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by raquo 8y ago
Voyager 2 has been "leaving the Solar System" regularly for quite a while now. Example from 2007: https://www.nature.com/news/2007/071210/full/news.2007.365.h... I guess the actual thresholds c
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by raquo 8y ago
If we keep going the way we're going now, by the time population decline puts a negative pressure on land and housing prices, they will be so high that 99% of people will have no way of ever owning it other than by inheritance. I don&#
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by raquo 8y ago
Monopsony is the same kind of problem as monopoly, but on the buyer side. If you think we should have laws to limit monopoly power, then yes, we also should have laws to limit monopsony power. If not, then not. We also have laws to make sur
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by raquo 8y ago
https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/20/Suppl_2/ii20
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by raquo 8y ago
https://tonic.vice.com/en_us/article/8xdx7k/are-menthol-ciga... They are just as bad as regular cigarettes, possibly worse, and yet people perceive them as less bad, causing overconsumption.
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by raquo 8y ago
"We can't make perfect laws so no need to make good ones"
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by raquo 8y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18418610
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by raquo 8y ago
Where are all the people who were saying GDPR is fine to be underspecified because European governments are benevolent and will choose to be good even when they don't have to?
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by raquo 8y ago
I understand the sentiment, but somehow I feel that more people will trust Alex Jones on this than Bruce Schneier. Actual experts aren't respected by the general population enough for this to be a net positive change is my guess.
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by raquo 8y ago
Implicits are a sharp sword. Either very good or very bad depending on the people using them. Scala doesn't stand still either. Dotty / Scala 3 will bring many refinements and new features like union types, opaque types and implic
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by raquo 8y ago
You quoted it yourself: > This includes deliberately referring to someone by a gender that they do not identify with Key word is deliberately . Secrets not covered.
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by raquo 8y ago
That's not how real life works. For most people it's exactly the clock on the wall that determines when they go home and have dinner.
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by raquo 8y ago
At the scale of the problem that UBI is supposed to fix, there probably won't be nearly enough meaningful (needed) PWA-like jobs for people to do.
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by raquo 8y ago
For all the hate it gets, there is nothing simpler than a small Javascript and node.js app. Easy to focus on one language initially, and if a beginner wants to build frontend stuff, Javascript is the only option. Guide her through buildin
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by raquo 8y ago
> I absolutely do not think it is the job of the government to solve problems like this Well then, I guess we'll have to watch as this problem will remain unsolved. If you want an unregulated market, people will do what they want, a
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by raquo 8y ago
Because people there are richer, and can afford dryer machines?
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by raquo 8y ago
Let's not blame consumers for economic externalities, it's the government's job to address those.
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by raquo 8y ago
But the issue here is not the differential in efficiencies. It's China receiving subsidies from the US because it was considered a developing country in 1969. It's not anymore, it's a global superpower now, it can pay its own
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by raquo 8y ago
If that is your priority, go with whatever not-obviously-risky company that wants to pay you the most money, and save up for when the recession eventually comes. Bonus points: buy up undervalued assets during the recession, subject to your
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by raquo 8y ago
Yeah I can totally see that kind of logic coming. But if everyone just waits for someone else to do something, nothing will change. That is the most likely outcome, I think.
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by raquo 8y ago
Somehow I doubt that people in these countries will sit on their hands while dying off. Mass migration will definitely happen, and might even be supported by their governments and armies. India, Pakistan and China have nuclear weapons to wa
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by raquo 8y ago
One immediate reason is our physiological limit (see wet bulb temperature), which is achieved at air temperatures as low as 45 degrees C depending on humidity. Another is sea level rise. For +14C that's on the order of +30 meters as cu
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by raquo 8y ago
How is that relevant? Areas where more than a billion people live today will become uninhabitable to humans if they warm up by 14 degrees. Actually, much sooner than that.
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by raquo 8y ago
Well, as comfortable as you will be able get with global wars, refugees, food shortages, etc. going on. Governments and countries are not very stable under these conditions. Probably shouldn't expect your wealth to crisis proof your li
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by raquo 8y ago
Most buildings for which you'd consider wood will probably be torn down before they become structurally unsound simply because a different building will be desired (bigger / different purpose). Also, is concrete actually reused li
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by raquo 8y ago
Up to 365 of those can be accounted for while being a temporary resident (on a work or study visa) on a "1 day for 2 days" basis. You also need to actually be in Canada all those days. Any day that you're outside delays you
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by raquo 8y ago
Did you actually get a quote / estimate from Apple?
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by raquo 8y ago
Air movement is a rounding error in this test. Suppose the curvature of the wing's airflow could in fact push the drone 15cm up or down in the time it takes the wing to advance 30cm forward (a tiny fraction of a second). That would req
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by raquo 8y ago
So you link yo an article that explains exactly why this is problematic, and you're still saying it's because "China". It's not. It's because of scale. If a similar system was being implemented in the US the sh
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by raquo 8y ago
That's cute while it's a small experiment in faraway countries. Now imagine being unable to rent an apartment without running an app that tracks your calls and location 24/7. I don't know what "Chinese" has to

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