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ajsnigrutin
3mo ago
Real time notifications here would solve a lot of issues... Imagine Alice, an 18, 19yo girl, having a boyfriend, Bob, and since Bob is on a student exchange, she decides to send him a boob photo. Since alice is skinny, her boobs are on the
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3mo ago
And then stop people from being able to afford cheaper stuff from china (without european middlemen) by implementinh a 3eur customs fee on an 1eur phone case!
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4mo ago
> Also, being constantly warned that I was speeding in rural areas where the car missed a speed limit sign caused me to start ignoring the speeding alarm within a few hours of driving the car. Where do you live? In slovenia for example,
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4mo ago
I mean.. that's like putting solar cells in the shade... i mean sure, they work better in the sun, but why not both? They still produce a few milliwats of power in the shade too. For the amount of money spent here, we could've bui
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4mo ago
Solar sidewalks, solar roads, now solar rail? WHY?! Dave from eevblog did the math and it's bad Did we really fill up all the area on top of roofs, parkings lots, industrial areas, etc., and we're running out, and we have to put s
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4mo ago
Sure, i might want to follow an influencer or two and look at their videos, but I want my "feed" to be "social", so people i choose to follow, be it real life friends, or even influencers, but not "random" cont
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4mo ago
> The more I see of social media, the more I'm convinced that it's not really a fulfilling way to share and socialize on the internet. I kinda miss the "old" social media, where it was media and also social... you wou
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4mo ago
They could still refund all those purchases and come out good here, but we all know they won't.
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4mo ago
Because we don't make those socks locally. They come from the other side of the globe. For example, i want to buy a phone case... i can order one on aliexpress for ~1eur (free shipping) + 3eur tax + 88cents of vat and pay 4.88for it.
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4mo ago
The custom thing started from basically the beginning of eu, this wasn't done in the last decades, but the customs chargers for outside stuff have been increased by the EU. The large corporations are not reall accountable, Volkswagen s
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4mo ago
It only has to pass once, and we have to scream about it every goddamn time try try. And they'll try and try again and again.
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4mo ago
> This is going to further increase anti-EU sentiment. Rightfully so. Except for no-roaming-charges within EU, most people can't name one good regulation that came from EU and couldn't be handled individually by their own count
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4mo ago
99% of the people just click accept and go through. This could be solved on the client side, by requiring all devices with browsers sold in EU to have separate cookie jars per domain and by default those cookies would be deleted on window&#
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4mo ago
Luxembourg has assets in US that could endanger the US, but Luxembourg as a country is not endangering US. But if US attacked Luxembourg, all those people seeing their family being killed by the US might behave differently. > I'll r
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4mo ago
Because all the american assets in countries around iran will be "glassed" too, like american bases are already. And then special forces deep in US will start "glassing" US infrastructure, power, water, logistics, etc. (
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4mo ago
Yep, someone can "vibe code" something, that would emulate that human, the typing, the pauses, random typos, backspaces, and edits. There are probably models already available that describe the average delays between two consecuti
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4mo ago
Same in slovenia for eg. kindergarten prices, 1eur over the line, 90eur more per month in fees.
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4mo ago
> I'm starting to think we need to lean on conspiracy theories in order to get broader population on train with this - and I'm saying this in utmost regret. That's a borrowing game from a right wing/extremist playbook
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4mo ago
> The highest friction version of this is that the credential ties to a real world identity somehow; maybe locked behind legal barriers, etc., but if a minor is caught using someone's credential, then the person whose credential the
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4mo ago
Easy, when you buy the device, during first setup, you set up the date of birth of the user. If the user is underage, the parent/guardian sets a password to unlock the device if needed before the user is 18. That device then sends &quo
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4mo ago
A city bus ran over a 17yo girl during a right turn, in ljubljana, slovenia, and killed her a month ago. It's been multiple decades of dozens of city bus routes being driven by bus drivers in buses, accounting for millions of left and
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4mo ago
This is nitpicking And sure, kids 6-13 don't need calculators, basic stuff, like multiplication tables is memorized.
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> This habit of using headphones to dodge uncomfortable interactions may be especially common among younger adults, for whom social unease and feelings of isolation are well-documented problems that have become more common in recent deca
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4mo ago
They move towards having every adult "show their id" when doing stuff online. This could have easily been solved by parental controls and banning advertising towards children (or ban advertising all together for underage accounts,
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4mo ago
It's hard (=expensive) to change all the internal infrastructure or sometimes even internal processes, and if companies manage to stay just a bit cheaper than their custumers cost to rewrite "everything", they'll get the
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4mo ago
With all the AI stuff available everyone, does anyone actually work any less? 4 hours per day instead of 8? Or even less? More vacation days? Anything? I know a bunch of people who have integrated AI into every aspect of their life, and so
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4mo ago
Why would they? They're actively working on closing the ecosystem even more (no more sideloading), DRM features, etc. Maybe they'd do it for themselves, but they clearly don't want you, the customer, to do whatever you want w
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5mo ago
I'm pretty sure those corporations have much more influence over american politicians, regulators, lawmakers, etc. than eg. russian or chinese ones.
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5mo ago
If you americans start shooting down russian stuff, russians start shooting down american stuff, and there's only chinese stuff left.
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5mo ago
Hormuz? I mean... UK airforce is literally protecting the skies of the agressor in that war, the genocidal one. Didn't do anything to stop the genocide though. As someone not from US nor UK, but from a small country that always seems t
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