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by ptaipale 10y ago
The adopted doctrine is well-founded: if child soldiers shoot at you, you shoot them. It's not easy, but it's right. Doing otherwise would not only put you and your own troops in danger; it would also encourage ruthless and immora
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by ptaipale 10y ago
Absolutely. Lots of migrants, however, also come to Greece all the time and can't move on. Nobody seems to know the actual numbers, although the incoming flow has reduced after the EU migrant deal with Turkey. The mechanism works e.g.
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by ptaipale 10y ago
Moreover, Australia is able, and does, select who migrates to the country and who does not. The Wikipedia table about net migration to each country isn't the whole truth, however. For instance, it shows a significant negative net migra
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by ptaipale 10y ago
Sorry, this wasn't specifically "you", it was the "you" as a passive voice (I suppose that is not very correct English, what we call the ice-hockey-player-interview-you). "You shouldn't argue for...",
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by ptaipale 10y ago
For assessing eligibility to benefit programs the definition of poverty threshold is fine. But using pre-tax pre-transfers figures to describe shocking levels of child poverty is disingenuous, in my opinion. To assess poverty, we should l
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by ptaipale 10y ago
I still find it pretty strange that the definition of federal poverty threshold is based on pre-tax income . What actually matters for poverty (and income equality etc) is income after taxes and transfers . (I.e. before deciding if someon
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by ptaipale 10y ago
Perhaps rarely "necessary", but happens quite a lot recently. http://www.dw.com/en/germany-to-mark-record-year-for-strikes...
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by ptaipale 10y ago
Thanks for the thoughts. A couple of points. As far as I understand, not most of American children are growing in poverty. There are figures of 20-25% of children living in poverty, but even there the numbers are skewed - here poverty is
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by ptaipale 10y ago
I was interested about the statistics of this. 67% living out of wedlock, but how many of these are actual co-habiting parents?
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by ptaipale 10y ago
That 67% number seemed shocking so I tried to dig up a source. Only found this: http://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/tables/107-children-in-... And it says: "In this definition, single-parent families may inc
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by ptaipale 10y ago
Finland, northern Europe. I'm fairly sure it would be the same in Sweden or Germany. The principle that a judge may not rule on a case where his close relative is an attorney seems to fairly universal. I don't understand how that
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by ptaipale 10y ago
Over here it would mean a criminal investigation against the judge and dismissal.
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by ptaipale 10y ago
Is that legal in the United States? I am astonished.
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by ptaipale 10y ago
Yes, compared to most of the previous national currencies; in the U.S. there also seem to be a number of variations of coin heads (for quarters at least). The coins in U.S. are smaller value so it does not matter as much. The 1 and 2 euro c
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by ptaipale 10y ago
I still did not write about modern medicine; I don't know why you bring that up. This was about the transition from hunter-gatherers to farming, first in Mesopotamia and a few other places, about 10 000 years ago or so. That was the &q
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by ptaipale 10y ago
"This was designed to put gulf carriers at a disadvantage because American airliners can't quite match their quality of service." If you bother to read the comments on Schneier's blog, you'll notice andy's comm
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by ptaipale 10y ago
Infants eat breast milk, and if the mother does not have enough to eat, there is not enough milk. Sufficient and stable nutrition for mother is important to avoid child mortality. In context of ancient world, nutrition of the family also ha
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by ptaipale 10y ago
Likewise for the euro: the Thailand 10 baht coin (worth about 27 cents) is quite similar to 2 euro coin, similar enough that you actually have to look carefully to notice. Each euro country mints their own coins with different insignia, so
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by ptaipale 10y ago
The thread above was not about modern agriculture; it was about the pre-historic time when agriculture was adopted and the availability of more food enabled more children to survive.
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by ptaipale 10y ago
The ways of the people at Andaman Islands were popularized by Arthur Conan Doyle in the Sherlock Holmes novel "The Sign Of The Four".
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by ptaipale 10y ago
Drop of infant mortality (particularly, through having enough food) is what the advent of agriculture achieved, so this is like saying "people died younger, except those who didn't".
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by ptaipale 10y ago
BTW, around here in Finland we had an undersea iron mine at the island of Jussarö. It last operated in 1954-1967. Location: https://goo.gl/maps/FoJeqJRUS6R2 It's probably not unique; are there similar mines elsewh
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by ptaipale 10y ago
Manganese nodules also feature heavily in Desmond Bagley's thriller "Night of error", which was published posthumously in 1984. Not quite as good as his earlier books but still enjoyable.
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by ptaipale 10y ago
Huffington Post is filled with crystal-waving hippies, but they still publish this: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jon-entine/post_8915_b_6572130... "In sharp contrast to public views about GMOs, 89% of scientists
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by ptaipale 10y ago
Agreed, but why then are the opinion papers such as Guardian then concentrating on denouncing GMO or pesticides, and not monocultures?
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by ptaipale 10y ago
Scientifically, it's not controversial. The consensus about GMO's being good is stronger than in the climate change case.
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by ptaipale 10y ago
You don't need the Windows reserved keys for anything with an application. You could make a fully keyboard operable UI for an application on Windows. It's just that software makers don't do it; most everyone thinks everyone l
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by ptaipale 10y ago
Ok. Maybe I was too sceptic. However, I'd expect a competent tech journo to make some questions and write about how the electric plane actually works.
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by ptaipale 10y ago
Building a space craft quickly is in fact more realistic because you're not operating in the conventional flight market which has extremely high requirements and heavy regulation for safety. If a space rocket blows up, including passen
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by ptaipale 10y ago
TL;DR: If I read things right, the BBC article is highly misleading and the plane still uses jet fuel. Longer version: The article mentions "removing the need for jet fuel" but does not explain how the engines of this "electr

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