JohnGB

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by JohnGB 9mo ago
You say that as if the courts are a reasonable solution for most people. In many cases the cost and time render them useless and often cost more than the invoice that is due. In some jurisdictions you may recover this, but in many you can
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by JohnGB 3y ago
This is reported on as if the loopholes allowing foreign money into US politics was not intentional in the first place. It would be quite simple to close these sorts of holes, but those in charge have generally made use of loopholes, and s
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by JohnGB 3y ago
What happened to Republicans and small government?
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by JohnGB 3y ago
Google's entire process is opaque and open to dodgy behaviour. I had an app which was growing really well with about 5-10k downloads a day growing at about 20% a week and an average rating of 4.8 stars over a few thousand reviews. Su
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by JohnGB 4y ago
Wow, that's going to teach them a lesson! A whole $8.5M - That's literally only 23 minutes of 2022 revenue lost (I did the maths). I'm sure they will never do it again, despite the fact that they likely made way more than $
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by JohnGB 4y ago
The Netherlands did a study on bike helmets and found that cars tend to be more dangerous with cyclists if the cyclists are wearing a helmet, which is why there are no mandatory bicycle helmet laws in the Netherlands. However, it's wo
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by JohnGB 4y ago
Oh how I wish Mcmaster would open an EU branch... I don't even mind if they charge us more, but PLEASE for the love of all engineers in Europe, just open a branch here.
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by JohnGB 4y ago
That's because those laptops were specifically designed to not be easily repairable. The new ones are complying with EU regulations, and so are easier to repair.
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by JohnGB 4y ago
It's not as if Apple didn't do everything they could to not do this. They were forced kicking and screaming by the EU to do this, and now they are trying to take credit for doing it.
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by JohnGB 4y ago
I have a background in electricity regulation and policy analysis. A good friend (who knows nothing about energy regulation or science got assigned as a senior consultant in one of the big 5 consulting firms to advise a national energy pro
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by JohnGB 4y ago
That's an ironic take given that these rules are there to take away monopoly power and have an actual open market.
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by JohnGB 4y ago
I'm just dumbfounded by the fact that the US Supreme Court has no term limits, age limits, or reasonable impeachment mechanism for justices that have unethical behaviour or outright lie on their job interview. The USA is the most &quot
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by JohnGB 4y ago
I see you follow the Chamberlain method of giving Russia whatever it wants because it won't possibly ever come back to affect you...
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by JohnGB 4y ago
> Normally, cases of fraud or mistakes could be rectified or reverted by the bank or similar institutions after a review of the situation by humans. This "could" happen, but in practice it rarely happens because the money has m
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by JohnGB 5y ago
What did the USA have to do with blocking Nordstream 2? Germany stopped certification, no the USA.
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by JohnGB 5y ago
Which is why I put through a request to have my Patreon account deleted today. Sorry to the channels that I supported, I'll try find a way to support you without using Patreon.
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by JohnGB 5y ago
To me at least, the issue is less about his guilt, and more about the lack of due process. In this case he was guilty, but in many others the lack of due process provides a way of punishing someone without any oversight or fair treatment a
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by JohnGB 5y ago
One of many reasons that I will never enter the UAE. There is no rule of law, and so no protection if anyone decides to charge you for anything. I've read of women being raped and then being charged for reporting it which essentially
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by JohnGB 5y ago
Remember that the Texas GOP had (has?) the following official policy: "We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills, critical thinking skills and similar programs..." So I'm not surprised that they oppose anything t
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by JohnGB 5y ago
It's too educational about the true state of the American system and encourages people to do something bad for the US oligarchs, which in the USA is the ultimate evil.
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by JohnGB 5y ago
Only the Dutch Covid response has set a new low bar for complete incompetence and responsibility avoidance.
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by JohnGB 5y ago
The company's response is very much in line with standard Dutch policy. Unless someone forces you to do something, only do the absolute bare minimum necessary to not go to jail. The common term for this is "zesje" (little s
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by JohnGB 5y ago
I'll just cut this functional part off a baby because I don't like the look of it. Now if we were talking about earlobes, suddenly we would be barbarians, but part of the penis is just fine. More genital mutilation of babies happ
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by JohnGB 5y ago
And 0.001% of households are billionaires and often pay no tax at all. Somehow, that doesn't seem fair to me.
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by JohnGB 5y ago
This just shows that Zeus is the one true god! /s
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by JohnGB 5y ago
You've left out PeerCoin (PPC) the original PoW cryptocurrency which has been in constant operation and development since 2013. It is by far the most energy efficient, as that was one of the main goals in the design of PeerCoin.
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by JohnGB 6y ago
That is essentially how it works in many European countries, but even stricter. In the Netherlands for example, if 70%+ of your work is for a single employer and the number of hours is above some reasonable threshold, then you're an e
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by JohnGB 6y ago
No, Stanford is sorry that they were called out, but not sorry for what they did - or they wouldn't have done it in the first place.
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by JohnGB 6y ago
Autophagy is always active, the real question is how that activity changes during fasting. The number of 18 hours is fairly arbitrary, as even after a few hours of fasting autophagy increases.
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by JohnGB 6y ago
That's not quite accurate. Soy contains phytoestrogen, which is a plant estrogen, not a human estrogen. It's similar in many ways and does have (in a much weaker form) some of the effects of human estrogen. However, just callin

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