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by kmonsen 5y ago
I was a union rep when working in Norway, I guess it was open-shop since we had two different unions. In practice we cooperated a lot, and the largest benefit was the it gave us access to lawyers that could answer questions quickly so the m
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by kmonsen 5y ago
Who is going to pay you lobbying money if you do that? Much better to pay 750k and get 10k back as campaign contributions.
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by kmonsen 5y ago
I can see a normal person falling for this, but in my opinion this person called themselves a scam expert is a scam in itself. The claim that this has only been praise since 2018 is absurd, even if true being four years behind on current pr
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by kmonsen 5y ago
I don’t think I touch any cash at all, but I think society is better when the option is there and used. Also some people have a hard time getting a bank account etc.
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by kmonsen 5y ago
The important thing is that the founder (and probably many of us would think similarly) is that even now after it failed they still think there are other reasons it failed and that there was a great idea that failed due to ... technicalitie
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by kmonsen 5y ago
There is a minimum, it starts at ~$700 for 0.02 BAC. It is also possible to use less than a month salary for people with low income and/or high degree debt due to children etc. The intention of the law is that everyone faces meaningful
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by kmonsen 5y ago
It has been solved in other countries, but the U.S. is ok with the right people driving while drunk so has decided to not solve it. For example in Norway you can drink 1/4 of the amount that you can do in CA while driving, you get jail
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by kmonsen 5y ago
It can be both pretty amazing and massively failing at times? I mean 10 years ago we would not think the FSD beta is possible, even if it is not reliable enough to be used as self driving.
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by kmonsen 5y ago
It depends on your definition of browser, they are all frontends for Apple WebKit.
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by kmonsen 5y ago
Just in case you are arguing in good fait, appeal to authority is not generally considered a logical fallacy. This is the first sentence on wikipedia: "Historically, opinion on the appeal to authority has been divided: it is listed as
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by kmonsen 5y ago
Yeah so is listening to your dentist or any other educated person.
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by kmonsen 5y ago
It really doesn't matter, and honestly you probably want to die in the first blast. If there is full scale nuclear war there seems to be consensus that there will most likely be full breakdown of normal society and probably a nuclear w
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by kmonsen 5y ago
Sure I agree. Password is a strong first, bookmarks is a second but still very essential and history a fairly distant third. But Firefox and Chrome both have these so I don't feel like downgrading to not having them. BTW, I would like
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by kmonsen 5y ago
For me a browser needs to be available on all my devices. Android, iOS, Mac, windows and Linux. And it needs to sync bookmarks, history and passwords across all of those. Anything less and I go back to chrome or Firefox. Extra features just
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by kmonsen 5y ago
I heard this theory as well that the U.S. and uk see this as a win. So far probably true, but this can very easy and up in nuclear war if Putin is pushed too far. Putin is obviously the only aggressor here, but I think he was baited and can
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by kmonsen 5y ago
How about computers? I don’t think Russia has a modern semiconductor industry. They are going to need one soon. Smart phones? I don’t think people realize how hard these sanctions will hit over the next months. There is not going to be a mo
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by kmonsen 5y ago
Yes, well depending on the new regime. But that seems extremely unlikely? Let's say Putin announces victory and that he is stepping back. Would anyone trust he is not pulling the strings anymore?
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by kmonsen 5y ago
No. Ukraine has a giant border with Poland. Russia do not have the troops to close it down. They don’t have the troops to counter civilian resistance either. I read an article about hostile army : civilian population ratios in recent confli
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by kmonsen 5y ago
Just like you are not a slave the warden is not a prisoner since he can go home every day, and can choose to stop working there if he doesn’t like the place. Choice is what prisoners and slaves don’t have, and we have plenty of both.
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by kmonsen 5y ago
You are not compelled at all. You can probably afford some land in the middle of nowhere and grow your own food. You want some things that are available for money and need a way of getting money. That is very far from slavery. Every day you
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by kmonsen 5y ago
I can be a week anywhere, in the survival exercise mentioned we went almost two weeks without food. I also try to fast over weekends these days. The problem is not next few weeks but the rest of our lives. What would you eat next year?
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by kmonsen 5y ago
The world would react differently to a CCP invasion of Taiwan for sure, but not in the way you imply. It would be a full scale war against US, Japan, Australia, UK at least right away. With the current president, being a democratic country
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by kmonsen 5y ago
There a lots of these articles now on why it is really the west's fault for not giving Putin whatever he wanted. This is deeply disrespectful to the Ukrainian people fighting a defensive war against a brutal dictator that kills his own
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by kmonsen 5y ago
Seriously, Covid is extremely low on my list of worries if I am close to a nuclear explosion. Like so far down that I can't see why it should be mentioned at all. Radiation, access to food/water and breakdown of society are the on
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by kmonsen 5y ago
I was a ranger in the army, during survival exercise they said the techniques we learned would only apply to surviving during a war. For all other purposes seek civilization as humans are almost unable to survive in the wild anymore. It is
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by kmonsen 5y ago
Both Taiwan and South Korea were brutal dictatorships until late 70s or early 80s. Now they are real democracies as much as anyone is. My personal opinion, South Korea deserves a big asterisk. They had a president that was trapped in a cult
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by kmonsen 5y ago
It's not like Russia forced them, they at least took money and free PR support. Now it has created a monster than cannot be controlled. I think more seriously the US is a limited democracy because neither party really works for the peo
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by kmonsen 5y ago
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/democracy... Taiwan is #11 on the list, that is higher than the US and UK (obviously), and one spot ahead of Switzerland. If Taiwan was in Europe it would still be amo
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by kmonsen 5y ago
I helped out with implementing quick in chrome, letting things break was never an option that was considered.
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by kmonsen 5y ago
The driver is really alert and intervenes super quickly. I don't think we can expect regular drivers to intervene this quickly.

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