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by mikem170 5y ago
> It's not homeowners vs renters, it's homeowners vs property developers. Property developers who, I can assure you, are perfectly capable of sticking up for themselves. I'd argue that current zoning laws and processes enc
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by mikem170 5y ago
I like the way that Japan handles zoning. It's based on population densities. Localities can designate industrial and commercial areas, but can't deviate from federal guidelines to prevent growth. Instead of single family homes th
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> I personally value my and others' freedom to not be murdered over the freedom to murder people. I personally think that the rule should be "don't impose on others". The murder example you used is an imposition on an
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by mikem170 5y ago
But is it ok to take away others' rights? The UDHR you linked to mentioned freedom from detention, freedom of movement, the right to peacefully assemble, to work, leisure, and education, and to participate in cultural life. All of thes
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by mikem170 5y ago
The same as the guy in the article was imprisoned by the United States? EDIT: Putin puts people in jail for not following marching orders. The U.S. puts people in jail for not following sanctions. It doesn't seem logical to draw a dist
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by mikem170 5y ago
Are you sure this was comparable to a normal abort? From the article: > From flight path data it looks like flight AF011 made a sharp left as it approached Charles De Gaulle airport. I assumed the hard left was due to the loss of control
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by mikem170 5y ago
I believe the plan is that the person filming can send the footage/evidence to the police and then the driver/owner would be fined.
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by mikem170 5y ago
It's a shame that so many on both sides wold be happy to impose their will on others. It's also a shame that 330 million of us are trying to sort this out through mass media, under the influence of multinational corporations and p
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by mikem170 5y ago
Maybe it makes a difference how the company treats their employees? Large organizations tend to become bureaucratic and very concerned with their downside, both as a group (human resources) and as individuals (managers). Often they don&#x27
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This guy put together a great analysis of over two dozen ivermectin studies [0] and he found that the studies done in countries where intestinal worms are common giving ivermectin showed a benefit against covid, and that in countries where
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by mikem170 5y ago
> Define “significantly impose”. That’s the basic problem, I agree. > existing near someone can have effects that are easy to justify in court I had the impression this was a "mob rule" problem, that local voters were voting
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Perhaps this is where democracy meets principals... The principal is that someone should be free to build on their land as long as they don't create safety issues or significantly impose on someone else. Democracy at worst can be mob r
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by mikem170 5y ago
It's my understanding that openbsd boot will take a bit longer to seed the random seed file when there is not a prior seed file on a writable filesystem, just like during the first boot after the os install. This was my experience when
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by mikem170 5y ago
Companies originally were given charters by the government, and limited liability for their owners, in order to perform a public good. Over time that "public good" part seems to have been completely forgotten about. So now do we s
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From `man urandom` on OpenBSD 7.0: > Entropy data stored previously is provided to the kernel during the boot sequence and used as inner-state of a stream cipher. High quality data is available immediately upon kernel startup. > For
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by mikem170 5y ago
Or replacing small houses with bigger ones...
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Zoning contributes to why corporate landlords are buying up those single family homes. The profits are guaranteed when localities haven't allowed for the supply of housing to increase with demand. Those same corporations will probably
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by mikem170 5y ago
I don't think that what you said contradicts the parent post, that nukes would have protected Ghaddifi. Wouldn't the Misrata be considered NATO allies in Libya at the time, given they were both fighting against Ghaddafi? Do you th
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by mikem170 5y ago
Thanks for your comment, I had not heard of the minaret ban [0], which was an amendment passed by a double-majority (people and cantons), and was considered to violate existing constitutional protections. I guess this is what happens in a d
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by mikem170 5y ago
The liability shield may have made better sense when corporations were actually given charters because they were expected to serve a public good. it doesn't seem to be the case where that is true any more. If it ever was? Now it seems
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by mikem170 5y ago
I admire Switzerland's system, where the people can petition for a referendum to delete any law they don't like. This forces the politicians to negotiate with motivated minorities before creating new laws. Instead in the U.S. we a
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by mikem170 5y ago
A couple cities I've been in with lots of HOV lanes seem to be at the limits of what expressway exits and the connecting roads can handle. Building more expressways doesn't help, the exits get backed up. It turns into quite a mess
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by mikem170 5y ago
Could using a toll to discourage people from using infrastructure that can't be efficiently scaled to larger capacity be the best fix in some instances? Maybe people would then gravitate towards less cumbersome commuting patterns.
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> Russia doesn't have the right to veto what sovereign states do. I'm curious what you mean by your use of the word "right" in the above context. Whose job is it to enforce that right? Is that right enforced for all c
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Maybe part of the problem is that the limited liability companies enjoy is no longer descendant on them performing a public good [1]. I'd add that we also enshrined money as equivalent to speech, effectively allowing corporations and t
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by mikem170 5y ago
Ah, that's the way I read it. I was being charitable. I understand this is a contentious issue.
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I agree. I guess politics and news coverage come after the more objective stuff I was thinking of. I guess not everyone interprets the facts the same, which is why I mentioned anxious people, who might have a tough time at the end of the pa
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by mikem170 5y ago
I would say that new facts are facts that were not known or knowable before. We learned a lot about covid over the past two years. Vaccines came along. Treatments have improved. The virus itself has changed. Populations have prior exposure.
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by mikem170 5y ago
I agree. So many of these studies just seem to test for one type of antibody in a test tube, leaving out other types of antibodies and the rest of the immune system response (which is not fully understood). I'd like to see more numbers
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I think the concern may be that overly anxious folks could have difficulty adapting to new facts.

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