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by pasabagi 5y ago
Maybe just the models I've used? I think I have tried 5 different models in the last few years, from the very cheap, to the relatively pricey, and all were relatively lacking when it came to fine control. I don't think there'
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I think the point is control. Induction stoves are pretty good for dumping watts into water. However, it's very hard to get a good mid-range temperature. Gas makes it really straightforward to get something cooking at exactly the heat
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by pasabagi 6y ago
Communism is basically orthogonal to the whole free market thing, though. Capitalism is defined as a system in which you can pay somebody a wage that's less than what you get from selling the products of their labour. Other than some b
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by pasabagi 6y ago
> Nobody would invest billions in IP if someone from the street can walk by and take it. That's called a university. Such institutions are responsible for the vast majority of technical advances.
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by pasabagi 6y ago
I like Novara Media, for UK politics stuff, but also very interesting interviews. They have a quite wide range of interviewees, from a surprisingly broad political spectrum (that goes from somewhere in the center to the far left), and the h
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by pasabagi 6y ago
I think gentrification is simply a vague way to put a face on something people don't like: because of fluctuating wages and rents, people are often forced to leave their communities and homes. People notice the gentrification side of i
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by pasabagi 6y ago
I mean, there's slurring somebody, then there's speaking with so much slur that normal people don't understand what you're talking about. Bizarre.
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by pasabagi 6y ago
I kind of quit the article about twenty lines because what on earth does 'trans-identified male' mean?
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by pasabagi 6y ago
As a non-german, living in east germany, this is more or less my observation too. The unification was literally just one side taking over the other - high level civil servants were replaced by west-german civil servants, teachers were fired
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by pasabagi 6y ago
Is this something people do? Is it possible for a user to edit a cookie in a malicious way? Do servers typically trust cookies they have placed on a user's machine?
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by pasabagi 6y ago
I think the war in Yemen is a good case study of the downsides of the US as global police. It is a war that was only possible through the US and UK supplying arms, and was prosecuted by a nation that doesn't even pretend to uphold huma
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by pasabagi 6y ago
What is the moral basis of rent? Rent is by definition differentiated from service provision in that it is simply the use of a legal right to extract an income. I don't see a moral basis, so I don't see how anything that impacts t
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by pasabagi 6y ago
> In the UK it's everyone who dies of any cause within 28 days of a positive test But not everyone who has 'coronavirus' on the death certificate... Just to be clear here, if excess death rates are to be believed, it&#x27
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by pasabagi 6y ago
On the other hand, I will totally call the police if I see people are breaking quarantine laws, just like I would if I saw somebody driving with a liquor bottle in hand. I don't really want my mom to die because some idiot with a self-
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by pasabagi 6y ago
Well, he's a good writer, but he was definitely a fascist. There's probably a bit of wiggle room in the difference between japanese and european fascism, but he's pretty solidly in the japanese fascist tradition.
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by pasabagi 6y ago
I think you're being disingenuous, but there are few raw facts that are worth noting. First, UK excess deaths are worse than the official COVID figures would suggest. This is under-reporting - and it's actually public policy to
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by pasabagi 6y ago
CFCs are much easier to produce, and better-performing (non-toxicity, fireproofing, etc) than the alternatives. I read also that a certain amount of the CFC releases were apparently coming from illegal sale of heavy tars (industrial waste)
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by pasabagi 6y ago
You're probably right - I have never lived in the north. Always hear glowing reports. Daily Mail-reading curtain twitchers are a solid majority where I come from.
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by pasabagi 6y ago
Well, in the UK, there are quite clear policy failures that led to deaths (two late lockdowns, 'eat out to help out', etc). It's not hard to see if you look at the graphs, and match them up to when the lockdowns were put in p
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by pasabagi 6y ago
I am English. I have also lived in Germany for several years. I can tell you that there is absolutely no comparison. Germans expect things to work, and write letters if they don't. English people expect things to be broken, and just wa
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by pasabagi 6y ago
> Perhaps the idea that convention and precedent is the only thing holding the British system together makes it stronger. Coronavirus has been a pretty good litmus test for which countries have good governments, and which countries do no
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by pasabagi 6y ago
There's as wide a gulf between our enviroment[1] and 'complete purity' as there is between slavery and 'complete freedom'. [1](complete ecosystem collapse, widespread poisoning of populations worldwide, etc)
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by pasabagi 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi_Jinping#Early_life_and_educ... The bit where his sister committed suicide during the cultural revolution jumps out as sort of character forming, but in more general terms, do you have a
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by pasabagi 6y ago
The current CCP consists of those who pushed back against the excesses of the cultural revolution - I think you get much less scrutiny for criticising than celebrating this part of Mao's legacy - I know of one instance where somebody w
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by pasabagi 6y ago
To be fair, art work typically doesn't inflate much either. Unless you're very successful, it deflates almost instantly as soon as the exhibition is over. I once had somebody break into my cellar and steal an installation I'd
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by pasabagi 6y ago
I said small country in the original post, because while I imagine the US has similar levels of dynastic cliquey stuff going on, it's a colossal nation, so it doesn't hurt so much. In the UK, I think Eton is more a symptom than a
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by pasabagi 6y ago
It's hard to overstate how tight the british establishment is, media included. It's a small country, and power is concentrated in a vanishingly small number of hands, many of whom are married, or went to school together, or are cl
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by pasabagi 6y ago
I think the space successes have far less to do with privatization, and far more to do with Space X, specifically the combination of a massive amount of capital sloshing about, Elon Musk being good at getting his hands on that capital, and
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by pasabagi 6y ago
The trick with superglue is to make sure you have a really good contact between two clean surfaces. If you don't have that, superglue will do nothing for you and you're better off with something else. If you do, it's quite st
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by pasabagi 6y ago
I found it very difficult to deal with C macros, though. That said, I have no idea how zig deals with that problem either.

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