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by jplrssn 5d ago
> I care about my neighbours because I know them. I don’t care about the next town because they might as well be same as people living in Tokyo. Fair enough, but many have the ability to empathise with people even if they don’t know them
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by jplrssn 5d ago
> Otherwise why would anyone else (someone else living on the other side of the world) care? People have their own countries to fix let alone worry about other peoples problems. Do you care about your neighbours? How about people in the
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by jplrssn 6d ago
There are both mountains [0] and fjords [1] in Sweden, but not of the Norwegian kind they were probably picturing. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_Mountains [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by jplrssn 1mo ago
My understanding is that a clinic or hospital can’t legally charge you for a procedure that’s universally available through the provincial healthcare system. So you’re free to pay for anything else if you want.
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by jplrssn 1mo ago
Is there a technical reason why phone numbers would be easier to spoof in North America than other places? Anecdotally I’ve not heard as much about it being a problem in other places such as the UK.
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by jplrssn 2mo ago
My point is that, unless you think that the purpose of human existence is to maximise insurance profitability and mining throughput, lifetime earnings potential is not a good proxy for someone’s value to society. I think it is sad that many
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by jplrssn 2mo ago
> Who produces the food you eat, the clothes you wear, the house you live in, the energy you use, the medicine you consume, etc You could say the same thing about software engineers. But someone spending their days just creating JS frame
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by jplrssn 2mo ago
£7 is about the price of a pint. Surely that’s worth it given the convenience of driving right up to the front door of the terminal?
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by jplrssn 2mo ago
That’s true. But in a world with monthly toothbrush subscriptions one of those end states feels much closer than the other.
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by jplrssn 2mo ago
I always thought the “you will own nothing” expression referred to a Gini coefficient of 1, not 0. The intent of abolishing private property would presumably be the latter.
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by jplrssn 2mo ago
> It kind of feels like these countries rediscover summer every year. The graphs in the article somewhat disprove that.
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by jplrssn 3mo ago
You're right, I was thinking of "slammed" as being part of take-down style news reporting. Looking at Google Ngram, usage of "slams" started inflecting upwards in the early 90's and then even more strongly in t
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by jplrssn 3mo ago
> EU regulators on Tuesday slammed Apple This reads more like a tabloid headline than the first sentence of a Reuters article.
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by jplrssn 4mo ago
I’ll bite: which ideology are you claiming believers in climate change are motivated by?
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by jplrssn 10mo ago
"can't afford" in this case is a choice to spend the absolute minimum possible on school lunches.
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by jplrssn 10mo ago
The one advantage Ryanair has over non-budget airlines is that none of their seats recline.
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by jplrssn 11mo ago
The more you concentrate taxation via capital gains, the more you incentivise the type of tax strategy where people just leave the state/country before cashing out. Countering that with exit taxes and such is hard. Taxing company profi
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by jplrssn 1y ago
> competition always leads to lower prices I don't see how this could be true for emergency visits. Would an ambulance drive you to the cheapest hospital within some fixed radius?
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by jplrssn 1y ago
Comparing the total size of countries like this never made much sense to me. It's not like Americans need to drive coast-to-coast to buy groceries or drop their kids off at school.
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by jplrssn 1y ago
> What is “fake insurance?” Do you believe Ro Marine would have paid out claims related to their "insured" vessels?
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by jplrssn 1y ago
It’s ironic that after British Rail was privatized, many UK rail services ended up being run by subsidiaries of other European state railways: French SNCF, Dutch NS, Italian Trenitalia, and so on. Turns out the state knows something about r
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by jplrssn 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_chronometer
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by jplrssn 1y ago
This strategy would save them having to issue food vouchers at the airport, but not delay compensation per se which is based on arrival time at the destination gate.
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by jplrssn 1y ago
I'd be curious to hear LG's defence. Presumably they must have taken the line that they weren't liable for their product self-combusting in the middle of the night.
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by jplrssn 1y ago
Are you a software engineer? I'm curious about what your interviews were like. I've done a fair amount of interviews and they all featured some amount of coding in front of an audience.
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by jplrssn 1y ago
I also wouldn't be surprised if labs were starting to mix in a few pelican SVGs into their training data.
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by jplrssn 1y ago
Walking around in platform shoes as a substitute for driving around in a lifted truck, maybe?
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by jplrssn 1y ago
> Insurance is always more expensive than the expected expense without This depends on how likely you are to make a claim, no? I imagine some clumsy/unlucky people get good value out of their Apple Care plans.
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by jplrssn 1y ago
How much soy does it take to raise 1kg of beef compared with producing 1kg of beyond meat?
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by jplrssn 1y ago
Interesting! Thanks.

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