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by oska 6y ago
Your interpretation that I am 'complaining' about the EU. I was making the point that trade barriers help bring greater regional diversity and more locally produced agricultural products. This was in response to the parent comment
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by oska 6y ago
So you moved to the UK, which has a long history of euroscepticism going right back to when it joined in the 70s, and now feel 'betrayed' when the population majority voted to leave the EU, after receiving a referendum that had be
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by oska 6y ago
A fairer world entails jailing politicians for going to the people for a vote and then enacting that vote?
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by oska 6y ago
Both parliaments have been abused by their executives in this process. The UK parliament and the EU parliament.
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by oska 6y ago
One of those countries, Scotland, had the opportunity to leave the UK two years prior. They chose not to (a result I personally was disappointed by). But having chosen to stay, that also meant they had chosen to be bound by national decis
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by oska 6y ago
Voters are typically quite conservative when being asked whether to change something in a referendum. To win majority support for a substantial change is a very big ask. I think it's right for them to be naturally conservative and, fol
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by oska 6y ago
How ironic that you use cheese as an example. The incredible richness and diversity of cheeses across Europe is directly due to them being mostly made and consumed locally in historic times. We would certainly not have that richness now if
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by oska 6y ago
> the market process gives people what they want It doesn't. Advertising heavily manipulates and subverts people's 'desires'. That was my point. And just as an aside, discounting points by citing various dubious &#x27
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by oska 6y ago
The existence of a mutli-trillion dollar advertising industry means you shouldn't be puzzled. The grandparent comment is talking about pushed consumption, i.e. that our economies are based on constantly pushing up consumption, not ha
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by oska 6y ago
When I was a child it was quite unusual for other children at my school (private school, well-off families) to be dropped off at school by car in the morning. It would have been at least 95% who either caught a bus, rode a bike or walked. I
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by oska 6y ago
You're focusing on developers, which is a minute fraction of the population. And even developers mostly use software written by other people. The point of Free Software is to respect the freedom of users of the software.
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Scientists suggest US embassies were hit with high-power microwaves(theconversation.com)
4 points by oska 6y ago|0 comments
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by oska 6y ago
Good analysis of the flight from a knowledgeable commenter on r/spacex: https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/ka34n6/elon_musk_fu... And an analysis video from Scott Manley: https://ww
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by oska 6y ago
I take your point but if this flight had landed they would have probably kept test flying SN-8 until it did crash. There is really no other use for it.
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by oska 6y ago
> Yeah and then something caught fire near the engines. This is an artifact of air flow vortices around the base of the rocket and its skirt and is completely normal. This video [1] explains it well. [1] https://www.youtube.co
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by oska 6y ago
And SpaceX has another 3 launches planned for December (SXM-7, NROL-108 & Turksat 5A). Although the last one is on Dec 31, so could easily slip into next year.
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by oska 6y ago
> (the last being the crash that destroyed F9R-dev-1 after an engine failure) From memory I think it blew itself up in the air when something went wrong, rather than crashing.
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by oska 6y ago
Yes, those 3 objectives being: 1. launch and fly to altitude 2. cut off engines and move to horizontal belly-flop profile, controlled using electric-motor powered flaps 3. relight engines to flip to vertical again for landing
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by oska 6y ago
I like reading Musk's tweets when he talks about something he knows (e.g. engineering). I don't much like them when they're ignorant and irresponsible commentary on Covid-19 (something he knows less about than even most ordin
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Why everyone’s hoarding Mason jars(marker.medium.com)
66 points by oska 6y ago|79 comments
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by oska 6y ago
Putting aside the whole debate about the material, it really is remarkable how nasty this response is from The Intercept . Unprofessionally nasty I would say.
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by oska 6y ago
> Why did a lone hyperbole invalidate my whole argument? It didn't invalidate your argument. You made a good point about the phrase "Mexican Chernobyl" leading some people to think they were talking about a reactor accid
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by oska 6y ago
> 100% pure clickbait And thus you undermine your case. It obviously isn't "100% pure clickbait". (What would that even mean?) Confirming again that people who use this word are usually engaging in a hyperbolic criticism,
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by oska 6y ago
I'm increasingly of the view that any comments complaining about 'clickbait' titles are worse than the actual practice (such as it is). There is no mention of a reactor in the original title. So probably you are referring to
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by oska 6y ago
I found their World Music Quiz more fun (linked at the end of this quiz).
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by oska 6y ago
Are you aware that the 1619 Project has been heavily criticised from within the NY Times? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/09/opinion/nyt-1619-project-...
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by oska 6y ago
They're not 'refuting claims you never made'. They're simply responding to your comment by making their own points. Which is a completely standard way to carry discussion forward.
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by oska 6y ago
I'd shun anyone who shows up to work wearing some political campaign message, regardless of their political affiliation.
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by oska 6y ago
It's entirely predictable that Google would have this policy. It's also entirely predictable that the NYT would write this article. However, the article still contains interesting detail and will be informative for a lot of the NY
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by oska 6y ago
Good. You do you. My point is that you appear to be taking offence on her part when you don't know if any offence was actually caused. Or indeed whether, as her friend, the author knows that she prefers to be referred to as Andrea, e

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