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by jchb 8y ago
US ballot is a lot more complex than in most western European countries in that voters have a say on a lot more stuff! You vote for president, senate, congress, sheriff, education board members, a bunch of other offices, and also constituti
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> Is it income redistribution when Bezos pays more taxes than the person who served you your coffee Yes, it is, taxation is a mean of income redistribution! But I find your example flawed for the purpose of this discussion. More apt woul
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What you are missing is this institution does not have direct accountability to neither voters nor tax payers. But rather than focusing on its core mission, it seems to have a life of its own (just like some other UN organisations). Still i
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> complex Complex is an understatement. The Universal Postal Union constitution (1) from 1964 is some readable 11 pages, setting the scope to "... a single postal territory for the reciprocal exchange of letter-post items" and
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> Our way of life depends on low wage labour (read: exploitation of the poor) in foreign countries In some sense this is true, but manufacturing in China is not just about low wage labour. The lowest minimum wage in China is 12 RMB&#x2F
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I think the mentality is: if you can afford to party, then you can also afford to arrange your own transport (eg. taxi) home. Public transport running at night time will be inevidently be subsidized by either day-time riders or tax payers,
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I suppose you are referring to this WPF functionality https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/wpf/contro... , and similarly in UWP: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows&
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Lack of styling in terms of color and fonts is generally not a problem, but it is true that Apple limits more advanced styling for many standard UI components. For example iOS navigation bars (as in UINavigationBar) are not very customisabl
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We use storyboards and xibs extensively for a pretty large app (50+ unique view controllers, hundreds of use-cases). Although I grant that our team size is pretty small (< 10). But even with a much larger organisation, I would expect di
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Ok, but if this was part of a campaign by a Russian entity, then you would probably find some proof of that in the comment histories of the people that posted these "pro-Russian" comments? Looking at those accounts, most of them a
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Yes, the list doesn't tell the full story, because it only lists suppliers of "materials, manufacturing, and assembly". That is it doesn't include, for example, software suppliers and patent licenses. Ericsson, which is
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You might already know this, but you shouldn't really be washing your car on the driveway, especially if you aren't sure whether your drains there are connected to the sewer pipes, rather than the storm drain. A Tesla will give of
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Sure, it is relevant to the broader topic of invasive species. But starting a comment with a call to action like above ("We should get used to these massive movement of species"), isn't exactly additive to the content of the
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Nope, it says "50,000 non-native species". Invasive species are those non-native species that are thought to be harmful to the local ecosystem. Some non-native species can actually be beneficial. The Wikipedia article doesn't
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Please. Average global temperature raising is a thing, but peddling it in every single discussion about the environment does nothing but help the sceptics. This particular invasion has nothing to do with the temperature, and everything to d
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The Emerald Ash Borer was officially detected in the US in 2002. Likely arrived to the US in the beginning of the 90s [0]. Probably with packing material. Relevant regulation of wooden packing material seem to have been passed in the end of
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Doesn't the US have any quarantine requirements on imported products? I could find requirements for live animals, but for other goods? The EU [1], like Australia [2] has quarantine requirements on certain imported goods, including plan
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> when Optional values start brushing up against that top level of user-visible stuff Perhaps you are under-using sum types - or enums with associated values as they are called in Swift. Difficult to get into details in this format, but
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Replying to your specific examples, I would say `storyboard!.foo` and `viewController.navigationController!` (when you know the view controller is in a navigation controller) is the correct thing to do. And if your assumptions are false tha
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The idea of an option type (Optional in Swift) is to use it only for a variables truly assume a "none" value at some point. With the guarantees of such a type it is easier to reason about the correctness of a program - compared
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It has various display options. You can make it display only Esc and F1-F12, which is essentially the same as "do nothing" unless the app you are using happens to have bindings for those keys.
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Haven't typed since the 70s, just since the early 90s, but my experience is different. I use a MacBook Pro 2018 15 inch for daily work. I recently briefly used my MacBook Pro 2013 which has the older scissor switch keyboard. I never wa
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> An armed society is a polite society. Perhaps suggesting that the Japanese need more guns to be polite wasn't the best example. Japan is already one of the most (the most?) polite society in the world - at least talking about how
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> The Danish government steals Jewellery of immigrants, and has that practice as a policy Not exactly any immigrant. Only those that apply for asylum and need the state to provide them with accommodation and living expenses. Further, if
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Why do you need to stand in line to pay with cash? Maybe the self-checkout machine in particular only accepts cards, but it could look like this: https://www.ecrs.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/fujitsu-ge
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Can you give an example of a serious software package software that uses OpenGL and targets multiple platforms? I don't doubt you that such exist, I just don't know what to search for. A quick look at for example high-end CAD that
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an established industry-standard graphics API. Supported on every platform of note. Sorry, but this mostly wishful thinking. It is only an "industry standard" on Linux-based systems and Android. Also Nintendo Switch has support
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The other Autodesk products use DirectX rather than OpenGL on Windows since years back. Apparently a big reason for this was the sketchy OpenGL driver support on Windows, which caused issues with many consumer-level graphics cards. So this
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When volunteers presented passport applications containing photographs of other people, the officials did not recognize the discrepancy fourteen per cent of the time. One might attribute this alarming statistic to reckless inattention. Yet
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The interior design of the Model 3 is very simple - there are few physical controls - with the assumption that the car usually does not need to be driven by a human. As Elon presented it: https://youtu.be/GZm8ckvsu9I?t=2m2s

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