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by 0xDEF 4y ago
Also Stable Diffusion is made by a German organization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable_Diffusion
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
>Europe is also so densely populated that full 4g coverage is totally doable Whenever this is brought up a lot of Germans will reply that the 5G/4G situation in Germany is hopeless and only Elon Musk can save them. But looking at th
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
Putting more junk in LEO is a serious problem but SpaceX started this and now others will also enter the market. Why should Starlink have monopolistic control over the high bandwidth SATCOM market?
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
Probably some kind of privacy phone. Seems like every EU country now has privacy-focused smartphone startups.
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
There was little demand for non-GPS satnav. There is plenty of demand for non-Musk satcom.
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AI “reporters” spread disinformation about Ohio train derailment(weaponizedspaces.substack.com)
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This is a rather wrong view on who exactly the West supported in Afghanistan. The Mujahideens the West supported became the Northern Alliance. The NA allowed girls to go to school. The NA was also allied with Iran and didn't persecute
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
Far-right extremism is surprisingly common in the German-speaking world if you look beyond Western Germany and Berlin. Eastern Germany (excluding Berlin) is one big racist hellscape where refugee homes get firebombed and Putin is worshipped
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
Does transatlantic HVDC make sense? Something that connects the US/Canada with mainland Europe through Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and the UK/Norway. Transatlantic HDVC might need actively cooled superconducting transmi
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
The "elites are child-trafficking pedophiles" thing was considered to be anti-satanistic hysteria and a conspiracy theory in the 1980s. It all turned out to be true.
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
Leaflet is also an interesting solution in this space: https://github.com/Leaflet/Leaflet
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Awesome-iouring: Delightful io_uring packages and resources(github.com)
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YouTube rewards creators more than any other platform. However they're ruthless about the subscriber demographics. A few thousand subscribers is enough to become Ramen profitable [1] if they are high income people from high income coun
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Economies of scale means there is room for a "Walmart of Hotels" that is both better than Airbnbs and cheaper than legacy hotels.
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
Just a reminder that Fortune is now a pay-to-play publication.
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"We will kill you and forcefully assimilate your children" is unfortunately not a new thing for Russia to do against Ukraine. It happened during both Tsarist rule and under the Soviet Union.
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Russian forces have relocated at least 6k Ukrainian children to camps: report(cnbc.com)
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https://lobste.rs is your friend.
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The reason the Indian government is afraid is because they know the secular Southern India will secede if they found out they're ruled by a religious North Indian madman who killed 750-2000 Muslims. Before this documentary the 2002 Guj
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
Akamai still has an Oracle/IBM-like reputation. One of the companies that for many years didn't have a sign up page. Instead they wanted anyone who is interested to call their sales people.
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Ask HN: Open-source projects with good onboarding?
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Why did they go so hard after Z-Library when all of the other Library Genesis mirrors are still up and running? Is it because Z-Library have ads and paid subscriptions while the others are non-profit volunteers?
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“SILEX is the only privately held information that is classified by the US gov.”(en.wikipedia.org)
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CSI-like shows have spread the misconception that spy satellites can see human face sized objects in real-time. But there are certain physical limits that makes that unlikely to be done from space several hundreds of kilometers above the su
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Yes, the far-right in North America and Western Europe loves Russia.
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What has been happening to the Russian space agency is a travesty. From 2018 to 2022 the Director General of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, was an actual Sieg Heiling neo-Nazi. He was also a co-founder of the ultra-nationalist party Rodina that
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A lot of that depended on contributions from the Baltic countries, Ukraine, and minorities within Russia like the Russian Jews and Germans. Many of the latter have been leaving Russia in droves since the 1980s.
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That is true. And then the West pushed the Shah to losen up control and become less authoritarian which enabled the Islamic Revolution. There is a reason a lot of countries verbally lash out when the US/EU or Western NGOs accuse them o
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
He is Scandinavian so he might be offended by Hersh pushing unsourced lies accusing Norway of being state terrorists.
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>For the linked article - it commits far more journalistic sins than Hersh's article - in an attempt to take it down. Through continued use of insinuation, analogies, and strawmen Like what? Give some examples. Hersh's article

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