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Comment · 4 years ago
What are the inputs to this framework? Are we going "What happens if we defund the police?" in isolation or are we asking what happens if we take the money from the police and put it into housing, into medicare, into other social programs? The answers you arrive at might be different.

In fact if we extrapolate that line of reasoning out to the capitalist substrate of our economy we might find some surprising second, third+ order effects.

Comment · 4 years ago
Why even make this joke?
Comment · 4 years ago
I haven't used influxdb before but if the data resides on hosts I own I think that would be acceptable. Thanks for your answers!
Comment · 4 years ago
This looks pretty useful and I will definitely be trying it out. I see you can upload CSV files for visualizing. Is there a way to send data as it's generated?

Another question would it be possible for Marple to use the data locally (or from say my own s3 bucket or database) instead of having to upload it to your servers?

Comment · 4 years ago
For those like me who need some kind of reference for the distances mentioned (548-900 AU), Voyager 1 is 156.5 AU from earth today.
Comment · 4 years ago
When it comes to working holiday visas this is one of those times non-Americans[1] actually have _more_ options than Americans.

1: Western non-Americans, more specifically, unfortunately..

Comment · 4 years ago
A lot of people haven't developed the muscle to look at anything discussing "demographics" extremely critically.
Comment · 4 years ago
Sure you can have this "discussion" but it comes off as needless (and probably racist) concern trolling. The Sweden thing is a favorite among reactionaries trying to mask their racism. The homicide rate in Sweden is lower than Canada. It's lower than Finland.
Comment · 4 years ago
yeah but it was private and presumably a pretty limited number of people knew about it at the time which narrows down the number of potential candidates pretty considerably.
Comment · 4 years ago
> But the problem here is, that the EU concepts are often adapted elsewhere

oh no anything but that

Comment · 4 years ago
you still need to do kyc to convert to real money, which is essentially the same as transferwise for example
Comment · 4 years ago
which ones
Comment · 4 years ago
Jay Foreman's videos are great. Love the old BBC documentary aesthetic he (mockingly) goes for.
Comment · 4 years ago
If you listen to someone whose first language is something like Spanish or French but isn't totally fluent in English you'll hear them use "he" instead of singular "they". It's not an egregious error but it definitely sounds a little strange (at least to my ear).
Comment · 4 years ago
weird conclusion

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