Nitramp

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by Nitramp 3y ago
> You could make a similar argument that the Soviets supported the emancipation of women far more than the west in the mid 20th century, and that women in the USSR had more right to work. > That framing of course is absurd because wom
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by Nitramp 4y ago
> If you look at Germany, Michael Ballweg is sitting in jail (without trial) for tax evasion accusations. The fact that the government didn't like his movement that protested against unconstitutional anti-covid measures was not enou
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by Nitramp 4y ago
Without commenting on the other issues, but something that struck me as very odd living in the USA, was how people in California appeared fully disenfranchised during presidential elections. Yes, as a Californian you can vote, but your vote
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by Nitramp 4y ago
The message absolutely depended on time. But that's because the virus mutated, and the vaccine went from preventing illness and lowering spread rates to only preventing severe illness.
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by Nitramp 4y ago
Do you have a source for this? Multiple people died over the course of the efficacy study for the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine, and yet they completed the study: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa203
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by Nitramp 4y ago
SQL does express relational algebra, but OP is arguing it expresses it poorly, in a cumbersome way. There's nothing foundational about how exactly SQL chooses to express relational algebra, you could imagine many different syntaxes and
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by Nitramp 4y ago
https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ncas/alerts/aa22-187a Google: "North Korea Ransomware"
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by Nitramp 4y ago
This is widely implemented and used in Germany: https://www.deutschepost.de/en/p/postident.html It's a lot easier to implement reliably due to the requirement for everyone to have ID cards though (and the ID
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by Nitramp 4y ago
If you're interested in this topic, the thing to Google for is "constitutional theory". Constitutions do not just limit power. They prescribe how a society organizes itself, including how to exert power (not just how to limit
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by Nitramp 4y ago
> This is an extremely narrow perspective on contemporary issues. Do you have specific reasons why you think that's the case? I did give concrete examples, some of which are indeed recent events, but all of these seem to hold in gen
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by Nitramp 4y ago
> It isn't perfect at all and maybe fallen out of time a bit, but it is better than that of any other country I know (I am not for the US). That's a very surprising take to me. Some more obvious problems with the US constitutio
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by Nitramp 4y ago
I think an interesting meta take is the question why payment processors employ these draconic fraud protection mechanisms in the first place. I think it boils down to the prevalence of using simple magnetic stripe credit card payments. Whil
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by Nitramp 4y ago
I think you're referring to Communism-the-abstract-concept, whereas Orwell and OP are referring the Communism-what-actually-happened-everywhere-we-tried-it. The former is a utopic ruler-less society, the latter ends up being a totalita
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by Nitramp 4y ago
Only in the most abstract sense, if you're willing to ignore actual installed capacity (and thus reality to some degree). There are around 350k heat pumps in Germany right now, of 40 million households (ignoring offices, ignoring multi
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by Nitramp 4y ago
I think the only way we can move forward in Europe is to commemorate this past together, accept responsibility, and build a future where that cannot happen again. I think that has worked quite well so far (war between the European countries
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by Nitramp 4y ago
One server may be 30 mins of your time. But whether that's cost efficient depends on your domain. There's B2B work typically characterized by a low number of very high value transactions, so you run a few servers, and your math wo
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by Nitramp 4y ago
Crooked teeth really didn't exist in the farther out past. If you look at the jawbones of Neolithic people, they all have perfectly aligned teeth. The theory is that we're not chewing hard enough food, which leads to insufficient
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by Nitramp 4y ago
There was some debate three years ago on whether insect populations were declining, with the prime suspect being modern pesticides. The most solid data source they found in Germany was a local club of enthusiast entomologists who had been c
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by Nitramp 4y ago
I think the engine is just offended by your terrible writing style.
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by Nitramp 4y ago
Over here in Germany, when you ask for a decongestant, you usually get Xylometazolin as a spray. As I understand, that's both more effective and has fewer side effects (due to being local). You can also get pseudoephedrine, but I don&#
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by Nitramp 4y ago
Same im Europe (at least the parts I ever lived in). I think it's indeed the commercial incentive - once the caller/sender has to pay anything, however small the fee, it's no longer economical to spam. I remember making sendi
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by Nitramp 4y ago
Mozilla corporation is fully owned by the foundation though.
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by Nitramp 5y ago
I think this is a reasonable observation, but in certain high cost of living areas, and if you're willing to leave to save money in case of trouble, the math is slightly different. E.g. in SF, you'll pay $3500+ for housing, and sa
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by Nitramp 5y ago
Chrome had a bug in how css animation values would get serialized, where you'd end up with "5,43" instead of "5.43" in many European locales. It took surprisingly long to track down, partially due to this all being
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by Nitramp 5y ago
Here is a good example: a Japanese mathematician claims he proved the abc conjecture, with an enormous, complex, and totally novel approach. After it was ignored for a long time due to this, it took other mathematicians months of efforts to
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by Nitramp 5y ago
There is a chargeback process. It's a very rarely used exception I believe, and also incurs substantial follow up (usually some form of legal proceedings).
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by Nitramp 5y ago
> There’s probably a German word for it, and if not, there should be. Weltlichkeit (says Heidegger).
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by Nitramp 5y ago
I'm intrigued, what's заshitано?
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by Nitramp 5y ago
What if the car gets the right of way wrong? What if there's a distracted kid, or the car misses a pedestrian crossing? I don't think you can set something loose in traffic that relies on everyone else correcting for its mistakes.
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by Nitramp 5y ago
The kinetic energy of a car at 9 m/s (20 mph) is about 15 Wh, depending on its weight. The kinetic energy of a bullet is about 0.2 Wh. This obviously doesn't quite translate, but the amount of damage you can do with a car is massi

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