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by topmonk 7y ago
Japan has one of the lowest birthrates in the world, well below replacement rates. Their society is also consists almost entirely of Japanese that all share the same culture. It would be very hard to emulate what they do and even so, no rea
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by topmonk 7y ago
Forcing one group of people to pay dearly for the benefit of another group, who did not cause their ills, and actually have done a great deal to help, through paying taxes that has already gone towards their welfare, is definitely not the
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> There's no evidence for which causes which. If causation runs the other way, then that for every 0.11C increase in temperature, clouds decrease by 1%. What sort of evidence are we talking about? We don't have a another exact
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But why should someone who spent $1 million+ on a house have to suffer a drop on the value of their property for this? It would be a serious reduction of their net worth, far more than any proposed tax to help the poor could ask for and rea
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> I don't see many people particularly keen on dropping out, and getting onto the free ride bus. This isn't a plan of action that someone is likely going to advertise.
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> The actual paper observes that cloud cover went down at the same time as temperature went up over the last few decades, and so perhaps the temperature went up because cloud cover went down rather than because of anything humans did. It
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Might it be possible that there could be one vaccine who's risks outweigh its benefits? Or are all vaccines completely safe and effective and that's the end of the story forever?
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What we should have is an open, freely accessible meta-information database of things like, whether user X liked/disliked, what other page/sites linked to this site, what their admins ranked this site as, if they did, etc., etc. T
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by topmonk 7y ago
Except that when the signers are corporations beholden to governments, the freedom to transact with whoever you choose is lost. This limits its value as a currency. It's like the “7 degrees of seperation” thing. You might not be doing
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Glass will cut my feet and shred my tires. The wildlife is largely unaffected. There'd still be trees, birds, animals, etc. You're blowing it out of proportion.
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This all hinges on what you mean by “relatively fast”. If glass is being shattered and ends up being a hazard for years, this is much worse than a goopy old discarded plastic bottle, regardless of the perceived ugliness of the latter.
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He's always nice when he's dealing with a foreign power. The leader of China, Japan, North Korea... He's always been very respectful and polite to their face, but that doesn't mean he hasn't implemented tough polici
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In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When peop
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Unless you have a competitor making a nearly identical product. That's why I said it was exploitation of a monopolistic position. There is no other car company close to Tesla, so they get to pay these games. Same as a chip manufacture
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It turns the idea on its head that the price of something should be related to the cost of making it. If there were a bunch of viable Tesla-like alternatives out there, they wouldn't be able to afford to leave in disabled features. So,
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I always loved using the ' key to open a find box that only searched links. great for mouseless browsing. (Although I switched off from firefox a long time ago due to their political ideology.)
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The unemployment rate that everyone uses (U.3) actually only counts people who have looked for work in the last 4 weeks since the BLS survey is taken. After that, they fall into (U.6), which is for people who have looked for work in the pas
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by topmonk 7y ago
Maybe vacationer would be a better term. You certainly aren't a traveler. You're not wandering around a place to travel somewhere. Just attempting to find enjoyable and rewarding experiences. In that sense you are quite like a tou
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Thanks, I thought there should be something like this.
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Yea you're right. But what about this, the client uses the password as a seed to create a public/private key pair, and sends the public key to the server. If it is during password creation, the server stores this public key in rel
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It's a shame that password hashing isn't standardized. There should be a standard password box in html in which you can just call a function to pull out a salted hash of a password. The attributes of the box could include option
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In what way is it hyperbolic?
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Do you think it would be possible to end up with two coexisting widely used currencies? One currency like you say, traceable and hard to manipulate and another that preserves the anonymity that bitcoin provides but with a lot more fluctuati
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> I would expect property crime to correlate with wealth generally, ie, where there's... more property. This is obviously not true. Wealthy neighborhoods have far less crime. The point is that because of the policies of SF to go eas
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Your index fund is investing in a bad investment and you say the fault is that the bad investment exists? Why not choose a different fund? We shouldn't put bubble wrap around everything in the hopes that no one can ever do anything tha
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That's only violent crime. From your very link, for property crime, it's the 4th highest of all the US. This goes along with what the parent was saying. Cops don't go after non-life threatening crimes.
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4chan uses conntrails and star movements to find live stream of flag(archive.is)
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The guy has a point, and all you do is dodge and shame. Landfills take a tiny portion of space in the US. Why are we so concerned?
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Isn't this a lot like Socialism? It's akin to deciding on the price of a pair of gloves based on what kinds of people need it, how much they would use it, how long before they need a replacement, etc. But instead of gloves, we&#x2
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In Taiwan, that translates to giant flying cockroaches. And the giant wolf spiders that eat them.

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