Saline9515

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by Saline9515 3mo ago
The Chinese are quite open about their efforts regarding intellectual espionage and the desire for control of other countries' supply chains. It's not sinophobia to be cautious about it. It doesn't mean that the US companies
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by Saline9515 3mo ago
Any discussion about the Chinese Communist Party is censored on Deepseek.
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by Saline9515 3mo ago
Solar panels and wind turbines are useful, but don't provide the base power a network needs to be stable, and on-demand capacity to give some flexibility. Ironically, fossil fuel electricity plants have to be built as part of renewable
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by Saline9515 3mo ago
Cumulative radioactivity emitted by German coal as a result of the ban on nuclear is likely higher than the amount of radioactivity spread by the Fukushima disaster. We can also add lung issues and other pollution of the environment caused
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by Saline9515 3mo ago
China still uses a massive amount of coal, and has a lot of southern idle land. Germany has been doing what you say for the last 15 years, it didn't seem to work out so well.
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by Saline9515 4mo ago
Crusades were 900 years ago, at a time most people didn't know how to read. Now people don't need leaders to interpret texts. Do you have more recent examples? > All modern societies are multiethnic societies. No? Most European
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by Saline9515 4mo ago
The difference is that white supremacist who do domestic terrorism usually don't blow up in a concert hall crying "Jesus is great". Violent white supremacism is a symptom of multiethnic societies. There is no reason to be one
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by Saline9515 4mo ago
> The parent comment is right about 99.9...% of Muslims not being in any way related to terrorism. Yet there are no country with a majority of muslims where the minorities were not pushed out in the 20th and 21st century. Turkey, Egypt,
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by Saline9515 4mo ago
I told you that it was an intro. Here is the more serious book, by the same authors: https://direct.mit.edu/books/monograph/2425/The-Logic-of-Pol... And there is nothing wrong with vulgarization, aside from c
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by Saline9515 4mo ago
The UK is historically not a notion of immigrants. The recent immigration carried massive problems (mass rapes among them), and a brutal authoritarian repression of free speech. The anti-weapon laws are systematically directed against the i
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by Saline9515 4mo ago
> What do the Bataclan terrorists have to do with 99.9999% of the Muslim population? They share the same religion and ethnicity. French muslims were actually a large contingent in Daesh forces. This is a classic "no true scotsman&qu
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by Saline9515 4mo ago
If the nation of immigrants is so great, why are so many people protecting themselves with guns and why are there so many lawyers to compensate for the absence of social trust? And why are so many people still talking and being unhappy abou
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by Saline9515 4mo ago
This is a good intro by recognized researchers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dictator%27s_Handbook If you want me to be more precise, I would say that clientelism and tribalism are especially rewarded for politici
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by Saline9515 4mo ago
Why is "civil war" the default situation here? How about domestic terrorism for instance? Will you be on the side of the muslim terrorists who beheaded teachers and priests (among others), and killed 132 concert-goers (and injured
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by Saline9515 4mo ago
There are many flavors of national socialism, in reality nazis should be called hitlerians because of this.
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by Saline9515 4mo ago
This is actually very far left, just not the current wealthy-urban-lgbtq far left. USSR marxists and Maoists held the same views, where the individual's main function was to work and refusal to work or low productivity required either
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by Saline9515 4mo ago
What happens when they start to see their ethnicity or culture as political and fight to impose it, including using violence? Because at some point it will happen - democracy incentivizes clientelism and tribalism. The USA, which is often t
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by Saline9515 4mo ago
IP theft doesn't exist, if I copy a Disney movie, Disney still has their movies. If I steal someone's bike, they can't use their bike. You deprive Disney of nothing by "stealing" their movies since it is just a copy
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by Saline9515 4mo ago
Because it's a classic NIMBY move, where you pay others for the negative externalities of your consumption.
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by Saline9515 4mo ago
If you burn waste, you have waste heat.
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by Saline9515 4mo ago
Which country? Did they also ban AI use to be coherent?
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by Saline9515 4mo ago
The main problem is how they accessed the IP, but then using it to train a model is fair use. But yeah, IP theft doesn't exist because nothing is stolen really: Hollywood studios still have their movies.
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by Saline9515 4mo ago
Why have a different category that sounds like "unserious" to german people? I can see people in procurement departments say "oh no, we don't deal with UG".
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by Saline9515 4mo ago
How do entrepreneurs achieve to be considered as credible in other countries? By repeatedly providing value, not by having a high share capital. Anyway, in case of a problem the 25k€ will be eaten by lawyer fees.
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by Saline9515 4mo ago
The same exists in the EU, French Le Monde (NYT local equivalent) required you for a long time to send a registered letter costing 7€ and a trip to the post office to cancel your subscription.
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by Saline9515 4mo ago
The problem here is that 25k€ is too little for some types of businesses (say, a bridge architect), and way too much for others (say, selling spice mixes online). I don't get the "seriousness" memes in Germany, which sound mo
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by Saline9515 4mo ago
Given the insistance to pass this and the will of EU enforcement agencies to be able to monitor all communications in a Stasi-like manner, there is a large chance that the EC is applying the "salami technique" here. First, install
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by Saline9515 4mo ago
This is not what a "house" is, such as the "house edge" you get in a lottery game.
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by Saline9515 4mo ago
Polymarket can market-make, but so can you (i.e be on the both sides of the order book). You can't do that in a casino for instance. They don't control which side wins (UMA voters do). You should read up about prediction markets a
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by Saline9515 4mo ago
Also UMA holders who get to judge do participate in markets.

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