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by pimmen 7y ago
Taiwan is actually very close to two very important US allies, the Philippines and Japan. It’s alot harder and more expensive to launch an attack from Luzon or Okinawa than it is to launch it from Taiwan.
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by pimmen 7y ago
I once read a wanted ad that described how their company was focused on AI, blockchains, UX, IOT, cloud computing and Big Data. That was the coveted bullshit, buzzword bingo I'd always heard about!
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by pimmen 8y ago
Yes, that’s probably the reason because mistakes in health care is an absolutely massive killer. In the US alone it’s responsible for about as many deaths as if two jumbo jets collidee with each other every day . The number of people dying
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by pimmen 8y ago
When you're evaluating datastructures to quickly get the nearest neighbor in constant time, and you're dealing with actual longitude and latitude, you really need to be aware of this so that you don't accidentally pick someth
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by pimmen 8y ago
But two years is a very short time. I have a mild form but it still took me decades to get to where I am today. People don't suspect I'm autistic and are surprised when I say it, but I'm absolutely exhausted from a day of mas
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by pimmen 8y ago
I know I have to get it under control like you, but it's super hard and it looks so effortless for other people. They can just sit there, take in all the nonsense people are spewing with a straight face and then send an email to the ap
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by pimmen 8y ago
I have a very mild form of autism but I would say that I suffer from autism. I'm very sensitive to which environment I can be productive in and I need very clear protocols for human interaction. It's fine for engineering but I wan
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by pimmen 8y ago
Agreed. I'm European and it astonishes me how a wall at the border is so divisive, with some even calling it un-American, and in the EU there are essentially no legal ways for refugees to enter at all (we've made it practically im
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by pimmen 8y ago
I think if educators had the resources to teach students who are not top performers this could get a lot better. I resent the idea that education is something you earn by being a good child, there is no way right now to judge children that
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by pimmen 8y ago
Europe has extremely cheap prizes because the big airlines are trying to compete with the budget airlines. The real question is "why are budget airlines so cheap in Europe (they often cost about a third of what a budget ticket in the U
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by pimmen 8y ago
You would also need to look at the causes of decommisioning to avoid this.
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by pimmen 8y ago
Yeah, I suspect the OP is caught between a rock and a hard place. I know very little about the situation from what's given in the Stackexchange post, but this is how I imagine it; The OP has had no say over this policy at all, and is a
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by pimmen 8y ago
"We offered X dollars for patents, the engineer accepted that price. We now want the patents for X-Y dollars, the engineer doesn't accept this price. I have no idea how to negotiate and I would like to strongarm him instead. Help
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by pimmen 8y ago
You can elect a government that can trigger article 50. There is no exception, any country can do it.
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by pimmen 8y ago
But not if they were the only newspaper, or the newspaper with more than half of the market, because that would make it look like a monopoly abusing its power. In Europe, public service broadcasters (like the BBC) have no problem giving tim
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by pimmen 8y ago
Nobody is calling Facebook immoral for taking down the ad. However, this is a string argument against Facebook being a neutral platform who just want to connect people and should be left alone from regulation. They're a nigh monopoly a
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by pimmen 8y ago
Americans not wanting to learn from other countries is just so puzzling to me. If I ever get an answer to why it's often "the US is much bigger than Sweden, it wouldn't work here" to which I reply "then why don&#x27
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by pimmen 8y ago
As a European, this is something that could very well make my government resign because it would be illegal. Like, crazy illegal. Is this legal in the US or is the current US administration in hot water?
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by pimmen 8y ago
What you've done is admirable. If more people were willing to value other human beings over their own comfort like you, the world would truly be a better place. You're a kind person. You'll probably be alright economically, b
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by pimmen 8y ago
John von Neumann seems like the man you would certainly want to meet. Apparently, he was good at talking to children and treating them with respect, same thing with people who weren't up to his abilities (which, let's be fair, is
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by pimmen 8y ago
We hear things about Western involvement in Afghanistan all the time. People talk about it and criticize the governments responsible for it on prime time newscasts. I’ve even watched debates between anti-war activists and the politicians re
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by pimmen 8y ago
It's estimated around 80% of the population of Egypt at any time was in some sort of slavery, whether chattel slavery, bond slavery or through forced labor the latter of which is what I would stretch including the citizens of the USSR
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by pimmen 8y ago
That's mostly because we were billions of people when the 20th century utopian projects started, something we've only been for the past 200 years or so. The population of Ancient Egypt was about 1 million at the start of recorded
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by pimmen 8y ago
But wouldn't they expend more energy moving the water up the mountain than what it will generate? Second law of thermodynamics and all, I don't see how you can give water the same potential energy it had before it flowed through t
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by pimmen 8y ago
Fourth, hydropower has claimed for more lives than nuclear power from direct accidents (remember that Fukushima has killed 0) [1]. [1] https://www.oecd-nea.org/ndd/reports/2010/nea6861-comparing-...
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by pimmen 8y ago
That's true. It's why dictators today who extract their wealth from natural resources don't really care if their population is starving, because the ruler doesn't need them. At least, he doesn't need the uneducated,
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by pimmen 8y ago
I would argue it's unrealistic to make such a system that would be fair in the eyes of all coming generations. Imagine they implemented a social credit system in the Middle Ages and added or deducted points based on whether or not you
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by pimmen 8y ago
We allow cities close to the ocean even though the Japanese tsunami damages cost more than ten times as much as the nuclear accident it caused. We allow cities on fault lines as well, even though earth quakes could kill hundreds of thousand
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by pimmen 8y ago
Some people die every year from wind and hydropower [1]. If we measure lives lost per unit of energy, nuclear power is orders of magnitude better than wind or hydropower. [1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca&#x2F
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by pimmen 8y ago
I also mentioned day care, I could go on beyond medical expenses if you'd like? Elderly care, fully funded schools (students get meals, books, you name it), paid parental leave, safety net if you get laid off... lots of stuff.

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