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by V__ 4y ago
Since the US has a trade deficit with the EU [1], will this negatively impact the US or positively impact the EU in any tangible way? [1] https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c0003.html
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by V__ 4y ago
Amazon has shown time and time again that they don't care. They don't care about fake reviews, counterfeit products, cheap Chinese crap, their workforce, or anything really as long as customers keep on buying.
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by V__ 4y ago
Yeah, all these African people with their checks notes unsustainable lifestyle of nearly no co2 emissions compared to the rest of the world.
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This was especially frustrating when living near a border (which in Europe is not unlikely). Depending on the weather (or the maintenance schedule), sometimes the foreign tower was strong enough for the phone to connect. I don't (want
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> Shanghai factory will reach a run rate where that single factory builds more vehicles annually than Mercedes does. Mercedes sells about 2 million non-commercial cars a year [1], a bit more than Tesla has produced since 2009 [2]. [1] h
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by V__ 4y ago
This sounds like a Stargate episode. A planet with only very old religious fundamentalists. They accept their eternity in hell but see it as a worthy sacrifice since all aborted souls go to heaven and when their species ceases to exist they
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by V__ 4y ago
Germany often gets things right, but not before doing it wrong or ignoring the problem for a few decades.
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> Overall, proactive enforcement activity — where police were affirmatively going out and making these stops and similar interventions — dropped by around 60 percent in these areas. These are impressive numbers, but I wonder: Where did t
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by V__ 4y ago
For anyone in the EU who wants to read the article, 12ft.io: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https://www.newsnationnow.com/soluti...
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by V__ 4y ago
Make the companies importing the products responsible with heavy fines. I assume it would take a week until there are multiple companies run and overseen by non-Chinese employees which would certify how much carbon was created during produc
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by V__ 4y ago
I wonder whether a carbon taxes with tariffs, from countries which don't have them, could solve this. Let's say a product get produced in China and imported into the EU. If it's not carbon-neutral, slap a tariff on.
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by V__ 4y ago
> when those tools start causing structural unemployment (and that will happen soon enough) Is this actually happening? Some years ago there were articles about neural networks which can find errors/interesting points in law documen
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by V__ 4y ago
Oh, I think I wasn't clear. I meant saying that the client is deciding to spy is a bit far-fetched. Google of course.
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by V__ 4y ago
If they serve customers outside the EU, then they should comply with those laws or not serve them at all.
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by V__ 4y ago
> It was the client’s decision to spy on its users. Calling it spying is a little far-fetched I think, when the problem was the transfer ip addresses to US servers, not Analytics itself.
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by V__ 4y ago
Are you using a custom sotware or something like plausible.io?
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by V__ 4y ago
> meaning that Google itself does not violate GDPR, but only the websites that use it. This is so baffling to me. Google has subsidiaries in the EU. The fact that it's ok to give a product to a EU client which can't be used in
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by V__ 4y ago
My (not totally serious but kinda serious though uninformed) solution to the problem: Build a few big underground atomic bunkers around the world and store the long term waste there until we can find a solution (or leave it there). Do it in
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by V__ 4y ago
I don't really understand his conclusion. If I understand it correctly, it boils down to: Fossil fuels are cheaper (better ROI) than renewables, therefore changes/improvements to fossil fuels did more to reduce CO2 than renewables
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by V__ 4y ago
I have seen such pictures before, but I think the coolest one so far, is the one Trevor Mahlmann made [1]. He shot the ISS in front of the sun during the 2017 eclipse. Destin from SmarterEveryDay made a great video about it: https:/&
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by V__ 4y ago
I can't wait for container queries to finally get browser support. I just want to write self-contained css which is reusable and not dependent on a framework, a preprocessor, or a methodology like bem. One file for my components, one f
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by V__ 4y ago
I didn't know about wave collapse functions before stumbling about Townscaper. Still, I found them hard to understand until I found this video by Martin Donald: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SuvO4Gi7uY Now, I'm
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by V__ 4y ago
That sucks. Do you know if there is an option to limit it to wifi?
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by V__ 4y ago
Apple has a ~53% market share when it comes to tablets and ~27% with phones [1-2]. I'm not an Android developer, so I don't know how hard it is to make an app responsive, but: Why isn't Google incentivizing developers to make
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by V__ 4y ago
Maybe. There was a vulnerability [1] with BlueLink and that could have been an attack vector, but the article mentions: > The attack can’t be done at scale, because the local network that the vehicle owner is using would have to be infil
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by V__ 4y ago
Maybe someone with a medical background can answer this: Does this mean that long covid could be treated by blocking certain protein receptors?
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by V__ 4y ago
> We aren’t that kind of people. The US illegally invaded Iraq, overthrew democratic governments all over the world, etc. Why wouldn't anybody think that the US would have gone further if it had the means? Sure, they wouldn't h
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by V__ 4y ago
> Mainly because Americans just aren’t they kind of people. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change
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by V__ 4y ago
Coincidentally, I came across a video today which describe in laymen terms what time crystals are: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieDIpgso4no tl;dw: Crystals are materials which atoms or molecules are aranged in a repeatin
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by V__ 4y ago
If one wants to keep the tunnels small, then probably. But I assume that due to safety concerns that wouldn't be possible. Maybe with a closed cabin?

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