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by pasabagi 7y ago
I think it used to be easier to break things, in any case. When I was a child, I used to delete things to make space for games. I quickly discovered the 'Windows' folder was taking a lot of space. I don't honestly remember if
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by pasabagi 7y ago
My point is the differences are backwards. People think that they're disliked by others, but they're actually projecting their own dislike of others. This happens in hierarchical societies because the people at the top necessarily
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by pasabagi 7y ago
I come from the UK, which is pretty strongly stratified in terms of class (to my knowledge, the most stratified, at least historically). My observation was that, as long as you're straightforward and pleasant, people from all backgroun
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by pasabagi 7y ago
I don't get it. I have lots of money. I've never had any feeling I had to 'guard' myself in any conversation with people from literally any social demographic. I mean, unless you're some kind of oddball, all you&#x2
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by pasabagi 7y ago
I'm not much of a chemist, but I don't think bombs are particularly easy to build. I do a bit of metal plate etching, and I've found multiple times that useful chemicals (specifically nitric acid and hydrogen peroxide) are pr
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by pasabagi 7y ago
I think you could quite easily make something out of generic parts. The traditional material for remote control planes is tissue paper and balsa wood. The controller could almost certainly be made with a generic micro-controller, and batter
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by pasabagi 7y ago
Are you crazy? The persecution of Muslims in china is heavily reliant on surveillance technology. As this technology rolls out, it will make surveillance cheaper, and as a result, will make the job of authoritarian regimes easier. Saying th
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by pasabagi 7y ago
Just be aware that dealing with UK bureaucracy is a special kind of hell - doubly so if the bureaucracy in question is the Home Office. If you don't have an iron-clad way of making sure you don't have significant bureaucratic enta
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by pasabagi 7y ago
>human societies incentivize partnerships and nudge lonely humans to pair up I think the opposite is true. For economic growth, maximum workforce mobility is preferable. Relationships reduce mobility, since they tie workers to specific l
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by pasabagi 7y ago
I don't know if Singapore counts - it's a fascist dictatorship.
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by pasabagi 7y ago
I think I would join in resistance - it's just, in my thinking, the non-liberal character of the BJP is not the problem. I don't think a liberal resistance centered around classic enlightenment values (secularism, etc) would work
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by pasabagi 7y ago
I'm not sure I agree. All liberal democracies have the tendency (and usually also explicit mechanisms) to transform into illiberal democracies. That's the whole point of a 'state of emergency'. Most dictatorships (includ
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by pasabagi 7y ago
Hopefully never. Nazi Germany was a democracy. They cancelled the elections during the war - but then, so did the British. I think it's good to be aware of how sick a democracy can get. Anti-Semitism was very popular in Germany. Islamo
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by pasabagi 7y ago
I would assume that V, Zn, Mo, and Cr form some compound with carbon dioxide that isn't soluble - so it collects in sediment. Or, it could be the acidity levels? I think it's often the case that metal concentrations come from the
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by pasabagi 7y ago
Very interesting review. I read infinite jest once as a teenager, and once a couple of years ago - and yeah, on second reading, I could see it doesn't really deserve its hype. The one weirdness of the review is kind of related to the m
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by pasabagi 7y ago
>in english, seeing black is a finance colloquialism at best. at worst, its a pejorative for racist tendencies. im guessing its a different sentiment in Germany entirely. Are you a native speaker? I've never heard 'seeing black
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by pasabagi 7y ago
I quite liked living in a plattenbau - but then, my neighbors were quiet. The rooms were spacious, and the heating was pretty good.
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by pasabagi 7y ago
Socialist design is generally pretty good, in my experience. I preferentially buy DDR-made tools when it makes sense, because they tend to be very solid, and very easy to maintain and repair. The furniture can also be nice.
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by pasabagi 7y ago
>there is no such thing as an objective "universal good" I guess here is where we part ways. I can understand it in the sense of objective morality not existing, but I don't think it makes sense to say there isn't a c
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by pasabagi 7y ago
What's the need for these icebreakers? I can understand that a nuclear icebreaker is a good thing for breaking ice - but I don't understand how it's economical. Is there really so much value in bringing cargo through pack ice
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by pasabagi 7y ago
I guess we're in ideology territory here. You know as well as I do that the word 'rent' does not refer to an exchange of services, but rather comes from money you extract through ownership of a thing - no matter the provenanc
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by pasabagi 7y ago
>you have to satisfy their wants and needs I don't think this is true at all, even if we accept that all wants and needs are good ones (opiods, for instance). I pay a substantial portion of my income in rent. That's not because
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by pasabagi 7y ago
That's a good point. I was more thinking in response to the conventional idea that there is a 'race to the bottom' when it comes to corporate taxes - which rests on the idea that a corporation operating in a given country is
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by pasabagi 7y ago
I guess I'm thinking that the primary purpose of a company is to make money - and the primary way in which this leads to social utility is through taxes. Obviously, some companies provide useful and socially beneficial services, but ma
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by pasabagi 7y ago
Is a company that doesn't pay taxes actually useful? I would have thought it would out-compete companies that actually do pay taxes, so it would reduce revenue (presumably) without increasing job numbers.
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by pasabagi 7y ago
Using '1' to symbolise the washington monument would be reasonable, if the washington monument was something people very commonly referred to. It would also be reasonable to describe that as phallic. It wouldn't be reasonable
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by pasabagi 7y ago
Obviously, your source doesn't support your argument. Just because something once had one shape doesn't mean a new shape can't have new connotations. You're jumping from 'the zero was not always a hole', to &#x
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by pasabagi 7y ago
It's clearly supposed to be a metaphor for genitalia - with the line suggesting 'presence', and the circle suggesting absence. (Note the latin 'vagina', literally means sheath). It works better in the case of the nu
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by pasabagi 7y ago
I think it gets dumped off the coast of Somalia, actually. Obviously, capitalism isn't very good at accounting for externalities, whether they are measured in birth defects, or in degrees centigrade - but I think global warming is a bi
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by pasabagi 7y ago
I used lulu - and I just printed the html documentation (it was for Allegro 5) as a novel-size book. The price was fine. Other than that, it wasn't significantly more difficult than ordering any other book - so I have no real feeling f

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