jiriknesl

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by jiriknesl 4y ago
You had all this (most often as free & open source jQuery plugins) 10 years ago. Honestly, 99% of webapps today are 2 very interactive pages (which could often be developed in jQuery anyway) + bunch of generic datagrids & forms we h
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by jiriknesl 4y ago
It's the most upvoted comment for a reason. Back then, people fell in love with GMail and suddenly everyone thought they were building another GMail. This wasn't true. Most people were building an app with a couple of forms, a dat
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by jiriknesl 4y ago
Oil is used everywhere. Everything today is made from plastic, or is wrapped in plastic. Also, as prosperity grows, so does tourism. Tourism = flights. EV trucks are far from ideal. So do EV pick-ups. Even when there'll a huge shift to
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by jiriknesl 4y ago
Do you assume politicians pushing Leave were doing so to be able to limit human rights? People like Daniel Hannan or Nigel Farage would probably oppose that. One of founders of Vote Leave Matthew Elliott founded Big Brother Watch https:&#x
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by jiriknesl 4y ago
The thing is. Brexit vote was a referendum, not a decision of "deep state" or whatever one might call it. And if you remember, there were two main topics surrounding Leave campaigns: 1. We pay to the EU more than we get - which wa
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by jiriknesl 4y ago
Do you have proof for such a claim?
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by jiriknesl 4y ago
Yes, but it's easier to influence politicians in your country than in the EU. It's easier to influence politicians in your county council than in your country. It's easier to influence politicians in your town hall than in yo
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by jiriknesl 4y ago
BLM, Extinction Rebellion and Occupy Wallstreet are the culture. Colour-blind antiracism, preparing for global warming instead of pushing green deal & capitalism are countercultures now.
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by jiriknesl 4y ago
Exactly. Top taxpayers already pay a lot (with all sin taxes, council taxes, VAT, corporate, income, CGT... sometimes even 75%). It is not fair to raise taxes even higher. In fact, governments should learn how to operate with way less.
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by jiriknesl 4y ago
There's fantastic concept called competition. If country can do with less money it might attract more businesses. This pushes others to improve their operations too. Global tax minimums remove or soften this incentive which is a bad th
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by jiriknesl 4y ago
Is it only me or is there anyone else who believes that the price of gas or electricity should be set by supply/demand on the market and shouldn't be a political tool? If there's a tax connected with it, this should be 100% u
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by jiriknesl 4y ago
Forming an opinion is great and everyone's right. Nowadays, exactly the same process you describe, is used to cancel people without proper chance for them to defend themselves. So I would be double careful with "multiple accusatio
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by jiriknesl 4y ago
Well, maybe we should start lobbying to make it so.
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by jiriknesl 4y ago
People are not hobbits. Or maybe some are, but others are not and they shouldn't be forced to live like ones.
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by jiriknesl 4y ago
Which can be easily resolved by taking building regulations from NIMBYs and giving them to YIMBYs and letting people build build more or less anything anywhere. 1000 billionaires having 5000 houses have no effect in comparison with hundreds
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by jiriknesl 4y ago
Is the leech the welfare system?
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by jiriknesl 4y ago
Do you have a proof for such a statement? AFAIK most of negative externalities are either negligible or easy to be sued for. Or a responsibility of informed customer. Of course, there's that ultimate hammer of greenhouse gases everybod
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by jiriknesl 4y ago
Can you name any country successful in stopping people with a mindset that they want to grow, mainly financially, or into power? In capitalism, these are entrepreneurs. In democracy, these are politicians. In autocracy, these are dictators,
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by jiriknesl 4y ago
Growth or degrowth are not national policies but individual ones. You cannot prevent someone with growth mindset from doing actions leading to growth. And at the same time, nobody is preventing people with degrowth mindset to practice what
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by jiriknesl 4y ago
If you are insured, $25k is plenty and cover 99% of situations.
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by jiriknesl 4y ago
In comparison with the hurricane, Bitcoin is going to fix itself (or at least it always did). And projected -$63M damage can be +$200M very easily. I think that the linked article will not age well. Practicly no article of this kind since t
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by jiriknesl 5y ago
Yes but what if the CEO is right and people were really tracking 8 hours of work a day and working 2? Isn't this a reason to be upset?
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by jiriknesl 5y ago
Another problem is that taxing negative externalities is often used for another things than eliminating given externality. I will buy beef (or corn). It will emit CO2. Capturing given CO2 would cost $5. So the tax will be $5. But politician
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by jiriknesl 5y ago
> you'd rather everyone live Yes, this is exactly what I say. I would rather everyone live in the World with cons of underregulations then in the World with cons of overregulations. For me, overregulation is suffering too. And hones
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by jiriknesl 5y ago
> and limiting their fertility I guess places that would implement these policies (taxing meat consuption for environmental reasons) are exactly regions that get older, are shrinking or are likely to shrink in the future (EU, USA). While
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by jiriknesl 5y ago
Ok, so let's say the lowest externality food will be a baseline. For example peas. Grains are higher, so we would also tax grains? And we would grow this until the highest - beef. Or is there going to be "accepted externality&quot
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by jiriknesl 5y ago
People buy what they want to buy. Given the most efficient would be for example peas. Does it mean eating peas should be allowed but eating grains forbidden? Or are we going to do artificial cutoff by the divide meat/plants? Why? To ma
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by jiriknesl 5y ago
> We can't solve collective issues Unless practically everything (food, transport, education)... becomes a collective issue and no space for individual liberty is left. Honestly, I'd rather live on 1 degree warmer Earth with 1&
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by jiriknesl 5y ago
I doubt it is healthier diet. Researches showing vegetarians are healthier have a problem that puts vegetarians to one group and omnivores to the second group putting people eating at fast foods altogether with people eating for example Pal
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by jiriknesl 5y ago
> Going back to a mostly vegetarian food supply From agricultural point of view, it is nonsense. There are places that generate more human edible calories by having animals. For example Mongolia, or nordic regions. > Humanity hasn&#x2

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