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by lz400 9y ago
The 2 finger scrolling is pretty bad too, frequently doesn't respond or makes the font bigger or other nonsense. Apple has the best trackpads no doubt.
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by lz400 9y ago
I've recently switched from an old Mac Pro to a Lenovo x1 carbon (QHD, 16gb RAM, 512 SSD, i7). It was half the price of the equivalent current Mac Pro, with more ports and better battery life, no gimmicky touch bar BS and a much bett
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by lz400 9y ago
[citation needed]
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by lz400 9y ago
That's 24K a year?
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by lz400 9y ago
Under which conditions does one need a student loan to go to college in the US? I was explained once here that this is not as much of a problem as it is made to be and there're plenty of public universities that are accessible. Is it j
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by lz400 9y ago
I feel that article could have condensed the same ideas in 5% of the length. Basically it all comes down to an expected value calculation in a situation where almost everything is unknown. What surprises me is that Alcor doesn't have m
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by lz400 9y ago
I think Taleb likes to think of himself as a scholar so smart that has destroyed mainstream scholarship and his contributions are not being recognized by the lesser scholars. But he's smart enough to recognize that he's just not t
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by lz400 9y ago
I'm not justifying the police actions, just saying the referendum was a farce. In fact without the police action, it would have been a farce too, which makes you wonder why they needed to stir the pot with so many police but anyway.
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by lz400 9y ago
Well, you don't need a PhD to see for yourself what was done in these laws and to recognize the political intent. You kind of need to be able to, in fact, if you want to know what's happening around you and take decisions as an in
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by lz400 9y ago
There is part of it that is indeed opinion and "feeling". The cultural part, the "hecho diferencial", whatever you want to call it. But there's also the part where Montilla's government called inaceptable and &
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by lz400 9y ago
This is going off topic a little bit but it's interesting. Do you actually know what those aspirations are? Are you able to read original sources in Spanish? it might come as a surprise to you but this whole thing is built on extreme i
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by lz400 9y ago
No, yesterday was a process born dead. If there's no representation of all the factions and a legally binding agreement to vote on, it's useless. The Spanish government could have done nothing yesterday, maybe they should have, an
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by lz400 9y ago
The 90% is plausible, since only the people voting yes were mobilized. What is doubtful is the 40% participation. What there's no doubt about is that it's not representative of the general population and there weren't enough
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by lz400 9y ago
Several people and they provided pictures and testimony. There are more facts, like that the organization changed the methods 15m before starting and lost internet access and had to resort to writing people's names manually without che
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by lz400 9y ago
There are reports of people voting 4 times, and of people from another region voting after presenting an id from another region. There were no election observers from neutral or "no" political forces. The "international"
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by lz400 9y ago
They could have responded with a lighter touch but if the referendum is suspended, conducting it is illegal. If a judge orders seizing voting booths, they need to attempt to do that. For example, the local police did exactly what you said,
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by lz400 9y ago
No it won't, Catalonia doesn't have an army. It could lead to the creation of terrorist cells I guess, I hope things don't get that far.
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by lz400 9y ago
The judiciary ordered the dismantling. It had to be done. We can argue about the execution, I won't disagree it's being poor but in a country with separation of powers, the executive needs to obey the law. Anyway, the referendum s
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by lz400 9y ago
I don't presume that, although I think legal strongly signals democratic in a democracy. What I say is that this referendum is illegal and not democratic.
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by lz400 9y ago
Yes, it was agreed and allowed under local law. Catalonian's referendum was not. It's not legal. Needs to be agreed upon. Additionally, to see why a group of people wanting to secede might also be unethical, think about this case.
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by lz400 9y ago
You have already godwin'd me :) Anyway, imho this is still just fallacious. You are attaching to the Catalonian independence movement the adjective of "great". Then you say great movements are "illegal", etc. etc. T
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by lz400 9y ago
Sure but unless you are extremely radical, those are the exception not the rule. Most of the laws, that regulate murder, theft, libel, etc. are all right. At least I like to think that most first world countries are approximately democracie
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by lz400 9y ago
That's a very obvious fallacy. Women's suffrage used to be legal, therefore all laws are wrong? or, the law I don't like is wrong?
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by lz400 9y ago
Why is the referendum democratic? is it your opinion that unilateral secession of any region, under any circumstances is democratic by definition? I find that very strange. I don't agree.
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by lz400 9y ago
We can surely discuss the implementation of a very clear judicial order but at the end of the day those things are difficult and doesn't change that in principle that referendum wasn't democratic and needed to be stopped and the f
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by lz400 9y ago
Surely part of the democracy is the rule of the law, isn't it? I'm sure you can point to laws in the past that made a farce of democracy, but most of them aren't in modern democracies. You can think this one is particular is
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by lz400 9y ago
It's not democratic, it's illegal and the justice system has ordered its dismantling. Think what you will, disagree with the law if you want but at this point the government is forced to apply the law. They don't have a choic
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by lz400 9y ago
No proof or evidence of anything. I've no idea about what happened here and I don't care but this post makes my BS detector fire in several places.
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by lz400 9y ago
Yes, I've heard people putting the threshold in ~192kbps. Above that it's pretty much impossible these days. I can also tell the difference in 128kpbs, although sometimes it's a bit of nitpicking (can only hear differences in
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by lz400 9y ago
As far as I know, people consistently fail to tell the difference in blind A/B tests in listening between (any decent) FLAC and a well ripped mp3 from the same source. I know I can't. I can't link to proper double blind studi

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