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by sevenless 10y ago
I learned about limited slip differentials from Marisa Tomei's great courtroom scene in My Cousin Vinny : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFdJza0AbeA
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by sevenless 10y ago
But these attributes are true of all states. There is no unclaimed land on earth that new states can claim, so state formation necessarily destroys existing states. It's impossible to form new states without force, just as much today a
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by sevenless 10y ago
That kind of comparison to American history could as easily imply a civil war is the next step to consolidate the EU. It sounds ridiculous, but it's also hard to imagine a peaceful federal unification of Europe.
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by sevenless 10y ago
You have Juncker backwards. He was saying internal EU borders are a bad idea. Rejecting all borders is a tenable ethical claim - indeed it's hard to justify why states should exist in most ethical frameworks that value human equality -
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by sevenless 10y ago
As you say, having done everything in their power to undermine the institutional effectiveness of the EU, the Eurosceptics cannot reasonably turn around and blame the results of their own actions on the EU. Nonetheless, that's exactly
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by sevenless 10y ago
India isn't a particularly good argument for democracy. It might be an argument against it.
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by sevenless 10y ago
The EU is 'undemocratic' - as opposed to Britain's unelected Prime Minister, Queen and House of Lords, of course. A more serious response is that democracy can only be justified by its outcomes, and isn't a good thing in
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by sevenless 10y ago
> Stiglitz points his finger squarely at “the fatal decision to adopt a single currency, without first providing the institutions to make it work”. The second part of this quote means something quite different from what the headline im
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by sevenless 10y ago
If they can't interact with normal matter or light, we're the dark matter to them.
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by sevenless 10y ago
It is a bug. There is no way to stop Excel from automatically turning certain strings in files that it reads in, into dates.
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by sevenless 10y ago
HN's seriously voting up this libertarian wank?
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by sevenless 10y ago
So much for billions of years of blind evolution. Take that , Mother Nature! Don't see birds flying around with goddamn plasma wings, do you?
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by sevenless 10y ago
I was wrong about Pizarro. With the 'mistaken for a prophecy' bit, I was thinking of Cortés and Montezuma. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/cortes_hernan....
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by sevenless 10y ago
I think we both know humanity's interstellar destiny is to become the murderous alien invaders we've faced down in so many movies.
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by sevenless 10y ago
So you think human ethnic groups DO work like races in D&D? Could you share with me the table of STR/INT/WIS/DEX/CON/CHA for Blacks, Whites and Asians? Oh, and Jews, of course. Do we get skill and attack bonuses
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by sevenless 10y ago
Every so often I encounter people who think that human ethnic groups work like races in Dungeons and Dragons, and I feel rather sorry for them.
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by sevenless 10y ago
States don't make laws because they have a right to; they do it because they can. There's no supra-national law that specifically gives states a right to make laws, it's just part of national sovereignty. The mafia can also f
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by sevenless 10y ago
I think Pizarro had some religious support too. The Incans had a prophecy about 'white people' coming from the gods, and he just happened to turn up at the right time...
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by sevenless 10y ago
About 10% of Danes are non-Danish migrants. I don't know the composition of the lowest 20% of the US, but I doubt they are entirely from ethnic minorities. Even if we take your claim as true, the fact that different ethnic groups are h
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by sevenless 10y ago
> If states have no right to exist, the obviously have no right of making new laws. That doesn't follow. States do make new laws, and people will go along with those laws, because the nature of a state is to compel people to follo
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Even if this is true, and terrorism threatens the existence of the state, states have no right to exist. New states often come into being, and states often stop existing (East Germany, USSR). This isn't inherently good or bad. There ar
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by sevenless 10y ago
I'm sure Donald Trump said that the other day...
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by sevenless 10y ago
I say the actuarial risk of dying from terrorism in Europe is very low. Everything else is emotion and irrational fear, which as others pointed out, is the aim of terrorism. If you don't believe me, and you think the mortality risk is
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by sevenless 10y ago
This seems to be confusing proportions with absolute numbers. Newspapers do this all the time about health statistics, going from a very small number of additional deaths to scaremonger about a '300% increase in cancer'. Terrorism
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by sevenless 10y ago
Yes Minister calls this "politician's logic". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trw1PbQt_Yo Something must be done; this is something; therefore, we must do it.
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> The context here is that France and Germany have suffered a spate of terrorist attacks over the past year, including a co-ordinated attack in Paris in November 2015 that killed 130; a July 2016 attack in Nice where a truck driver ploug
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That would be like Christopher Columbus, mid-Atlantic crossing, encountering a gunpowder-equipped Mayan navy going off to conquer Europe. Not likely.
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You can slow down - just that the probe won't remain intact. But perhaps that isn't necessary for the probe to be useful. We can also use these space probes to do geological and atmospheric surveys of the planet when they arrive
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And, at least it's probably saved us from having President Schwarzenegger...
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by sevenless 10y ago
I always considered the USA's rule on who can become president is really unfair. Legally, if you weren't born in the USA, you are a second class citizen. Contrary to what's commonly claimed, immigrants can never become '

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