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by yywwbbn 4y ago
> Fortune favours the bold Or rather corrupt politicians, oligarchs & murderers. At least according to your USSR example. > Many were selling drugs when it was illegal and picked up valuable skills that can be used to leap over ot
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by yywwbbn 4y ago
Or being put on a prison hulk with up to 30% yearly death rates. Also at least in Britain the number of capital crimes increased almost exponentially in the late 17th and the 18th centuries. So I’m not sure that’s quite right.
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by yywwbbn 4y ago
I’m pretty sure most British courts would consider it illegal to house prisoners in such conditions as are prevalent in most Turkish prisons. And if reducing costs is your only goal. Well there are other options to get rid of criminals.. Or
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by yywwbbn 4y ago
Religious and social taboos might have helped as well. > have successfully stopped nearly all drug use and trade with heavy-handed policies. Like Indonesia for instance? It has one of the strictest drug laws in the world supposedly. Yet
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by yywwbbn 4y ago
Actually almost... E.g. the murder rate in the US is about 5x higher than in the UK, in Canada it’s “only” 2.5x lower, though.
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by yywwbbn 4y ago
Nicotine itself is not particularly dangerous and smoking cigarettes with no nicotine would be just as bad for your lungs. The main with it is the addiction however there is bo clear link between long term use of nicotine itself and any sig
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by yywwbbn 4y ago
It’s pretty obvious that it isn’t at least not with lithium batteries. They are way to expensive and heavy. e.g. assuming an around 36 000 kg total payload the truck would have to use up 1/3 of all the electricity it stores just to tra
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by yywwbbn 4y ago
Right. That’s one reasons why transporting electricity by truck is a terrible idea.
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by yywwbbn 4y ago
I keep wondering, did people always use the word ‘silicon’ when talking about CPUs & SoCs? Somehow I never noticed it before Apple released their ‘Apple Silicon’.
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by yywwbbn 4y ago
> It works, right now, at A76 levels That’s hard to believe. Are there any benchmarks?
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by yywwbbn 4y ago
Majority of people were still subsistence farmers. The massive transfer of wealth from the colonies and trade (particularly in England and the Netherlands) was what allowed Europe to jump ahead. In many ways pre-industrial economy was a zer
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by yywwbbn 4y ago
You’re right. It seem the fees are still around 1% at least for smaller businesses in my country.
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by yywwbbn 4y ago
Well in the EU credit/debit card fees are capped at 0.3/0.2% so while not exactly fair it’s not a huge deal compared to the US (where everyone is paying for credit card users rewards and cash backs). AFAIK only SEPA direct debit t
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by yywwbbn 4y ago
It’s not obvious that any RISC-V CPUs that might be able to compete with ARM/x86 will be free in the future. It would take a lot of money to design them, why would the company that does that just give it away for free?
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by yywwbbn 4y ago
Roman economy and military power is considered to have been at it’s peak around the time of Marcus Aurelius, who ruled 120 years after the death of Caligula. Then again Romans didn’t really practice ostracism either…
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by yywwbbn 4y ago
Yoy can do that and you might have enough panels to charge a few cars at once if you cover the entire roof with them. But even in ideal condition you’d need more than 300m2 of solar panels to charge a single car at 50kW and this would incre
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by yywwbbn 4y ago
They already tried that where I live (northeastern Europe) since the government subsidized most of the installation cost. Most of the businesses closed them last month after the market price of electricity for commercial users shot up by 10
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by yywwbbn 4y ago
If you don’t need fast charging at home (i.e. you’re fine leaving it plugged over night) the fixed costs for a home charger a very low. Unless the commercial chargers you use are exceptionally cheap or even free charging might cost nearly a
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by yywwbbn 4y ago
Is there some reason you think most people would be incapable of both reading the article and looking at the “pretty” pictures? > every place in Europe … which took steps to break out of the traditional dynastic power structures was cont
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by yywwbbn 4y ago
You can get desktop which would be more powerful for even less, how is this particularly different? The Windows laptop will likely be bulky, have a terrible touchpad and sound like a portable jet engine (as long as it’s Intel at least).
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by yywwbbn 4y ago
So you’re claiming that the Indo-European migration/invasion of Northern India is “imagined”?
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by yywwbbn 4y ago
Genes which are responsible for white skin were introduced to Europe by “immigrants” from the middle east. It’s a very diverse region due to groups of people moving in/out for thousands of years. So whatever label you try to attach to
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by yywwbbn 4y ago
> Treasury doesn’t get more income unless it substantially raises taxes. Government revenue generally should increase inline with inflation. As long as GDP growth (unadjusted by inflation) is higher than the interest rates the amount of
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by yywwbbn 4y ago
Well it was a Polish (and Jewish) at the time. And the Lithuanian state wasn’t particularly interested in any compromise with Poland. And well.. Lithuania did the same when it snatched Klaipeda/Memel (well worse to be fair considering
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by yywwbbn 4y ago
That’s kind of true (too some degree at least) if you’re talking about Western Europe. However Lithuania (and Jogaila himself) was still Pagan back then and had much closer ties to the Orthodox world. There was a very clear dividing line be
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by yywwbbn 4y ago
Well it runs but it’s far from being actually usable
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by yywwbbn 4y ago
> Yes, of course, but not by 1744. There are more forests now in France and some other places in western Europe than there were in the 13th century.
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by yywwbbn 4y ago
Well Unity is paying a 70% premium over what Iron Source was worth yesterday so it doesn’t sound like such a great decision financially. Also the absolute share price is not really that relevant since companies hardly ever have the same amo
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by yywwbbn 4y ago
However most users of Unity don’t make very much money if any at all. So unless they switch to a revenue share based model (instead of fixed license pricing) $200 billion is not that meaningful.
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by yywwbbn 4y ago
> Reading some comment chains makes you doubt the average users reading comprehension... Or maybe those users just think you’re wrong? AFAIK most people use a package manager to install multiple mods and it works just fine in most cases

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