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> You could make a similar argument that the Soviets supported the emancipation of women far more than the west in the mid 20th century, and that women in the USSR had more right t…

> If you look at Germany, Michael Ballweg is sitting in jail (without trial) for tax evasion accusations. The fact that the government didn't like his movement that protested again…

Without commenting on the other issues, but something that struck me as very odd living in the USA, was how people in California appeared fully disenfranchised during presidential …

The message absolutely depended on time. But that's because the virus mutated, and the vaccine went from preventing illness and lowering spread rates to only preventing severe illn…

Do you have a source for this? Multiple people died over the course of the efficacy study for the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine, and yet they completed the study: https://www.nejm.org/do…

SQL does express relational algebra, but OP is arguing it expresses it poorly, in a cumbersome way. There's nothing foundational about how exactly SQL chooses to express relational…

https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ncas/alerts/aa22-187a Google: "North Korea Ransomware"

This is widely implemented and used in Germany: https://www.deutschepost.de/en/p/postident.html It's a lot easier to implement reliably due to the requirement for everyone to have …

If you're interested in this topic, the thing to Google for is "constitutional theory". Constitutions do not just limit power. They prescribe how a society organizes itself, includ…

> This is an extremely narrow perspective on contemporary issues. Do you have specific reasons why you think that's the case? I did give concrete examples, some of which are indeed…

> It isn't perfect at all and maybe fallen out of time a bit, but it is better than that of any other country I know (I am not for the US). That's a very surprising take to me. Som…

I think an interesting meta take is the question why payment processors employ these draconic fraud protection mechanisms in the first place. I think it boils down to the prevalenc…

I think you're referring to Communism-the-abstract-concept, whereas Orwell and OP are referring the Communism-what-actually-happened-everywhere-we-tried-it. The former is a utopic …

Only in the most abstract sense, if you're willing to ignore actual installed capacity (and thus reality to some degree). There are around 350k heat pumps in Germany right now, of …

I think the only way we can move forward in Europe is to commemorate this past together, accept responsibility, and build a future where that cannot happen again. I think that has …

One server may be 30 mins of your time. But whether that's cost efficient depends on your domain. There's B2B work typically characterized by a low number of very high value transa…

Crooked teeth really didn't exist in the farther out past. If you look at the jawbones of Neolithic people, they all have perfectly aligned teeth. The theory is that we're not chew…

There was some debate three years ago on whether insect populations were declining, with the prime suspect being modern pesticides. The most solid data source they found in Germany…

I think the engine is just offended by your terrible writing style.

Over here in Germany, when you ask for a decongestant, you usually get Xylometazolin as a spray. As I understand, that's both more effective and has fewer side effects (due to bein…

Same im Europe (at least the parts I ever lived in). I think it's indeed the commercial incentive - once the caller/sender has to pay anything, however small the fee, it's no longe…

Mozilla corporation is fully owned by the foundation though.

I think this is a reasonable observation, but in certain high cost of living areas, and if you're willing to leave to save money in case of trouble, the math is slightly different.…

Chrome had a bug in how css animation values would get serialized, where you'd end up with "5,43" instead of "5.43" in many European locales. It took surprisingly long to track dow…

Here is a good example: a Japanese mathematician claims he proved the abc conjecture, with an enormous, complex, and totally novel approach. After it was ignored for a long time du…