Garvi

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by Garvi 3y ago
What's new is social media. It is an extremely potent tool for propaganda as it shows a monolithical opinion on every critical topic. They achieve this through basic censorship, shadowbans and the enabling of dogpiling. This gives peop
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Most people by now watched a thousand online lynchings of people who pointed out the propaganda. They're either afraid or they themselves enjoy a good lynching. There is also very little risk of it backfiring as censorship takes care o
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by Garvi 3y ago
Reading between the lines of official Chinese government statements is a great technique for finding secret dirt (like a genocide) on the Chinese government. Do you stand behind this statement you just made? > How many fighters do you th
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by Garvi 3y ago
Even your implication that I have ulterior motives shows the sad state of public debate on such topics. I am also curious as to what you perceived as "snark"? I have now fully read the article. Two Chinese US citizens claim they h
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by Garvi 3y ago
I'm hearing about this genocide on the Uighur people, yet cannot figure out how many people have gotten killed in this genocide? I'm finding conflicting results from millions to "no one of course, it's not that kind of g
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by Garvi 3y ago
How can you tell the difference between spin and time dilation?
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No. But they're gonna spot your cannabis plants with spectral analysis from high altitude now and put you in a work camp.
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by Garvi 3y ago
I can confirm. In my experience on edge-case hardware, a raspberry pi 2, Chrome will play 1080p video while Firefox will stutter. And since raspberry pi's are treated as TVs, I get absolutely drowned in ads on Chrome. To be fair, on my
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I wonder how future historians are going to look back at this. The vast majority of people letting themselves be forced into wasting a portion of their lives on adds make me pessimistic for the survival of this race. Might seem like hyperbo
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I know exactly what you mean even though I basically disagree. While in some pictures, one can really "tell" by picking up on some unconscious "artifacts" or patterns. Uncanny valley stuff. On the other hand most are jus
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If that's the only reason the US is continuously poking the Chinese panda, we should keep that in mind the next time they invoke the humanitarian card.
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What is that statement based on? In my country heavy industry has halved in the past 12 months. I know multiple engineers who are now getting into software development because of it.
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I agree in principle. But the shutdown of nuclear reactors and subsequent switch to lignite coal burning power plants didn't affect the economy as much as it did the environment. Coal power is not more expensive, it's dirtier.
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by Garvi 3y ago
The protesters were quite clear it wasn't about any misguided environmental policies, but political ones. We used to get a lot of cheap energy from Russia. Now that pipelines are getting blown up mysteriously, it's a different wor
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The doubling of energy prices pretty much wiped out the heavy industry sector around here. I remember the German heavy industry Rhein area unions protesting this in Berlin without much media coverage a few months ago.
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Question: Is this defeatism, is it faith based (laws are bad,period), or are you expecting to be profiteering from planned obsolescence yourself in the future?
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This movie and "Grave of the fireflies" are the two movies which shook me the most emotionally. Masterpieces in their own right. Both put the horrors of war into proper perspective. Interesting how as a teenager I would spend hour
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by Garvi 3y ago
This is a straw man fallacy. See: > EU regulations are not a monolith of good or bad.
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by Garvi 3y ago
> Ideally this would be opt-in rather than opt-out for privacy reasons As long as it's about cookies, the law is nonsense. Asking laypeople to "opt-in to tracking" so they can log into a website would render most websites
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by Garvi 3y ago
Blaming cookies for tracking people is like blaming a bullet for a murder. It's the trackers installed on pretty much every single website that are the thing that tracks people, using cookies of course. The Google analytics or Facebook
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by Garvi 3y ago
EU regulations are not a monolith of good or bad. The cookie law is dumb beyond comprehension. On the other side GDPR is just great and I have yet to hear a good argument against it. The criticisms usually sound like listening to creationis
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by Garvi 3y ago
I'm still using my LG G5 from 2016. On my 4th battery right now and will keep on using it until it dies. Still runs smooth browsing the web or even playing brand new 3d games. Batteries are 10-20eur on ebay. The cameras lack nothing an
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by Garvi 3y ago
Woohoo. Does that also mean that we in the EU get US citizens data to play with?
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Interesting. It seems Japan is subsidizing jobs that are paid too little and no one wants to take at those wages, while employers cannot afford higher rates. That does indeed seem like a great idea, considering they seem to have a rather fa
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I wonder how our society would look like if instead of importing a cheap workforce, we'd raise the minimum wage to a point where the shitty jobs would be paid enough for them to feel respectable. You know, like in a healthy capitalisti
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5 min after implementation the first corrupt cop is going to sell the software that handles the backdoor access to shady characters(criminal elements, foreign actors) for use or reverse engineering.
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Watch thousands of lightning bolts crackle over Europe in new satellite video(space.com)
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Actually Germany recently shut down all of it's nuclear plants and replaced them with the dirtiest fuel possible: lignite coal burning plants. Statistics are a peculiar thing.
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True. One needs to build it's own "router" if you will. But in practice that means writing functions that modify the URL (some pushState(url) and scrollTo(top) stuff) and make them part of the primary function, so you can for
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by Garvi 3y ago
Haha, thanks. I actually have one of those. I roll faster without it :)

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