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by jowea 3y ago
It was/is a thing in some countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_constituency#Irelan... But the Irish Senate has a relatively unusual composition and voting system anyway: https://en.wikipe
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by jowea 3y ago
If you want more to read this has been discussed extensively for at least 2 years: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=search Reasons mentioned: SEO is winning, being an advertising company is contradictory to being a good search eng
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No comment on the fairness, but isn't the system beneficial for good borrowers?
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Oh yes one my favourite ~~TED~~ Onion talk business case studies: "The Power Of Selling Out: Your Customers As Political Capital - Onion Talks - Ep. 9" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8c_m6U1f9o
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by jowea 3y ago
Or they're testing the waters.
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by jowea 3y ago
I'm not sure I want Meta (or anyone) directing public discourse away from politics and controversial topics either.
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Maybe it would take too long for it to be worth starting when the situation is already very bad, but at least wikipedia implies the most well know aerosol injection is fast. I'm no climate scientist.
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Yes it's risky but I feel it might work better with the world of states we have today.
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My optimist is that it when it gets real bad governments will do something before it gets catastrophic. Who knows, not a climate scientist, maybe it will be too late.
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I don't know anything about Martian geology but wouldn't you need a large amount of travel around the planet to acquire everything an industrial civilization needs like resources for solar or nuclear power because it's lackin
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by jowea 3y ago
Not the previous poster but it could feel meaningless if you really sincerely think civilization is doomed. At least with optimism for the future you can feel like you mattered to the people close to you, or you were a good cog in a great
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by jowea 3y ago
I don't think we humans were made to think like that. Almost everyone mostly wants to live their lives and has just enough mental energy to care about problems in front of them.
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Don't we need millions of people for a viable industrial Martian civilization? Honest question don't know. Also, we haven't even been to Mars, unless SpaceX has some single-state to orbit spaceplane plus some fancy interplane
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by jowea 3y ago
Maybe I'm optimistic (for a certain value of optimistic) but I feel we would do mass geoengineering and/or start serious international emission control, enforced by war if necessary, before we get to that.
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by jowea 3y ago
The bunkers are in New Zealand in the hopes that a rich island stable democracy will not undergo complete societal collapse even if much of the world does. Although, if society doesn't collapse I'm not sure if the bunkers are all
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by jowea 3y ago
Degrowth does seem like a tough sell to general populations, when you say not voluntary or controlled you mean like economic collapse and/or ecoauthoritarianism or something else?
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by jowea 3y ago
Is there a point to starting geoengineering after the situation is already disastrous? Because that's the only case I see it happening. The big advantage is that it could be done unilaterally.
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by jowea 3y ago
You see self-sustaining colonies outside of Earth in our lifetime? Wouldn't they need a massive industrial base, a variety of resources, large populations, etc to not need Earth?
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by jowea 3y ago
My experience is damaging cheap wired headphones way faster than with wireless. Although it certainly wasn't a 150$ wired or wireless headphone.
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by jowea 3y ago
IANAL and don't think it applies in this case, but I don't think you can pull that trick in an attempt of getting out of a debt at least. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraudulent_conveyance
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by jowea 3y ago
Now we wait to see if Bukele is doing it again.
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Only person I know to try to actually sit down and draw civilization borders was Huntington and put the Orthodox on a separate but linked civilization to the Western world, but even he admitted that's arguable. Although even then Polan
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by jowea 3y ago
Yeah it also happens to me on the computer. Specially funny when I end up distracted by something else, then a hour later come back to the original trigger and remember how I ended up on the last hour long rabbit hole and what I was actuall
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by jowea 3y ago
Spamming is about quantity but stripping a "+" is something a one line script can do, which is what will happen if this gets popular. A real solution should be more resilient. Like spam binning anything that does not use the &quot
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by jowea 3y ago
Following my navel gazing idea, the trick is that mail to real@example.com just gets spam binned automatically. Anyone who has any business emailing your should have an real+randomuniqueid@example.com email address to send to you. It's
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I heard about the +, but don't some sites reject it? Or can't bad actors just strip it? You'd need your own domain with a large amount of unique identifiers for it to work if it became popular.
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I navel-gaze that if we redesigned communications from the ground up we could handle this better. When you greet someone physically you can add each other as known trusted contacts immediately. And when you sign up to some service online an
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by jowea 3y ago
My other guess is that it's one of those things where it only connects to actual person if you say something. I could try actually talking to see what happens but now that I read on this thread that they record you for replay maybe not
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Maybe robocalls will get so annoying that rule will change. And don't normal people end up saying something like "hello?? Anyone there?" in that case anyway?
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* Bullet points make it easier to read for some reason

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