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jacobush
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About jacobush
So long, and thanks for all the fish.
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Comment #25350010
Maybe we can settle for totalitarian.
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Comment #25349043
... but also your colleagues?
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Comment #25348706
Hm, interesting place to draw a line in the sand. Then we can’t know if a country was a dictatorship ship until a ruler dies. Also, all countries with despots ousted and replaced b…
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Comment #25347716
While true, that's largely ortogonal to why China is so very much a dictatorship.
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Comment #25347468
Leather is also cured in all sorts of nasty things.
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Comment #25345600
Sweden had preparations like this for roads and ports.
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Comment #25345485
http://www.icyousee.org/titanic.html according to this: Survival rate first class men and women: 62% Survival rate women, steerage: 49% So clearly, it was better to be rich than fe…
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Comment #25344920
or blend?
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Comment #25344893
There's something about the colors that made me fell ill to my stomach. The rose color, it's just too much Apple. And I like my rose colored iPhone. What next, Apple t-shirts? How …
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Comment #25344458
Sweden did sort of a lockdown excluding schools up to pupils age 16.
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Comment #25343936
Consider also how much electronics around us which leaks harmonics all over the place without any modifications.
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Comment #25343874
Reading from the other side of the pond, heating and electricity in the US seems so fantastically complicated . Where I live, the standard is water radiators for old installations …
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Comment #25339957
I can't. Nobody goes home. Nobody else comes through. It's just him - and me.
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Comment #25339933
Step 1 don’t be poor. (Most poor died by default.) Step 2 don’t be a man.
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Comment #25339500
We will pay of course in due time, but you meant that of course. Complacency has a cost.
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Comment #25339436
Or, you will not go to space today.
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Comment #25334105
In Sweden too, at least a generation back or two, it was like this.
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Comment #25332293
The US digged itself in pretty well.
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Comment #25331314
Probably not at a power level which really matters?
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Comment #25312788
It’s like embedded software. DOS is basically bug free at this point. If there are bugs in DOS, they are known. ANY bugs will be in the application.
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Comment #25312734
People are not average. How big is the spread?
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Comment #25312653
In Sweden the homeless increased when a lot of dedicated mental health institutions were closed.
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Comment #25308814
We need to remember they allocate resources horribly in other places though. Genocide is going there, forced abortion and sterilisation of entire populations.
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Comment #25305032
Just to clarify, I meant that if they at some point knew how to code, that goes a long way to understand the mindset. It doesn't matter as much if they could code their way out of …
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Comment #25303820
Sort of agree, it's enough if they could at some point. If they keep an ear to the ground about how things work and what's possible, that goes a long way.