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by genericid 8y ago
Netflix specifically targets EU users (e.g. by advertising in the EU and billing in Euros). HN does not.
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by genericid 8y ago
That sounds like deadly accidents should be happening every week.
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by genericid 8y ago
Then what's the point of using HTTPS? Heating the room?
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by genericid 8y ago
If something is not free, it is not open source. The difference between free software and open source is one of ideology and philosophy. In practice, they're the same.
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by genericid 8y ago
How about "it's the fallback system working for the people"?
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by genericid 8y ago
This is basically client-side validation.
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by genericid 8y ago
> Please don't post unsubstantive comments to HN. Sorry for that. > More importantly, please stop using HN primarily for political battle. That's destructive of the intellectual curiosity this site exists for, and we ban ac
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by genericid 8y ago
Try right-clicking the back button. Or complain to your browser maker -- they're responsible for its behaviour.
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by genericid 8y ago
What kind of answer do you expect? "No I do not mean what I say, I'm just a markov chain."?
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by genericid 8y ago
Democracy is not a system, it's a principle. The principle that the people rules. Today's representative democracies apply that principle very imperfectly. The rulers don't have to be particularily benevolent to promote the p
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by genericid 8y ago
Are you implying that the Soviet Union was, well, the Soviet Union because of too much democracy ?
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by genericid 8y ago
Democracy is not a solution looking for a problem, it's a basic right.
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by genericid 8y ago
Nothing is a guarantee of competency. It's not a problem with monarchies, it's a problem with anything involving humans.
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by genericid 8y ago
> The fact, right or wrong, is that the barrier of entry for menial labour does not command a high salary. This is merely a description of the current state of affairs. It is not relevant in a debate about the desired state of affairs.
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by genericid 8y ago
So you support a dictatorship as long as it permits emigration? Not that monarchies actually had anything to do with that, serfdom was abolished in most places long before them.
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by genericid 8y ago
Democracies elect idiots "who wreck it all" all the time. That is not the problem with monarchies. The problem with monarchies is that a monarch will promote the interests of the monarch, the nobility will promote the interests of
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by genericid 8y ago
Post-tax income is an irrelevant metric because higher taxes are compensated by the services they pay for. Our level of defense spending is not insignificant, yours is offensive. We don't need to outspend the rest of the world, we just
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by genericid 8y ago
I meant that Marx did not advocate co determination, as in, leaving most control to the capitalists.
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by genericid 8y ago
A life of comfort is very much an ideal we should aspire to. There will always be people who have the intrinsic motivation to accomplish grander things. People don't accomplish great things because they are forced to.
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by genericid 8y ago
I don't think Germans are happier than Americans because we take more opiates. Your claim that productivity (or, for that matter anything else ) is more important than happiness is plain absurd. I prefer a good life over one that ends
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by genericid 8y ago
> I'm a big believer that a business must have an owner. Surely you are also a big believer that a country must have a king. If not, why not? > Words of my father: "a collective ownership of business is like life in family w
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by genericid 8y ago
You must be talking about a different Europe than the one I live in.
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by genericid 8y ago
By that logic, a monarch's subjects did not have a right to influence kingdom policies because they did not own it.
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by genericid 8y ago
I'm sure you have a source for that?
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by genericid 8y ago
In the context of sentences involving the word "never", it does not matter when the thing that supposedly never happened did happen.
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by genericid 8y ago
France got almost 75% of its electricity from fossil fuels in the mid-70s[1], so "never" is wrong. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Electricity_production_by...
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by genericid 8y ago
Is energy density even important for grid storage? France is larger and less mobile than a car or a computer.
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by genericid 8y ago
That is not a list of plants being built, it's a list of planned plants (for a broad definition of planned). - 3 plants (Lünen, Profen and Niederaußem) have apparently been cancelled. - The promoter of Kalkar-Appeldorn has applied for
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by genericid 8y ago
Because industry is dedicated to finding truth?
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by genericid 8y ago
> Why would they ever voluntarily remove a game unless it had broken some kind of law? Because they're bankrupt. Which they will eventually be, the only question is when.

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