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The guy who got AKed could have burned his draft card, gone to jail for a few years and loose his SS benefits. That's not fun either, but he wouldn't have died in a jungle half way…

Not more just. But when the situation is more asymetrical the more farcical the powerful side's complaints of the weaker's perfidy. (Tons of examples. The most universally accepted…

Yugo was way richer than Albania, and I doubt Poland was as poor as Romania. So wasn't just a "we don't care they're mere peasants" Again, ppl were technically allowed to leave the…

We've all read the dangers and abuses of social media. We all know the positives. Do you have a Facebook account? How long are you on it? How about a "professional" social media ne…

the ezception that proves the rule. You could, theoretically, leave the USSR, if you paid back what society had invested in you. De facto it was very hard to leave You can quit you…

Sorry, I read it like an aggressive "citation needed"

on what? The production quotas are my only factual claim. But here's wiki https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dairy_farming_in_Canada (The national post had a great series of articles …

Interesting. I've never heard of this fragility of hormones, could you expand a bit?

Interesting. I've never heard of this fragility of hormones, could you expand a bit?

Unavoidable? Hardly. You just have a veal industry on the side. Milk has been produced for millennia before hormones of any type were added. Furthermore Canada has milk production …

I thought if that, but This is a Canadian study. Canadian diary industry is very different from the US, so it's not obvious that you'd find hormones in the milk (there are per cow …

I thought if that, but This is a Canadian study. Canadian diary industry is very different from the US, so it's not obvious that you'd find hormones in the milk (there are per cow …

How can you counterfeit money with an inkjet? You'll get caught in days (wrong paper, streaking, poor quality print) with or without the dots. You'd have to be blind not to notice …

Why forget the dates after the effort shoving them in? And why not ask what is the value of knowing the dates of important events? The polish school system is hardly unique in this…

I'm hypothesizing, but you could make the slightest of changes to the print. For example, if it's text, modify the font ever so slightly so it's invisible to the eye but measurable…

Not necessarily. In fact the Stasi thought it was a swell idea!

Not necessarily. In fact the Stasi thought it was a swell idea!

Well dodging the train fare is pretty nasty thing to do. But jail time??? Wow.

Agreed. But how many ppl are in low security vs. max security? How easy is it politically to build a min security facility in an area affluent enough to have day jobs for prisoners…

Yes. Well no, because of lack of general availability. But I pay extra for many things to avoid certain corporate behaviour. In a free market, that's my right. We're trying to wean…

I'm not entitled to their labour, I can't afford higher price labour (well I can). Also, middle class salaries can barely afford current rates (in this forum we're mostly upper mid…

You can use a bank of capacitors and the power itself is not a huge deal (still not trivial, but it's been done for 60+ years). The problem is also that at 1kW for every 1Mw you st…

well insurance companies have something similar now where they track your driving using GPS. In principle I like that because you pay for the risk you are, but in practice it sucks…

Why would libertarians hate tolls? If anything they hate free public roads. Privatize, charge a bundle to use them and they're happy like pigs in poop!

touche. the question really is a generalization of "what research would I do if I had a few orders of magnitude more computer resources?" Well how many orders of magnitude are we t…