inglor_cz

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by inglor_cz 5d ago
On one side, I fully understand that. On the other side, if this really reflects the cost of compliance, maybe this is the only way to signal the voter that the "there ought to be a law" approach has some downsides to it.
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by inglor_cz 5d ago
Still, a stupid governmental policy cost them at least 100 million people compared to the expected spontaneous development. Probably more. That is the sort of punishment that omnipotent governments sometimes visit upon their folk. I don&#x2
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by inglor_cz 5d ago
The German Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe has a long track record of making very conservative judgments, and everyone in Germany knows that. The possibility that it would sentence Berlin to compensate the owners in full is absolutely rea
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by inglor_cz 5d ago
Vienna BUILT the stock, and I am all for Berlin building the stock themselves. That is both constructive and adds more units to the market. But it is also rare, as most others want to take instead of building. Try finding another example li
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by inglor_cz 5d ago
How many private investors will be willing to build any new houses in a city which just forcibly bought thousands of houses from someone else? The government may (let us forget, for the sake of the argument, that all major parties in German
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by inglor_cz 5d ago
It is not buildings, but apartments. And you completely la-la-ed your way around what I wrote and considered them ALL as long-term speculatively withheld apartments, while only about a THIRD of them are. Which means that only about two year
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by inglor_cz 5d ago
immense amount of houses that are unused because they’re part of speculation, ... This is an extremely well documented, systemic issue in large European metropolis and especially in Berlin. Source? Deutschlandatlas says that Berlin has wh
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by inglor_cz 7d ago
It seems to me that partisan/political hate blinds some people so much that they are becoming ridiculous. "This sounds insightful until you find yourself debating with the CEO for the eleventh time about how his high-school under
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There Would Be No Survivors(komando1.substack.com)
1 points by inglor_cz 8d ago|1 comments
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by inglor_cz 8d ago
How a first responder exercise in Germany uncovered deep flaws within the system.
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by inglor_cz 8d ago
This was so good that I turned it into a Substack Note, with full credit. https://substack.com/profile/30212008-marian-kechlibar/note/...
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by inglor_cz 9d ago
I feel similarly.
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by inglor_cz 9d ago
You were obviously within the blast radius.
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What Shall We Do with Broken Glasses?(komando1.substack.com)
3 points by inglor_cz 9d ago|3 comments
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by inglor_cz 9d ago
The art of fixing things as a moveable indicator of civilizational development. Programmers love to fix things (usually). But that seems to be a disappearing trait.
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by inglor_cz 11d ago
The fact that it used to be somewhat more typical (though not everyday occurrence) does not make it less of terrorism. That definition does not depend on frequency of an event. It depends on the use of terror to achieve political means, and
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by inglor_cz 13d ago
Freedom of religion is also freedom from religion and a right to be disgusted by particular religious figures. No one owes even an ounce of respect to any bearded prophet out there, this is literally the essence of a liberal society: the
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by inglor_cz 14d ago
I agree with you, but that also means that no one can claim to be a parent of terrorism. It is just one long series of bastards from the eve of civilization up.
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by inglor_cz 15d ago
They are wrong. Muhammad's terror campaigns predate the US by more than a thousand years.
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by inglor_cz 15d ago
A Pakistan-Iran war was not on my bingo card.
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by inglor_cz 15d ago
IIRC their official slogan has literally "Curse the Jews" in it.
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by inglor_cz 15d ago
We seem to be in need of a mercenary Uber, where individual mercenaries will have their reputation and the potential customers will be able to check it.
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The Death that Would not Die(komando1.substack.com)
1 points by inglor_cz 15d ago|1 comments
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by inglor_cz 15d ago
Jan Masaryk, the Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia, died a violent death. His body is now, 78 years later, again subject to forensic examination.
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by inglor_cz 16d ago
By now, I am so influenced by Tolkien that I expected "gulves".
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by inglor_cz 16d ago
I used to be a young mathematician once. Hashing out a problem is a complicated thing. From the point of the AI, or another person, even a negative suggestion ("I tried computing those Jacobians and they showed nothing of value")
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by inglor_cz 16d ago
A lot depends on the concreteness/vagueness of the idea. "Just use some polynomial" would be an idea so generic that it wouldn't merit attribution. "Just use a cyclotomic polynomial of degree 24" is a lot more
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by inglor_cz 16d ago
Same with electricity, dentistry, antibiotics...
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by inglor_cz 16d ago
Public transit would also benefit from self-driving, as bus drivers and their salaries are a major limiting factor to how many lines you can run. Bus drivers are a limited and very moveable workforce, and if you have huge economic differenc
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by inglor_cz 19d ago
Slovenia is also a rainy country with lots of rivers and snow in the winter. I am not sure how "right to water" would work in arid parts of the US. You cannot legally demand what physically is not there.

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