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by ptaipale 9y ago
Riots in Hamburg were not anti-oppression. They were anti-people and anti-city.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
You mean that the G20 meeting of state heads in Hamburg was a "fascist and racist rally"? Antifa and the extreme left do apply that kind of rhetoric in their critique of "capitalism", but I find it quite extreme and not
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by ptaipale 9y ago
> If the KKK didn't exist, Antifa wouldn't exist. Not true. In my country, KKK does not exist. Antifa still exists and occasionally tries to find excuses for violence. Mostly it's just tagging graffiti though, and LARPing
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by ptaipale 9y ago
One may give up right to be treated in a civil manner by you. That part's fine. You don't need to be civil towards people who are repugnant. But it still does not give you justification for violence or threats. No, you are not &qu
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by ptaipale 9y ago
There are often people inside cars, and those people are justifiably horrified when they are under attack. Also, even when people are not in the cars, it is a "popular" hate crime to intimidate people by selectively destroying the
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Now it seems to make everyone stuck with arguments about why violence by some people is ok and violence by others is not. I think it should simply be that no one has justification for violence or intimidation.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Yes, we can conclude that structural discrimination of women in law and medical students has largely gone away. Why does anyone think that STEM subjects would somehow retained such discrimination? I consider it more likely that now women do
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by ptaipale 9y ago
A very good point. Women don't go to STEM jobs because they get sufficient compensation in work that they like more, on the average. And it's easier to do what other women do.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
The problem here is that even when building is "functional", the needs of the functions change. If the architect does not allow it, or if the building is not well adaptable, the "functionality" becomes "non-function
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Or brutalist architecture claims to be functional, but is sometimes averse to actual functions, because buildings are considered pieces of art. Source: experiences trying to keep computer science classes in a university building designed
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by ptaipale 9y ago
There might be some regulatory hurdles in addition to technical and commercial ones?
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Todays cars still have a very physical steering column and mechanics, not so easy to switch. My main trouble with right-hand-drive vehicles is that with some models, I put the windscreen wipers on in every intersection. (The turn signal and
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by ptaipale 9y ago
There's no connection really. Patenting seed has been around long, long before GMO technology (around 80 years or so in the US, around 50 years in my country).
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by ptaipale 9y ago
The data: https://data.oecd.org/healthstat/life-expectancy-at-65.htm In most well-developed countries, life expectancy of women at 65 is around 22 remaining years. I.e. once you have reached the age of 65, on the avera
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by ptaipale 9y ago
When we see things like: "it is not uncommon for her patients to drive two hours for an appointment, as maternal wards have closed at rural hospitals. " it's probably due to demographic changes more than defunding healthcare
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by ptaipale 9y ago
We most certainly are not. We are really, really far away from it. Beginning of the 20th century was a time when Europe had high child mortality, utilized lots of child labour, pretty non-existing retirement benefits except for a very narro
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by ptaipale 9y ago
UK is certainly in Europe.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Thank you for reading. I tend to get a bit emotional when I think how hard life was back then. Today, when I go to poor places in the world (I don't do it so often but a week ago I was in Soweto, not the worst place in Africa though mu
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by ptaipale 9y ago
I wrote this earlier elsewhere, I'll throw it here for an anecdote from the northern corner of Europe. About 109 years ago, my grandfather was a twelve-year-old boy and as all boys at that time and in his social class did, he went to w
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Indeed. Good intentions do not justify means. You cannot escape responsibility of the bad consequences of your actions, even if you say the consequences are "unwanted", not what you intended. Particularly if you know those consequ
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Some quick research on this suggests that the average college graduate in engineering (which is programmer material, at least programmer material for companies like Google) is around 130. Sources like [0]. Therefore it is not unreasonable t
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Of course they inspect first, for as long as it takes, and whether your flight goes without you is secondary.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
I always suspected there's a lot more than just that. Basically, an intensified inspection and whatever follows from the findings.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
In fact, it doesn't work like that in any country. For a good reason, when you come to think of it. What you bring in to the country is yours, you can't escape responsibility except by becoming a freight company which is then subj
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Unless charges are dropped, of course.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
That's a bit like saying there is evidence he is a white male, and that is enough for all white males to be worried. I.e. not relevant.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Not sure why you'd be downvoted, but was about to post the same: the whole history of agriculture is about improving the technology. One could add that development has been particularly rapid over the past 50 years or so.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Military-grade systems may not be any "less" but their needs and priorities may be different (e.g. secrecy). So different technology may be used, without any contradiction to why the current one is good for civilian air traffic.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Purchasing power for what? As said, real estate prices have gone up. But in early 1970's, Americans used 20 % of their inćome on food. Now it's somewhere around 6-7 %. So, for this most basic of commodities, the purchasing power h
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by ptaipale 9y ago
More appropriate would be to heckle "I can't live in an iPad". As far as I can know, food prices in America have gone down a little bit in the long term in comparison to general price index; 1982 food price index was 100 and

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