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by zajio1am 4y ago
Note that continental mode of corporate governance uses two boards, executive board and supervisory board, and employees have guaranteed seats just on supervisory board, which generally have less power than US-style single board.
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by zajio1am 4y ago
No. Type C is limited to 2.5 A ungrounded appliances. For regular (16 A, grounded) sockets, half of EU use type E and other half type F. Fortunately, there is CEE 7/7 plug, which is compatible with both type E and type F sockets.
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by zajio1am 4y ago
Even capitalistic authors (e.g. Adam Smith) distinguish land ownership and capital ownership. So the fact that land ownership had special status in history does not say much about 'regular' private property. There is no practical
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by zajio1am 4y ago
> If the law was that each individual gets X amount of carbon credits then you are stuck walking it would actually mean something. Instead it will be you get X amount of carbon credit then you buy more. Revenue-neutral carbon tax is pret
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by zajio1am 4y ago
> any political theory favoring immoderate uncompromising policies There is a compromise position - accepting that driving a car is right, but also accepting that everyone must pay for its externalities, w.r.t. CO_2 by uniform revenue-ne
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by zajio1am 4y ago
If it can run Signal, then it is pretty much smartphone not feature phone.
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by zajio1am 4y ago
> Some of my colleagues and myself are realizing that we're pursuing goals that will reduce the value of human intelligence and creativity, commoditizing them. Which is a good thing, value is fundamentally based of scarcity, by comm
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by zajio1am 4y ago
I do not see much difference between 'application' and 'plugin'. Both are just some code one installs one on one's computer that somehow work together. There is risk that plugin does 'rm -rf ~/', but
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by zajio1am 4y ago
So why people (specifically immigrants in other countries) just do not change their last name to ones associated with higher caste?
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by zajio1am 4y ago
Traditional unix talk. Who needs chat apps, when everybody can just ssh to a shared server and chat using 'talk'.
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by zajio1am 4y ago
> One of the reasons for text based chat/messenger apps, going all the way back to the earliest days of IRC, is the benefit in having asynchronous communications. On the contrary, the main advantage of chat protocols over e-mail is
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by zajio1am 4y ago
- fast and transparent network access through SSH - strangely, i feel that TUI is more aesthetically pleasing that GUI, perhaps related to uniformity of monospace text and everything fitting to grid.
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by zajio1am 4y ago
> You can't do anything (other than using Stylish/Stylus, I suppose) if the dev hardcoded the font-family. Well, i just disable "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of your selections above" in browser font
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by zajio1am 4y ago
I use Debian without systemd on both my desktop and some routers/servers and have no issues.
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by zajio1am 4y ago
> If OPEC decided to stop producing oil altogether you bet there would be “inflation” caused by oil prices but that doesn’t mean the FED should be goaded into making changes to policy. Why should not? Inflation is just change of price le
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by zajio1am 4y ago
Approval voting is hard. My voting preferences pretty much match ranked-choice model, but approval requires reducing that to just two levels, so setting the bar is either arbitrary, or requires much information about decisions of other peop
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by zajio1am 4y ago
> If it can't legislate, then it's not a legislature, is it? The EU parliament votes on new EU 'laws' as a part of ordinary legislative procedure. It can reject laws or amend them. But contrast to national parliaments
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by zajio1am 4y ago
> Fengning is less than half the cost of a nuclear plant and delivers twice as much power. But the issue is not power but storage capacity. Fengning has 40 GWh of storage capacity, that is less than day of production of basic 2 GW nuclea
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by zajio1am 4y ago
> Just because the passenger pulls out their wallet and hands over a bribe at the first sign of friction, does that make the passenger more guilty than those who set up this corrupt system? Those that benefit from the corruption? If they
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by zajio1am 4y ago
Well, immigration laws artificially constrain supply of laborers.
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by zajio1am 4y ago
Plenty of local produce has just one or few harvests a year. if you buy it 2 weeks later, it just means it was 2 weeks longer in storage of distributors.
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by zajio1am 4y ago
I usually just park a cart in one place in the supermarket and then carry things to it. If a supermarket is big, then just park the cart consecutively on several places.
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by zajio1am 4y ago
It was not stolen, the lease was based on mutually agreed treaty, which has also advantages for Panama (by US providing support during its independence revolt). (Although one could say it was stolen from Colombia, through support of Panama
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by zajio1am 4y ago
> Sanctions on Cuba? This is not because Cuba or Castro is "bad". ... What's the real issue with Cuba? Castro nationalized assets and resources that belonged to US corporations. It is not surprising that US reacts more har
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by zajio1am 4y ago
The freed slaves were no indigenous population, they were as much colonists as the white frenchmen, so colonial narrative does not make sense. It was slave revolt, not anti-colonial revolt. Their land property rights were any more legitimat
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by zajio1am 4y ago
Agree. I have ~30h work week and free working hours and i am aiming to do ~4 hours/day, 7 days a week. I cannot imagine how people in mentally demanding jobs like software development can keep focus on 8-hour shifts.
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by zajio1am 4y ago
This is a classic case of corruption, just using sex instead of money. In corruption, both sides are guilty, but i would generally put more blame on the side initiating the corruption.
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by zajio1am 4y ago
> Contrary to your perspective, why should a business be forced to carry speech it doesn't agree with? A business choose to offer 'carrying speech' service to public, so it should offer that service in impartial and fair m
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by zajio1am 4y ago
The era between 1945 and 1971 was not based on gold standard, but it was Bretton Woods system, that worked in a significantly different way from both era before (traditional gold standard) and era after (floating currencies).
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by zajio1am 4y ago
> For example, a package manager written in 1000 lines of posix shell script is not a good thing. Shell script is a bad language. Shell is a bad language, but it is a language especially fitting for that purpose. File manipulation and ex

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