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by zanny 9y ago
The more we learn about human psychology the harder it is to take a criminal and say "this is a bad person who is wholly responsible for their behavior and deserves what they get". For a vast, huge majority of victims of crime b
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by zanny 9y ago
What the justice systems of most nations is missing is the idea of banishment and exile. In city states you were rarely imprisoned - that was very expensive to do, and society had to then keep you alive while you were non-productive. You we
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by zanny 9y ago
No, they wouldn't, they would eat lunch in the middle of their day, which would be centered around the times the sun rises and sets. Just like how days work everywhere pretty much. They just would know what those times are where they l
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by zanny 9y ago
The sun will rise at "5 in the morning" no matter what time your clock says it is. You could always, instead of changing time itself , just set your alarm an hour earlier or later. If your clocks go back an hour but you keep your
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by zanny 9y ago
Changing the clocks doesn't have a good explanation at any age. You don't "gain" more hours of daylight, you don't warp reality doing it. You just want to keep getting up as "insert arbitrary time you get up&qu
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by zanny 9y ago
Exactly this. What frustrates me about arguments for contemporary timekeeping is that there is some inherent simplicity to having a big arbitrary insane map of time in different places on Earth that is constantly changing and has no fundame
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by zanny 9y ago
You only have the cultural expectation of "always get up at 7am" because of the insane timezone system. If sunrise changes throughout the year, changing the time you wakeup is the natural answer. Having an obtuse and indeciphera
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by zanny 9y ago
You always have to ask the question "what times are good for you?" because everyone lives on a different schedule. With global UTC it just means the times each of you give don't need to go through a complicated conversion pro
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by zanny 9y ago
The question you ask now is "what time is it in X place?" if you want to know if its reasonable to call someone. But that is insufficient knowledge. You also need to know their work schedule, when they prefer to sleep, if they are
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by zanny 9y ago
I imagine they get up when the sun rises (about 9am their time) and go home / retire before the sun sets (about 9pm). Their days are only "long" in the sense that they probably go to bed after midnight. They still have the sa
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by zanny 9y ago
Except if we did abolish time zones rather than asking Google "what time is it in Melbourne" you ask it "is it the waking hours in Melbourne". In either case you don't know what time to call Melbourne. You either
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by zanny 9y ago
If you are sufficiently far north / south, you adapt your culture to not treat 4pm like people who have 18 hours of sunshine every day year round treat 4pm. You don't change the clock and act like thats changing the flow of time.
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by zanny 9y ago
The matrix protocol has already emerged as a successor to IRC that maintains backwards compatibility. It has room encryption, voice and video, and it bridges to almost every chat service in existence (including Slack, at least until now).
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by zanny 9y ago
Patreon is another walled garden that can become much worse than Facebook if left in isolation. For the investors behind it it would be great, but I don't believe Patreon was a YC company? Which means its a huge untapped industry with
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by zanny 9y ago
Its also arguable to want to collect taxes at point of sale, IE, whenever the person with the phone making the purchase is, or more reasonably where they live. Which is what this proposal is, after all.
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by zanny 9y ago
The difference between a VAT and sales tax is easy to understand in simplest terms: Sales tax is a percentage of the final sale price of a good or service. VAT tax is a fraction of the profits / revenue of every business involved in th
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by zanny 9y ago
There is a distinction to be made between VAT and sales tax, though. Not necessarily in the regressive nature, but its still important to make because the US really should adopt VAT taxes. It is perfectly feasible to impose VATs on the sale
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by zanny 9y ago
Depending on your implementation a VAT may not be progressive and may just be proportional, which is usually what you don't want in a tax system (because while its not nearly as bad as regressive taxation like the US corporate tax rate
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by zanny 9y ago
"Nobody needs more than 640k memory!" We don't see the broad adoption of tech that can utilize 1gbps because too few people have it. If everyone had 1gbps Netflix could increase the bandwidth of their streaming, everyone coul
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by zanny 9y ago
Especially when Tesla keeps pushing the bleeding edge of killing the right to repair that has been on life support in modern cars for decades now. Every auto manufacturer used the invent of digital tech as a means to kill the right to repai
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by zanny 9y ago
Swedish is a bit more rare in International linguistics, but German is not. There is an entire population in the American mideast that learn and speak German as just an example of a very far off population of non-German speakers of the lang
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by zanny 9y ago
Why does the EU still have the same gross and absurd copyright terms and laws the US does? It fights US companies like Google on privacy and information security grounds, but seems to follow lockstep with the US on completely irrational cop
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by zanny 9y ago
I think distinguishing consumer and producer monopolies might be valuable here. Google and Amazon can only be monopolistic and predatory towards producers on their platforms - the sites they rank in search, the ads they sell, the videos upl
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by zanny 9y ago
You don't solve the upstream problems by doing the exact same wrong that made the problem to begin with. If the institutions that preceded yours bred inequality and bias then yes, you get a biased candidate pool, whether you are the NB
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by zanny 9y ago
Everyone wins except for one class of people when you actually allow building density to respond to demand. The only group of people who don't want that to happen are those who own houses in urban sprawl that would lose value if the ar
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by zanny 9y ago
The major cost barrier is support. If you are going to sell a product for a platform, you need to be able to have your CS staff handle support tickets involving it. Officially Steam on Linux only supports Ubuntu and SteamOS, so you can just
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by zanny 9y ago
Zotac did have Zbox's with Raven Ridge in them at CES, though: https://www.anandtech.com/show/12319/zotac-displays-zbox-ma5... Besides the consumer Raven Ridge CPUs there are also 2 OEM 35w versions that are
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by zanny 9y ago
Is anyone else miffed that the DX on VK projects all use different nomenclature? Its impossible to tell from the name dxvk or vkd3d what version it supports. If they were named VK9, VK11, AND VK12 respectively it would be obvious. Or any pe
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by zanny 9y ago
Barely any AAA games support OSX anyway anymore. Both OSX and Linux are second class citizens for AAA publishers because all their studios drink the DX koolaid hard, even in an age where almost every game is made on Unreal / Unity &#x2
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by zanny 9y ago
Except this model is for third parties to provide user products on a solid OS foundation. Apple cripples their OS in multiple ways to make developing for it harder artificially, necessitating third parties to do the work to make the platfor

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