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by piva00 5mo ago
Yeah, netsplits were really common; nickserv and/or chanserv not working for long periods making popular channels a hell without ops. I think the centralisation is the issue, I could connect to a different IRC network with a community
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by piva00 5mo ago
There's the classic "bendy banana law" which British tabloids pushed a lot to paint the EU as an inefficient bureaucracy. In reality it was a way to harmonise banana grading, no one was forbidden to sell abnormally shaped ban
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by piva00 5mo ago
Yes but as a feeling (hunch?) not as something my brain analysed and reached a conclusion. Weird how I'm already somewhat conditioned to spot it on a intuitive level.
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by piva00 5mo ago
The distribution will go into services that compound the 5k-10k across society, not to individuals. Education returns the investment to a nation at around 9%/year. Transportation infrastructure (especially if it's not only for roa
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by piva00 6mo ago
There's too much financial incentive to spread disinformation, if you can make money by posting on social media and attracting a following on your disinformation there's always going to be someone ignorant/innocent enough to
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by piva00 6mo ago
It's what the USA did during its industrialisation, it's what Japan did during its industrialisation. If you are looking to history to find ways to make your country prosper and industrialise, wouldn't you take those examples
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by piva00 6mo ago
Similar experience, I helped to build the website, manage the forum installation, and overtime the people running the shard invited me to also code for the emulator they were running. I was 12-13 at the time (late 90s/early 2000s), I c
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by piva00 6mo ago
I don't think the republic of Venice ever had 2 million people, what time period are you referring to?
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by piva00 6mo ago
As far as I understand the US president is not a king that governs by decree, there's a whole other branch of government also elected to represent the will of the people, a branch where negotiations, debates, voting takes place to dete
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by piva00 6mo ago
Europe where? Europe is a whole continent with 40+ different countries...
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by piva00 6mo ago
Me too, I wouldn't only rely on electronic devices for something as essential as paying. I still carry my cards in my physical wallet with me, it's just that I haven't had the need to use them in a very long time.
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by piva00 6mo ago
Wallet is already plenty useful to me. Ticketing is a great use-case for it, I have flight tickets, concerts/events tickets, airport bus tickets, if it keeps expanding to integrate with even more tickets (my local public transportation
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by piva00 6mo ago
Sure, just don't live at a place where you are defrauding the tax system while extracting the most expensive benefits from it: education and healthcare. Sounds smarmy as hell.
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by piva00 6mo ago
I've met a few Americans living like that in Portugal, there are communities that formed in some villages away from the main cities where real estate is very cheap since most villagers had died or moved out. They were proud of not payi
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by piva00 6mo ago
Scandinavia had Sweden until yesterday's vote in Riksdagen, I moved here 10+ years ago, got my permanent residence after 4 years, citizenship after 5. Rules have been changed now, citizenship in 8 years will become law on June 6th, als
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by piva00 6mo ago
Each EU country has its own rules about immigration. A green card is probably equivalent to a permanent residence permit, those vary quite a bit between countries, and skills. Some countries might give a permanent residence in as few as 3 y
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by piva00 6mo ago
I second "The Song of the Cell" as a good read, as a layman I can't judge the factuality of it but as a reader it was a very enjoyable journey.
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by piva00 6mo ago
Stockholm with a bit over 1 million people has an express train from Arlanda airport to the center of the city, it goes at ~200km/h making the transit of ~40km in 20-25 minutes. I don't understand why it would be inefficient for o
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by piva00 6mo ago
> You don’t understand it because it’s clearly a second language for you. That’s fine. It’s not shameful to have poor proficiency in another language but you should know that your lack of comprehension comes from your inability and it ca
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by piva00 6mo ago
The deal with North Korea fell through because the USA didn't keep their side of the agreement to build LWRs in exchange of NK decommissioning their dual-purpose reactors, Kim Jong-Il then escalated it all after Bush's admin said
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by piva00 6mo ago
How exactly?
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by piva00 6mo ago
Debt can be paid off until it can't, US's budget expenditure on interests has tripled since 2020, it is larger than their expenditure on the military now. The 10-year bond yield is not controlled by the Fed, if it keeps raising th
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by piva00 6mo ago
The reason for a tool to exist is to be used, even if it's just by a singular person, other projects that aren't tools do definitely fit into the criteria "just for the joy of it" but a tool, by definition, has at least
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by piva00 6mo ago
That is exactly gatekeeping, no? You are only entitled to feel sad if you contributed effort or financially, otherwise you aren't allowed to feel. Why can't others that just used the tool feel sad? It is supposed to be used, it&#x
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by piva00 6mo ago
A system that does too much is complex almost by definition, with complexity you introduce conflicts between features that need to be resolved through design, designing for multiple interactions of conflicting features is neigh impossible.
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by piva00 6mo ago
Making information more accessible and approachable never harms society in the long run. Your view is just a snobbish and rigid one, Sagan made science topics interesting for more people, from those people very likely many got inspired enou
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by piva00 6mo ago
> I settle for a middle position, which is that the speed limit should be no less than 35 mph on most streets, with heavy mandated use of automated collision avoidance system. Why does it need to be so contrived when there's empiric
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by piva00 6mo ago
I much prefer reading on paper, something about screens never allow me to get into a deeper state that reading books take me to. I read a lot on my old Kindles, had a gen 1 and gen 2, it was easier than on a computer but still not the same
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by piva00 6mo ago
Berghain has always been packed though, they don't have issues with getting audience.
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by piva00 6mo ago
> Where do you live that WhatsApp is essential? In Brazil, for example, without WhatsApp you are an outcast of modern society there, businesses communicate with customers on WhatsApp, whole families and friend groups only use WhatsApp. &

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