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by pasabagi 5y ago
I guess the point is that gender is the most salient social structure/feature of the napoleonic world, and this is a panoptic, 'monumental' history, so it's a notable omission.
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by pasabagi 5y ago
On the other hand, the grand canal is the archetypal megastructure, and it's got a strong claim to being the defining feature of China. If you look at the planet on google earth, you can see a lot of human structure. Mines, fields, t
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by pasabagi 5y ago
>likely to be regressive I'm not sure. I was just looking for some points of comparison, and as far as I can gather, tampon tax (the standout example for regressive luxury taxation) wasn't actually a luxury tax, but rather a ta
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I think in general luxury goods taxes are underexploited. People normally want to buy expensive things so they can show off how much money they have. May as well make them more expensive, and divert some of that cash to useful purposes.
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Cargo has an --offline option. It's actually pretty possible to use rust totally offline - the doccumentation can be built, for instance, then locally served with (iirc) cargo doc.
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Ah, fox. Finally, a reputable source!
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by pasabagi 5y ago
The system costs money, and when state resources are tight because they're trying to handle catastrophic global warming, it's easy to imagine that money going elsewhere. Just look at all the 'belt-tightening' that occurr
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by pasabagi 5y ago
To be fair to the kids, Germany is still a capitalist country, and if food prices go up, people (including kids) at the bottom of the social pyramid will go hungry. Obviously, that's a political choice. States can have free school meal
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by pasabagi 5y ago
>they were certainly far more violent than the Capitol riot since they very literally included orders of magnitude more violence, destruction, and death. ... And orders of magnitude more people. Per-capita, the capitol riot is obviously
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I think the first time around, mania kind of creeped in - everybody got sort of frog-boiled by a set of progressively more weird ideas and behaviours that all built up on eachother so it wasn't totally obvious that it was all nuts, unt
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by pasabagi 5y ago
CAD is really emblematic of the tragedy of closed-source. The few times I've used it, it's been obvious that the solidworks constraint solver is amazing, but the interface you use to work with it is a kind of horrible design-by-co
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I don't know if this is true. I've had a couple of friends go through manic episodes, and while I very much did not enjoy it, there's a world of difference between them in normal-mode, and manic-mode, and I don't think I
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I guess specialized equipment isn't really the analogue for most software. Most software is a bit like a hammer - a generic tool with worldwide application. I can see the closed-source approach working for really complicated subdomains
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I actually thought this when I was writing the comment. The difference is, you call the manufacturer when you actually need their specific expertise, and when they're your best option. You're not obligated to. They haven't
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I think it's a little bit more nuanced - if you think of something like the Hesperia incident, where a German ship breached a japanese quarantine (1897), or e.g. the introduction of spanish flu to Samoa - you can see it doesn't re
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Aside from the obvious strategic/people power side of it, honestly, I think being a user of closed-source is just the wrong model for a big organization. Ultimately, closed-source software is like running a factory with a machine you a
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I feel like britain has this kind of weird mix between a really racist and xenophobic press / ruling elite, and an actually pretty open population. I'm english and I feel totally alienated by the way in which UK culture has chang
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by pasabagi 5y ago
You're misinformed. Read any current, mainstream work of scholarship on the issue. EDIT: this is a bit short, but honestly, without any rancor, mainstream scholarship is pretty unanimous on this topic. Popular discourse is more divided
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Recent legislation allows waste treatment companies to pour raw sewage into british waterways - so I guess the seals/eels/salmon etc won't be sticking around for long...
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by pasabagi 5y ago
One thing to keep in mind is the balance of power between ruler and ruled. The British, representing a global empire, had always an enormous amount of power over their subjects. They could ignore, murder, torture, or starve their subjects i
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Paul Krugman, writing in August of 2002: "To fight this recession the Fed needs more than a snapback; it needs soaring household spending to offset moribund business investment. And to do that, as Paul McCulley of Pimco put it, Alan Gr
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I think 3D printing the spark plug itself would be the wrong approach. You could get a better result by designing and printing a jig for making spark plugs - perhaps a couple of pieces? So like, one extruder for making ceramic tubes, then a
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by pasabagi 5y ago
You have to sort of narrow down 'today', though - in europe, you can argue US influence was a source of peace in the post-war era. In east asia, the post-war era was actually extremely bloody. I think the one thing east asian stat
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by pasabagi 5y ago
When you have to give information, it doesn't really mean you're subject to a great deal of surveillance. You can tell you're subject to surveillance by the fact everything's really convenient and they already have all y
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Wait, what? Did you miss the bit where they bombed North Korea until they had killed about one fifth of the population, and destroyed basically every form of standing shelter? Or the war in Vietnam? Or the support for South Korean dictators
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Does AC differ significantly to DC when it comes to wire gauge? If so, why? I thought wire heating was simply a function of amps? While I think 12V would be too low, I think there's also a happier medium than 120/220V. Something l
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by pasabagi 5y ago
> if our new building will have DC wiring for LED lights, rather than a cheap, inefficient transformer in every bulb, This blows my mind too. I expect it's coming, though: the cables would be cheaper, and if there's one driver
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Well, according to the wikipedia article, it goes to the extent that even if you've got evidence through, say, coercion, while that evidence would be invalid, you could use that information so obtained to collect further valid evidence
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by pasabagi 5y ago
It is. Germany has no 'fruit of the poison tree' principle. Police can use whatever no matter how it was obtained.
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Not sure. China, India, Africa etc were colonized for much shorter periods of time. One point of comparison would be Ireland. They didn't suffer from colonist-brought diseases, because obviously they had all the same diseases already,

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