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by amarant 7mo ago
I feel like someone ought to dramatise this seemingly endless struggle in a seemingly endless series of movies. -The Spying Menace -Attack of the conservatives -Revenge of the marketing conglomerate -A new hope -Chat Control strikes back -R
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by amarant 7mo ago
No love for any of the fermented fishes? Surströmming, sursill, hákarl...
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by amarant 7mo ago
Germany made the worst possible mistake. They decided to decommission all their nuclear power in one year "for the environment" Then they started importing all their energy from neighbouring countries including: Nuclear power from
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by amarant 7mo ago
Per your sources it looks like they are subsidising industry use of electricity with household usage: Household electricity prices are 157% of average in SA, and 200% of industry prices. That's not a case of renewables backfiring, it&#
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by amarant 7mo ago
If this law, or some future version of it, passes, I will derive great pleasure from a simple bash script sending a gdpr right to be forgotten request to eye European parliament in a daily basis
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by amarant 7mo ago
Yes well, they're running out of good arguments to show how bad the EU is, so they have to force some bad decisions through so that they may have something to cry about. God I love politics
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On that, we agree!
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Not really. If we only need it for petrochemical products, like medical plastics etc, losing 20% of available crude globally is a non-issue. We can probably stand to use a lot less plastics too. Outside of medicine it's mostly replacea
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by amarant 7mo ago
We read the article rather differently it seems. My reading is that he's pointing out the lack of goal for America here. Or at the very least the lack of a realistic goal. As he points out, it was clear 40 years ago that the stated obj
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by amarant 7mo ago
More countries are able to produce renewable energy than are able to produce fossil energy. As such, renewable energy providers more energy sovereignty than fossil fuels which is what matters. If it's 100% or not is mostly irrelevant
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by amarant 7mo ago
A core trait of my personality can be summed up as "always look on the bright side of life". To that end: This war seems more than likely to drive up oil prices not only in the near term, but in the medium and long terms too! In a
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by amarant 7mo ago
There are a few passages in there that in isolation are not very notable, but taken together are kind of interesting: >But countries do not go to war simply to have a war – well, stupid fascist countries do, which is part of why they ten
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by amarant 7mo ago
Lol, someone should make a pre -commit hook that reboots your computer with a message like this!
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by amarant 7mo ago
Read carefully if you are of a feline persuasion
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by amarant 7mo ago
I was referring to this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swish_(payment) No sign-up fee, no recurring fee, and no transaction fee. I guess it's a loss leader for banks? But if one bank stopped supporting it, the
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by amarant 7mo ago
Is there even any currency that meets that definition? Iirc even bitcoin had some kind of reversal back in the day, or am I misremembering? I seem to recall bitcoin splitting in 2 for a while as there was some disagreement on whether the re
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by amarant 7mo ago
What utterly horrendous payment solutions are you using that have more friction than crypto? The ones I use are several orders of magnitude less friction and most are 100% free. The ones that do have a cost (for recipients outside Scandinav
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by amarant 7mo ago
In a court of justice you'd be right, of course. But for online armchair speculation, you have to admit it seems a likely explanation.
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by amarant 7mo ago
Ah, so we're basically battling the prudishness of VISA and MasterCard? That... Actually makes sense.. Which is a rare feat for crypto!
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by amarant 7mo ago
Is there any proof, or even indication, that this wasn't an inside job?
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by amarant 7mo ago
I mean they use Blockchain, right? Isn't that like the only real requirement for the name crypto? As long as you burn as much electricity as Andorra does in a week just to make a transaction, you're probably a cryptocurrency. And
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by amarant 7mo ago
What is the point of stable coins? Like why does anyone buy them? It seems to me that their initial value is 1usd per token (or some other fiat I guess) and that's also the roof of their value: they kinda guarantee that they won't
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by amarant 7mo ago
I've had mandated gaming on Friday after lunch. But this was in the gaming industry so it's "market research"! We also often played board games. My favourite was playing secret Hitler with my team that one time. That was
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by amarant 7mo ago
It's not an issue, we're just spoiled. It's such an amazing convenience that anything else seems like a huge and unnecessary hassle. There is actually more a second MFA provider that is accepted almost everywhere, including t
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by amarant 7mo ago
He's referring mostly to BankID which is a very secure MFA solution designed for banking purposes(all banks in Sweden accept the same mfa app) the inbox app is probably kivra, which is a email inbox which uses BankID for authentication
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by amarant 7mo ago
>Knowledge That Never Goes Offline >What is Project N.O.M.A.D.? Node for Offline Media, Archives, and Data That's the first header, and the first sentence of the first paragraph, and I'm confused.
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by amarant 7mo ago
To put some of those numbers into perspective: Candy crush Saga has 273M MAU and Minecraft has 204M MAU. Those games are enormously popular and might need some context of their own let's continue: Battlefield 6 has had at most 774k c
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by amarant 7mo ago
If that helps the clients learn to control the power armour, and if they can later get a job as a power armour operator, then I don't see what the problem with that is? They won't be fit to work as body builders, sure, but presuma
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by amarant 7mo ago
So IAC is magically removing slop AND spam from the internet? It's still not clear how? Are we always broadcasting our government issued identity documents to every website we visit? I don't think that's gonna work out the wa
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by amarant 7mo ago
Why would IAC lead to less slop? What's the mechanism here?

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