CanadaPlus @ CanadaPlus @lemmy.sdf.org Posts 74Comments 8,004Joined 2 yr. ago
Are you thinking of sewer lines, garbage pickup, roads and the like?
I think it's quite possible that if they weren't free, lifestyles would change to accommodate it, including a lot more people going car-free and transit growing to accommodate that. OP's talking about something different, though, and I'm guessing the effect on house sizes just from non-free services would be mild, if measurable.
Yeah. Mounties like swinging their dick around as much as the next beat cop, and OP conspicuously didn't mention how much they were speeding by, exactly. Since OP wasn't at the wheel I don't see how they could be ejected, though. Being an idiot's passenger isn't a crime.
Yeah, I did address Poland. The agreement fell apart before much more sphering could happen. I rest my case, basically.
Nazis were better at planning. What a surprise.
You know that was a disaster for them, right? The Soviets had their own clusterfucks going on, but they won and it wasn't close.
Is this a national pride thing for you? Why even go there otherwise?
Like almost all of them believe in conspiracy theories. It's a fringe movement at this point, if a large one.
So, probably that George Soros personally stuffed all the ballot boxes for Carney.
That's definitely part of it. Most of the hereditary tory voters aren't on the separatist train, though.
No evidence? Yeah, good luck defending that one, guys. Like, not enough you could definitely argue for, but none is laughable.
Yep, they're good and empty. Nunavut is actually a bit smaller yet.
I mean, it had non-aggression pact right in the name. They did cooperate in splitting up Poland, but given the history, rhetoric and eventual actions of both sides you'd be hard pressed to seriously argue they were of a side.
Make it an official tax bracket too, instead just a refund everyone qualifies for. I don't know why TF it's set up that way.
Personality and lifestyle dependent, too.
The problem I have with the space tax idea, which I think OP has mentioned before, is just that it presupposes what people need without much justification, and then applies a penalty to force that outcome. Really, you only want to make people pay for what they take, and people buying big houses definitely do that. (Having inequality in the first place is of course it's own issue)
Man, WWII sure happened.
He's also planning to start a big government-driven building program at some point.
I don't expect this guy is going to do a basic income. That's a radical policy that's not really on-brand for him, and we have some crises going on that need the political oxygen.
I'm kind of hoping they will. The government does not have too much money right now. I see no reason not to add a few percent to the top or second-to-top tax bracket.
Was there actual paperwork, or was that RCMP officer just power tripping?
Yeah, not surprised. An experienced software engineer in the US won't have to do unskilled labour unless there's something else massive going on with them.
Man, another really cool GNU project I hadn't heard of. I should subscribe to a mailing list or something.
More than once he's said something that makes me suspect he's bi. Too bad he's also a legend-tier asshole.
Newfoundland & Labrador also stands out as an anomaly, considering it's territory-like in a lot of ways
I'm guessing it wasn't a single murder in each territory. A lot of communities up there are poor, traumatised and isolated, which makes people shootier.
It's "just" curvature, both through space and time. The Einstein field equation literally has energy and momentum on one side, and a type of curvature measure on the other.
The trick there is that curved 2D spaces can already be pretty weird, and it gets exponentially crazier in dimensions 3 and 4. This makes it both capable of doing surprisingly a lot, like putting Earth in a fixed, repeating orbit without much local distortion, and difficult to visualise even by analogy. Interestingly, dimensions 5 and higher aren't any worse, which is actually a pattern that repeats across a lot of geometry.
::: spoiler In slightly more mathy detail: A curved 2D surface can be completely characterised by the Gaussian curvature at each point, which is a single real number (aka a scalar). In dimension 3, you need to use the Ricci curvature, which is a 3x3 matrix/tensor, so 9 scalars, and in dimension 4 it's the Riemann curvature tensor which is 4x4x4x4. There's symmetries that you can use to get that down to 6 and 20 scalars respectively, but that's still a lot more parameters on every point than we're used to. :::
But yes the gravitational waves take is interesting, it burn my mind trying to imagine how to “trap” spacetime in itself.
There is a bit of nuance there, which is why I said "as I understand it". Gravitational waves are classically defined in terms of perturbations of flat spacetime, and a black hole is nowhere near close to flat. It's possible there's been work showing how to define them in that context, but I'm not a specialist and I couldn't name it.
If this were electromagnetism I'd just use the superposition principle, but GR is not linear. In fact, there's chaotic dynamics that can happen in black holes related to the Mixmaster universe model. It's also possible (to my limited knowledge) that there isn't nice propagating waves at all so much as just adjustments to the crazy bending everything is already doing.
Has anyone ever done a Speculative Evolution book or work on Carcinisation?
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