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by mamon 6y ago
Cars must necessarily follow the laws of physics. Software does not have such limitations, which creates hundreds times more ways to shoot yourself in a foot.
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by mamon 6y ago
"No one reads anything. Those who do read, they do not understand. Those who do understand, they immediately forget." "Linus's law" is refered to as "Linus's fallacy" now.
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by mamon 6y ago
Why absurd? they are performance that just happen to be occurring frequently. If a Broadway musical is played every night, does it stop being a musical?
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by mamon 6y ago
In fact I think EU should take few steps back: the perfect state was before Lisbon treaty, when EU was basically just a free trade zone. Since Lisbon they try to make it a single country, with unified policy on international affairs, milita
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by mamon 6y ago
Exactly, "the overwhelming importance of a higher cause" is how terrorists are made.
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by mamon 6y ago
Even less people know that the total number of casualties of WW II was about 70 million. Many people in the West are under impression that WW II was all about Jews. It wasn't. Even Holocaust wasn't solely about Jews, as they were
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by mamon 6y ago
I think GP is arguing that public companies, which are often blamed for "shortcomings of capitalism" are in fact not capitalistic at all. "Collective ownership of means of production" was postulated by Karl Marx as one
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by mamon 6y ago
>> You imagine that in between there are competent and honest people counting the votes They don't have to be honest at all: you simply allow each competing political party to designate their own people to count the votes, so the
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by mamon 6y ago
At least in my country the law that is ruled unconstitional loses it's power immediately, unless the constitutonal court itself grants some grace period. The thing is: constitutional court can't by itself decide which laws to star
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by mamon 6y ago
Being a criminal, especially in times when many crimes were punishable by death, it also requires a risk-taking personality, so GP's point still stands.
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by mamon 6y ago
>> Now suppose the kid who shot the people in Kenosha gets a pardon Offtopic, but for me that kid did nothing wrong - it was self defence. If he isn't found innocent by court then he definitely needs to be pardoned.
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by mamon 6y ago
but homework gets checked by teachers, right? I mean, from what I remember from my own high school teacher would spend first few minutes of each class asking about homework, somethimes simply providing the correct answers, sometimes randoml
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by mamon 6y ago
By what law? I'm pretty sure that at the same time Germany allowed them in they also adjusted their policies to make access to jobs easy for them ( https://www.oecd.org/els/mig/Finding-their-Way-Germany.pdf ) G
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by mamon 6y ago
Of course PTSD is beneficial: it gets you discharged from military, for example, so the chances of you being in the situation where someone is shooting bazooka at you drop to zero. In general PTSD helps you avoid traumatic experience in fut
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by mamon 6y ago
I believe that there WERE 100 other airborne divisions in the past, they just do not exist anymore. World War II required a lot of divisions airborne or otherwise.
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by mamon 6y ago
>> Most teachers are not good, so self-study is essential. It's not even about teachers being good or bad. It's about something called "illusion of competence". Basically, everything seems easy while teacher is exp
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by mamon 6y ago
You know, people make jokes about, for example, Indian arranged marriages, but they have one significant upside: you get to know not only your future partner, but also their family, their past, the environment that they were raised in, etc.
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by mamon 6y ago
>> falling hundreds of feet into water is more survivable than hundreds of feet into earth or concrete. No, not really - hitting watter as damaging as hitting concrete once you get above 100 feet high. But at least you're not goi
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by mamon 6y ago
Warsaw is TERRIBLE place to live. The city is ugly and dirty and always stuck in traffic (and yes, busses get stuck in traffic too), most office jobs are located in two main hubs, and it typically takes at least 30 minutes to get there by c
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by mamon 6y ago
Given that: 1. Some of those 37 situations are more interesting than others 2. You need more than one of them for a good screenplay 3. Some situations do not mix well in one story You will come to conlusion that there is limited number of p
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by mamon 6y ago
You can, but if everyone tried that at once then the price would fall, and most people wouldn't get as much money as they think they now have. So in that sense company valuations are not real. We might pretend that Tesla is worth 2100
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by mamon 6y ago
That's not how labor laws work in many countries - if a driver is sleeping in the car, and not in his own bed at home that still counts as working time.
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by mamon 6y ago
Because it doesn't make sense. Combustion engines have some limitations that require gearbox to mitigate them: https://x-engineer.org/automotive-engineering/drivetrain/tra... Electric engines have none of tho
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by mamon 6y ago
Fascist and Nazis were also socialists. Hitler's political party had "Socialist" in it's name. It's funny that nowadays we call Nazis "far right" where in fact they should be called "far left".
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by mamon 6y ago
You're looking at this from privileged perspective of Bay Area software engineer, who can work from home, or even take few months break from work altoghether. "Economy taking a hit" is just an euphemism for real tragedies, li
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by mamon 6y ago
Ok, so it seems that taxi service in US sucks. In Europe traditional taxi companies caught up pretty quickly, you can now order taxi ride via app that has UX similar or even nicer than Uber, and you get licensed taxi driver, car with taxi s
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by mamon 6y ago
Anyone here still cares about COVID-19? That's probably the most overhyped disease of all the time.
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by mamon 6y ago
"If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything" For me the whole branch of physics that deals with particle colliders is a big hoax. Quarks and other particles are simply too small, compared to the size of the s
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by mamon 6y ago
Which kind of makes sense, because wealth is supposed to be a measure of one's contribution to society. You contributed more, you can get away with more.
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by mamon 6y ago
I really wish I could use my personal laptop at work, but now it is hard, because GDPR laws mandate that I would need to take additional security measures and could be held responsible for any data leak. Using company issued laptop avoids t

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