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by tbatchelli 6y ago
I just moved to a 3x bigger apartment for a 50% rent increase. Not everyone is wanting to move out, many people here seem to be trading places to improve their quality of life, leveraging the lower rents and higher availability. The city is
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by tbatchelli 6y ago
I wish that we collectively had become more political in the past decade and stopped being apolitical cogwheels of machines that have, ultimately, used to undermine democracy. We all bear responsibility to what happens to this world, and we
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by tbatchelli 6y ago
Having a child is not in the same league as buying a Tesla. That Tesla won’t be a contributing member of society and pay taxes when you retire. Yes it is a decision. Sometimes selfish, most often foolish, but in all cases needed. And all be
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by tbatchelli 6y ago
It is complicated, I agree. Tax cuts don't really make that much of a difference at the end of the day. Loss of job promotions, inability to take the same financial risks, childcare, education, lack of downtime, etc, all I think have a
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by tbatchelli 6y ago
How much of this issue is related to having a part of the population think that people having children is solely a private question? "You had children, why should I bear your burden!" If none of us had children there would d be no
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by tbatchelli 6y ago
I have been using it professionally since the first Conj and I still do. We have a ton of Clojure code where I work. I still love it.
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by tbatchelli 7y ago
The premise is interesting: > It is time for economists to “eat their own dog food.” Cost-benefit analysis is the only way to answer the question, “has the economics profession done more harm than good?”
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by tbatchelli 7y ago
I believe the OP is talking about Spain in general when she/he writes "Freedom of expression has not being limited in Spain in any way or form, not at all.", wouldn't you agree?
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by tbatchelli 7y ago
Absolutely. Those are not referendums, and the results are not more valid than a survey, if not worse. I was responding to the OP's statement: > We must remember that Catalonia has already held two legal referendums, where the res
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by tbatchelli 7y ago
Just saying, you said this is new therefore invalid. Now you talk about it being different therefore invalid. I think you are a holding a political position but trying to mask it with random requests for legitimacy. Back to your original st
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by tbatchelli 7y ago
I think you might not know much about Spanish history. The Catalan movement has existed for at least over a century. We had revolts quashed, we had our language forbidden, we had forced economic depression, presidents executed, all since ea
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by tbatchelli 7y ago
Those weren't referendums. The Spanish law doesn't allow independence referendums, that's why the Spanish courts handed a 100 year sentence on the Catalan politicians that allowed one. They were consultations with no tied out
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by tbatchelli 7y ago
I must have missed something. What are those two legal referendums that you speak of? Also, wouldn't the reasons for independence be up to the citizens? You say there have none...
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by tbatchelli 7y ago
A lot of Catalans were expecting exactly this. The Spanish tribunals are highly politicized and it's an area where there wasn't much reform after Franco died of old age. My parents and other family members that grew under Franco w
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On SV startups all needing to become unicorns(threadreaderapp.com)
2 points by tbatchelli 8y ago|0 comments
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by tbatchelli 8y ago
Not drugs, but I would recommend Neil Fiore's "Power of Now" because it really helps understand and address some of the psychological underpinnings of procrastination.
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by tbatchelli 8y ago
When thinking about the cost of Prime, you need to think also of the cost of defaulting to Amazon for many purchases and not doing any price comparison. I have found that now it's fairly common to find the same item significantly cheap
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by tbatchelli 9y ago
What would the relationship be between Vit D and this (or any) flu?
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by tbatchelli 9y ago
I am a print subscriber. They do an important job and the articles are mind expanding and very high quality. If you ever read their articles you should consider a subscription, it’s well worth it for what you get and for what you support.
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Catalonia independence vote IT systems 'shut down'(news.sky.com)
6 points by tbatchelli 9y ago|0 comments
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by tbatchelli 9y ago
This is a very interesting real world use of IPFS. Is this the first real world & large scale use of it? So far it seems it is delivering on its promise: I was able to find my voting station. Too bad I am a continent and and ocean away
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Google removes Catalan referendum app from Google Play after court order(thespainreport.com)
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by tbatchelli 9y ago
Good point. I believe you could.
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by tbatchelli 9y ago
Monarchies are not democratic. Unless I can vote the King, that is.
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by tbatchelli 9y ago
Yeah, my grandfather was also given a death sentence under the rule of the law, because of his political ideas. That was Spain. Laws can be immoral. Breaking immoral laws is a duty of everyone. Now these immoral laws are applied to Catalans
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by tbatchelli 9y ago
The referendum hasn't been ruled illegal. The constitutional court grants an automatic stay on any law at the Spanish central government request. Automatic. They haven't made a judgement. And by the way, this is a political proble
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by tbatchelli 9y ago
Did I say it wasn’t voted by a majority? EDIT: I should reword my question. What part of it you believe is false? Or is it all of it?
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by tbatchelli 9y ago
Yeah, well, every time we dig a ditch on a road we find more corpses, women and kids too. What do you call a lot, by the way? > Historians of the Spanish Civil War concur that the death toll of the White Terror (~58 000–400,000), because
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by tbatchelli 9y ago
That constitution was written and signed under Military watch. Let's not forget Franco, a genocidal dictator, died of old age while still in power, he was not ousted by democratic forces. And no one ever went to jail for the dictatorsh
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by tbatchelli 9y ago
At least one, myself. It's beautiful in actual print and I feel much smarter when I read it. In my case it jolts me out of the tech-tunnel-vision and the mix of sciences and humanities I find it refreshing. I kick myself for not read

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