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by xienze 4y ago
Inflation, and also the dollar is basically at par with the Euro now. Throw in VAT and there you have it.
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by xienze 4y ago
Are you sure that’s what you want? There’s also times when you get legitimate calls from people not on your whitelist (think, submitted info to a contractor online, they call you back later from their personal cell phone, etc.).
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by xienze 4y ago
> Confluence is actually fine, although also not exactly fast... It still doesn't have native Markdown editing, does it? Major issue IMO.
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by xienze 4y ago
> Alternatively, we can continue to have mass killings, single killings, and lots of crime by guns bought by people that should have been blocked. Sounds possible in theory, but not so much in practice. Let's say I live my whole li
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by xienze 4y ago
> No, because for you to sell it to him, you'd have done the background check, and transferred it to him. That is the point. In most (all?) states there's no need for a background check or any kind of record keeping when two in
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by xienze 4y ago
> As a gun owner, sure there is. If your gun shows up in a crime, you get indicted as well. That would put a big dent in people being willing to buy guns for others. Buying a gun "for" someone else is a very gray area. For exa
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by xienze 4y ago
> IMHO, the core of the problem is that elected politicians are asking constituents in the first place. Those constituents are the ones paying for said projects, so yeah it’s kind of important that everyone is on board before committing
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by xienze 4y ago
Are interstates just supposed to end once you reach a city, and in order to continue on you’re supposed to navigate a series of roads that take you to the other edge of town, where the interstate starts again? Seems less than ideal.
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by xienze 4y ago
My position is that you cannot claim women are “forced” to give birth (they have options) if, like the parent, you claim that no one was “forced” to take a vaccine they didn’t want (they have the option of losing their job). It’s a matter o
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by xienze 4y ago
> This is using the power of the state to compel women to give birth to a child after having carried it for 9 years. Those women can simply get their abortion done in another state, they're not "forced" to give birth to a
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by xienze 4y ago
I don't use transcoding for Plex at all. I've found it much better to stream directly to a client like Infuse and have it use the client's native hardware decoding. Now granted, this is only really feasible if you're s
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by xienze 4y ago
> Which raw material are you talking about? Be specific. Uh Lithium?
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by xienze 4y ago
> What, you think there's some inherent limit on the number of factories that can be built? No, but there are limits on the amount of raw materials that said factories can use to produce equipment.
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by xienze 4y ago
> The wind still blows at night, so you do not need battery storage to provide all the demand during the night. Is it enough wind to meet all the demand at night? And what happens when it stops blowing as much as expected for a long per
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by xienze 4y ago
No? It’s about convenience. My town actually has a little bus line. But the closest bus stop is a mile and a half or so away from my house. How do I get there? Walk? Once I get there, I have to wait for the bus, which could mean a wait
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by xienze 4y ago
> You don't have to transition completely in decades. You can start today. Yes, I agree. If you start today, you’ll be done in decades. The boneheaded move is to start a green energy transition and immediately start decommissionin
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by xienze 4y ago
Because transitioning over to green technology is a decades-long project, it's not something you can just snap your fingers and make happen, as many countries are discovering. You still need non-renewable energy sources to fill in the
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by xienze 4y ago
> The argument is that requiring voting id without a commensurate effort to make sure everyone has voter id ends up disproportionately affecting minorities. Democrats have never negotiated in good faith over the requirement to make IDs a
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by xienze 4y ago
> With that invitation, or passport or ID Well you see, having to show ID to vote is considered racist in the US. It’s OK if you didn’t know that, lots of people from other countries are dumbfounded to learn that all you have to do in t
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by xienze 4y ago
Yeah, it's very easy to draw conclusions that suit your agenda when you use slippery terms like "similar." A score of 90 and a score of 100 are "similar" in the sense that they're both an A, but one is a bit m
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by xienze 4y ago
> The Great Resignation is curious, if I could speculate maybe it was the pandemic bailout and markets bubble (crypto too) making people think "I've got money now!" I dunno if it’s even about money. The pandemic and the w
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by xienze 4y ago
When the AOC wing of the left starts gaining real power in the coming decades, you bet.
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by xienze 4y ago
Yeah I’m on the beta and I was expecting something that could operate as a minimal Java IDE (they made lots of claims of it using the normal IntelliJ indexing and autocomplete engine), but I couldn’t get it to be much more than the equivale
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by xienze 4y ago
USD isn’t tokenized — it can’t be placed on a crypto wallet and transacted on a blockchain. So essentially you have to create a token that represents $1 in order to use real currency in crypto trading.
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by xienze 4y ago
> It seems when people have the means, they choose to live in houses. I’m not sure why this point escapes so many people. When your country is vast in size and all it takes is a little bit of driving to get where you need to go, most pe
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by xienze 4y ago
> The one tiny drawback is that the globals have to be variables instead of constants, but that’s one of those problems that really only exists in the theoretical realm. I’ve never seen a bug from someone overwriting a global variable li
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by xienze 4y ago
This would be more akin to the inspection period when buying a house. The threat of the deal blowing up with so much on the line is what holds Twitter’s feet to the fire.
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by xienze 4y ago
> The real question is whether employers will raise salaries enough to compensate for the additional taxes, once they're no longer providing insurance as a benefit. Spoiler: they won’t. They’ll spin not having to pay a premium as a
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by xienze 4y ago
> The general failure of anti-immigration parties to win majorities in European countries suggests that most people are either pro-immigration or at least willing to accept it. But again, that ties back to the demonization of being again
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by xienze 4y ago
> Nobody ever forced European countries to accept mass immigration. It came up for a direct vote? Or did politicians who never ran on mass immigration platforms just kinda decide to introduce legislation? People tend to conflate the acc

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