appleskeptic

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by appleskeptic 3y ago
Go to Singapore.
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by appleskeptic 3y ago
Singapore is a really nice place to live.
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by appleskeptic 3y ago
War on Drugs works in Singapore where drug dealers get swift, harsh punishment.
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by appleskeptic 3y ago
A system that lets minor inefficiencies endlessly accumulate, because the activation energy to address them is too high, is rotten. As for picking up hundred dollar bills, Congress isn’t solving big problems either.
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by appleskeptic 3y ago
Your perspective makes sense if you accept as good that massive political effort must be taken to do obviously good things against the wishes of special interest groups. But most people would think that the US Mint churning out worthless co
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by appleskeptic 3y ago
What an indictment of our system.
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by appleskeptic 3y ago
I’ve always been fond of the 50 cent piece too. It’s too bad that the ubiquity of the quarter makes it the only contender for a single-coin system.
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by appleskeptic 3y ago
I imagine it would cost less than all the money collectively spent on minting them and buying and maintaining machinery to handle them. Even better if they got rid of the quarter too. But yeah, I can see why no politician has decided to mak
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by appleskeptic 3y ago
What the US needs is to abolish all coins except the quarter. Due to inflation, a penny in 1913 is worth about 30 cents now. And somehow they made do with no smaller coins than the penny (the half cent having been discontinued in 1857). Why
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by appleskeptic 3y ago
They would if they could. Spain is a weak little country that depends on the US for defense. The US is the most powerful country in history. There is no symmetry.
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by appleskeptic 3y ago
Wrong, allies spy on each other constantly.
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by appleskeptic 3y ago
No, we shouldn't. But anyone committing assaults on either side should be prosecuted. Much easier to do these days than back then.
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by appleskeptic 3y ago
This is false. Labor laws passed in the 1900s in most Western countries give you a right to strike without the risk of getting fired. It doesn't have to be bargained for. There's lots of caveats, but that's the general rule.
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by appleskeptic 3y ago
I'm not saying you should have to fire them. But you should be able to.
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by appleskeptic 3y ago
Views on collective responsibility for riots have changed a lot. These days, it's only the individual rioters who commit specific crimes that are thought of as bearing responsibility. But before the 1960s or so, a violent crowd was see
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by appleskeptic 3y ago
He means cases where management is accused of violence against the strikers.
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by appleskeptic 3y ago
Violent strike breakers should go to jail too.
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by appleskeptic 3y ago
Violent strikers should go to jail.
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by appleskeptic 3y ago
Striking should be legal, but firing employees for striking should also be legal.
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by appleskeptic 3y ago
> This is like a C# dev trolling a C developer by say “first novice exercise”, HTML encode a UTF8 string. I mean, it is a single line of code in C# so how hard could it be in C? It’s not like that at all. The difference you’re identifyi
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by appleskeptic 3y ago
You’re misreading the rule. Such titles are allowed. If the title contains a gratuitous number or number + adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and
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by appleskeptic 3y ago
Ruby and C here.
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by appleskeptic 3y ago
It’s illegal in Canada, but only for the buyer. Which goes along with modern prohibition being an anti-man feminist thing.
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by appleskeptic 3y ago
It’s probably most accurate to say it’s an unspoken alliance between the two groups—feminists and traditional moralists. But when the church was actually politically powerful, prostitution was much less likely to be prohibited than it is no
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by appleskeptic 3y ago
What’s funny is prostitution was legal most of the time and in most places in the western world until recently. Widespread prohibition of it is not as much a holdover from medieval times as a recent sex-negative feminist innovation. Which m
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by appleskeptic 3y ago
No, I’m saying the definition of bribery has been stretched so far to include ballpoint pens, a $30 lunch or free attendance at a conference, at the same time that high officials are underpaid, so as to place an absurd financial burden on m
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by appleskeptic 3y ago
This would be awful. Theft and bribery are already prosecuted aggressively. If anything, too much. It’s gotten to the point that high government officials can’t afford to be lobbied. Here they are, some of the most powerful people in the
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by appleskeptic 3y ago
> It's quite easy to find where the minorities are. The Census data is quite accessible. It like is not wholly complete given many minorities lack of trust of government officials, but it will give one a strong idea of where they re
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by appleskeptic 3y ago
That's not how this works. It's not about income any more than it is about race. Racial disparate impact is enough for the FCC to fine you to oblivion. The fact that it's listed after "income" does not change that.
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by appleskeptic 3y ago
Starlink is probably your best bet for now, which is ~100/~20 depending on your area. I believe you can also multi-home two (or more) Starlink services and get double (or triple etc.) that.

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