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by vladms 3y ago
This is not about borders. It is about the rules of the air company. Any place where the ticket is nominal can (and in my opinion should) ask for an ID. At least to prevent for example people hording tickets and reselling them.
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by vladms 3y ago
In Europe all flights require you to show an ID at the gate. Usually they just throw a quick look (no big delay), but something like this is harder to pull off. Always amazed how much there is talk about "security" in US (TSA, bor
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by vladms 3y ago
I never mentioned "an ethnic group". I mentioned "main" and "very present" - neither absolutes. The main point: comment was not racist. It was discriminatory based on other topics than race (geography or relig
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by vladms 3y ago
The above replies did not mention an ethnic group, rather a geographical area. The main ethnic group in that area is also very present in north Africa, and there is much less general "mistrust" (or negative feelings) towards that
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by vladms 3y ago
The perception might be that air conditioning is used excessively and the same arguments are used for excessive heating. I know 2 countries in Europe in one winter heating targets 23 Celsius inside for outside temperatures of 5 Celsius in a
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by vladms 3y ago
Considering how much money are poured into AI development would not say that "everything is about minimizing expense". But it is true that user interfaces are not something that will sell your application to the masses. But to be
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by vladms 3y ago
I think the thing that prevents efficient research is presentation of what is already there. There are lots of great things presented very poorly/undocumented. Anybody developing should worry much more about explaining clearly/pre
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by vladms 3y ago
Not in USA, but people that I know that used to live in the country side in some countries were more than happy to leave to large towns. Complaints: nothing interesting happens, hard to get anywhere, lack of products. I was born and raised
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by vladms 3y ago
And, for completion, with the same engine that beyond all reason is done, but with a different game play feeling: https://zero-k.info/ I personally prefer Zero-K (flatter tech tree, territory can be more important), but bot
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by vladms 3y ago
My point is that "opposite to what happened" has no immediate connection to what he believes. I find normal that he tried to negotiate a better deal and that his negotiating position was worse because he was the defaulting party.
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by vladms 3y ago
So how is it opposite? He tried to renegotiate because he considered there should be "less consequences". The problem with default on a loan is that while both parties must bear some responsibility (both the giver and the taker),
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by vladms 3y ago
> sell different sets of products to local clienteles > offering a particular subset to a particular customer Aren't those in fact the same?... It's just that you can adjust faster and more granular, but as you yourself ment
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by vladms 3y ago
I am not that sure it was the case before either. If you have 40 very similar products at Walmart where are they placed? Which one is placed on the top shelf (less visible) which one is placed at average height? How many packages of 1 type
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by vladms 3y ago
Why do you mention capitalism and not economy in general ? Any resource allocation exercise is "complex" and "hard". Probably there is a better way but I expect any progress to be slow. The open source movement started i
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by vladms 3y ago
Playing devil's advocate: is the current level of security the biggest problem of the computer systems? Just two (similar) examples that cross my mind: large monopolies (ex: thinking Microsoft in the 90's), imbalanced power betwee
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by vladms 3y ago
It might be worth it to analyze a bit more. Like, what would be different if the software would be closed source and developers payed by companies? I think it would be at least as hard to notice such an exploit and sometimes it might be eas
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by vladms 3y ago
I find the title and general feeling around this issue a bit exaggerated. SSPL license is indeed more restrictive but as far as I understand still allows internal usage of the software (without providing it externally "as a paid servic
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by vladms 3y ago
Can't say I understand this case (and don't know the details), but generally once you "train" yourself to do something and like it (basically, anything, like develop programs, run, watch movies, etc.) it is not that eas
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by vladms 3y ago
Do you know anybody working in a patent office? I know people in the European patent office and they are overwhelmed by numbers of application, they need very educated people to read through lot of (boring) documents and they do not get muc
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by vladms 3y ago
I would have expected the article to give some clear pool/metric/statistics about "people hate the idea ... ". There are indeed loud people and big interest groups that oppose car free cities, but I am not sure about &qu
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by vladms 3y ago
You remind me of https://xkcd.com/592/ For every point, you have to take a subjective decision that is in no way trivial. 1) Additionally to what happens today now you need to compare patents (how would you increase th
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by vladms 3y ago
While its true that compared to 10 years ago cycling is much better served by the infrastructure, there are still large challenges ahead, and I would mention only two of them: - many intersection are very poorly signaled if you are riding a
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by vladms 3y ago
After having used Linux for multiple years I had to use macOS (and later Windows) and I found the experience shitty as well (ex: no system way to manage programs, strange multi-user support, annoying forced updates, more complex to setup re
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by vladms 3y ago
Simple thing that gets lost: someone adds very long comment on one line (maybe has word wrapping on); someone formats the comment to be on multiple lines; diff will be a mess even if there is no text difference in the actual comment. One th
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by vladms 3y ago
While I understand the idea (there are nuances) I wonder if we treat things fairly. I have never measured gravity directly. I can notice effects which I know are attributed to gravity (things falling), but then again I can see effects attri
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by vladms 3y ago
Demographic, energy and financial crisis in France ? This sounds such a French perspective ("everything is so bad in our country") that ignores so many other places were the problems are real and widespread. We had a global pandem
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by vladms 3y ago
Is keeping history of textual changes better than (also) keeping history of semantic changes? We focus so much on the representation (text in a programming language) that we might miss capturing intentions (when clear). I love GIT and GIT i
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by vladms 3y ago
I guess that not having other warm objects pointing at the water, will not warm the water (example: a wall radiates infrared so it heats the water if the wall has "sight" over the water). Insulating the walls of the container with
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by vladms 3y ago
You might ignore other aspects of life. A good part of the children dying before reaching 10 years old (and not only). People not knowing why things happen and worrying is a vengeful god or spirit, or living in fear of the village shaman. N
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by vladms 3y ago
I have the impression that too many people think about actual examples (like: I hate New York - or insert your hated city name here) rather than the idea of a city. I have lived in a couple of large European cities and each was very differe

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