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by pif 2y ago
Which is, indeed, not allowed!
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by pif 2y ago
> If a customer ever feels the need to hit that button, then the people who have built and sold the robot have failed. He is not against the button per se: it's "just" that it should never be necessary! Removing the button
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by pif 2y ago
> Some of the vehicles were notorious for blocking intersections Letting self-proclaimed autonomous vehicles use public roads was so idiotic that you need a new word coined for those who didn't see it immediately.
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by pif 2y ago
I do believe you. As I did not find a definition with a quick search, I wondered whether it was some regional/dialect thing.
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by pif 2y ago
Could you please offer a link to an online dictionary offering this definition? Thanks in advance!
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by pif 2y ago
Collins and Merriam-Webster dictionaries agree with him. Down-voters may have considered that the sentence was clear enough anyway.
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by pif 2y ago
> At the root of the problem are cowboy traders who apply the foam without a full survey or appropriate expertise.
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by pif 2y ago
Bullshit! One is a number, the other is an acceleration. Who cares that numeric values are similar for a given set of measurement units?
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by pif 2y ago
As they run into problems with German punctuality, I wonder what happens with the Italian trains!
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by pif 2y ago
> If they didn't exist, flying would be significantly more expensive. Surely, flying was significantly more comfortable before Ryanair!
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by pif 2y ago
> this is not about the working poor. I don’t think this would ultimately help them. I think you are generally right, but I strongly disagree on this specific point: the working poor would be the most benefitted. They are working, which
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by pif 2y ago
> does not result in a favorable outcome for society That's your respectable opinion, but the truth is: we don't know! You may be right, you may be wrong, but this is the crux of the discussion and you cannot swipe it off by st
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by pif 2y ago
> The thing I’ve never understood about UBI is how it wouldn’t immediately be counteracted by inflation. I think you are not wrong, but not completely right either! It's true that the income difference among people would not change,
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by pif 2y ago
I think you are missing the main point of my analogy: seatbelts and airbags work on damage mitigation, while the kind of security that bothers users so much is the one focused on prevention. Especially in IT, where lives are not at stake, h
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by pif 2y ago
> Good IT security is invisible and unobtrusive for your users I wish more and more IT administrators would use seat belt and airbags as models of security: they impose a tiny, minor annoyance in everyday usage of your cars, but their pr
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by pif 2y ago
> why humans are so resistant to change In my experience, in general, we are not! We are resistant to change only when someone else is trying to impose a burden over us without a clear picture of how such burden is going to profit us. I
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by pif 2y ago
I'm not sure which was caused by which. Did customers lose trust because of activism? Or did customers just switch to untrustable (but free) online papers, leaving activism as the only way to earn a living for former upright journalist
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by pif 2y ago
No! We measure angles in radians because it's the simplest way to link the length of an arc to the radius of the circle.
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by pif 2y ago
Sorry, you cannot use "imaginary" numbers to define something as "natural"!
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by pif 2y ago
> your car isn’t beating the train Doesn't it depend on where you live with respect to the nearest station? Doesn't it depend on whether you have a direct train or you need to change a couple of times?
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by pif 2y ago
As far as I can tell, this is what happens any time a new restriction is introduced without specifying who must bear the financial burden. Checking for allergens has a cost! Who is supposed to pay? If you want the general public to pay for
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by pif 2y ago
It depends on where you live and work with respect to the nearest stations, and on how many legs your trip consist of.
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by pif 2y ago
> I live in a home in which all we eat is breakfast cereal ???
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by pif 2y ago
> Stockholm’s congestion tax was approved by voters after a 7-month trial period. How dishonest must you be to lie in such a blatant way? From the Wikipedia page referenced from the article: "Local consultative referendums regarding
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by pif 2y ago
> as density grows mass transit becomes essential since it can far surpass the maximum throughput capacity of even the largest roadways. Once again this idiocy! Planners love so much to talk about throughput, and then they are surprised
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by pif 2y ago
The same happened where I live, in France, next to Geneva. Actually, here the municipalities were not even requested to invest, but just to allow higher density.
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by pif 2y ago
> Zurich, Geneva It's easy to govern a town in a competent-looking fashion when you have plenty of money to spend, and it's easy to have plenty of money to spend when you decide to close your eyes to the source of the cash flow
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by pif 2y ago
I don't know this Ozempic. If people take it for at most a few years, then yes, it may do what I described. On the other end, if people are supposed to take it for life, then it does surely not!
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by pif 2y ago
> Exercise has benefits that span far beyond weight loss, Don't you think that slimmer people are more inclined to enjoy exercising?
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by pif 2y ago
If you want slimmer people, invest in hunger-stopping pills. Have a lettuce satiate you like two ham and cheese baguettes, and the obesity problem will disappear overnight.

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