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by pasabagi 5y ago
> Is it just more affordable/cheaper to buy than to mend your clothes? I'm not from the US (EU instead) but mending clothes is almost never cost-effective for me, because it's hard to do well, and would cost more than most
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by pasabagi 5y ago
In Das Kapital, Marx goes to some lengths to prove that capitalism tends towards longer working hours. I can't remember if I liked the argument on its own terms, but it's absolutely been borne out by the facts. Working hours have
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Honestly, that sounds plausible, but how would you achieve higher conviction rates? You're not going to get far with the current US police. If you compare the money put in to the crime stats, the picture is one of an extreme inefficien
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by pasabagi 5y ago
What about: 'No amount of smoke inhalation is safe for the lungs'? Obviously, if you live in a city, you're going to find yourself inhaling smoke from time to time, but it's still the case that it should be avoided. It&#
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Does anybody else see a continuation of the Murdoch-Zuckerberg feud here? Australia is probably the most Murdoch-aligned country in the world, so it's no surprise they have a problem with Meta. You can also go back to the whole hullaba
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by pasabagi 5y ago
As a parent, I enjoyed your post very much. It's a complex topic. I think people see their children as an opportunity to make things right, to produce a person without their flaws and traumas, who is able to live the good life, so they
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by pasabagi 5y ago
You could also say that reddit represents a far wider spectrum of views than normal discourse, just because of stuff like r/childfree or r/witchesagainstpatriarchy. It's all liberal-compatible, but it's still more divers
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by pasabagi 5y ago
> the crime rate is low > given strong deterrence This is a theory that doesn't fit the facts. The US has some of the highest prison sentences of any first world country. Where I live, there are some of the shortest and gentlest,
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by pasabagi 5y ago
You can segfault in rust, too: fn totally_safe() -> i32 { unsafe { *std::ptr::null() } } This commonly happens if the person who wrote 'totally safe' thinks what they're doing is fine, and it actually isn&#x27
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Intuitively, I'm sympathetic, then I backdate your argument by, say, 50 years, and wonder what words I'd find myself defending...
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Dunno about the methodology there, but, that's why I said historically .
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Maybe? China has historically spent very little on its military, and it's not like they benefited from US protection. Quite the opposite, in fact.
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by pasabagi 5y ago
That depends on your model of international relations. Most states have recognized that international relationships are far from zero sum, and that wars between peer competitors are almost never worth it. Indeed, the success stories since
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I think it's not just that you need somebody really gullible - it's that you need somebody both gullible, and dead-set on not feeling like they've been fooled. Extremely gullible, desperate, mentally ill people are more likel
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I don't really understand how Rust could be compared to C. Rust is perhaps more austere than C++, but that's like saying the neptune is smaller than jupiter. It's still a big language with a generous standard library. You a
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by pasabagi 5y ago
One interview I heard called it 'gesture politics'. Sadly, I think that assessment is on the money. It's just not plausible that there are only 7k classrooms in the UK that have bad ventilation. I think it's the deep ma
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by pasabagi 5y ago
7 or 8 thousand air cleaning units is a bit pointless, though, given that there are over 32,000 schools. Presumably, 300,000 CO2 monitors is in the right range for one per classroom? Is ten classrooms per school a reasonable average?
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Sure, technique have advanced - but honestly, given what happened in Afghanistan and Iraq, the US military is clearly more on the level of throwing faeces than firing arrows, let alone ICBMs. Given the speed of their collapse, I'm will
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I think the biggest problem is, once the words are out of your mouth, you lose control of the message. If you look at something like christianity, you can see there's absolutely no practical way to stop people from taking a message in
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Except, it's a story as old as time. Everybody ever has attempted to influence the beliefs of others. It's a mark of the shallowness of american military intellectual culture that they think they can slap a few new words on this t
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I think there's a degree of straight cultural influence from european fascism (the nationalist's elite units were trained by german officers in the interwar years), plus having the same basic project (the nationalists were trying
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Well, pandemics suck, what's new? It's also bad if the kita has to shut down because all the staff are sick. It seems like a good balance to me.
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by pasabagi 5y ago
This sounds like a bad policy on the nursery's part. We have a soft lockdown when somebody has a case: basically, the group who had a positive test is secluded from the other groups and get daily tests.
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by pasabagi 5y ago
That does seem the kind of thing that upsets religious people. It wouldn't bother me, an atheist, except it's part of a broader targeting of muslims that occurs across western europe and at every level of society. It is, of course
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I think the problem is more that if you do FTL in normal physics, it's really hard to plot around the time dilation thing. There have been a few stories that have played with this, but generally speaking, having anybody who sits on a p
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Or, when even moderate members of a community have a problem with the way they're being treated, it incites extremism amongst hotheads?
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by pasabagi 5y ago
IIRC, they did see it coming. There was a risk assessment that pointed out that having backup generators protected by a flood wall of the height it was was a bad idea if there was a tsunami wave taller than the flood wall. Sadly, it was con
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by pasabagi 5y ago
> Split any number of people into any arbitrary groups and some of those groups will be higher than average and other lower than average. Wait, what? Surely they should all be (sans a bit of noise) the same? (Split 1000 random numbers in
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by pasabagi 5y ago
My guess is that Japan would not have done particularly well had they fought the USSR instead of the USA. The USA still blocking japanese oil imports would mean they would have horrible logistical problems. Presumably, the USA would still b
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Aside from all the rehashing, my thought process is based on a few principles: 1. Capitalism is already centralized. Jobs tend to be concentrated in certain areas. That's why people commute. 2. The suburban-commuter lifestyle is based

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