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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
While true to some degree that people don't prepare sufficiently, many simply cannot prepare. Taking aside the U.S. which bankrupts hundreds of thousands a year through an insane health care system (providing both highest cost and one
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
You would likely enjoy the book "Power, Sex, Suicide - Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life" by nick Hall, one of the most insightful books I've read in a while. It is all about the evolutionary history of mitochondria and ou
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
That is indeed unusual and very impressive, congratulations! Are you willing to share any more details? E.g. fiction or non-fiction, genre, distribution channel, how you made your income? Thank you!
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
I'm quite astonished to see people promoting intense child labour. No government in the world completely prohibits light child labour (in the household/farm, and from usually around 14 also light work outside as long as it doesn&#
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
This only means the flavours are derived from natural products like plants, bark, meat, milk, bone, etc. So not fully synthetic flavours (which are often from oil/gas), but still these will not be anything you would ever guess or recog
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
Kola nut is the original caffeine ingredient in original coke. They replaced thus long ago with coffee-extracted caffeine, so there is little reason to still use kola nuts.
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
Given Fairphone is a rather small company they sometimes have such problems of economy of scale - no manufacturer will prioritise you if you make small orders. That said, one reason for the Fairphone price is the "fair to the people la
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
I'm sorry but your claim does not make sense at all given the meaning of the words you are using
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
> As many as 70 percent of laptops sent from companies to remote workers are never seen by companies again, Muneer Mirza, AWS' end-user compute general manager, claimed to The Register. This seems quite an absurd claim. I can't
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
Thanks, very nice summary and categorisation. Two nitpicks: * In my view Switzerland is not doing fine because it is wealthy, it is doing well as it was historically difficult terrain to conquer (thus no one bothered to invade it in most
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
Maybe a nice analogy are the old trades: knitting, weaving, ceramics, glass blowing, woodworking, ... Still down for pleasure and a niche audience.
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
Thanks, interesting insight. Here it's just a normal thing to do. Why not do my neighbour a favour? The mail carriers mostly are regulars (except for the new Amazon carriers) so if you refuse parcels they will also respect this and not
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
Interesting, it seems in the EU countries I lived in, a different solution emerged: the mail carriers cooperate with local corner shops (common in any EU city) and even supermarkets to serve as pick up points. In addition there are package
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
Most mail carriers (the majority of deliveries are carried by a national (ex) monopoly let you choose what you want to happen to your package. And we have many corner shops in EU cities and towns, and the mail companies have installed dedic
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
Thank you. I think the criticism is really just about the certificate requirement. I just don't see what other part of eidas could be considered to MitM anyone. But of course only the author would know for sure what they meant.
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
This is quite an absurd summary, both legally and technically simply nonsense. And eidas is about digital identity management, this critiqued part is just s tiny part of it, not a main feature, so this is not "what eidas is about"
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
I have been involved in such processes (Trilogue), so here my take: * We are talking about trilogues, meaning the commission has made a proposal, parliament and council has adopted their positions, and then parliament and council negotiated
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
The previous commenter is not correct. Parliament votes for its own position on this law, which is then negotiated with the Council ( the 27 national government representatives) which itself has already developed a position. The two institu
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
Just a summary of this (credited) original source: https://www.reuters.com/technology/musks-x-has-fraction-riva...
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
No, the state is what GUARANTEES your freedoms. This entire fiction of freedom without a state is absurd. Without a state there is no clean running water, no energy security, no protection from criminals, no roads, no school teaching your k
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
Don't buy the simplified narrative... it's a complex process and this is far from a final text. Moreover, the legislative bodies legislate principles , the implementation still will need to be done by technical experts in a secur
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
No disagreement in substance but I want to stress that the things you mention are all by different entities. The EU is basically a meta government (supranational organisation) with the commission playing the role of government and ministrie
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
Indeed, e.g. Paris metro is fully or nearly automated as they wanted to reduce the risk of driver strikes.
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
Sorry but this is quite wrong. There ar emany debates to be had about what we are primed withy but various behaviours, preferences, attentional biases, stimuli responses, etc are certainly inborn.
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
Somewhat off topic but it is quite stunning to me that American carriers just leave the package at the door. I lived in different European countries and in all of them the expectation is that the mailman (official mail, or any of the servic
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
> The worst thing a company can do is try to sell you more soap. The government on the other hand can literally ruin your life (or even end it in some countries). No, the worst thing a company can do is to influence your desires, feeling
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
Personally I find this quite an important issue. Whether you don't care is your own choice, but not all us are happy to live in a panopticon. And the EU is in fact mainly a trade body, setting standards and categorisations, so there ar
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
I don't think Uber is sustainable. It seems everyone is getting shafted - the drivers, the customers, the Investors. Their only profitable part is the food delivery service, which is neither novel nor particularly good in comparison
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
Nice little story and I'm sure the internet has many more such fake factoids, I recall e.g. an invented war on Wikipedia which survived as the authors credited books and no one checked whether those are real. But I struggle to give an
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by lock-the-spock 3y ago
Problem is that in that system the people able to shape opinion (= corporate media and the rich) will steer any debate in their direction. Second trouble is the dictatorship of the majority - you'll never get minority rights or issues

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