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901.
by qwytw 3y ago
In most cases higher education is to some extent "rationed" and generally less accessible than in the US. Only a few countries in Europe have more University graduates. Which is of course perfectly rational if you have no ideologi
902.
by qwytw 3y ago
> SOME young adults might have an easier time attending college even when their lives weren't as shitty as others. Seems like the opposite of universally accessible higher education regardless of background.
903.
by qwytw 3y ago
This makes me think that your original comment was some form of sarcasm. So your plan is to incentivize lower class parents to abandon their children because the state would be able to take better care of them? That does not sound dystopian
904.
by qwytw 3y ago
So lower class kids (through no fault of their own as well..) should not have access to higher education? That's was very weird of phrasing. What about making education accessible to all people regardless of their who their parents wer
905.
by qwytw 3y ago
I guess a better question is whether reparation paid out to 5th+ generation descendants of slaves make sense. How do you even implement that practically?
906.
by qwytw 3y ago
> People want to speed, and they are willing to accept thousands of dead and disabled as the price. Is speeding the primary reason of most traffic fatalities? Also it's highly variable, in some case it might result in a significant
907.
by qwytw 3y ago
I guess in Europe roundabouts are often just the alternative to stop signs since it's the only way you can have an intersection between equal priority streets without traffic lights.
908.
by qwytw 3y ago
And it's not even adjusted by miles/km driven which I assume is significantly lower there (e.g. the US is not that bad compared to Eastern Europe or Belgium if you take into account that Americans driven much more on average).
909.
by qwytw 3y ago
Amsterdam's old town is tiny if you compare it to NYC, if you have limited capacity it's also rational to prioritize tourists who are likely to spend more per capita (I'm not sure if this will necessarily be the long-term out
910.
by qwytw 3y ago
> or even wider, when width is easily achieved by multiple monitors, side-by-side) Why would I want that considering I can get a 21:9 or so display which is also sufficiently tall? I definitely agree on laptops and small display though.
911.
by qwytw 3y ago
> 16:9, or "low res" about 1920x1080 Nothing if you're mainly going to use it to watch HD movies. I don't mind the resolution on a 13-14 inch screen to much to be fair, but IMHO 16:9 is really quite awful on such a
912.
by qwytw 3y ago
I'm pretty sure 512/1024 GB or 16 GB MBAs are generally available in stores without a ordering a custom model. And wouldn't most people order online nowadays?
913.
by qwytw 3y ago
In Europe MBA M2 upgrade to 1 TB is 460 euros which is is about $520, in US it's $400 + taxes.
914.
by qwytw 3y ago
The screen seem to be low res and the aspect ratio is awful..
915.
by qwytw 3y ago
> there is no reason There is a very good reason called "profit margin"... Good luck charging $500 for an extra 768 GB of storage if there is an m2 slot.
916.
by qwytw 3y ago
How are these advantages in a post-apocalyptic world over any other OS that most people could actually use and do useful things with?
917.
by qwytw 3y ago
Do e-bikes generally have regenerative breaking? I assumed that given their weight the amount of energy captured would be very low also bikes have very different braking patterns compared to cars (unless maybe if you're going downhill
918.
by qwytw 3y ago
For paid products/support sure.. obviously not for open source and/or free projects.
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by qwytw 3y ago
Slack requires you pay per account and the free tier is even worse than Discord since every message is deleted after 90 days...
920.
by qwytw 3y ago
You're assuming (for some unknown reason) that both sides are acting rationally? Would you care to elaborate on that?
921.
by qwytw 3y ago
> Anglos trying Almost almost every other country in the EU
922.
by qwytw 3y ago
Eastern European countries were generally much more eager to join NATO than US was to accept them. I'm not sure why are you trying to deny their right to sovereignty? > Putin, like UBL before him, is not comfortable with The West &q
923.
by qwytw 3y ago
So just use openSUSE? How would a SUSE Fedora fork would be any better? Presumably they wouldn't be able to use the branding...
924.
by qwytw 3y ago
> that run those operating systems can also replicate some subset of the desktop pc experience But Steam Deck is just running a fork of Arch not some other operating system. From analytics perspective it's indistinguishable to any
925.
by qwytw 3y ago
There is more to an 'OS' than the kernel. SteamDecks are indistinguishable from PCs, since they run more or less exactly the same software as a Linux desktop/laptop would.
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Guédelon Castle: A Medieval Château Being Constructed in Modern-Day France(abandonedspaces.com)
5 points by qwytw 3y ago|0 comments
927.
by qwytw 3y ago
Very cool project. But the UX is terrible. The text shows up when you click the market and later hover over it (?). Parts of the text box might not fit in the map and it's very hard to read.
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by qwytw 3y ago
Why? There is evidence suggesting that the number calories available and the general quality of nutrition for median person increased after the collapse of the Roman empire. Both because of a significant decrease in taxation but mostly beca
929.
by qwytw 3y ago
Even for males in the 20 to 30s in pre modern societies the chance of death (ignoring violence etc.) was several times higher than now. For females the risk of death during childhood was about 1% per event. So if you had 8+ children (half o
930.
by qwytw 3y ago
Maybe the median would make more sense? At least the 80-90th percentiles? > cannibal warlords I bet there used be a whole lot more of those (relatively) and in other countries than Liberia in the past too.

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