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by repolfx 8y ago
There is such research actually. Look at the studies by Kanin, Jan, and their replications. The topic of what proportion of allegations are false is studied from time to time, but not often, because the studies that are done usually report
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by repolfx 8y ago
Is that true? I thought her claims were investigated in detail and found to be clearly false, with witnesses she said were there saying they had no clue what she was talking about and remembered no such party, her own testimony contradicted
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by repolfx 8y ago
Men do fear dark alleys yes, where did you get the idea that they don't? Stranger rape is exceptionally rare. Rapes are usually by people who the victim already knows. Being mugged by some drug abuser on the other hand is a genderless
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by repolfx 8y ago
The Swiss people's will is entirely consistent. There is nothing strange or unusual about having both immigration controls and trade. That is in fact entirely normal anywhere outside of Europe. The EU bureaucracy's near-fanatical,
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by repolfx 8y ago
I live in Switzerland. A lot of these questions are extremely US-centric in worldview. I'll try and answer them anyway. Firstly, how do you define 'indigenous group'? Switzerland is in central Europe, it wasn't colonised
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by repolfx 8y ago
That depends a lot on how you define knowledge. If you take two 25 year olds, and one spent 7 years in the university system learning 'book knowledge', and one spent 7 years in industry learning via an apprenticeship (this sort of
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by repolfx 8y ago
Most decisions put to referendum in Switzerland don't require deep knowledge. In fact most decisions governments make don't - they can't because neither politicians nor civil servants are chosen on the basis of their speciali
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by repolfx 8y ago
One reason salaries are high in Switzerland is the men are expected to support an entire family off one salary. If you really want to you can consider the "free" housing, food, heating, car etc as payment to the woman, although th
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by repolfx 8y ago
Wow. That doesn't even make sense: "service providers that act in a non-commercial purpose capacity such as online encyclopaedia, and providers of online services where the content is uploaded with the authorisation of all right h
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by repolfx 8y ago
That's where the EU link/Google taxes started but this copyright directive seems to have gone far beyond tackling news linking, which was what Axel Springer and friends cared about. Is there still provision in it for Google to hav
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by repolfx 8y ago
Are there really specific exceptions for Wikipedia and Github? How does that work? They can't be named explicitly in the law, surely?
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by repolfx 8y ago
The article that goes deeper into the betting markets says that they suspect many of the traders were people invested in the reproducibility crisis and related research, that is, they are more knowledgable than the general public would be.
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by repolfx 8y ago
Well, it does make sense yes, which is why that view has become accepted. There are some facts that seem to give pause for thought though, like it apparently being much warmer than today in medieval times. This can be hard to see because te
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by repolfx 8y ago
I don't think you need to reach for sexism as an explanation there. Name changes are sufficiently rare that building the flows to support it will usually only become an issue in mature production software where accurate names are extre
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by repolfx 8y ago
Offtopic/meta: for some reason your post was dead. The comment at the end is kind of pointless and flamey, Rust isn't that good, but doesn't seem to justify a post kill. I vouched for you to bring it back.
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by repolfx 8y ago
I think all parents stress about video games. Mine did. Sometimes I'd get a new game and play it incessently. Eventually I'd get bored and go back to programming. If someone is interested in the topic fun games won't stop the
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by repolfx 8y ago
Maybe. My brother had access to a computer and a piano. For a while he was big into computer graphics and everyone in my family thought he'd be a graphics designer. He ended up becoming singularly focussed on music and is now a profess
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by repolfx 8y ago
The JVM GCs generally have much lower overhead than Go's does. Go imposes enormous collection costs on apps to try and drive latency so low. This is widely acknowledged in discussions of the various GC tradeoffs.
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by repolfx 8y ago
It's a false dichotomy. Languages like Java or Kotlin compile fast and have exceptions too.
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by repolfx 8y ago
How is decoding a stack trace easier for Go programs? My experience has been that Go programs simply don't generate stack traces when something goes wrong. Instead you get some log message with a generic "Something went wrong in s
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by repolfx 8y ago
You may feel you don't need tax cuts or won't notice, but don't speak for everyone. You're really just taking the standard position of "I wish the government would take other people's money but I'll phrase
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by repolfx 8y ago
Here is a helpful chart that gives this data: http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2015/03/the_prevalence_1...
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by repolfx 8y ago
Trams run on metal rails because steel has a much lower rolling resistance than rubber, and suffers less wear and tear. So you can carry more people more frequently with less maintenance.
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by repolfx 8y ago
Well, why? The OP has asserted that NY transit delivers vast economic benefits that offset its loss making nature. Fine, I can buy that to some extent, but how big exactly are these benefits? How do we know they're actually so big and
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by repolfx 8y ago
Reality check: in the big 4 western European economies (UK, France, Germany, Italy) the UK grew the most in Q3: https://order-order.com/2018/11/14/uk-top-big-four-eu-growth... Italy was stagnant and Germany a
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by repolfx 8y ago
National governments in Europe are notoriously pro-EU despite the apparent contradictions involved (the EU makes those governments less powerful and important). The reason seems to be the EU's habit of giving powerful supporters in nat
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by repolfx 8y ago
Why is it pathetic? It does reflect a very real reality. And yes there are "objective realities" in economics and politics and always have been. In economics the objective reality is resource limits. In politics, votes. Have you e
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by repolfx 8y ago
Austerity increases economic growth. Government spending isn't "growth" because it's funded by taxation - unless it's funded by borrowing, in which case it's only a temporary growth spike that must be offset by
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by repolfx 8y ago
Why don't you just donate the extra money you don't need to charity instead? There's no obligation to fund all social activities through tax. For instance if you don't need a few hundred pounds per year, why not buy a fr
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by repolfx 8y ago
Company taxes are being lowered because last time that was done, tax take went up not down. That is lower corporation tax = more tax revenue and it's revenue that matters.

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