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I think number 1 is the essential point for anyone supporting democracy. Ukrainians, not Russians, decided who they elect as their leaders (1) and which organizations they want to …

Isn’t it just a reasonable application of the “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”? And I say this as someone really hoping that this is true, since I assume this …

Yeah, I also thought of Eternal September [1] in 1993, when I saw the claim to prescience. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

> I will make one point: in the US, it’s never been the government’s job to build homes. That might be technically correct on the build part, but the US government used to subsidiz…

Again, I don’t think we are going to end up agreeing as I believe that a significant portion of the Russian people are aware, that they are being lied to, but are to scared to do a…

Hmm, I fail to see how this is even remotely comparable to Russian propaganda/related to the topic at hand, but I’ll give you that the “West” has also behaved atrociously in the pa…

Then we fundamentally disagree in how human psychology works: I believe that if authorities (be they government officials, parents or others) habitually lie and cheat, then that be…

I’m curious: You don’t think that being continuously exposed to government propaganda and threatened with jail/fines for dissenting opinions will increase the frequency of “shitty …

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it —- Upton Sinclair. But agreed that this boggles the mind. The only explana…

IMHO there is a lot of value in learning the rules and then breaking the ones, that in your judgement does not apply to a given situation. A variation on Chesterton’s fence [1], or…

One party is currently torturing and murdering civilians, which tends to skew the conversation in a particular direction. Once Russia has withdrawn all troops from Ukraine we can d…

I’ve been sort of amazed by the line of reasoning as well: Russia can invade a democracy aligning with “the west”, but if “the west” were to, say, bomb the military in a country th…

You are of course correct, but speed does give an upper bound on how quickly you decelerate. Anyways, I got curious and looked up accident statistics in Denmark [1], and only ~10% …

On the positive side I’m pretty sure that if you have a crash at 100+ km/h, then vehicle insurance is going to be the least of your worries.

I personally blame the robustness principle[1], which I think explains a lot of the accidental complexity in web programming. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_princip…

I remember reading “The Age of Spiritual Machines” and the “events vs time” plot (criticized below) https://kk.org/thetechnium/the-singularity/ was the calling bullshit moment for …

Oh, I forgot, when looking at percentage of population over 65 both Sweden and Denmark clock in at ~20%, whereas the population density of Sweden is ~25 people/km^2 and Denmark has…

Quoting from the article > The report states that the main factor in the problems in residential homes for the elderly was simply the fact the virus spread so widely in society. Wi…

> Sweden has had a lower per-capita COVID deathtoll than European states with heavy lockdowns. But 5-12 times that of comparable neighboring countries like Norway, Finland and Denm…

This is completely fair to the subject: He got a tax refund for taxes paid for dividends, that he never paid in the first place. This is not a loophole, open to interpretation or i…

Sounds really interesting. Do you have samples, benchmarks or other resources you can share?

This. At least that is what I often think, when I hear people describing micro-services. If there is no data sharing between computations, then the problem is embarrassingly parall…

You can use an obfuscator (see e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19163701/how-can-i-obfus... ). Note that you can still decompile the obfuscated code and look around (I’ve d…

In Denmark, a country of approximately 6 million people, there are three different regions running the public hospitals. Two of the three regions choose a custom system, whereas th…