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by nirimda 4y ago
For metric folk, Homer Simpson gains 34 kg from his normal weight of 109 kg to 143 kg. The author of the blogpost also reached that peak, but is down now to about 120 kg.
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Your argument leaves aside the fact that Germany lost the second world war and was absolutely devastated by it, and that a lot of their military power in that war came about at the expense of their citizens. It's also way too narrow: t
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The UK lost its literal empire because of the costs of two wars that devastated the continent - not domestic politics. On the other hand, the PRC is turning back on itself. It has been unable to produce a successor to Xi - making it very ha
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Most countries and business want to do something with their earnings. If you get paid in rubles for your oil, then you can only buy things denominated in rubles. If your general trade is collapsing, this isn't such a bad thing - you
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I'm not sure why the fundamental problem here is that people are stealing, rather than that a known billionaire is willing to operate a business that is known to be an attractive way to profit from theft. You almost certainly can'
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But that's because they deliberately chose not to know it. A responsible business would have processes in place to identify all of that information.
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The problem with coordinates is that they don't necessarily cover changing political centres. The opinion of the true legal time will differ based on political calculations. In a territory that is internationally recognised as Ukraine,
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I don't think this historical matter is going to be relevant. The leftover bits will want to claim continuity with the preceding state, and they will want to use the UK name. But even if there's no consideration giving to branding
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If Scotland becomes independent, it won't be because the UK doesn't believe in itself, it's because the UK believes it's a democratic and consensual union. Believing in democracy the way the UK does can only happen if it
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by nirimda 4y ago
Isn't the point here not that Zeihan has the wrong idea about Harry Potter, but that Zeihan has certain conclusions he wants to draw and will force every bit of evidence until it allows him to draw those conclusions? It's really n
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Yes but this just changes which bin the stuff is put into. The organic bin next to my apartment in Germany always has plenty of plastic in it. The stuff that actually gets put into the packaging bin vs the general waste bin seems to be comp
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The page you linked directly contradicts your interpretation: > The 1% rule is often misunderstood to apply to the Internet in general, but it applies more specifically to any given Internet community. It is for this reason that one can
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> Many people don't care about web culture; they only care about consuming. Strong disagree. People want to participate, they want to be part of a conversation. When you "consume" content on Facebook or Twitter, you can pr
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> The same classmate later told me that she had moved to Berlin to work at a German company, but still hadn't finished setting up her residency paperwork. The latest step at that time was receiving a letter from some German departme
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> I recall, more hazily, that the previous federal election (so several prime ministers ago) The most recent federal election was this year. The previous federal election was 2019. There were no changes of prime minister in that time; Sc
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You don't need an AI to do this, just make your own custom build of whatever operating system you use with styles that aren't crap. It's almost certainly a more tractable task than trying to make an AI work out what the inter
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by nirimda 4y ago
It doesn't have clear semantics. <cite> is basically used as "I want something in italics, and it is the title of something" rather than "here is a reference to a creative work". And it gives the lie to semant
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by nirimda 4y ago
I'm not sure I understand the way your post relates to mine. Are you genuinely asking why BBC needs Twitter and Instagram? The last sentence makes it sound like you have your own hypothesis but you're withholding it. In any case,
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by nirimda 4y ago
Thanks; the tools are more extensive than I had understood. Silence, as you note, is very useful. The tools that are provided should allow them to protect their employees' to about the extent that they are protected on Twitter, while a
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My comment was not highlighting ways in which Mastodon isn't a utopia and it certainly wasn't an argument to stick with what we've got. It is dismaying to think someone might have read it that way. I was trying to make some c
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I think the main issue a media company like the BBC has with moderation, is that they want to discourage harassment of their employees. I understand it can be particular bad for women and minority journalists, because some people will make
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Do you seriously think any company is ever going to give you a fully accurate and itemised bill, that identifies which costs were incurred because of legal compliance, which costs were incurred in the pursuit of profit, which costs are pay
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The argument amounts to might makes right. You're stronger than your neighbor? Just forcibly resettle some of your citizens there and give them an interest in your success. The principle of self determination worked very nicely when th
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If you want to override the dependency of your dependency, then it's your dependency too - so if you were using the javascript approach up there you might have var bar = require("bar", {baz: loggingBaz}) var foo = r
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The problem is that this isn't a feature that it supports, it's just that someone noticed the way you can combine the existing features leads to this possibility. It's the same with a programming language - until someone noti
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Is it much different than the US? I hear a lot of anecdotes suggesting people with certain accents in the US getting criticised (even when it's not a proxy for race - e.g. Boston or southern accents), whereas accents closer to General
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Sure but by now every rational and reasonable reader must understand that whenever they come across the word "inflammable", the author might have misused it and they need to search for additional signals to identify whether it mea
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> Which was controversial in my country from the onset, and which has recently become even more controversial when it was revealed that Pfizer didn't actually test for transmission prevention in their product. I'm quite sure it
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You say it's a "cultural problem" but then describe a political problem. Is there an actual cultural problem, or just a political problem?
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> Lockdown may be a temporary solution. The long-term solution is to maintain better hygiene (masks, washing hands) and get the vaccine without turning into political drama all over Twitter. Outside of China, how many countries continued

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