tsar_bomba

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by tsar_bomba 6y ago
Suicide is not a disease of comfort. Obesity is not a disease of wealth, for food (and junk food) is incredibly inexpensive in the developed world today, likely no more expensive than heavy smoking, alcohol, cocaine or opiates. These are di
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by tsar_bomba 6y ago
The tragic thing is that those Western countries likely used to be on the same or even better level a few decades ago as Scandinavia and Central Europe today, but they are no more. By the way, I wouldn't necessarily mention South-Easte
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by tsar_bomba 6y ago
Nationalism is drawing borders around preexistent tribalism to keep it contained. It is exactly violations of those borders which got us wars in Europe. Sometimes for the sake of colonization, sometimes for the sake of unification, sometime
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by tsar_bomba 6y ago
Things like guns and drugs are contentious though, because availability in one state of an "open borders" zone enables smuggling into other states, where they might be banned. One could hope that the system would tend towards over
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by tsar_bomba 6y ago
It is my understanding that over the years people have developed various software to follow threads and users' comment streams so it is conceivable that some bored zealot took it upon himself to police every single thing you post in re
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by tsar_bomba 6y ago
True in principle, while in the real world the devs didn't even inspect perms on those files or changed them deliberately to fix some access control issue without a second thought. Welcome to embedded software, where the product is rea