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by jltsiren 2y ago
The entire concept of an inauguration fund is corruption. Public ceremonies should either be paid with tax money or not held at all.
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by jltsiren 2y ago
Then you could also say that Europe uses 400 V. You get three-phase power with 230 V phases in your home, and high-powered appliances are often designed to use all three phases. But when people speak of voltages, they usually mean what you
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by jltsiren 2y ago
Commuter rail, not high speed rail. High speed rail is very expensive, and a monthly pass between San Francisco and Sacramento would probably be something like $1000. High speed rail would also not have stops in random towns and small citie
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by jltsiren 2y ago
Your perception of Finland is stuck in the 20th century. Today's Finland is roughly 10% immigrants. If the current trend continues, the fraction should increase to ~15% by 2030. That would be comparable to the US. As for the Swedish-sp
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by jltsiren 2y ago
The only time a Finnish government coalition has failed due to a loss of confidence was in the early 80s. Prime ministers occasionally change mid-term and minor parties sometimes leave the coalition, but the coalition always continues until
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by jltsiren 2y ago
Coins are easier to count than bills. They are thick enough that you never confuse two coins for one, even when they are stuck together. And they are also more convenient in your pocket, because you don't have to fold or otherwise orga
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by jltsiren 2y ago
Battle of Kyiv lasted about as long, and Ukraine definitely received enough aid to make a difference. On April 7, 2022 (43 days into the invasion), it was reported that Ukraine had received 25k anti-aircraft weapons systems and 60k anti-tan
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by jltsiren 2y ago
You must be thinking of the Iraq War (2003), which Putin tried to imitate but failed. The Gulf War (1991) was a slow invasion that started with several weeks of aerial bombardment. A similar operation would have given foreign aid more time
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by jltsiren 2y ago
I don't think it's capture. In a free market, businesses are supposed to use regulations to their advantage. If the regulations don't achieve their goals, legislators are supposed to change them. The latter part often doesn&#
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by jltsiren 2y ago
I think it's almost irrelevant how good Rust is as a language. Rust is winning in many contexts, because you can use it to replace C++, but the standard library and tools are substantially better.
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by jltsiren 2y ago
I'm kind of surprised that optimized builds even exist, at least outside competitive games. Back in the day when I was playing tabletop RPGs, the standard GM approach was that meaningful advantages must be balanced with meaningful disa
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by jltsiren 2y ago
Mostly to discourage illegal immigration. Because there are no internal border controls, nobody knows if you are traveling from country to country or living permanently in one country.
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by jltsiren 2y ago
International politics is not a war of all against all. It's more like a pre-state society governed by informal norms and expectations and personal relationships between the elites. People like predictable rules. If the big guy says th
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by jltsiren 2y ago
But is it a chosen identity or an identity imposed by circumstances of birth? In any case, focusing on identity leads to identity politics and (at least anecdotally) bad outcomes. I believe that countries should be based on citizenship with
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by jltsiren 2y ago
Are communities based on circumstances of birth more important than those based on personal choices? If you can choose your religion and profession, why not also citizenship? Of course there can be reasonable requirements, but it's cle
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by jltsiren 2y ago
Freedom of navigation is a part of international law major powers usually care about, because international trade serves their interests. Maybe a bunch of small North European countries decide to blockade Russia in the Baltic Sea, and maybe
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by jltsiren 2y ago
That sounds weird. Which country abuses passports like that? From my perspective, a passport is just an identity document. It's not a source of identity. When you get a new passport, your identity doesn't change, so you don't
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by jltsiren 2y ago
National ID cards are widely used for international travel in Europe. You just need to standardize them, so that every checkpoint doesn't have to support 200 weird national standards.
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by jltsiren 2y ago
Passports can die when there is reliable internet everywhere in the world. Including remote wilderness areas you paid a lot of money to visit and disaster zones where basic infrastructure has failed.
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by jltsiren 2y ago
The downside is that the O-1 is an inferior visa. It may be easier to get an O-1, because you avoid the H-1B lottery, but otherwise the O-1 makes your life harder. The O-1 is tied to a single employer, just like the H-1B, but the transfer p
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by jltsiren 2y ago
It's not about Eastern Europe and Western Europe. It's about countries that see Russia as a threat and countries that want normal relations with Russia. Some East European countries are in the latter group. There are also European
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by jltsiren 2y ago
If you need to visualize an algorithm in a talk, the usual approach is having a few slides representing the key steps instead of an actual animation. That way you can adapt the pace to the audience, stop to answer questions about any indivi
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by jltsiren 2y ago
That won't happen outside a handful of high-profile routes. Railway stations are far too small for security checks with the passenger volume they are handling. Terrorist attacks on trains and railway stations are not that rare. The las
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by jltsiren 2y ago
Judges can be elected officials, political appointees, or career civil servants. America prefers the first two options, but the third option with less political judges is also worth considering.
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by jltsiren 2y ago
"The proof is trivial and left as an exercise for the reader." The technical act of solving well-defined problems has traditionally been considered the easy part. The role of a technical expert has always been asking the right que
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by jltsiren 2y ago
You don't have to leave the country to renew your H-1B status. As long as you stay in the US and have a legitimate reason, you can keep renewing the status. Some have done that for 20+ years while waiting for their green card priority
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by jltsiren 2y ago
A shortage is a situation, where the market cannot bring high prices down by increasing the supply. For example, if software engineers earn more than equally demanding roles in other engineering fields and the situation persists long enough
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by jltsiren 2y ago
The actual results in papers like these (both the paper in question and the ones you refer to) are typically of the form: "We sequenced these genomes. Then we took the noisy data, made a lot of assumptions, and applied statistical magi
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by jltsiren 2y ago
If you want a majority government, half the political spectrum must twist itself into a pretzel. The key issue is will the people in question try to find common ground, or do they prefer to play identity politics. The most stable government
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by jltsiren 2y ago
The key difference is that American judges are typically political appointees or elected officials. They are deliberately chosen for political reasons. In many other countries, judges are more like career civil servants. While they are tech

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