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I think all libertanians would agree with that logic :)

In theory you should be able to come up with some minimal necessary set of laws and policies, pass apropriate parlimentary bills once, and after that parliament becomes unncecessary, or maybe it just gathers in session once a year, to evaluate the need for new laws.

Also, to encourage long-term thinking it should be written into Constitution that any new law passed can only take effect 10 years after it was passed, not sooner.

I would also add 3) analysing the Bible as the source of many literaly genres.

>> Not to start a flame war over book choice but forcing kids to read the Bible, Homer's Iliad, and Shakespeare are probably what is causing such marked disinterest in the first place

In my experience what's causing young people disintrest in reading is that noone teaches the physical skill of reading correctly.

I mean, I never really took any speed-reading courses, but still, when I take a test my speed is usually 400-500 wpm. I read somewhere that typical high school student reads about 100-120 wpm. If I were to read a lenghty book, like any of Dickens of Tolstoy works at that speed I would probably also give up very quickly.

> It costs more to mint them than they're worth.

That's irrelevant since pennies are multiple use. In fact they probably get used in hundred thousands of transactions in their typical lifetime.

Not the GP, but I think that there are many such titles, that's why schools in Poland have mandatory reading lists :)

You cannot understand culture and tradition without reading some classics,starting with Bible, Homer's Illiad, or Shakespeare. And of course in Poland we mostly focus on Polish writers. You know, before journalism was invented novels served pretty much the same purpose as newspaper reports - there are the goldmine of information about how Poland looked like back in the day.

Unfortunately, contemporary students prefer to just watch movie based on a book than reading the source material.

Depends on your tolerance for shaming. I, for one, would probably be a bit pissed off if someone threaten to publish video of me jerking off, but wouldn't care about that enough to pay anyone any money. Listening to a secret conversations in conference room on the other hand, than can be valuable on it's own, no need to blackmail.

> The Supreme Court of Canada is in essence directly appointed by the Prime Minister

And that's the crucial difference: if a Supreme Court judge in Canada starts misbehaving I guess Prime Minister can dismiss them just as easily. In the US judges are appointed for life, so if the wrong person gets appointed that choice will haunt us for a few decades.

That's why you should never joke around "social justice warriors" - you don't want to give them any ideas.

Climate change is a natural result of CO2 emissions, which are natural side effect of life.

By fighting the climate change you're fighting the life itself :)

The study abstract compares moderate drinkers to a group they refer to as "never drinkers", so I guess they avoided that "all non-drinkers are former alcoholics" trap.

In theory, this could still work if one of those two words put in by lazy developers was a JIRA ticket number where all the details are described in length. Atlassian stack (JIRA, Bitbucket, etc.) even allows you to make those clickable links.

Isn't O-1 visa a category for higly skilled workers? H-1B is certainly not, I mean they recently redefined it to include "fashion models" of all things - what kind of skills does that job entail?

No, they did that because Jesus had just broken the news that he'll be betrayed by Judas. The whole scene shows the shock and a heated discussion of that revealation.

To be fair, there are clearly the plates set on the other side. The painting is supposed to catch the moment when some of the apostoles stood up to get together with their comrades. you can see some of them standing behind the back of the others, not sitting.

Also, the apostole on the Jesus's right is clearly a woman...

Even if coronavirus actually exists I would still consider COVID-19 epidemic to be mostly a social experiment, basically the extended version of War of the Worlds [1]

Governments are testing how many idiotic rules can they make us follow, preparing for the switch from democracy to surveillance-based totalitarism.

The actual mortality rates are not enough to justify all those limitations - most people infected by coronavirus don't even have any symptoms, majority of those who have symptoms will get through them as they would through a normal flu. If anything, we should order the old people (say 70+) to stay home, as they seem to be the only real risk group.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(radio_d...

The problem with making alcohol illegal is that it is so easy to produce it at home, with generally available ingredients like sugar or yeast. That's why prohibition did not work. Banning drugs, especially synthetic ones is orders of magnitude more effective.

