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by vladms 2y ago
Definitely it should not be patronizing. Presentation was so bad for various important topics (burning fossil fuels, nutrition habits, sex stuff, etc.). Still, personally I try to let myself challenged even if the argument is patronizing. I
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by vladms 2y ago
> But... it's not. 160 years of straight uninterrupted time without total war out of 250 makes no-total-war the norm, Your choose to mention arbitrarily 250 years. I see no reason for that, as there were things happening on the same
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by vladms 2y ago
Blaming difficulty of problems on capitalism alone is disingenuous. There are huge scientific projects that are not profitable and still done because there is a somehow clearer path forward (ex: UKBioBank, CERN, ITER). When I hear "{x}
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by vladms 2y ago
It is about choices. You gain a certain amount of money and you can do various things with them. You can choose to eat 100 burgers I can choose to eat 100 carrots and buy a TV. Antibiotic resistance implies "killing most of people fast
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by vladms 2y ago
Not sure what's your point though. I do think people will always do "some" unreasonable things, but doing all reasonable things at once and as much as we can is probably not smart so we should at least discuss it. How large s
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by vladms 2y ago
I have seen people consider the outcome is one of "candidate A wins" or "candidate B wins" (so binary). I do not fully agree, but practically it seems to be a good approximation - as in 30 years nobody reached something
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by vladms 2y ago
> Europe had been on fire off and on for hundreds of years. The point was that armed conflicts also happened on North American soil (even if consider only USA soil) for long time, so not so different for what happened in Europe. The last
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by vladms 2y ago
I could say the same about the period of peace in the USA which is only from 1865 (Edit: 1865 is the civil war, but thought hey let's look, and it seems there were conflicts with Indians up to 1924!) . It is an exception, because befor
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by vladms 2y ago
I have seen many people not saying "don't know" when appropriate. If you believe whomever without some double-checking you will have (bad) surprises. To make another parallel: that's why we have automated testing in soft
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by vladms 2y ago
I would call it culture. How you are educated, what you see around since day 0 on. It is very hard to escape it and unless you travel and live in another country you will not even be aware of such things (and even then you need a certain le
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by vladms 2y ago
Did Europeans like it when commerce with Russia was interrupted? No, they would have very much preferred for trade to continue. My guess is that some things (wars - physical or economical) make things worse for everybody - to different degr
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by vladms 2y ago
Registration as an expat in the Netherlands is much smoother than in France, for things like taxes, health, pension stuff, municipality stuff, etc. (not to mention at the time I did in NL I did not know the language and I know well French).
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by vladms 2y ago
I checked the list of the fines ( https://www.cnil.fr/fr/les-sanctions-prononcees-par-la-cnil ). They are definitely doing good things, but they do not seem to be very active to prevent companies to gather large database
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by vladms 2y ago
I wonder if not having such state database is not causing today more issues than it defends from. In the 80s I would get it, the state was the only one able to build such a database and people were afraid of what it would do secretly with i
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by vladms 2y ago
Even it would occupy them 20% of their time, the issue with such a backdoor is what it can do to non-criminals (ex: loose the backdoor to an enemy nation state that would allow spying on all citizens, or allowing some party to eliminate opp
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by vladms 2y ago
I think expectations not to pay for things are one of the reasons people give up control to companies - you complain about 48 eur and not having a free tier, but you also mention you want stuff. I decided for myself to use less free service
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by vladms 2y ago
I do agree that things are harder when you do them then when random people advertise them on the internet. That being said, things do evolve in time, and while I can't talk about gardening, I find it much easier to host a small website
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by vladms 2y ago
There are lots of people (both in and out) perceiving Europe in different ways, but is this a result of facts or of repetition of some ideas in the news? Can you give without searching 5 examples of large unprofitable projects in Europe and
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by vladms 2y ago
Pressure from the outside can always lead to polarization and finger pointing as it can't be expected (reasonably) that the other country doesn't in fact has a hidden agenda. So I think it is good there is no pressure from the out
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by vladms 2y ago
America fucks itself as much as others. Some countries do resist against all odds, examples: Afghanistan fought both Russia and USA and won; Vietnam had wars with both USA and China (1979) and also won. Some countries prefer a side because
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by vladms 2y ago
The discussion started from art inside a house (not like a public statue). Lots of art in houses is meant to be pretty (think of painting on a wall with a city you love, a portrait of some family, an abstract set of colors on a canvas, a st
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by vladms 2y ago
Would definitely not getting the same effect from a tiktok or facebook feed, but static art/decoration are quite different from that for me. For one, the art stays the same, the only thing you can change are your position and the light
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by vladms 2y ago
Just curious, are you really calm on the long term in a minimalist decor? I get that when you look at it at first you don't get assaulted by input (as it is minimalist), but can you keep an inner peace for long because of the decor? Fo
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by vladms 2y ago
I think in various parts of the world people were already quite negative towards US. What happens now though is that some other countries will have second thoughts. I hope enough people can distinguish between one administration and "t
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by vladms 2y ago
I always find fun these "generalizations". Like: "Eggs are fine". If you are a 50kg person that eats 20 eggs for breakfast each day I doubt it would be fine. We would need something like LD50, or even better a range over
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by vladms 2y ago
The world is not what you or me want is what you can convince enough people to do. In the country were I choose to pay taxes, people in wheelchairs are well accommodated. But you know what that also means? That the same resources used for t
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by vladms 2y ago
> I don't like paying taxes. If we replace "taxes" with "paying for an army, paying for police, etc." than the above statement seems strange. I can understand "I don't like what society choose to build
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by vladms 2y ago
Sorry to hear about your condition, and while I think society can decide to accommodate to some conditions, I disagree with that idea that it "should accommodate". It is a common decision, and sometimes the answer will be "no
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by vladms 2y ago
Sometimes it is good to make parallels with other things to check if proposals make sense. How would sound "go and try to steal every car out there, so that car manufacturers improve their car security" ? For me it sounds counter-
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by vladms 2y ago
Lumping up all "Europe" into one is quite misleading. For example in France when buying/selling a property a detailed lead investigation performed by a professional is obligatory. To the level of what wall has what concentrat

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