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by toss1 2y ago
US politicians stopped valuing actual capitalism and stopped supporting anti-trust actions, accelerated by the SCOTUS Citizens United decision essentially equating money to free speech and allowing effectively unlimited corporate political
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by toss1 2y ago
Also critical, which you failed to notice, is the fact that this anthropogenic-forced climate change is happening 10,000+ times faster than prior unforced climate changes. Changes that took a million years now happen in a mere century. Sys
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by toss1 2y ago
I think we are conflating Private Equity, small-time house-fixer-flippers, and vacation homes. I think we agree that the PE crowd can rot in hell — they're buying properties to standardize, corner the market, and charge extractive arti
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by toss1 2y ago
Sadly there's also the old saying that "no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the average customer" (P.T. Barnum ?).
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by toss1 2y ago
Yes, adverse possession laws are nothing like that Here in the US, it is typically must be "open, notorious, exclusive, and unopposed" for like 20 years before you can try for adverse possession. You certainly do not get rights ju
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by toss1 2y ago
I agree that we may be having a problem of definitions, and we may be like the blind men discussing different parts of the elephant. I am definitely discussing in good faith, as I'm seeing situations where relatively ordinary people ha
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by toss1 2y ago
Right, DrivePilot is less capable than a Tesla. Got it. You still have provided ANY example of the topic of the discussion — a car that is actually self-driving, as in can get from one location to another on public roads with zero inte
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by toss1 2y ago
This is still the same issue. Simply saying a building is "vacant and unused" and is therefor qualified for confiscation (which is effectively what squatting is), would be a travesty. I owned a house that was "vacant and unu
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by toss1 2y ago
>>you're flipping properties, it was your winter vacation house, or you're actually spending your life in the Bahamas So, you are saying that people who do any of those things should be subject to arbitrary confiscation of t
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by toss1 2y ago
>>Someone's still paying for the house flipping. Of course they are - even in the case of 'flipping', they are at least working to add value. Barring complete incompetence, the repaired and upgraded place is MORE valua
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by toss1 2y ago
For 2), how do you tell the difference between a building that is truly abandoned, and one that has just been bought and the new owner is in the process of arranging to repair and upgrade it? Unless you are going to setup surveillance and
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by toss1 2y ago
Yup, if there is such a difference under Spanish law, then that law is extremely myopic, passed by a herd of idiots. It will certainly lead to LESS housing, not more. Yikes
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by toss1 2y ago
No. It doesn't matter whether it is a primary residence, secondary residence, or an investment property. It is the property of someone else. Without permission, opening the door or window and going into it is breaking and entering.
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by toss1 2y ago
OK, that tells me that the Tesla seems better than the Mercedes. It does NOT tell me that either have achieved anything near the stated standard: "for practical purposes it is self-driving." I don't think anyone promotes (or
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by toss1 2y ago
Seriously? Your definition of "self-driving" must be different from normal. Any proper understanding of the term "self driving", including the way Musk advertises it, is 'tell car through the UI where you want it t
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by toss1 2y ago
This seems to have tremendous potential, and not just for geothermal! However, one issue with geothermal that I didn't see addressed is that iirc, geothermal systems start out great, but as water/fluid is pumped down and back up h
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by toss1 2y ago
It is putting zero constraints on what can be said It only suggests constraining the rate of broadcasting You can go to the town square and shout all you want, you'll still be limited by how much you can enunciate in 24 hours. That is
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by toss1 2y ago
And I we don't really notice that magnitude of difference because our optical system adjusts so well
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by toss1 2y ago
Nonsense. First, "Russian dezinformatsiya techniques" is more specific, and specifically related to the current events. Second, no one owns them, they're not copyrighted or anything. Third, "leftist" is far more v
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by toss1 2y ago
Or, if you want better examples, how about the massively promoted "2000 mules" movie? It was literally all lies, just proven in court, and the producer just apologized to one of the subjects for those lies and pulled it from distr
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by toss1 2y ago
How is this argument different from "Whichever side shouts loudest and longest wins."? Volume is not equal to facts or truth. Yes, censorship is dangerous. But the article is NOT an argument for censorship. Everyone knows the saga
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by toss1 2y ago
This is way more fun than just "upside-down" — it's all different orientations! More seriously, it looks like an excellent testing and optimization program that cannot be done as well in simulation (and in any case would be
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by toss1 2y ago
and less informative than NUKEMAP
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by toss1 2y ago
It will continue until either Putin is no longer in power, or until RU is pushed back to its borders. Russia implements Lenin's approach: "We probe with bayonets, where we find mush, we press on, where we find steel,we withdraw.&
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A woman who sold time – and the man who tried to stop her(bbc.com)
5 points by toss1 2y ago|1 comments
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Chernobyl's "wild boar paradox" has been cracked(iflscience.com)
24 points by toss1 2y ago|1 comments
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by toss1 2y ago
>>Solar panels have seen a lot of innovation in the last few decades. Yes. And the reason that innovation happened is because of the combination of people seeing the importance and potential profits, policy drivers, and funding and
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by toss1 2y ago
>>sometimes the simplest explanation really is that the animal is doing a "human behavior". Or, perhaps more accurately, humans are one of many intelligent animals and we do behaviours typical of many intelligent animals, an
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by toss1 2y ago
>>Good thing is that [if] anyone is hurt in this scenario it's the idiot. Why worry about it? Because then the idiot or his/her family will sue YOU for the consequences of their stupidity. It happens ALL the time. And even
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TSMC and ASML can remotely disable chip-making equipment if China invades Taiwan(scmp.com)
3 points by toss1 2y ago|0 comments

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