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by manholio 4y ago
Yes, that's exactly the model I'm referencing. > how (non-poor) people "found them increasingly distasteful", even a hundred years ago That's easy to explain: exclusionary zoning, maximum density requirements, ae
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I cannot shake the feeling that the bulk of those social benefits could be captured by offering a very compact "cage-home" like storage closet, that can be locked and allows sleeping and storing one's valuables, with access t
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True in the absolute, but you would expect that if those flows and influence would be so large, that fraction would increase too. What's stopping a large scale privatization of the penal system? Could it be that there are incumbent int
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If so, provoking this Russian vengeance strike is the best feat of the Ukrainian army by a mile. If you can bleed 1 billion in military spending with the cost of a few deaths and an lorry filled with explosives, that's by far the most
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by manholio 4y ago
> I always thought that these companies were the ones who invented "how to do good web apps" No. These companies were the first to get a critical mass in their respective markets or product categories. then they used that posit
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Sorry, I got confused about the example, you are of course correct, it's a basic center squeeze. The IRV case here is simply a cheaper way to organize a delayed runoff; voters are usually adept at understanding the implications of stra
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I don't follow your example. If the religious vote according to their genuine preferences, they would pick their brand of theocracy as the first option and the secular option as the second. IRV would then eliminate two theocracies in t
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by manholio 4y ago
Even if your technical argument would be correct (it's not), you would be trying to fix the problems of democracy by purposefully skewing the vote away from the desires of the electorate. That's a bad idea because it prevents demo
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> I just want to make clear for others: this "ranking" is just bhauer's opinion. It's also a non-sensical claim, any voting system "ranking" depends on specifics of the electoral system. For example, larger
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The fact vs. value distinction is fundamental in establishing functional and peaceful political structures where rational apes can collaborate and achieve common goals despite their inherent disagreements. It's completely irrelevant if
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by manholio 4y ago
How is that specific to razor blades? Surely this scenario of sharp bendy steel blade meets soft material is common across many industries.
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by manholio 4y ago
Can't get natural gas from your distributor? Burn wood or put on a blanket. Yes, economic substitutes exist for almost all human needs except perhaps air and water, not really pertinent to this debate.
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by manholio 4y ago
Or it's also possible some grad students with a null hypothesis result are hyping their own startup idea - they have a patent on making better steel for such high toughness applications. Surely that's a technology that would have
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This is simply a demonstration in essential opsec: don't reuse handles across sites (especially uncommon ones), cycle handles often on high leak platforms (such as Hacker News), don't link your identities by creating profiles. Any
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by manholio 4y ago
> Scalping does provide a value… it creates liquidity in the market. That's invalid economic reasoning. Tickets are a monopoly market with a fixed supply. The monopolist (band/label) can issue tickets at whatever price they wan
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The insane thing is that, because the VPN has a 1GB/month traffic limit, there is no way to enforce it unless they associate all traffic with a Microsoft controlled user identity . Cloudflare literally has to keep track of any sites y
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by manholio 4y ago
You won't get to the point where neo-nazis demonstrate inability to participate in a civil community following guidelines and etiquette. The mere tolerance of them will drive legitimate users away, people by large DO NOT practice freed
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by manholio 4y ago
> there are undesirables in this world. Sure there are undesirables in the world wide web: neo-nazies, Q-anon, pedos & NAMBLA, Russian propaganda, spammers and carders etc. Any platform that protects the freedom of speech for fringe
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by manholio 4y ago
> says that Hertz’s computer system has a “glitch” that has led to the company-wide pattern of reporting cars stolen We meet again, my oldest and dearest enemy, SAP.
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by manholio 4y ago
> EU publishes tons of written material, and basically all of it has to be translated. But only legislative text needs to have translated versions officially recognized as equivalent. The rest can be produced and published in English, an
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by manholio 4y ago
This is mostly snake oil, perhaps efficient against the dumbest of criminals. The newer generation coin laundry service, for example Chipmixer, will have pre-funded addresses already waiting in the blockchain before the "client" e
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by manholio 4y ago
> They also apparently spend 1 billion per year on translators. Now that the UK is out of the Union, it would be nice for sanity to prevail and most of those translators be made redundant. Except for drafting official multi-language lega
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by manholio 4y ago
> After receiving the letter 5 days later Meanwhile, my same country mail takes up to 2 weeks to arrive. No wonder I'm not making any ground breaking advances.
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This type of result is unavoidable with anonymous cryptocurrency, and it will only get worse if we continue to accept anonymous transfers as a legitimate source of income. The new European MiCA regulation goes a long way into establishing t
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Leverage, by definition, is having others depend on you.
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One could safely assume he drank and ate some substances during this event.
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To add, the energy devoted to Bitcoin hashing is a product of the bitcoin price, block reward, and the wide acceptance in the Bitcoin community of the idea that provable energy burn is a good way to ensure rarity of the coins. Even if we ma
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Employment is a relation of power. The employer holds the capital and controls the synergy that makes your work valuable - you have limited and fungible human capital required to make their business work. The employer is large and you are a
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Why would I need to install an operating system on the flimsy SoC the manufacturer embedded in my TV, with the sole intention of turning it into an advertising terminal? How fast will that hardware - software combo go out of date compared t

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