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I did not notice that. Maybe because I wasn't looking for it.

I was not implying that that feeling was good or advocating for it. Just that that feeling appears, even if misguided, and we need to understand it to understand self-destruction l…

Indeed, I have just realized that the main problem of the US healthcare system is that their inhabitants cannot even imagine that anything better even exists. Healthcare is much mo…

I would even say that any person of any country with enough financial resources could afford and get the best treatment in whatever country of the world would happen to be offered.…

Many people have never realized that self-destruction can feel liberating.

We are starting to copy it elsewhere, it's going good in the same direction in baby steps.

I think in most countries in Europe the national id number is enough to link taxes to specific people (identity card numbers are to most effects public), even though for official i…

Facts are disputed when they cannot possibly fit in the narrative we want/need to believe.

A government or a state?

You are choosing to play with words instead of trying to understand what it meant. It can also be that you are trying to make a point of the broadness and the impossibility of prov…

They do. I have seen news in Europe where they cannot reproduce the original excerpt (reading aloud instead) of some communication because of copyright laws and the original excerp…

In fact, I wanted to say that such concepts in laws that direct how other laws are made need be necessarily broad. If you think of it: freedom, dignity, citizenship, and so on, are…

I was talking of a bracket of poverty you only need 300km south of Sweden to experience. That is, still, not real poverty. And I mean countries with a good safety net and infrastru…

What? When you make an appointment for something you need to have done you cannot control the time you are going to be given for the appointment... It is unavoidable, and even more…

If Europeans had some power on the immigration decisions of the US it would be stupid to make it worse for others when you could just accept it to be worse only for yourself. On th…

But what about the time an planning of using public transport vs car?

C++ programmers where selectively implementing borrow checkers at runtime decades ago (see library omnetpp as an example). Moving those borrow checkers to compile time with templat…

Not still a good analogy, but radiation can be seen as a consequence of vacuum not being empty from the perspective of an electric field (it has a very low permittivity, but it is …

Those two sentences that you wrote are precisely the hydraulic analogy. If it weren't, instead of electrons it would be charge (that can be positive or negative), or field strength…

Another reason to have a limit well below the computer's memory capacity is that one could find ill-formed documents in the wild, e.g., an unclosed quotation mark, causing the "res…

I think that's the wrong take. The more frequent utterances can be fossilized precisely because of their repeated use. The reality is that any creative or less frequent use of lang…