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by matt4077 8y ago
I believe they may really be trying to show that the complaint about congestion pricing being unfair is silly by giving some other, equally silly, examples.
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by matt4077 8y ago
I always preferred Colonization to the Civ series, and keep wondering why I am apparently in the minority. Civ, and also SimCity, always felt as if they would progress along more or less the same trajectory of growth, with little actual cho
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by matt4077 8y ago
> Well they don’t say, but I do take their inference. So you’re criticizing them for something they, as you admit, do not actually say. How is it their fault if the undisputed facts they state make you think of something that you conside
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by matt4077 8y ago
There is considerable debate over the question of “sleep debt”, with current thinking tending towards the idea that it doesn’t exist. As to sleeping less during the week, the three major ideas are polyphasic sleep (doesn’t work), cocaine (w
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by matt4077 8y ago
The billions are not arbitrary, but to settle obligations arising from the UKs past membership, such as pensions for their EU personell. You obviously know that and are pretending to be ignorant, considering it was all over the news at the
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by matt4077 8y ago
How is it beaurocracy to go from tariffs to no tariffs? Other than that, your cynicism is bland and boring. Why would consumers not reap at least some benefits from tariffs for cheese falling Faron 40% to zero. It’s not like there’s a big m
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by matt4077 8y ago
Nobody ever said it wasn’t. See the famous Barnier Diagram from the very start of negotiations: https://goo.gl/images/AqyD7w Note the Canadian flag on the far right (pun imtended). It was one of the options on offer.
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by matt4077 8y ago
You should maybe address your willful misunderstanding of “free trade zone” in your first post, and your misrepresentation of the ongoing negotiations before going right to further degrading the discussion with empty snark. A Canada-style F
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Yeah, I hear the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark, and Estonia are hurting terribly.
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by matt4077 8y ago
Consumers will definitely profit from it. Even if you buy European products from a local Japanese retailer, you are currently paying tariffs. 97% of those will now disappear. If ordering from Amazon.de becomes more convenient is hard to say
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by matt4077 8y ago
I doubt there are many countries with more than two or three competing networks. There may be a few more resellers, or even several dozens. But it’s just uneconomical to build the hardware five times over. In any case, a FTA is not going t
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by matt4077 8y ago
“Netflix is just a service that packages up Americana to sell around the world.” That just literally is the definition of cultural imperialism. If imperialism involves rule by violence, it’s just imperialism, and doesn’t take much culture.
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by matt4077 8y ago
Wether you want it or not, you are in the news business – as a Customer, that is. Since that business is integral to democracy, it would seem we all have some stake in its success.
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by matt4077 8y ago
The BBC striving for diversity in hiring != Th BBC pushing a “social justice agenda” in its content. If you can’t see the distinction, I doubt you will find any journalism stooping to your level.
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by matt4077 8y ago
Here’s one, possible, good reason: the EU has a sort of “whistleblower” defense, where the first company to cooperate in a cartel investigation gets off free. Assuming that bad PR is a significant part of punishment in these cases, it would
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by matt4077 8y ago
This is pretty close to a question on the yearly Stackoverlow survey, which you might want to look up. Personally, I only consider offices I can reach by bike, and try to avoid bro-culture companies.
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by matt4077 8y ago
I once had to be towed because the key stopped working. This was a Smart Roadster (still the greatest car I ever had, nonewithstanding). A battery change didn’t work and the mechanics sent me 100km to get the spare key. So there are definit
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by matt4077 8y ago
Now you actually do make me have ill will toward #2. Enjoy your $20. A free lunch/month, right? Edit: and now they shut it down. You can thank us privacy advocates later.
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by matt4077 8y ago
None of them had any significant loss. United stock was up, just two days after the incident. Many people claimed to never do business again with these companies, yet there is no indication that any significant number actually did.
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by matt4077 8y ago
Check United Airlines stock price. Or Über. Or Exxon. Or Shell. Or Haliburton.
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What they meant, I believe, was that calling for boycotts which never work is just a talking point against meaningful regulation.
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by matt4077 8y ago
It’s just that boycotts never work, could only ever work on consumer-facing companies, arbitrarily seek to punish the select few whose misdeeds become viral, etc. Remember United Airlines? Yeah, neither does anyone else. Exxon Mobile? You’d
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Anti-corruption shortfalls fuelling ‘global democracy crisis’(politico.eu)
60 points by matt4077 8y ago|63 comments
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by matt4077 8y ago
The > was the original (?) convention for email. But seriously HN should just allow basic quotes. And, while they are at it, increase the size of voting arrows to make it possible to reliably hit them on mobile. I get it’s somewhat nice
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Corruption Perceptions Index 2018(transparency.org)
5 points by matt4077 8y ago|0 comments
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@> no privacy can only work when it is universal. Great, so you agree there shouldn’t be a HIV database, until everyone’s nudes, income, and porn searches are online. I can life with that, actually.
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Some technology is obviously more useful to the population at large, such as the printing press. Other trchnology is more useful to the tyrant, such as the helicopter only they can afford, and use to monitor the city centers for groups of t
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by matt4077 8y ago
Apple and others have poured a lot of resources into a concept called “differential privacy” that can mathematically guarantee privacy for data in a machine learning context. It’s rather well known, so you should probably read up on it befo
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by matt4077 8y ago
Sounds to me like you have a problem with nuance: meat inspectors != tyranny, if only because they are widely accepted, and created & overseen by democratically elected governments. And either you never fly or frequently lie: there’s no
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by matt4077 8y ago
I get where you’re coming from, but it seems any proposal that requires every single person to change to be protected from some harm is destined to failure, or would at least be incomplete and take decades to establish itself. Judging by ho

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