Also, regular commuters would typically buy travelcard, and pay a flat monthly rate for unlimited number of rides.

>> selective censorship by the platforms, which is their right as a private org

So, just because they are not government they are allowed to lie and manipulate? Because "selective censorship" is just this: manipulation.

It actually is not that complex. I'm using Crunchy Postgres Operator at my current employer. You get an Ansible playbook to install an Operator inside Kubernetes, and after that you get a commandline administration tool that let's you create a cluster with a simple

pgo create cluster <cluster_name>

command.

Most administrative tasks like creating or restoring backups (which can be automatically pushed to S3) are just one or two pgo commands.

The linked pdf looks complex, because it:

a. compares 3 different operators

b. goes into implementation details that most users are shielded from.

And I'm actually not sure which one of the three operators is the author recommending :)

> Germans didn’t like what happened - there were countless assassination attempts against hitler, but it was just eventually too late.

That myth has to die - there was no real opposition against Hitler for as long as he was successful. He was probably the most popular political leader of all the time. German people did not have a problem with his hatred against Jews, on the contrary, that's what gave him his popularity. It never was "Bad Nazis vs Good Germans" - Nazis and Germans were one and the same.

Yes, initially, in 1933 Nazis did slauther some of their political opponents, but for the years after that they really didn't need to terrorize the nation. Gestapo in 1937 was just 7000 people, inlcuding secretaries and other support stuff, and that was enough to keep 60 million nation in check. Compare that to 200k members of STASI in communist East Germany after war.

As for assasination attempts - if you look at Wikipedia list [0] you'll notice two things:

1. Most of them are pathetic, with zero chance of succeeding

2. None of them are attempted by common "good Germans" - some are by members of competing radical groups, some by citizens of countries conquered by Hitler, then, starting in 1940s there are attempts by generals that realize Germany is going to lose the war.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assassination_attempts...

But what is the point of cooling your apartment to 65 Fahrenheit, when there's 90 degrees outside? In summer you would still wear shorts and t-shirt when inside, not sweatpants and hoodie, right? Setting AC to 75 degrees instead would be much more reasonable.

> Android has about 72% of worldwide market share, so clearly Android phones are not significantly less attractive.

More precisely, Android has the BOTTOM 72% of the market, mostly cheap smartphones with thin profit margins. Almost all actual profits go to Apple.

But what if someone wants to Boot Camp ARM Linux?

The brain damage in question is the lack of creativity and laziness. In my country it is common (e.g. among journalists) to:

A. Post on Facebook first (which allows longer text) and then use Twitter to re-post content.

B. Write in Word/Notepad/whatever, take a screenshot and post that.

I find both methods much cleaner and easier to follow than a series of tweets.

Russian economy is weak, agreed, but militarily they are still the only significant threat to US global dominance. China's military is much weaker in comparison.

Apple sells you hardware, but then tries to upsell, by offering apps through AppStore. The solution here seems to be:

Jailbreak your iPhone and start installing applications from other sources. If Apple tries to stop that then you can sue them that they deny you rights to use something that you legally own (the iPhone).

The only downside here is: I would have a hard time trusting an app from outside the AppStore.

Isn’t the dark mode something invented primarily as energy saving feature for OLED screens? I never even considered it to be protective for eyes.

> It is possible that the brain's imprecision (I would argue that "inconsistency" might be a better word) is a requirement of it's computational ability

Is it possible that brain is in fact a quantum computer? I can imagine that under all those neural networks there is a small part where, trapped in some complex protein structure, some qbits exist and are crucial to most advanced brain functions, such as consciousness.

And how does the CEO salary hurt the standard employee? Most of the S&P 500 companies employ around 100k of people. dividing $20M salary equally between them would give each of them $16.6 per month.

Google/Alphabet still looks great with a median salary of $258k though...