Nemo_bis

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by Nemo_bis 3y ago
Indeed. Several dozens wars are ongoing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflict...
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by Nemo_bis 3y ago
It's a classic. Accuse the other side of all the worst things you're doing yourself.
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by Nemo_bis 4y ago
> You have to resort to abuse of their terms of service Or make a GDPR request and ask your local data protection authority to order Discord to delete them for you. https://noyb.eu/en/exercise-your-rights
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by Nemo_bis 4y ago
Err, ArchiveTeam uses IRC as primary communication method.
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by Nemo_bis 4y ago
Do the people doing those "all-cash" transactions have zero liabilities towards banks? I doubt it.
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by Nemo_bis 4y ago
Thanks! I was looking in https://opencorporates.com (for Georgia) but I didn't know what to look for. Super interesting: "Today, there are over 1,100 HDFC coops that make up a significant part of the fabric of New York
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by Nemo_bis 4y ago
Hence in many countries in Europe, e.g. in the Nordics, there's one simple way to gradually reduce prices: reduce the supply of mortgages for more expensive housing. The state backstops most mortgages, but by the same mechanism (or wit
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by Nemo_bis 4y ago
Yes. The problem with the article is that it focuses on the value of the asset but forgets the costs. The entire system is stacked in favor of home-ownership by means of tax and bank subsidies.
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by Nemo_bis 4y ago
"A lot"? I've been researching this earlier in another place and didn't come up with much, do you have a link on how to list them?
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by Nemo_bis 4y ago
I don't, but Google is presumably not pleased to hear the FBI say "Cyber criminals purchase advertisements that appear within internet search results". https://www.ic3.gov/Media/Y2022/PSA221221 The
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by Nemo_bis 4y ago
Usage seems to have peaked in April 2022 https://trends.builtwith.com/mapping/Mapbox
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by Nemo_bis 4y ago
> It's a mystery why Microsoft is going full speed ahead with this. Maybe they had some idle GPU capacity in some DC or they needed to cross-subsidize Azure to massage the stock market multipliers, or something.
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by Nemo_bis 4y ago
ML and AI have existed for decades, there's little new to say. Yet there were many sessions touching on ML and AI already in the abstract: https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/fast_data_realtime_st...
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by Nemo_bis 4y ago
Even better, type a public domain novel into Wikisource! https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Help:Beginner%27s_guide_to_pr...
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by Nemo_bis 4y ago
There is no evidence that piracy hurts authors. It might hurt publishers (although finding evidence of that has been hard too).
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by Nemo_bis 4y ago
Someone else confirmed my guess https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33744179
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by Nemo_bis 4y ago
It's not about shutting down existing machines. The power grid operator might be less willing to approve upgrades to serve increases in capacity. (No idea whether that's the case.)
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by Nemo_bis 4y ago
"By 2018, the division was already a money-losing pit. That year, the New York Times reported that it lost roughly $5 billion. This year, an employee familiar with the hardware team said the company is on pace to lose around $10 billio
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by Nemo_bis 4y ago
How do you suggest to estimate "profit" on such a service when the downside is a risk (however small) of an almost 20 G$ fine by the EU?
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by Nemo_bis 4y ago
The Digital Services Act is supposed to provide some legal recourse, at least in the European Union. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Services_Act https://verfassungsblog.de/dsa-fails/ Howeve
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by Nemo_bis 4y ago
This makes me think that they have some internal rating mechanism (perhaps based on reviews or previous reports or who knows what) which flags some apps for extra "review".
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by Nemo_bis 4y ago
IIRC there is already an option to pay Google 7500 $ or something for a new review? I can't remember exactly how it is dressed up to get around antitrust concerns, maybe as a security audit.
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by Nemo_bis 4y ago
Yes, I think this is an issue of language/context. Perhaps the developer doesn't appreciate the full scale of the meaning of the phrase "objectionable content". Google for some reason thinks this app may be a legal liabi
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by Nemo_bis 4y ago
They currently have more money than they're able to give away, from what I understand. Try! Also, Horizon 2027 has about 100 G€ in budget, the more you use it the more you can get. ;)
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by Nemo_bis 4y ago
> acts as a steward for a protocol Done: it's called the W3C. https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/ > or platform Done: it's called Mastodon gGmbh. https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2021&#
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by Nemo_bis 4y ago
In the fediverse, each instance is its own cache.
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by Nemo_bis 4y ago
See: How to make the fediverse your own https://cloud.medlab.host/s/JKfLGa5zxPqoT9r (by social.coop folks).
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by Nemo_bis 4y ago
https://nlnet.nl/project/current.html
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by Nemo_bis 4y ago
The easiest way to have a sense of the numbers of account deactivations by day on Twitter is to see how many followers Obama loses: https://socialblade.com/twitter/user/barackobama Most movement is happening in sp
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by Nemo_bis 4y ago
There are also EU-based hosters with larger profit margins, if that's what you're asking. Some might also have been large enough to negotiate long-term electricity contracts not subject to the recent fluctuations. Even OVH had som

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