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by moistly 4y ago
Maintaining (let alone replacing) buried infrastructure is expensive and few people are in favour of paying higher taxes. Politicians get elected by claiming that government services are full of waste, then demand a ten percent reduction in
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by moistly 4y ago
404. OP has taken their post down.
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by moistly 4y ago
I thought they tried this back when Apple Pay was just getting started, and they utterly failed to make it a success. Some silly-ass QR code thing that was less convenient than using one’s credit card.
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by moistly 4y ago
Well, then, enjoy paying much higher taxes!
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by moistly 4y ago
Damn, dude, you literally could not be more wrong. I suggest that you are very much unaware and owe it to yourself to become much, much more aware. It’s pretty easy, too: there’s this thing called “the internet” that you can use to self-e
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by moistly 4y ago
The commentary in this thread is downright embarrassing. Singular weather events say little to nothing about climate change. Climate change is real, the science is sound and the evidence is over-abundant.
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by moistly 4y ago
You know HN is turning into a shithole when a factual post is downvoted.
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by moistly 4y ago
I truly hope that some day you rejoin us here in reality.
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by moistly 4y ago
ChatGPT spews bullshit full-time. No way that could go wrong for this application!
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by moistly 4y ago
Money generates money exponentially. Taxes that do not also rise in step, are taxes that enable a widening gulf between the have and have-nots.
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by moistly 4y ago
That would destroy this place, just as it has Metafilter, Reddit, and every other forum that has done so.
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by moistly 4y ago
> Once this was determined, the engineers issued a command to the probe instructing it to send the data via the appropriate computer. As he withdrew his hand, the issue disappeared. Obviously, it takes time to determine if the cure was e
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by moistly 4y ago
I should note that XPath is really the key here: it’s an elegant language to get and transform tree-structured and sequential data, so it could be well-used in a Pythonic template pipeline. XSLT is a functional programming language that lea
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by moistly 4y ago
And you should then use XSLT to transform the docbook-generated html to Qt html. It is designed for that task, no weird Python regexes and string-splitting and indentation-tracking required. IOW, choosing the right tool for the job.
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by moistly 4y ago
Consumption taxes penalize the poor, who spend most of their money on goods, and benefit the wealthy, who spend most of their money on investment. > Flat consumption taxes are regressive (shift the tax burden to the less well-off). The r
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by moistly 4y ago
Mars should produce a full-on traditional pantomime using its characters, with all the requisite British vulgarity, punnery, and violence. Ye olde heritage has a history of dressing in dragge!
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by moistly 4y ago
I suggest using XSLT to transform Docbook to other XML. It’s purpose-built for that task. Saxonica offers a Python plug-in, though truth is that the XSLT solution can do everything you need.
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by moistly 4y ago
Still, it’s much worse to catch the virus, especially before training one’s immune system through vaccination.
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by moistly 4y ago
Is that what they are? Old-school widgets vs the ones that show from Edit’s top-left “+” plus-button, which new-tangled widgets (all from Apple on my device)?
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by moistly 4y ago
> And the majority of people dying from COVID are vaccinated. The majority is vaccinated. Also, the 17% unvaccinated in Canada comprise greater than 50% of the deaths. That’s huge. Also, 12+ billion doses have been administered with issu
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by moistly 4y ago
I hate the stupidity of this bullshit. Of course catching sars-cov-2 is going to provide a broader profile against which your immune system can develop matches: the vaccine only has the spike, while the virus has the spike plus other key
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by moistly 4y ago
You always have private options. They will require payment and may require travel, but the option is there for those who can afford it. And if not, the public option is there, albeit slow and under-resourced.
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by moistly 4y ago
There are single-cell organisms up to an inch or so in diameter. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valonia_ventricosa There are even visible bacteria! https://www.science.org/content/article/la
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by moistly 4y ago
I think the question is used to weed out those people who do not want the job. It is a synonym for “so you want this job?” What mental fences do you have that prevented you from interpreting the question correctly, or that encourage you to
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by moistly 4y ago
AFAICT, no control over diet. I would expect that monks have a different diet than their neighbours.
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by moistly 4y ago
The labels already have a danger to pregnancies warning. It helps reduce FAS rates. Your concern trolling over extending that warning with one about cancer risk doesn’t deserve any greater attention.
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by moistly 4y ago
You aren’t supposed to inhale the cigar smoke!
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by moistly 4y ago
It amazes me that people argue in favour of having a population that is less informed.
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by moistly 4y ago
I’d be delighted if everything that was as risky as tobacco, asbestos, alcohol, etc had health warnings. Same with foods: full dietary info, plus excess sugar/fat/etc labelling. Only 25-30% of Canadians know that alcohol carries a
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by moistly 4y ago
It’d be fine if the threads were centrist. The problem is with the lying, the FUD, the statements than run absolutely counter to factual truth. HN is going to be harmed by the people who do this, because they are going to go do the same thi

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