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by poilcn 5y ago
If the government is "bad" it doesn't make everyone who stands against it "good". It doesn't make everyone who is against the government unified body with one positive goal. You don't need all the "pr
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by poilcn 5y ago
They don't ask to bring troops to fight on the streets. The help could be in the form of putting security checkpoints and guarding critical infrastructure, constructions. Which would release military and police forces currently occupie
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by poilcn 5y ago
I mean write "debugger" in console, press f5, then before it's fully loadded press enter (while in console)
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by poilcn 5y ago
The paywall could be bypassed with simple "debugger" in console :)
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by poilcn 5y ago
Sounds offensive that one's compatriots could be given to another country to be put on trial.
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by poilcn 5y ago
Or because they don't want to live in a giant anthill? They are not obliged give any piece of their land to the people who want to live there. It's in their interest to fight to preserve local communities and local businesses, put
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by poilcn 5y ago
If it possibly might end badly, it must never happen out of lab. One can't even predict how it could end up. Low gains, gigantic risks for everyone and everything living nearby. This is an act of eco-terrorism done by corporations. It
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by poilcn 6y ago
Can't say about them all, but Vitamin A could be stored in the body for like half a year after taking high dosage supplements. Of course, there is a limit, much higher dosage are harmful (the widely known polar bear liver toxicity as e
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by poilcn 6y ago
The catalog of one of the most popular retail networks in my country shows that 78% of the smartphones they sell have two sim slots
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by poilcn 6y ago
The problem of "who will guard the guards themselves". It's "common practice" because it gives unrestricted ability to fabricate any kind of narration without repercussions as nobody can verify it.
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by poilcn 6y ago
It's easy for politicians write laws that suppose to take effect in far future as it won't be them who will enforce them and be responsible for the failures in the process.
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by poilcn 6y ago
You mention Pinker, that opens question whether you've met with work of Nicolas Taleb. He is not Marxist per se, one could say he's the opposite, but he is an ardent opponent of Pinker and his kind of reasoning, so his books could
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by poilcn 6y ago
All these terms are too wide to describe one person's position on certain topic. They could be anti-regulation in terms of "government influences who, how, when, where operates in some economy sector" as it leads to market ca
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by poilcn 6y ago
>All of us should be regularly lobbying our lawmakers to make student loans dischargeable by bankruptcy, just like any other loan. They were at some period of time, which allowed colleges intentionally bankrupt students and get paid by
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by poilcn 7y ago
When organizations like WHO, CDC spread dangerous disinformation like "it's just a flu" or "masks don't help", should Twitter ban these texts as well? Should they ban people saying things that are obviously tru
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by poilcn 7y ago
The key part here is "Facemasks may be in short supply". There is aplenty of reasons why healthy individuals should wear the masks, including: 1. They could be sick, but don't know it 2. Sick people avoid masks if healthy peo
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by poilcn 7y ago
If you have a group of people with Sacred Knowledge™ who are the only capable of judging on things and you have to literally believe them (and dare you not!) as their proofs lie in the realm of sketchy models in which they ignore billions o
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by poilcn 7y ago
No testing = no information. In regard of Iran, a cynic could say that they have political motivation to stress on the pandemic. Not long time ago they had riots.
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by poilcn 7y ago
People who start new companies don't automatically have infinite amount of money. Or you think that if one is not insanely rich one has no right to start any business? This is so cynical to support regulation of small starting up compa
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by poilcn 7y ago
So, Singapore bureaucrats decide what is fake and what is the ultimate truth. What is facebook going to do after it bends to multiple state actors whose ultimate truth would contradict each other? Each country would have it's own corre
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by poilcn 7y ago
For me the problem is that it's considered an established truth that one could somehow manage to spot intelligence by reducing its dimensionality to some calculable metrics. If one is good in some tests, he or she is good in these test
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by poilcn 7y ago
That's why not-for-profit Chernobyl never happened? And the military, they do have their experience of hiding their failures. One mega-corporation. Totally not-for-profit.
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by poilcn 7y ago
If you build a large nuclear reactor, you get big-scale negative effects in case of its failure. Both Chernobyl and Fukushima were "mega projects" by their design based on controlled explosion. You don't have to build giganti
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by poilcn 7y ago
There are safe operation extensions like "save add", "save mul" for numbers in Rust which would detect overflows, but you'd have a drawback as it won't return just the number (of type u64, for example), it woul
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by poilcn 7y ago
People who live in these countries and specifically the places to decide whether they need these "neighbors" on their upkeep. If you want to help them, why won't you take them in your own house, not send to some god forgotten
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by poilcn 7y ago
We almost don't have these anti-vaxer folks here, but it seems to me that people who spread hate towards them are incomparably more worse. It's like a hate cult. People buy whatever the media sell them and start to harass any gro
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by poilcn 7y ago
For me it looks like corporate hijack of open source projects. One barely known person wrote an opinion about a person who's well-known in a specific group and who is respected and has appropriate power, and suddenly all the corporate
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by poilcn 7y ago
>sovereign governments (which fund many government projects) can literally create money; individuals cannot The only government that can "literally create money" is the American one. >government projects often have multi-yea
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by poilcn 7y ago
> for decades You are retelling what happens in a very short period of time, ignoring dynamics. Decades is nothing for a country. You could look at second-world countries which were pioneers in universal healthcare and universal pension
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by poilcn 7y ago
When an individual creates an enterprise it's expected to fail in 2 years. It does not mean death of the individual, but often it makes 'em go broke. Only one company in a hundred is successful. Other are doomed. Government-run pr

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