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by lopmotr 8y ago
If voters punished parties for things they did in the past, that would be a force towards more long term thinking instead of always reacting to whatever scapegoat the rabble wants to hang today.
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by lopmotr 8y ago
He wasn't crossing a border, which makes it even more random. It was a domestic flight on the first leg of his trip. He had read the rules and was planning to do the proper paperwork for carrying cash at the proper place, before leavin
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by lopmotr 8y ago
If you voted for democrats, you did the ballot box wrong. Bill Clinton made the problem worse. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=74583 He explicitly didn't want people to be able to defend themselves
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by lopmotr 8y ago
What sensitive details did he broadcast? The entire video is on YouTube if you need to refer to it. As far as I know, he read information already published in newspapers. Did I mention that his entire video is still on Youtube? Still sittin
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by lopmotr 8y ago
This revealed a bizarre feature of UK law. The facts he broadcast were taken from a local newspaper. Newspapers are allowed to report names and charges of defendants, presumably before their trial begins, but then reporting is banned until
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by lopmotr 8y ago
Do you also want to lock up people who criticized the color of Trump's skin or the size of his hands? When you outlaw offending people, there's not clear boundary as to what's allowed and what's not. It creates a scary p
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by lopmotr 8y ago
In the UK, you can be arrested for saying absolutely anything as long as somebody who heard it claims to be offended and a policeman also agrees it's offensive. There's no boundary or guideline that you can follow.
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by lopmotr 8y ago
And 50% of them will have below average intelligence and 50% will be the laziest people in the country. 50% will be the most hateful and 50% will be the most racist.
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by lopmotr 8y ago
Sounds fantastic. But I can already see a problem of poor people being disproportionately incentivized not to vote. Maybe the payment would be a tax reduction instead that affects everyone proportionally to their income.
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by lopmotr 8y ago
Americans are so concerned about how other people vote but why not just vote for who you want if you want to? If you really really want some party to win, then take the day off work somehow, however difficult. If you can't be bothered
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by lopmotr 8y ago
Yea, it's an emotional concept that seems to mean things cost more than somebody was expecting. You could say there's a shortage of anything you like, so it's a meaningless word. There's a shortage of helicopters because
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by lopmotr 8y ago
You're missing the point. This has nothing to do with more drivers entering the market to return the numbers to any artificial "correct" number. If more companies wanted truck drivers more desperately, their pay would go up.
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by lopmotr 8y ago
If the goal of school is to get kids to learn the content of the curriculum, then that's not relevant. If you want to use it to assess how fast they learn or how intelligent they are, then that would have to be explicitly included as a
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by lopmotr 8y ago
Nice to meet you too! It's a pity that so many people insist on taking extremist positions then pigeon-holing everyone into one of them. I just got called equivalent to a climate change denier, that's how pervasive the tribalism i
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by lopmotr 8y ago
It's neither a labor shortage nor an abundance of jobs because there's no correct amount of labor to compare against. All it is is a price for labor which sometimes goes up and sometimes goes down, but there's no correct pric
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by lopmotr 8y ago
People talking about politics always try to make their opponents appear unreasonable. You surely can't be complaining about normal people grouping together and promoting the ideas they believe in, can you? The alternative would be cens
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by lopmotr 8y ago
Surely the solution to that is not having fewer victims sue the people responsible? Sure, that would reduce the total pain and suffering payments, but in an unfair way by giving it all to a few who get lawyers while the others get nothing,
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by lopmotr 8y ago
But in real life, do you actually expect we will stop climate change before it causes any serious harm? When do you think we'll start doing that? We've done almost nothing so far but what we have done is incrementally developed te
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by lopmotr 8y ago
It's pretty common for clothing buyers on Taobao to post a photo of themselves wearing what they bought as a review. I'm not sure how the site or the sellers incentivise this, but it surely adds some trust.
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by lopmotr 8y ago
It doesn't make sense to me that all kids get the same education at the same pace even though they have different abilities. If someone learns slower, maybe they need more hours at school to learn the same material as someone who learn
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by lopmotr 8y ago
It has value to ease the reader into it and make them feel comfortable. The other extreme is Wikipedia which is often hard to understand because it's so direct. You can use whichever on you prefer! I think smart young people sometimes
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by lopmotr 8y ago
Was that ever really a reason for signed magnitude, or did people just make use of the 2nd representation of zero because because it was available and they couldn't be bothered putting that information in another variable or using floa
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by lopmotr 8y ago
The tribalism goes both ways. Sadly, it's hard to be a pragmatic optimist and say "Yea it's probably going to change but there's also nothing we can do about it without killing millions of people through economic destruc
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by lopmotr 8y ago
A tiny bit of good news recently was North Korea getting rid of their fraction-of-an-hour different time zone and harmonizing with South Korea. Sadly, Australia and New Zealand are still some of the few holdouts with stupid pointless not-on
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by lopmotr 8y ago
That's a general problem with most news about accidents or deaths. They cherry pick the interesting stories, not the significant ones. The way I see news is that it's like fiction but with the extra excitement of being real, much
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by lopmotr 8y ago
In America, don't victims of injury caused by other people have to sue to get compensation for their medical bills if they're under-insured? That would mean it's quite helpful to have lawyers offering their services right whe
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by lopmotr 8y ago
Honestly, is fake news there to derail societies (funded by anarchist ideologues?) or is it to make advertising revenue for the publishers? As far as I've worked out, it's the latter. What's the evidence that it's done w
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by lopmotr 8y ago
Food prices do go up and down, and on each up, more people on the fringes of survivability die from lack of food, perhaps indirectly through disease. How high do food prices have to go before it would be classified as a shortage? The distin
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by lopmotr 8y ago
How are you defining shortage? If half the drivers vanished, then half as much stuff would be shipped by truck. What's the problem with that, other than things would be worse for people? Is there a correct amount of truck driving that
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by lopmotr 8y ago
> Efficiency gains on the existing tech + infrastructure will always win over revolutionary new tech. That's just a gross exaggeration. Trains and cars were already new tech compared to horses, nuclear power vs coal power, diesel vs

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