mamon

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by mamon 8y ago
One of the basic EU freedoms is free movement of people. Member states have no legal way of blocking people from other member states from coming (except for initial grace period, after new members were accepted into EU), so "forcing UK
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by mamon 8y ago
Which makes it very easy for all people who were born in 1988, but inconvenient for everyone else :)
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by mamon 8y ago
>> It could also be a 3 letters agency website training airport security face detection 3 letter agencies will kindly ask/force Facebook to share their face-detection data and algorithms, no need to do this themselves. In fact I
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by mamon 8y ago
Yes, exactly. My friend is working as rehabilitation specialist for autistic kids, and from what she tells me life for those kids is nothing like typical HN meme 'autism is my superpower' implies.
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by mamon 8y ago
The problem is: new PhDs are made in just few years, but then they need a job for a lifetime. So, after you've graduated those 5 or so students you're willing to hire, are you gonna close your PhD program for the next 10 years? Wh
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by mamon 8y ago
Marxists have done enough harm thorough the history to justify ban. Stalin, Mao, Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Khmer Rouge are just few examples off the top of my head. Just because they didn't do anything violent recently shouldn't
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by mamon 8y ago
Ok, what about black nationalist content? Asian nationalists, Jewish nationalists?
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by mamon 8y ago
>> what business it is of ours (except, perhaps, as a cautionary tale)? "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
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by mamon 8y ago
The term "organic" only means something in Europe, because EU has much stricter rules regarding food quality and safety. In US it basically is just a marketing term meaning "overpriced food for hipsters".
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by mamon 8y ago
Funny that you say that, because in my opinion Poland lacks the true right wing party. All major parties are left wing, with their economical programs being slight variations of socialists wealth redistribution, and government regulation
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by mamon 8y ago
What's with this "even in Poland"? Democracy in Poland is as good as ever. Compared to previous government it is even an improvement.
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by mamon 8y ago
When it comes to this "Play" carrier in Poland high speeds are for contracts, prepaid SIMs are limited to 70 Mbps
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by mamon 8y ago
It's not that pop singers aren't talented. It's just that pop music as a genre is pretty much boring, and the artists that appear every season, or every "America's got talent" edition, they all are easily forge
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by mamon 8y ago
Yes, after two failed attempts to conquer Europe by military force, Germans finally realized they can achieve the same effect much easier with their economical power and then created EU :)
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by mamon 8y ago
except in real experimentation you control for all the variables except the one you're investigating. So it is not a very usefull thing to compare a bulb with the Sun. Instead, if you state that "luminescence OF THE 60W INCANDESCE
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by mamon 8y ago
But it should be central to scientific process. If you do any kind of experiment and gather the results, then the first thing you need to do is to make sure that your results are real, and not just some random noise in data. Otherwise you&#
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by mamon 8y ago
When will they get rid of their own biggest annoyance, namely this "Firefox is installing updates and will start in a moment" popup? Why not install updates just before shutting down? Or be decent and ask user permission ?
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by mamon 8y ago
Rape or murder are not natural instincts. In fact people have pretty good safeguards against killing others - seeing the oponent bleeding usually makes even a furious man cool off. And regarding limiting population growth, what solution cou
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by mamon 8y ago
That's exactly how it works: profits from business go to shareholders and executives, who are business people first and may have no idea about their company's business domain (how many GMC executives would be able to repair your c
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by mamon 8y ago
The pattern that I see emerging now is that companies treat Open Source as a way of offseting software maintenance cost. They will create something for their internal use, and once product is feature complete and relatively stable, they wil
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by mamon 8y ago
People typically see MacOs as "Unix-family OS that doesn't suck". The day Linux delivers a decent desktop environment will be the day people ditch Apple. Unfortunately, that day is somewhere between "20 years from now&qu
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by mamon 8y ago
Which is actually the enabler here: just register a friend or relative as living in your apartment, and you're done. And of course, you're doing that as a favor, so you're not charging them any rent that might be a subject to
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by mamon 8y ago
ok, so truly oriented OO system needs some equivalent of Ruby's method_missing() ? Is that's what you mean?
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by mamon 8y ago
Throthled performance might midly annoy some of the users, some of the time. Battery lasting less than 8 hours would enrage everyone very quickly.
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by mamon 8y ago
Main issue here is that such syntax is write-only. Every time you read this expression later you have to go through the mental gimnastics you've just described to understand it.
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by mamon 8y ago
Some things are simply so obvious, that you forget to mention them :)
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by mamon 8y ago
The worst form of blackmail in the US is probably the plea bargain. I guess there are literally thousands of innocent people serving jail time because they did not have a decent legal counsel to stop them from signing a bad deal.
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by mamon 8y ago
Actually, it works the other way around: when I'm in Europe the price on display is the gross price (including VAT), so I kind of get used to it. In US when I go shopping the price on display is net price, and then, when I get to regis
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by mamon 8y ago
Also, climate change might have catastropthic results on some parts of the world, and positive effect on other. I wouldn't mind for instance if Central Europe got warm climate similar to Mediterranean. Now, why would I fight a change t
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by mamon 8y ago
Except in Soviet Union terrorizing all the opposition parties/majority of voters was long, costly and brutal process. Online voting makes the whole thing cheap, easy, and undetectable.

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