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by maratc 4y ago
That's Common Law 101 for you: rights are not "given", they are "discovered". Pretty much as Newton's laws existed before Newton, the "rights" exist regardless of the laws (so is the philosophy underl
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by maratc 4y ago
I'm just stating the facts. I don't like that these facts are the way they are even a tiny bit, but they are what they are regardless. You can twist my stating the facts in whatever direction you want. This however says more about
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by maratc 4y ago
I'm far from normalizing it and I don't know why you think I'm normalizing it. The prosecution could have asked for a time in a penal colony, or time in prison. With the rubber-stamp courts they have in place, the prosecution
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by maratc 4y ago
I don't think the trial can result in a harsher sentence than the one being requested by the prosecution.
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by maratc 4y ago
Here’s some “original research”: Mark’s trial started today. The prosecution is requesting 3 years of some sort of home detention (“home chemistry” in local parlance). He will be allowed (or maybe required) to go to work, otherwise he needs
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by maratc 4y ago
The application writers and the approving authorities can't make whatever rules they want. I think that if there is anything outrageous in the planning application, and it gets approved by the local authority, it can still be challeng
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by maratc 4y ago
I think that if this vote was legally binding, it could end up being challenged in courts, as national laws overcome the local ones, and I doubt there's a national law that can limit the right of people do things — even things that I p
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by maratc 4y ago
> Home ownership in NZ is the lowest ever. It’s down to like 60-65%. If I read it right, the homeowners outnumber the non-homeowners 2:1 then? This would mean twice as much votes for measures getting prices up than against these measures
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by maratc 4y ago
> "Event A happened. Event B happened. Event C happened. In that order. Perhaps that means X" That's both academic and pop-history, where a better representation would be "A gazillion different events happened but let
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by maratc 4y ago
> someone so has more than one house I'm not going to answer the ad-hominem attack, you know nothing of my situation, and it's irrelevant to the discussion anyway. But I think it's stupid to own a property which brings no
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by maratc 4y ago
If this poll is for the people who "live but don't necessarily own a home there" it would be interesting to see the result of the poll of people who own a home but don't necessarily live there. > it's impossible
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by maratc 4y ago
> Your home is where you live, not just an investment vehicle. It's not an either-or proposition, it can be both at the same time. The issues you mention are real, but would the town be better off with a seasonal restaurant or with
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by maratc 4y ago
> they are not likely to sell it They might like to sell it (and buy another one) if they want a bigger house (e.g. when they have more kids), or a smaller house (e.g. when the kids have left the nest). Selling their house and buying ano
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by maratc 4y ago
So, these people — who supposedly own a home there — voted to keep any current homeowners (owning homes anywhere in the country) out of buying homes in their district, cutting a huge chunk of the home buyers from buying a home there. By dra
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by maratc 4y ago
> I mean, has the war in Ukraine not shown that having a strong defense is necessary, even in Europe? In 2008 NATO Summit in Bucharest, NATO declared that Ukraine (and Georgia) will one day become a part of NATO. I read that France and G
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by maratc 4y ago
Is your argument that there would be less dependence on Brussels than there is on Westminster? Because my argument is that “less dependence” is not what independence is.
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by maratc 4y ago
If the Scots want to leave a declining Empire A and to join a rising Empire B, I don't have issue with that. What I have issue with is calling that "independence", because that's not what that word usually means.
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by maratc 4y ago
> But the point is this: in an independent Scotland, crucial decision-making power will rest with the people who live here – not with Westminster governments that do not command the support of people in Scotland, and which pursue policie
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by maratc 4y ago
Sapiens by Yuval Harari was a life-changing book for me.
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by maratc 4y ago
Inflation is only computed by some central statistics office. The state debt obligations are bound to inflation, so there's a conflict of interest here.
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by maratc 4y ago
The calculation seems incorrect to me because $200 tax is paid in both options. A Googler can either have $350 a year (in cash), or have the insurance. Thus the cost to the employee is $350 a year, not $550. Provided the self-bought insuran
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by maratc 4y ago
> There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party ... and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
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by maratc 4y ago
> What's expensive is infrastructure. Seems to be the case: > In 2011-2015 the Warsaw-Gdańsk-Gdynia route underwent a major upgrading costing $3 billion, partly funded by the European Investment Bank, including track replacement,
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by maratc 4y ago
A 777 can take you from Warsaw to New York, which no train can do in any time. For a cost of 737, you can have five trains. But a 737 can make a 1000 km flight, be back, make another 1000 km flight, and be back — in the time it takes a trai
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by maratc 4y ago
Track maintenance is expensive because you need to buy tracks, signalling systems, and railroad switches, and pay the people to install, check, and maintain them. Air is already there and requires no maintenance.
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by maratc 4y ago
> Maintanence of planes is way more expensive than trains, and maintanence of airports is way more expensive than train stations. Which is the reason that the bigger the distance, the cheaper flying is compared to trains. Constant costs
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by maratc 4y ago
> That’s around the point where many people will still prefer to fly. The thing with economy, as always, is the price of an alternative. If these cost the same, it's one thing. Usually though, trains are more expensive. And for a go
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by maratc 4y ago
For a train that crosses country borders it can be an issue, if someone hops off the train before arriving to the final station (and having their visa and luggage checked there). Apparently that is not a problem in the US or EU.
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by maratc 4y ago
The infrastructure that is used by the planes (air) is way cheaper than the one used by the trains (rail). Air maintenance costs are about zero. Rails maintenance is far from it. The nature is subsidizing air travel much more than any gove
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by maratc 4y ago
It also makes sure you don’t hop off before your destination — a problem that mostly does not happen with air travel.

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