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by ralfn 5y ago
> Liberals (at least in US/Canada) used to be the one who would care about working middle class and their living conditions. This confusion is understandable, but liberals never cared about the working middle class. Its just that in
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by ralfn 5y ago
>they'd come down on me very hard and very quickly I can't speak for the rest of the world, but here in the Netherlands, it wouldn't have been the state that would come down 'hard'. (its the other cab drivers, ph
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by ralfn 5y ago
>There is no consensus of what to do with political speech and media. There is though. The general consensus of free societies is that the democratically elected government regulates speech and not the market. The problem is youtube&#x2F
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by ralfn 5y ago
Then i'm curious what your definition would be? Because when you run out of ICU space, there is triage. There was triage last week. There is triage next week. Who gets care first? My point is that many people who are unvaccinated would
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by ralfn 5y ago
>The fight against Airbnb is a symbolic fight for the left winged parties in the city. That is just bullshit. The people complaining about their AirBnB neighbours are mostly in Zuid. Definitely in not Social housing. Please don't st
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by ralfn 5y ago
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/covid-coronavirus-vaccin... For example. Not intended to be exhaustive. It's still is an important insight though. The vaccines do not lead to herd immunity. There isn't a
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by ralfn 5y ago
>Should we "assume the best" by assuming this was taken down by AI, and without human check? How is that 'the best'. Only Silicon Valley thinks that is a valid legal excuse for anything. If you can't operate with
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by ralfn 5y ago
>not all of the Dutch like it, and I understand why: it's not really very fair to give foreigners a tax break and not your own people. Some people in my country fail to realize that in this case the Dutch state did not invest in the
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by ralfn 5y ago
If you think its reasonable to use Poland, Romania or Greece as your benchmark for Europe, i think its reasonable to use Puerto Rico, Missisipi and Lousiana as the benchmark for the United States. >You should also cosider wages and dispo
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by ralfn 5y ago
The problem with facebook is that it plays with fire every day. Kills innocent people every day. But they have a fire department, so they can't be all bad right? If you can't do what you do in a way that isn't this harmful to
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by ralfn 5y ago
>When companies have more resources than whole countries This is the part that scares me. Not the amount of resources, but the shitty quality that still comes out of those processes. I suppose scaling up organisations is even harder than
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by ralfn 5y ago
This perceived gap in unemployment needs some actual sources. Unemployment in northern Europe is lower than in comparable places in the US with the same labour rights. I can imagine unemployment in Southern Europe to be higher, but I am cur
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by ralfn 5y ago
Especially with an idea as original as this.
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by ralfn 5y ago
I like that it has a new name. I've seen too many stupid libraries support their own superset while still calling it JSON (looking at you, Python and .NET ecosystem!) It's a standard. If we change it, it needs a new name.. Howeve
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by ralfn 5y ago
1. Nationalism is fascism. At least in Europe we don't really distinguish between the two given our history. 2. Yes Japan is very racist. Other countries can be racist too. 3. You are making up straw man arguments: >I’ve even seen p
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by ralfn 5y ago
I'm slightly annoyed with all the UK examples. This is about the Netherlands. The Dutch housing bubble consists of 4 factors: - interest rate on mortgages has been tax deductible - new developments are limited due to environmental cons
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by ralfn 5y ago
There are a lot more people that do or have smoked pot, than those who base their identity on it. The cults were always a minority. It's like the difference between a commuter on bike here in the Netherlands (more than 30% of all trips
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by ralfn 5y ago
To be consistent we would have to ban cars for the same reason too. At least near where people live or work.
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by ralfn 5y ago
I think this does answer some of the ambiguity I experienced with these concepts. Your answer would suggest rational thinking does not come natural to us. That it requires a lot of discipline, external tools and culture. That would suggest
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by ralfn 5y ago
Does any proof exists that humans think 'rationally' even when they are solving essentially deductive puzzles? Im not an expert about neurological stuff, but did anyone discover any hardware in our brains that does something beyon
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by ralfn 5y ago
I somewhat disagree. It's indeed in the implemention of the principles where things go wrong, but I do believe that requires reform. In between golden principles and everyday court are a lot of pragmatic laws and regulations. That is w
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by ralfn 5y ago
I wasn't aware I was trying to sound intellectual. I'll go find a doctor. That was definitely not my intention.
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by ralfn 5y ago
Thank you so much. The article is just too polluted with pseudo intellectual nonsense, but water management is a very underappreciated discipline of engineering. Although it seems impossible to measure how much water is stored in the deep s
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by ralfn 5y ago
Apple is selling being a government. Controlling a market, and by extension society. We do not get to vote on the representatives that decide the app store rules. We do not get the right to hold them accountable in the execution of such rul
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by ralfn 5y ago
You are right. There is a lot more too it. Although arresting and jailing someone is not being justice being administered, it is facilitating justice and fact finding and it itself is indeed an act of violence.
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by ralfn 5y ago
1. By the public at large it should not be treated in any regard, false or not. 2. The state is the only authorized monopoly of violence and they should treat unproven and untrue as identical, and the only place where that decision is made
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by ralfn 5y ago
You do realize that this feature supersizes the impact of price dumping. Pay 1 dollar less today. Pay 10 dollars more in the future on everything, the second the smaller local store goes out of business. At this rate why even bother with th
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by ralfn 5y ago
It wastes entrepreneurial energy too, since it doesn't actually provide value to anyone. Not the way a car, a phone, a hairdresser, a movie or Google maps does. The economy is just what everyone does/make. Think of the opportunity
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by ralfn 5y ago
It's because China isn't white. So people first look for explanations how it's about them not being proper white protestants and doing it all wrong. Here in the Netherlands we always had this problem and we engineered around
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by ralfn 5y ago
That's not a one time risk though! So far it seems a person can be infected multiple times. Say you get Covid once a year, that's 0.004% per year. Also, wether you need hospitalisation or not, doesn't change the fact that som

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