PeterisP

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by PeterisP 3y ago
While it is unclaimed de iure due to a border dispute, Croatia is currently asserting its de facto sovereignty over this land, as clearly demonstrated in this event, with Croatia enforcing its laws in the area and ignoring or rejecting any
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It's simply something so tiny and irrelevant (unless you have a special interest in libertarian experiments) that it doesn't warrant major or minor media articles - from the pictures it looks like the officials enforced a building
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by PeterisP 3y ago
The key products of the financial system is not transfer of money (which crypto provides) but rather credit (with the associated issues of trust and enforcement of settlement against someone's will) and payment for goods and services (
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by PeterisP 3y ago
No, the aforementioned users do not need to write lots of text on mobile devices - a professional writer will choose or adapt their devices and environment to best suit the needs of their writing work, not adapt their writing to better su
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by PeterisP 3y ago
From the AI industry perspective, I'd call it "deepfake" if it's generated as the original deepfake method did, by taking a real image or video and replacing only the face, and "AI generated" if the whole image
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by PeterisP 3y ago
While from technical perspective there are multiple quite different methods to create images, I don't think that there is (or should be, or can be) a clear boundary for social and legal purposes. It's clear that are a bunch of gen
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Becoming de jure sovereign requires getting de jure recognition of others (even if you don't control the land de facto). It doesn't look like Croatia has even the slightest intent to recognize Liberland de jure, so whatever their
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by PeterisP 3y ago
This is a literal equivalent to Bir Tawil, with both sides of a border dispute preferring the interpretation of the whole border that leaves this particular plot to the other. However, as demonstrated by this situation, in practice that doe
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by PeterisP 3y ago
It's not that "suddenly everybody wants it" - there literally haven't been any changes to Croatia (or Serbia) policy regarding the border. However, they are implicitly reasserting that no, Liberland did not establish a c
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Sovereignty is clearly possible without defense as long as everyone around you acknowledge it, like all the European microstates listed in other comments. You don't need deterrence if there is noone to deter, which is the case iff any
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For example, Czechia and Slovakia.
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It's a tradeoff - compared to character level tokens, larger tokens allow you to get much longer context windows with the same amount of computation and slightly faster transfer from tokens to concepts (perhaps extra 1-2 transformer la
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Are the current replacement costs for batteries of 8-10 year old cars 1/4 of the cost that they used to be? The part costs for replacing batteries on 2014 Teslas or Leafs seem to be far more than that ( https://www.consumeraf
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Because we can try to test for the difference between "mild" and "none", and the risk of disqualification does motivate many athletes to stop at none.
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Consumeraffairs review of battery pack replacement costs ( https://www.consumeraffairs.com/automotive/ev-battery-replac... ) implies that this costs $13k-$17k, so much more than engine replacements for old cars, as long
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Obviously there is a difference whether someone's "countryside" implies that the closest city is 50 or 500 miles away.
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Batteries cost a significant fraction of a new EV cost (something like 30%) - in the context of populations who want/need vehicles which are affordable because they're used for 10-15 years and should cost a fraction of what a new
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Thing is, first-year Leaf really isn't an old car. Outside of the richest countries there are whole communities who'd never buy a new car, because the car they can afford to buy is a much-used cheap car that's the same age as
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by PeterisP 3y ago
For an EV car, the vast majority of work needed has no relation to the drivetrain (which is relatively low-maintenance on an EV), so it doesn't really matter if half of mechanics don't know how to work on EVs; fixing suspension or
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by PeterisP 3y ago
They are a bit more than half of the total drug R&D costs, so they cost more than all the research, experimental synthesis and pre-clinical experiments combined. If you've discovered a drug which works in vitro and on animals, and
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by PeterisP 3y ago
A reasonably frequent usage of this speed is for families to switch over to mobile internet as the primary service for your home, having multiple people watch "TV" and videoconference all while someone is gaming (or dowloading a 4
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I think the key point here is that for the vast majority of knowledge workers their knowledge work isn't really supposed to result in "published knowledge product" ever, and lack of such a product doesn't imply that they
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If the publisher published a new paper map release, including that bridge 2 years after the publisher was explicitly notified of the problem, and someone died using that new map, I wouldn't be surprised if they would get sued just as G
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Terms&conditions are not law, and deciding whether 'terms clearly say X' actually implies 'X' (or if those are just empty words, as many clauses are) does take some legal knowledge.
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Well there's no such thing as UN law. There is nothing above the sovereign nations and they are only bound by their treaties, bilateral and multilateral - despite having a name like "United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
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Working in research, I have observed that one can't do everything alone, so many things effectively need a team because specializations matter and some tasks simply need a decent quantity of mundane effort. So me living cheaply wouldn&
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The code is MIT licensed if and only if the copyright holder - not the author of the story but respectively Box or Uber - explicitly made it MIT licensed. Without a legally binding commitment from these companies, a "license.txt"
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General government budget.
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The expected usage of any unused space in a mobile device is to add in extra battery cells, or perhaps to reduce thickness. The fact that neither of these have been done is unusual, and indicates an intentional choice to not do an optimizat
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Amateur radio, public (by law - unencrypted, anyone can listen) long-distance communications over certain bands where people are allowed to transmit after a certain barrier of entry of licensing and equipment.

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