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by occz 3y ago
You can opt out by not using the government-provided roads.
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by occz 3y ago
That's a hot take if I ever heard one. Since you take a stance against social engineering, would you agree to completely defund the road transport network, given that it is acting as a massive social engineering operation in favor of c
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by occz 3y ago
>Europe never had that luxury. Offshore wind is our only option. This kind of depends on where in Europe. The North of Sweden (i.e the top 2/3 of the country) is very sparsely populated, and well-suited for installing on-shore wind
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by occz 3y ago
Alternatively, we could build more rail and move the shipping done by heavy trucks to trains. Even in their very reduced current form, and with heavy trucks getting their infrastructure for free, trains are still more economical than heavy
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by occz 3y ago
Mandatory fines in the seven figure range would maybe be a sufficient deterrent, on account of most people probably not even filing claims, and less people disputing a denial. The penalties need to be extremely harsh to make up for this imb
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by occz 3y ago
Laziness is a poor choice of words in this instance - a combination of lack of knowledge about the laws, perception of low chance winning against the goliaths that are airlines and a (probably correct) cost-benefit analysis favoring inactio
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by occz 3y ago
In all honesty, I think you're hearing the wrong thing when you hear what the fat acceptance-people are saying. Given the context that: - Dieting, on a population level, has proven to be an ineffective means of curbing obesity (the onl
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by occz 3y ago
>I was very very positively surprised by the Amazon smartwatches Wait, Amazfit is not created by Amazon, right?
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by occz 3y ago
>Do people really actually like podcasts? I do, I listen to >50 hours a month. >I've tried many times, but I just don't get the value proposition: If I'm doing something else at the same time, I would rather listen t
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by occz 3y ago
>On the other hand, over the long term, more muscle weight will passively consume more calories and thus can help maintain your (lean) weight, especially for people who like eating a lot. This is misleading - the amount of additional ene
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by occz 3y ago
I think IKEA is strategically making downtown stores all over the world. They recently (well, over a year I think) opened a downtown location in Stockholm, and it's excellent. They provide many of the smaller items you would find in an
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by occz 3y ago
People with disabilities thrive in areas with reduced car traffic. Many people with disabilities are unable to drive and as such benefit from prioritized public transportation, and many small electric vehicles that are appropriate for peopl
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by occz 3y ago
Time will tell. I'd bet that a sizable amount of people posting the content that actually drives engagement with the website cares about this change, and I think that there's not as many people excited to do unpaid labour in the f
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by occz 3y ago
>but then again I'm sure there's a long lineup of people willing to moderate any of the bigger subreddits for free if push came to shove. I highly doubt that there's a long lineup of people willing to do unfulfilling work
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by occz 3y ago
Non-enforceability is not sufficient in this case, it needs to be prohibited under threat of harsh fines to add them to contracts in the first place. Businesses know that the clauses are unenforceable, but since they are free to add them an
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by occz 3y ago
Not having to load a whole browser runtime has some nice performance benefits to it, which makes the whole experience just kind of feel a bit better.
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by occz 3y ago
>I think it's a refusal to acknowledge necessary trade-offs. You cannot create a human termite mound with tens of thousands of people per square mile while keeping the exact same forms of infrastructure that serve communities where
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by occz 3y ago
You're welcome. I can't vouch for them though, as I haven't tried them, I've merely heard about them.
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by occz 3y ago
Did you use the censored or the uncensored variant?
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by occz 3y ago
Firefox, with some work, offers access to most addons.
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by occz 3y ago
I can think of a few vital reasons: - Browsers with add-on support, to make browsing the internet bearable - DNS-level adblocking, to make app usage bearable - Sideloading apps, to access software which Apple nor Google would condone All of
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by occz 3y ago
There's a really simple reason for this - HN/Reddit is not one person. It consists of multiple people with different opinions, and as such, there is no singular opinion to be found.
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by occz 3y ago
Couldn't have been a stronger signal that workers at Microsoft should unionize. Microsoft are betting on themselves having enough leverage pull this off, a union is your tool to prove them wrong. Good luck!
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by occz 3y ago
No one's saying they have exactly the same struggle to deal with. The cleaning lady definitely has more struggles, but this does not change the fundamental point that both the Google Staff engineer and the cleaning lady primarily deriv
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by occz 3y ago
The distinguishing factor for being working class/owner class is whether or not you make the majority of your income from your labour, or from your capital. Incredibly well-paid working class, but working class all the same.
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by occz 3y ago
>However what is the benefit of ultra high income FAANG employees unionizing? Same as for any other group that unionizes - maximizing the leverage they have in negotiations with the employer, utilizing this leverage as best they see fit.
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by occz 4y ago
Signalled intersections are likely a lot worse for pedestrians and cyclists, as non-compliant drivers can navigate them at much higher speeds. On account of its shape, it's impossible to blast through a roundabout at, for example, 100
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by occz 4y ago
>As someone who despises even stepping foot in a downtown area, I still recognize that cars just don't make sense at population densities that high. Big cities have much better ways of getting people around, and efficient car infras
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by occz 4y ago
>In Sweden you can get government support when buying E-Bikes, 25% of up to 1000 euro. Could, unfortunately, not can. That incentive was only available in 2018. The right-wing killed it off as soon as they got any kind of power to do so.
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by occz 4y ago
DRM, if I had to guess.

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