ionicgiraffe

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by ionicgiraffe 4y ago
I did not notice that. Maybe because I wasn't looking for it.
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by ionicgiraffe 4y ago
I was not implying that that feeling was good or advocating for it. Just that that feeling appears, even if misguided, and we need to understand it to understand self-destruction loops
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by ionicgiraffe 4y ago
Indeed, I have just realized that the main problem of the US healthcare system is that their inhabitants cannot even imagine that anything better even exists. Healthcare is much more than being operated or receiving some treatment for a rar
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by ionicgiraffe 5y ago
I would even say that any person of any country with enough financial resources could afford and get the best treatment in whatever country of the world would happen to be offered.
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by ionicgiraffe 5y ago
Many people have never realized that self-destruction can feel liberating.
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by ionicgiraffe 5y ago
We are starting to copy it elsewhere, it's going good in the same direction in baby steps.
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by ionicgiraffe 5y ago
I think in most countries in Europe the national id number is enough to link taxes to specific people (identity card numbers are to most effects public), even though for official international documents you need to provide the accepted Tax
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by ionicgiraffe 5y ago
Facts are disputed when they cannot possibly fit in the narrative we want/need to believe.
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by ionicgiraffe 5y ago
A government or a state?
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by ionicgiraffe 5y ago
You are choosing to play with words instead of trying to understand what it meant. It can also be that you are trying to make a point of the broadness and the impossibility of providing an exhaustive definition. If we tried, we would do not
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by ionicgiraffe 5y ago
They do. I have seen news in Europe where they cannot reproduce the original excerpt (reading aloud instead) of some communication because of copyright laws and the original excerpt belonged to a competing media corporation that had won pre
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by ionicgiraffe 5y ago
In fact, I wanted to say that such concepts in laws that direct how other laws are made need be necessarily broad. If you think of it: freedom, dignity, citizenship, and so on, are not to be interpreted in absolute terms according to some o
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by ionicgiraffe 5y ago
I was talking of a bracket of poverty you only need 300km south of Sweden to experience. That is, still, not real poverty. And I mean countries with a good safety net and infrastructure even if not as good as in Sweden
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by ionicgiraffe 5y ago
What? When you make an appointment for something you need to have done you cannot control the time you are going to be given for the appointment... It is unavoidable, and even more, the lower in the food chain you are the less control you h
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by ionicgiraffe 5y ago
If Europeans had some power on the immigration decisions of the US it would be stupid to make it worse for others when you could just accept it to be worse only for yourself. On the other hand, a lot of people that have never experienced so
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by ionicgiraffe 5y ago
But what about the time an planning of using public transport vs car?
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by ionicgiraffe 5y ago
C++ programmers where selectively implementing borrow checkers at runtime decades ago (see library omnetpp as an example). Moving those borrow checkers to compile time with templating is possible (but people did not do it because the borrow
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by ionicgiraffe 5y ago
Not still a good analogy, but radiation can be seen as a consequence of vacuum not being empty from the perspective of an electric field (it has a very low permittivity, but it is not zero, so it is not empty of that property) even though i
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by ionicgiraffe 5y ago
Those two sentences that you wrote are precisely the hydraulic analogy. If it weren't, instead of electrons it would be charge (that can be positive or negative), or field strength (if you explain the transitory period of a capacitor o
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by ionicgiraffe 5y ago
Another reason to have a limit well below the computer's memory capacity is that one could find ill-formed documents in the wild, e.g., an unclosed quotation mark, causing the "rest' of a potentially large file to be read as
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by ionicgiraffe 5y ago
I think that's the wrong take. The more frequent utterances can be fossilized precisely because of their repeated use. The reality is that any creative or less frequent use of language (thus carrying more information) is carefully cons