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jacobush

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About jacobush

One day I woke up and was no longer interested in the discussions here.

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

Recent public activity

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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.