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by maratd 10y ago
> What we are seeing now is IMO hypocrisy and contempt of ordinary people at a scary level. This isn't anything new. It's the justification for all the bureaucratic layering in government. The people are too stupid/bigoted
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> But it would be nice at the very least if they'd send it as POSTs in the body, not GET parameters. If the GET is being sent via XHR over SSL, how is doing a POST any more secure?
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> Even in the US, the much-vaunted example, Supreme Court judges and the Federal Reserve chairman are appointed, not elected. And this causes much strife and conflict. > And are you really suggesting that people in the UK and in the r
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> It will, because nothing stays static I agree with you here, but the insinuation was that it would evolve toward something better. Things don't always get better. History has borne this out. > They're effectively the same
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If you really want to quibble about the fraction, I can revise it to 2/7. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutions_of_the_European... Of those, only the parliament is directly elected. The council consists of
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> You are lacking a very basic level of understanding of how the EU works and why it is structured the way it is. Thank you for educating me. > You are calling for something the UK has always blocked. I think you're confusing the
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I'll revise my previous statement to "You get to vote for 1/3 in the EU." I will note that this legislative body has no capacity to actually introduce legislation, as noted in the very article you quoted. https:/&#
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> when the US was founded and for much of its history When the US was founded and for much of its history, women couldn't vote. And this was the intention of the founders. And it's irrelevant. You judge a political entity by it
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> It had one commissioner And when did the people of the UK have a chance to vote him in? I must have missed that election. > and 10% of the seats in parliament (second only in representation to Germany) I must have missed this electi
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> Since US states, just like Britain in the EU, participate in the larger governing body through representatives? Not quite. For the US federal government, you get to vote for 2 senators, a number of congressmen, and the president. You g
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You can explore it as much as you want. There will always be those who are well-to-do found in every cause. They voted for self-governance and sovereignty. Many had their own reasons and desires for that sovereignty, but that's what th
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Because some devices and browsers have difficulty determining if they're talking to something on the local network or not. And they don't try to guess. So if your router requires you to connect via HTTPS, which is a good idea, hav
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> Reading "The Lean Startup" or "The Art of the Start" doesn't really qualify you to make such nonsensical statements about how a multi-billion-dollar publicly traded company should behave. I've read neither
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> Neither are proven profitable businesses. I'm not sure you understand what that means? The only profitable business is a business that has reached market saturation. A business that can't grow its market share by re-investing
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> I don't understand where you're going with this at all. Because you've never been to a casino. Because you've never gambled and won. Because you don't understand human nature. Because you're trying to rati
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> The purchase makes no real sense, unless you bend over backwards to try to force a rationalization. Makes plenty of sense. SolarCity has a failing business model, but they have a nice facility in the works. Tesla Energy makes batteries
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> As a result I have numerous half baked personal projects. Every decent developer has dozens of half-baked personal projects. Some get finished, some don't. All eventually get abandoned. They are never a waste. If you go through yo
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> The reason it's easy for them to invest is that they can spare a big fraction of their money and even if it catches fire they won't lose their shirt. Let's do an experiment! Take $2K out of your savings account. Put $1K
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It's actually a very good analogy. > If you can get higher expected returns with an increase in risk That's not how risk works. You always get higher expected returns with higher risk. That's the point or people wouldn&#x2
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If you're winning at the casino, the right response isn't to create a safety net and play riskier games. It's to leave the casino.
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> The species responsible for this has no natural enemies against which we compete and will therefore continue unabated until all resources have been consumed and the system collapses. This isn't remotely true. There are tons of bac
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> This is very human-centric point of view. How many species will be lost forever as a direct cause of this event ? Actually, it's your view that's human-centric. Species? Diversity? These are human concepts and mores. > The
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https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/suspension-problem-o...
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> It's unconscionable to require a NDA as a condition to performing warranty work. It isn't warranty work. It's out of warranty work. Any other company would tell you to get lost and wouldn't repair squat. > I don&
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> This is what many people find insulting about such use of stereotypes. If we're making small talk and mentioning the factual disparity offends and the statement makes little difference to the conversation, then I concede your
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They are mutually exclusive on those sites . If you do not have experience on those sites specifically, that would explain your confusion.
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> Can you pick another stereotype please? The sites he mentioned have a 10:1 ratio of Indian developer to non-Indian. How would you describe or phrase that?
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If you tax coal and make it expensive, people won't use it. They'll use X, whatever that is. Hence his comment "absent coal". Now that they're using X, which is more expensive than untaxed coal, some people won&#x27
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You're being purposefully daft. A tax on coal would increase the price of coal. An increase in the price of coal would result in more DEATH. Not in the US, obviously, but in some 3rd world country where the price of energy used for hea
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> As a free market proponent, I assume you support including the externalities of pollution from fossil fuels into their costs? How do you even calculate that? For you to calculate externalities, you'd need to be able to assign cost

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