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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Two years ago, we had protesters literally set police precinct on fire, and not only nobody got shot, but in fact nobody faced any consequences.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
This is in fact more practical than setting up face detection system, all you need to do is ID scanner and some simple OCR system to cross check the name on ID against blacklist, each person entering slaps ID against scanners (similar to ho
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
The answer depends on whether you believe in homeopathy.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Yeah, I remember watching a YouTube video of a Japanese restaurant owner, who does the same thing: every day, he refills his broth pot to full, puts more bones in, and leaves simmering. He said that he only had to restart a decade or so bec
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
That sounds reasonable: note that I said that on short routes the engine might not have a chance to warm up. Your source, however, quoted this 15% figure for city driving, I think that’s worth stressing as well. I wonder if they have any
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> One interesting thing that points out is that internal combustion engines are also about 15% less efficient at cold temperatures. They are less efficient at cold engine temperatures, but more efficient at cold air temperatures. T
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
The expelled German Russians had little to do with the invading Nazi Germans.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Maybe CIA is using a looser, American notion of ethnicity, where just because born in America immediately makes you ethnic American. European people, for the most part, do not see it this way (even if their governments do).
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Huge majority of people shot by police is armed. Only very small fraction is unarmed. This is well known to anyone familiar with statistics on police use of force. FBI publishes this data. You act very confidently, but you are clearly not f
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
In Poland, these are about as common as regular gas stations.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
There was a brief period in American history where workers were quite well off, but it had more to do with the rest of the industrialized world being bombed to pieces than with unions. When boomers started entering job market en masse in 19
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Your understanding of the past is very mistaken. Our grandparents had to deal with the same issues. I live Washington, and frequently travel around the rural areas here. The state is littered with coal mining towns abandoned a century ago,
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
You can easily get 1950s quality housing and support a family to 1950s quality of life on today's single income. Our parents and grandparents quite simply expected much less from life than we do today. It is really quite blatantly clea
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> For a US comparison, First Amendment rights don't include a right to occupy city streets for weeks, even if you're doing it to protest the government. That’s interesting to hear, because a group of political activist have occ
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Yes, the people with power to declare stuff illegal can always say that whatever you’re doing is illegal before freezing your bank account. Was your comment meant to reassure me?
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> In his home country, you couldn't trust the banks, so people hid their money. Of course that kind of thinking is silly in Australia, but good luck explaining that to someone with war-trauma. Not too long ago we saw the Canadian go
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
The railroads were sure funded by public money, but it most certainly has not been taxpayer money. Instead, it was money invested by private individuals. Government did help the railroads with vast grants of lands, but most of the value of
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
If they didn’t like the working condition, they could have striked or left, that’s not the point. What they did in fact do was to use violence to block people who did like these working condition and specifically came there to work there in
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> You should google the Pittsburgh steel strikes and Henry Frick. You mean the guy who survived an assassination attempt by labor activists, who were running a totally illegal blockade of his business? And it’s not even like the laws hav
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Great deal for people who have plenty of free time but little money, like kids, students, retirees, or unemployed.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
How do you measure the externalities? In particular, how do you measure the environmental damage of air travel? Note that you must do it, as it is absolutely crucial for your entire argument. Otherwise, it might as well turn out that it is
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
It’s not about “nie” (as indeed, appending it to adjectives does form negations). The word “miarytmiczny” does not exist either. However, it will likely be understood by native speakers anyway, as the adjective made from the noun “miara”, m
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> Many Americans think Democratic cities are high-crime and Republican suburbs and rural areas are safe. If you look at the data this is completely wrong. It is not "completely wrong". It is only somewhat wrong if taken literal
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
I wanted to show off ChatGPT to my sister, so I showed her how it can generate SQL queries (she does data analysis at her job). I was talking to it in Polish, because why not -- it seems to be just about as good in Polish as it is in Englis
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
What I observe is that people impressed with ChatGPT keep posting things that they find impressive, but people who are unimpressed don’t post any examples where its responses were underwhelming. I suspect that many skeptics have not even t
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Don’t even bother explaining that it is a result of an explicit political decision aiming to force the nuclear power industry to subsidize the renewables from its profits. In the end, regardless of your efforts, people will use the losses t
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
This is wrong. There is no heroin anymore, only fentanyl. The addicts know what they are getting.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
It has, but the activists are deliberately trying to confuse people. You can look at NCVS, for example: > The NCVS involves about a quarter of a million interviews each year with a nationally representative sample of U.S. residents. The
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> I think per capita violent crime, gun violence in particular, is high in rural areas. This is very much false. Rural areas have very little violent crime, in both absolute and per-capita terms. I encourage you to spend some time looki
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When I am weaker than you I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.

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