US system now. I'm describing a future potential system, likely for a new country
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by hash872 4y ago
I've been thinking a lot about judicial review in common law democracies recently, and I tentatively think a better system would be to vastly expand the number of judges that are involved in making a decision. Example, you'd still
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by hash872 4y ago
I mean that's just ridiculous. 'Unconstitutional' is incredibly vague & subjective (and incredibly political), to the degree that most developed countries don't allow judges to overturn laws based on this at all. (1)
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by hash872 4y ago
It's not 'trivially solvable' because a huge portion of the population will strongly resist the change you're advocating for. Social, political & cultural constraints are a real, serious thing- large-scale civil unre
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by hash872 4y ago
I was simply responding to OP's assertion that anyone who voted for Peltola as their 1st choice was necessarily a Democrat, and so would not have voted in a theoretical Republican primary. This is not the case. I don't agree that
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by hash872 4y ago
Well Alaska had open primaries before (only 9 states have truly closed primaries). So it's not necessarily the case that Dems wouldn't be voting in the Republican primary- or more likely, independent voters who lean left on some i
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by hash872 4y ago
I don't agree- Begich wins with 61.4% against Palin, as mentioned above? It seems clear that he would've prevailed in a primary
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by hash872 4y ago
Seems pretty clear that RCV had (another) Condorcet failure here- Begich is the clear Condorcet winner. This is the same issue that famously happened in the 2009 Burlington mayor's election, leading to an angry voter recall of RCV. Pai

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