kartan

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by kartan 7y ago
> Imminent threats and specific calls to violence are a different matter. More equality does not mean communism or everybody gets exactly the same. You position is just a straw man argument. > Scandinavian Scandinavian countries are s
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by kartan 7y ago
> Imminent threats and specific calls to violence are a different matter. That is what I find disturbing. That general threads and calls to violence are ok. That threatening your neighbor is ok meanwhile you do not set a date and a time
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by kartan 7y ago
> despite 8chan being a breeding ground of hate, threads by mass shooters are typically removed in minutes So, it is ok that people promote and help mass shooters as far as there is no direct connection the day of the attack? > Goin
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by kartan 7y ago
There was a time that it was difficult for me to understand how it was possible that governments in the middle east were supporting domestic terrorism. It was difficult to imagine how normal people were supporting the killing of fellow citi
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by kartan 7y ago
> So Germany has had a love affair with Hydrogen for a while now. This sounds like a joke about the Hindenburg.
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by kartan 7y ago
> Steal from the richest man in the world: FBI is on the case with military-grade weapons, tactics and surveillance. Steal from the richest man in the world * that avoids paying taxes * : FBI is on the case with military-grade weapons, t
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by kartan 7y ago
> In the end, reducing support to the bare minimum possible appears a reasonable option for many companies: it is the easiest to implement, it reduces legal/PR risks, and it has a very measurable and consistent effect (how many peop
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by kartan 7y ago
This mosque is portrayed in How Climate Changes Art: https://youtu.be/dvQocRS3RdE?t=412 The video has other examples like this mosque and asks the question of how to preserve art for future generations.
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by kartan 7y ago
> This isn't just a part of an anti-government or even anti-education strategy Big corporations should be paying way more taxes. It would be a good way to avoid creating such undemocratic centers of power. Education is a human right
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by kartan 7y ago
> could not afford a one-week annual holiday away from home You get in Europe around one month of paid vacation time. What people can't afford is to travel. The title of the article misses that point, but, it's clear in the
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by kartan 7y ago
I have been working in some fast-growing software companies. Every few years, we change office and get one in a better place, with new furniture, fancier each time, tv monitor is everywhere, each wall had pictures and was colourful. I had t
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by kartan 7y ago
> Imaginary friends are a common—and normal—manifestation for many kids I never had any imaginary friends. Even when other kids had fantastic expectations in the world, like asking a teacher to build a swimming pool, I was very sceptical
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by kartan 7y ago
Another video, this is about Marco Polo writings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UiIpiV0P0M And it mentions also the invention of Money.
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by kartan 7y ago
> I can´t even begin to describe to you what type of regulatory hurdles and red-tape I was faced with when trying to get that up and running. I can imagine how harder it is than in the USA. From the article: "The combination of lax
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by kartan 7y ago
A similar story at vaguelyinteresting: https://www.vaguelyinteresting.co.uk/the-great-romford-and-h... Converging domain name and topics?
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by kartan 7y ago
> It was meant to be, in response to OP's hyperbole that there's nothing new being created. You are right. Sorry for not expressing myself with clarity. To say that there's nothing new being created is hyperbolic and it is
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by kartan 7y ago
> How do you use this physical ID card online? You don't. For that, you can get a digital signature. You can go to a police station, or to an embassy and present your physical Id card to get a digital signature. You can use that sig
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by kartan 7y ago
> Have you tried changing languages? Yes. And it is a good idea. I have moved between Java backend applications and C++ videogames jobs. The difference in language and domain keep things interesting, and you discover that also there is a
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by kartan 7y ago
> smartphones I will take this as an example. I was developing in 80386 machines. When smartphones appeared and people said that "this is different because you have limited resources compared with a desktop machine", I just tho
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by kartan 7y ago
> By that logic we should all be using punch cards. There are zero limitations in punching cards to express any modern program. And that is my point. Keyboards are faster, I use a fancy mechanical keyboard to write my code in a fancy IDE
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by kartan 7y ago
>A major problem is that regulatory capture leads to less competition Safe regulations are to avoid people dying not to stimulate competition. Without safety regulations, way more people will get sick, injured or die. And, in this case,
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by kartan 7y ago
What happens after 10 years? I have been a software developer for more than 25 years. It is getting boring. Any "new" problem is just the same old problem with a new layer of abstraction. Look at this new language/framework t
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by kartan 7y ago
> I hear is common in Europe It is not. I have seen a ramp-up in the amount of advertisement everywhere. Maybe poorer countries like Romania - I have been just to Bucharest - are not so affected. But, Sweden, or Spain, - the countries th
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by kartan 7y ago
> The potential increase in IQ is so high that any country that defects from a global ban, even a smallish one like Iran say, would quickly be producing the vast majority of all genius-level intellects. I do not know if this is even true
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by kartan 7y ago
This reminds me of a similar article many years ago about reading network packet content from the light of the led in network cards. It is another example of how things are safer in practice than in theory. Entropy helps to keep things safe
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by kartan 7y ago
> Make no mistake, these companies are among the most powerful and valuable in the world. They need to be held to account and their activities need to be more transparent. Opensource is as important today as ever. The only way of control
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by kartan 7y ago
Same in Spain and Sweden when it comes to fiscal Id. Really useful. But the number is not enough to buy anything or open a bank account. For that you need the physical id card that is as hard as forge as passports. A very good system to mak
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by kartan 7y ago
> "How are many national economies keeping innumerable people hungry, even though there's plenty of food to go around several times over?" I never see this question on TV. What I mainly see on Tv is talk about political st
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by kartan 7y ago
"It is not known how the organism feeds or reproduces" This is amazing for me. Sometimes it seems that everything is already discovered and if not we just need to put some tech into it to analyze the mystery and get an answer. The
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by kartan 7y ago
> Youtube should not be allowed to monetize any videos with children in it until they comply with the same conditions that movies that employ child actors have to. Yes. If Youtube monetization model rewards parents psychologically abusin

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