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Comment · 3 years ago
There are a lot more people who upvote zero effort memes though.
Comment · 3 years ago
That's normal. Fibre slows down the absorption of everything.
Comment · 4 years ago
And then you get the managerial types who demand your presence for morning meetings.
Comment · 4 years ago
"Cancel culture" is better known as "actions have consequences".
Comment · 4 years ago
Software development isn't a production problem, it's a design problem.

Software manufacturing is the bit after you compile the code.

Comment · 5 years ago
An actual debate on population control would be looking at reducing the number of children in the developed world even more, and discouraging suburban housing.
Comment · 5 years ago
Ah yes, I misread the parent as desiring to cancel the people demanding cancellation of the intolerant.
Comment · 5 years ago
Ah yes, cancel those who want to cancel the intolerant.

It does help to think of tolerance as a peace treaty.

Comment · 5 years ago
So the developed world could also enable cheap, clean energy production in the third world.
Comment · 5 years ago
There are apartments, but construction in the desirable areas is limited.
Comment · 5 years ago
Nothing that a wealth tax on the current value of land won't fix. Make property taxes to the value of the number of people that land should support in a highrise configuration, and let the current owners pay it.
Comment · 5 years ago
The groups participating in organised crime generally aren't the immigrants though.

A major cultural shift needed in Europe is acceptance, not tolerance.

Comment · 5 years ago
That was about two decades ago. Anything worse is going to be pushing humanity towards extinction.
Comment · 5 years ago
Rockets were publicly funded research. A lot of airplane research was publicly funded.
Comment · 5 years ago
The major economies are also large sources of these loopholes.

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