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by zajio1am 4y ago
> e.g. not have skyscrapers next to a single story house, but have mostly houses, mostly midrize buildings, mostly skyscrapers, Yes, but these are ones forcing low density and therefore high housing prices.
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by zajio1am 4y ago
> Ranking the voting systems: STAR Voting > Approval Voting > Ranked Choice Voting > Plurality ("pick only one") voting. Funny is that you ranked them and not scored them nor just say whether you approve them or not. I
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by zajio1am 4y ago
> moderate candidates are much more likely to be no one's first choice and get eliminated as a result. If i look at my country's upper chamber, which is elected with two-round system, then it is quite the reverse. Extremist can
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by zajio1am 4y ago
Approval voting fails in a situation that is pretty common in Europe (e.g. French presidential elections) - you have center left, center right, far left and far right candidate. If you vote for center left/right, you have to decide whe
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by zajio1am 4y ago
The evidence is that despite constant growth of productivity since industrial revolution, unemployment is still low and not 99.99%
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by zajio1am 4y ago
> The same number of people attend either way, so the same amount of non-monetary value is being received no matter what. Well, no. Different people have different preferences, therefore assigning tickets to ones that prefer them most wo
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by zajio1am 4y ago
Standard (signed) integers in C could be implemented to trap on overflow. Overflow on signed integer is undefined operation, like NULL dereferencing or division by zero, so trap is perfectly expected behavior. The issue is that unsigned int
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by zajio1am 4y ago
That means that someone have to work to make the food that is given to other people. So get food, someone has to work. If there is no food, someone starves. Society can just redirect who is working and who is starving.
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by zajio1am 4y ago
> That's how society operates: work or starve It is more like how biology operates.
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by zajio1am 4y ago
Recently i found that while basic stop autoplay option in Firefox does not work reliably, if one also sets media.autoplay.blocking_policy = 2, it works much better than the default policy. But it seems it is still just a heuristic that bloc
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by zajio1am 4y ago
I am already doing that (with NoScript), since browsers started supporting video, but not supporting reliable way to stop autoplay. OTOH, i see why things like adblocking is extension. That makes browser neutral with regard to content, whil
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by zajio1am 4y ago
Physical items have ownership. If you store an item to a safety deposit box you are still owner of the item. Data in general do not have ownership (there are some special cases like copyrightable data or personal data, where exclusive right
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by zajio1am 4y ago
FOSS developers are also FOSS users of other software. So they can be motivated to manage their projects in a way how would like the software they use to be managed. I.e. leading by example.
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by zajio1am 4y ago
I agree and i think that important task of projects is to manage user expectations by clearly stating what they offer. Some projects offer stability guarantees, some projects just keep changing things. If these approaches are well-communica
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by zajio1am 4y ago
One way to handle entitled users is to offer paid support option. We did that in BIRD project: https://bird.network.cz/?support
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by zajio1am 4y ago
> The tl;dw is that used cards don't perform worse than new cards - your card either works, or it doesn't. For electronics, it is often not just "either works, or it doesn't", but there is also decreased reliabil
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by zajio1am 4y ago
I can see that difference between these statements can be minimal for collectivists, who consider benefit of society as the most important value. But for individualists, the former does not implies the latter. It is more like: All X are goo
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by zajio1am 4y ago
> I think it's fair to make certain events, like funerals, off-limits to protest. Private funeral? Ok. State funeral that is essentially a big spectacle? Definitely not.
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by zajio1am 4y ago
Not just fossil fuels. Burning wood is also significant source of particulate air pollution. And switching from natural gas (fossil) to wood (renewable) for heating makes air pollution situation much worse.
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by zajio1am 4y ago
> single family -> duplex/triplex Duplex gives almost no advantage in housing density, but adds more complications due to shared parts of constructions.
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by zajio1am 4y ago
Housing can be investment even if it is in adequate supply and does not raise in value (above inflation), just from rents / saving from not-paying rent.
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by zajio1am 4y ago
Corporations are voluntary associations of people for some specific purpose, while countries enforce monopoly of violence over certain area. They are not really comparable. Corporations have much higher freedom to set their internal rules b
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by zajio1am 4y ago
If your office is the smallest room, then you get fast to high CO2 concentration in the office.
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by zajio1am 4y ago
Lets hope that such self-righteous people do not get power to restrict access to new technologies to others.
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by zajio1am 4y ago
> There are so many rights taken for granted by Western European employees Most of these rights are given by employment law, not union contracts, so unions are less relevant.
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by zajio1am 4y ago
People accepted telephone that used just numbers, they would accept case-sensitive e-mail as well. Everyone would just use small caps.
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by zajio1am 4y ago
Even if the other methods prevented MiTM attack, it is still DoS attack (as the expected service is not available).
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by zajio1am 4y ago
IMHO privileged ports are still useful to distinguish ports assigned by system administrator and ports assigned by any user. Otherwise some user service can (inadvertently) take some port before a system service that was supposed to use tha
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by zajio1am 4y ago
That is exactly what it is :-)
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by zajio1am 4y ago
There are no gas sanctions. It is the Russian side that restricts supply of gas.

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