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by waps 12y ago
This is probably one of the rules that makes it so easy for pharma companies to make medicine so expensive. Most European welfare states refuse certain treatments based on costs. This can, obviously, really suck because there are (sometimes
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by waps 12y ago
Given that raising land up to 8-10 meters was done with the economy of the 18th century, even back then mostly done as a for-profit venture, I'd say it's not all that much.
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by waps 12y ago
I can't comment on most of it. But about the Netherlands, this will not happen. Everybody knows that the Netherlands is currently already below sea level, and has been for over three hundred years. So if you made this kind of map for t
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by waps 12y ago
What I wonder is what happens to the money locked up in these transactions. I understand that the money is effectively inaccessible to both the sender and the receiver until the transaction is resolved. Is that right ? I wonder about the im
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by waps 12y ago
Plus the law has made that choice for you. Sacrificing another life to save your own, intentionally, is second-degree murder (first if answering this question means you planned it in advance). If you answer yes to this question, aside from
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by waps 12y ago
I would argue that traffic law provides the answer. If you can't avoid violating any law, there is a clear sequence defined you should use to decide what law to violate (they're all numbered, TLDR is : violate the larger numbers f
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by waps 12y ago
The tax ministry of the Netherlands is pretty famous for doing the same (and for being total assholes about it too, locking people up without explanation until months later. Destroying businesses by "safeguarding evidence", ... An
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by waps 12y ago
Technically, Hamas committed election fraud [1]. However, chances are overwhelmingly that they would have won if they didn't. [1] http://nir.icej.org/news/headlines/brief-hamas-accused-gaza-...
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by waps 12y ago
I don't get this. You seem to accept the fact that there are "implications for Israel" (ie. annihilation of Jews worldwide, as stated in their charter ?), and yet call hamas a "resistence movement" ? Really ? When H
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by waps 12y ago
I didn't know that. Thanks.
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This does not seem to be a fair assessment. The "life-altering value" is not provided by the cost of the IT project, but by the total cost of healthcare in the US. That's 3.8 trillion dollars, or 11900 USD per person per year
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by waps 12y ago
I was going to say something about how the US market is a lot bigger than the Swiss market, but I've had to reconsider. Switzerland is a country of 6 million people and is about the size of an "average" US state. Most US stat
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by waps 12y ago
I am wondering what most of those game developers use for writing apps. Your app looks pretty minimalistic, and I do think it could use at least some additional decoration. But writing my own game apps, I do realize why you're not doin
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by waps 12y ago
So it does not in fact run on android ? One of the youtube movies on your linked page is titled "Hexiled Gameplay iOS & Android iPhone & iPad HD" and uploaded by "AndroidGameTech".
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What tools did you use to write this game ?
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That is probably true, but if you read the newspapers you'd think otherwise. The US has a pretty good humanitarian track record, but every little thing gets blown up outside of proportion. And of course, the US has an economic system t
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by waps 12y ago
There is an alternative : use technology to take control of the planet's climate. There are a number of papers investigating various means of controlling global temperature, from ships that blast water into the athmosphere, to using bo
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by waps 12y ago
TLDR: it isn't. For a real explanation : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-body_problem It's a typical chaotic system. Over the short term everything looks and behaves VERY stable, but every 10 million years
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by waps 12y ago
I don't think that an understanding of the concept of models would make the general public understand. Science is replacing religion. And a religion can do anything it wants, on any subject, except for one thing : it can't say &qu
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by waps 12y ago
The complete onesidedness is distressing. But yeah I do agree it's not racist, at least not any more than say Russia's releases about MH17 and who's to blame. But why does Hamas put rockets in everything they can reach ? Some
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by waps 12y ago
Target was not the power plant but fighters in adjoining buildings. The electricity problems have 3 causes : 1) they attacked the Egyptian state, which has mostly cut them off (Hamas and the muslim brotherhood are somewhere between one orga
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by waps 12y ago
Why not ? The rocket attacks are obviously human rights violations and war crimes. Indiscriminate attacks against civilians. Is it truly so amazing to you that people complain about the obvious double standard here ? Moral absolutism, appli
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by waps 12y ago
Euhm ... I just went to that site, pressed CTRL-F, and typed in this sentence. It's not there. Can you point out what I missed ?
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by waps 12y ago
Total world oil production has been decreasing since 2005, despite all the good news you hear. With the Iraqi production, the curve is going down but is nearly flat. That lead to oil prices of $100/barrel not going down. It hasn't
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by waps 12y ago
Incidently, detergent is one of those things that won't work well in seawater. Plus seawater is corrosive. So even if you do manage to clean things, they're not as reusable as they otherwise would be.
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by waps 12y ago
> Some devs say one Activity for the whole app and just swap fragments! Meaning pick and choose what you want to do. If you're writing a game, this is probably the way to go. If you're writing a form entry application with a mi
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Presumably the alternative is web pages ? Well, I for one have just the opposite experience. Webpages, I develop them often, but I never get anywhere beyond a basic, simple, ugly and unresponsive interface (meaning the server and client act
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by waps 12y ago
Nothing lasts in sea water. Least of all sponges. I doubt that's a practical application.
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Keep in mind that these regulations have advantages as well as disadvantages. Municipalities can easily prevent broadband providers from installing networks. So if they compete with broadband providers, they can easily abuse their position.
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by waps 12y ago
Sorry about the tone of that reply. My point is that, when it comes to non-US conquests, ethnic/religious cleansing was the norm, not the exception. The muslim states are especially famous for doing that, but they're hardly alone

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