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by V__ 5mo ago
Can you give a source on this? I can't belive this to be remotely true.
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by V__ 5mo ago
You correct, you are allowed to "break" patent law in Germany, if the use is private and non-commercial. This does not encompass schools and science though.
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by V__ 6mo ago
This is such a good metaphor.
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by V__ 6mo ago
You replace half of a team with AI. Salary cost go immediately down, but team output can keep up for some time. You don't see the technical debt, the security issues and the prompt injection which will result in wrong invoices being se
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by V__ 6mo ago
Has someone answered why a civilization would send "von Neumann probes" or similar into space? It would take so long for any answers from those probes to arrive that there really doesn't seem much value in them.
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by V__ 6mo ago
Especially Cheney pushed hard for this, ignored the intelligence communities assessments, then got his own source, a burned source, Ahmed Chalabi to fabricate reasons for an invasion.
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by V__ 6mo ago
The U.S. can't win this war. John Kiriakou did a nice analysis on this on his recent podcasts. "Iran just has to prolong the war and survive it to win". Trump on the other hand needs a decisive win fast, or the economic and p
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by V__ 7mo ago
Bond's Casino Royal had a stock short sell bet with a planned attack.
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by V__ 7mo ago
This is so interesting. Especially since it's kinda weird to train a robot to mimicking human play. I wonder what a perfect robot what actually behave like. It wouldn't need to split-step to activate muscles, the footwork would pr
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by V__ 7mo ago
There is probably some lingo somewhere clarifying that you pay for the "experience" of her and not for her in particular.
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by V__ 7mo ago
Another big problem is the mentality. "We have always done it this way" and "I don't want to change it" is extremely prevalent. I say this as a German. This is also reflected in the big political parties, which woul
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by V__ 8mo ago
Because insults can be fined. That is a German law though, not an EU thing.
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by V__ 8mo ago
I meant that the admin would ask Bezoz for the surveillance, and he would tell his marketing team to find a frame which makes the surveillance look good.
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by V__ 8mo ago
> an estimated 4-9% of unsold textiles are destroyed before ever being worn. That is a crazy amount.
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by V__ 8mo ago
Of course, they would. If the administration asked Bezos, and he gets a benefit out of it. He will task his marketing team to come up with something which tries to frame it in a positive light. Knowing that even if a few people make a stink
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by V__ 8mo ago
If possible block I would block by country first. Even on public websites I block Russia/China by default and that reduced port scans etc. On "private" services where I or my friends are the only users, I block everything exc
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by V__ 8mo ago
> For many consumers there isn't sufficient money in the account to settle all the one-time and ongoing transactions they are liable for This is a uniquely American viewpoint. In most of Europe you don't buy anything on credit
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by V__ 8mo ago
I'm tired of living through these interesting times.
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by V__ 8mo ago
Kinda ridiculous that people don't understand the only reason for the behaviour and extreme expansion of ICE: To allow Trump to steal the next election and/or to create an armed conflict to further his power. There is no interest
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by V__ 8mo ago
Water (given enough volume) is a pretty good heat storage. https://youtu.be/Bm7L-2J52GU?t=270
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by V__ 8mo ago
They have top men working on it right now.
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by V__ 8mo ago
Ryan Holiday has really popularized Stoicism in the last decade.
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by V__ 8mo ago
Because the western governments support Israel, thus a protests' goal is mainly aimed at changing that. How many westerns governments support Iran?
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by V__ 9mo ago
As part of the "in-between" generation which skipped lead poisoning and the extreme social media/smartphone dependency, I kinda feel worried.
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by V__ 9mo ago
A lot of people want to have kids but don't want to be parents. There are a lot of kids who spend hours on tablets watching TikTok and so on before they even reached first grade.
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by V__ 9mo ago
I am more and more sure that isn't the case. That would imply long term planning, strategy and intelligence. Which is obviously missing nowadays. It's just bribery, sorry I mean lobbying. Push this through, we make money and will
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by V__ 9mo ago
But it "feels" like he should have one. /s
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by V__ 9mo ago
Obama was elected, which made some people very angry: > Here’s John Boehner, the likely speaker if Republicans take the House, offering his plans for Obama’s agenda: “We’re going to do everything — and I mean everything we can do — to ki
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by V__ 9mo ago
This is true, but I don't think the reason for his proclamation. It would be very unlike him. For better or worse there is zero chance that Germany starts a nuclear weapons program. The public sentiment just won't allow that unles
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by V__ 9mo ago
1. The U.S. has multiple bases in Greenland. Denmark, and NATO are also present. 2. Russia can't even expand their presence to Ukraine (not a NATO memeber). 3. China has no access. So, 0%.

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