lhopki01

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by lhopki01 1mo ago
A trivial look at the Panama canal will show that it is a not a connection to a lake but rather it goes through a lake. Bypassing the lake would require digging a length of canal longer than the existing canal. So you would be dumping sal
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by lhopki01 4mo ago
What makes you think the Republicans are trying to protect the borders? From what I can see they're not trying to do that. They're just trying to make a permanent underclass of scare workers who they can pay poverty wages to. I
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by lhopki01 8mo ago
How are you measuring that? There are plenty of developed countries with a higher immigrant share like Switzerland and Australia. If you're taking about visible minorities then Canada has a higher proportion of the population.
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by lhopki01 8mo ago
What happens when no one is willing to be a police officer to enforce your negative liberty at the going rate?
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by lhopki01 8mo ago
>Bureaucracies have diseconomies of scale. There is a point past which "larger" is no longer getting you significantly better amortization of fixed costs and is instead just increasing communication costs, adding layers of midd
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by lhopki01 8mo ago
I can understand your point in terms of negative liberty but I tend to hold positive liberty to be just as important. It is not sufficient to me that there is no law preventing me from having healthcare, I expect that the government should
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by lhopki01 8mo ago
The issues are intertwined. The Constitution is sacred so therefor the system of government it's setup is sacred and so on.
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by lhopki01 8mo ago
There are plenty of examples from history and now of better governed countries. I don't know how anyone can look at the US and think it's success is because of constitution and not from being the 3rd largest country on earth with
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by lhopki01 8mo ago
It's quite different. The House of Lords was much more powerful well into the 19th century. The monarch was hardly a powerless figure in those times. The Bill of Rights 1689 probably shifted the power more towards Parliament than be
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by lhopki01 8mo ago
Yes I understand it was designed that way 250 years ago. What I don't understand is why so many Americans think that it was perfect. Why aren't Americans open to the idea that their system of "separation of powers" is
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by lhopki01 8mo ago
It's just another thing that means people don't face the consequences of their own actions. If the extremeness of the elected party is blocked by the filibuster then people are angry at things not changing and so go even more ext
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by lhopki01 8mo ago
Any system designed for gridlock will lead to increasing anger and pressure that will eventually break out in bad ways. If people see the results of their own actions then they are not going to end up so extreme. I'm not sure why Amer
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by lhopki01 8mo ago
Almost every country ranked for having the least corruption is a parliamentary system. Actually proportional parliamentary seem to be even better in terms of little corruption. The reasonable set of ground rules seem to favor states over t
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by lhopki01 8mo ago
I'm not sure why Americans are so certain that their system of separation of powers is the right one. Most countries don't separate the executive and legislative like that. The executive is whoever can command the support of the
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by lhopki01 11mo ago
Same in Canada and for colleagues in the UK and Poland.
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by lhopki01 1y ago
Good to know that search warrants aren't a thing in the United States and anyone within 100 miles of a port can't be arbitrarily searched either.
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Elon Musk makes bold claims about Tesla robotaxi(arstechnica.com)
5 points by lhopki01 2y ago|3 comments
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by lhopki01 2y ago
Not sure why US citizens believe this. I've been in situations where there was genuine peril and the look of shock the US citizens had when someone from their embassy said the only thing they'd do is organize a convoy of private
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Zombies: Ranks of most debt-hobbled companies are soaring(apnews.com)
2 points by lhopki01 2y ago|0 comments
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by lhopki01 3y ago
Intertwined economies are part of it but I think people underestimate the importance of norms. EU leaders and ministers are regularly in meetings together. When there is a crisis now the reaction of all EU leaders is to hold a conference
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by lhopki01 3y ago
Why is the link that direction? Could it be that universities, etc are anti-gun because the data shows they are harmful? Overall I find it odd that this standard is applied this way. No one accuses Universities of being anti cancer when t
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by lhopki01 3y ago
What I often notice when reading articles like this is people aren't aware of how electricity is priced in different countries. When I was in the UK I had one headline figure of price per KWh that covered everything. This seems to ap
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by lhopki01 5y ago
How can they trust the literature? The article was just talking about how the evidence can't be trusted.
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by lhopki01 5y ago
I'm pretty sure Signal wouldn't be subject to this. I think it's only for companies over 75 billion euro[1] market capitalization. [1] https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/24/22994234/eu-antitr
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Embracing a Wetter Future, the Dutch Turn to Floating Homes(e360.yale.edu)
2 points by lhopki01 5y ago|0 comments
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by lhopki01 5y ago
There are many countries around the world that don't seem to have the same issues with opioids so something must be different. What is it apart from regulation?
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by lhopki01 5y ago
> Linux is the OS for people who like tinkering. Tinkering is the point. I don't tinker on my Linux machine. I bought a supported Linux machine (System76) and haven't tinkered with it at all since I bought it. I just wanted a
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by lhopki01 5y ago
Most of these things can just be done by using the timer that comes with every oven. I've often set the oven to come up at around 15.00 so I can cook a stew for a few hours before getting home.
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by lhopki01 5y ago
That's not quite right. If the airflows are in opposite directions then you can transfer more heat. Since as the hot air cools it encounters progressively colder air ensuring there is always a temperature gradient to transfer heat.
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by lhopki01 6y ago
>if the driver takes a huge detour or some other common taxi scam, I can just contact Uber's customer service, and they'll refund me. This often gets cited as an advantage of Uber but in my person experience I've been driv

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