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by refraincomment 5y ago
Europe != Obscure department of the European Commission issuing unsolicited opinions
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by refraincomment 5y ago
I think it's impossible to have a pro-choice viewpoint in discussion websites. People get too nervous and defensive.
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by refraincomment 5y ago
I didn't say anything about the rich. A vaccine costs pounds, everyone can afford it. Only thing preventing you from being covid protected is a random lazy bureaucrat in Brussels.
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by refraincomment 5y ago
Good. But at the same time it should be possible to buy through private channels. So we can circumvent and get rid of the terribly inefficient bureaucrats.
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by refraincomment 5y ago
Exactly. He could donate 99% of his wealth, and still be billionaire. Yet he won't do that, he asks others to fix the public finances. While doing virtue signalling in public about equality. His company, along with google and Facebook
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by refraincomment 5y ago
You see totally different demographics between software design/development and the politics of software. In this letter I see names that have never done anything significant, yet they feel entitled to correct one of the forefathers of
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by refraincomment 5y ago
We can compare the audience of an flamewar post about racism in US, vs the readership of a paper on fixed point theorems, and it makes sense that organizations that don't care about science like US universities choose to favor the form
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by refraincomment 5y ago
From a business perspective it must be more lucrative to select candidates by their cultural projection and the money connections than on the basis of academic potential. I suppose that is true for MIT, for mainstream media, and for US corp
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by refraincomment 5y ago
Well you paint a very gloomy dystopian picture, with scarcity and fighting for every square inch. This issue is present in any political system, even full egalitarianism, increase population by an arbitrary amount to reduce land per citizen
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by refraincomment 5y ago
Who said we won't have nukes?
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by refraincomment 5y ago
Okay, you claim 50% taxation is beneficial for all. It's highly debatable. But the point it's that taxes should be phrased and understood for what they are, a whitewashed extortion. It has no proportion at all with costs of runnin
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by refraincomment 5y ago
I know, I understand. Societies become mafias and they start extorting high-income individuals to guarantee the peace and the welfare. I just applaud fair countries that don't extort their own citizens.
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by refraincomment 5y ago
I enter all of these interactions voluntarily I choose the family, I choose the job, I choose what I consume and where I live Unfortunately I can't walk away from being stolen 50% of my revenues every year.
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by refraincomment 5y ago
Use the terminology you like. If it makes you feel better this set of words, it's fine by me! No individual owes anything to the bigger group. That's the principle. In practice you see a lot of abuse, sadly.
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by refraincomment 5y ago
Why? Nobody, poor or wealthy, need to be a servant of any government.
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by refraincomment 5y ago
Sounds awesome. Citizens don't owe anything to the government, we shouldn't be born with a liability towards the government, we should be born free and be in total control of our finances, and be free to choose the hosting city th
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by refraincomment 6y ago
How will people be happy today?
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by refraincomment 6y ago
https://dtdg.co/pypi pypi servers receive 1 million requests per minute. That's likely more than wikipedia.
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by refraincomment 6y ago
Wikipedia quality has actually gone down since the donation campaigns started. A website like pypi gets much more server load and they have never asked for a penny.
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by refraincomment 6y ago
Okay, so they looked for correlations with a million conditions and when they found a vaguely significant one they automatically suspended the vaccination campaign prolonging by days or weeks the national lockdown.
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by refraincomment 6y ago
Good metaphor of what the EU represents. A 120 pages manual on how to be a completely dull person.
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by refraincomment 6y ago
Reddit is the only social media that falls so low as to regularly display lynchings and beatings on the front page. "JusticeServed", and other cheap justifications for violence. Reddit and Twitter the biggest dumps of the internet
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by refraincomment 6y ago
I will never gonna financially recover from this..
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by refraincomment 6y ago
Whatever the results say, women are discriminated and they need a pay rise and more acknowledgement. Data will say whatever we tell them.
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by refraincomment 6y ago
Or simply that boys don't take education seriously until 10 years later?
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by refraincomment 6y ago
How does Brexit even matter if border checks are suspended for imports? Just the usual scaremongering. I also shop at Tesco and the stocks haven't changed at all.
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by refraincomment 6y ago
The Google killer! Proceeds to introduce you grep.
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by refraincomment 6y ago
Uber drivers pay next to no taxes at the moment.. A chat with with them will confirm it. They don't pay VAT (revenue under 80k). They are self-employed, so corporate tax does not apply. They pay a 10% in National insurance. And on inco