attila-lendvai

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by attila-lendvai 22d ago
which is my experience, too. winter tires, especially the snow versions, are straight out a source of danger here in central europe. i just put some snow chains in for the winter surptises, and ride with my summer tires because its grip is
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by attila-lendvai 1mo ago
i don't even have google play serices installed, let alone the play store...
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by attila-lendvai 1mo ago
pieces of paper is certainly better than bank database entries, but it's still fundamentally the same game: you need to work for something that they can print.
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by attila-lendvai 1mo ago
also, it's been on the books for decades... when cameras arrived to phones, they added a sentence.
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by attila-lendvai 1mo ago
well, i say it's high time to ridicule the people who try to ridicule others by labeling them as a conspiracy theorist. i'm a proud conspiracy researcher, and when someone throws this thought terminating cliche on me, then i nonch
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by attila-lendvai 1mo ago
consumer control begins by chosing what you give your money for.
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by attila-lendvai 1mo ago
then look for alternatives to banking itself! that impulse will shape the world even more.
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by attila-lendvai 1mo ago
splitting a canvas in two is a perfect "art form" that anyone can do to launder some millions into "honestly earned" money...
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by attila-lendvai 1mo ago
i agree with your sentiment, but what you disagree in is crucial here. there's a class of topics where disagreement means the death and dispair of one side. hoping to live and let live, with a disagreeing party that doesn't &quo
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by attila-lendvai 1mo ago
closed is never secure. it's just open only for a smaller circle.
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by attila-lendvai 2mo ago
well, i guess the writing was on the wall, so to say, pretty much from the beginning: "don't be evil".
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by attila-lendvai 2mo ago
i used to work for a rich one like that ~20 years ago. we were walking through the border without a word, boarding his private jet, and crossing the Schengen border.
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by attila-lendvai 2mo ago
such documents are worth only as much as the population wants to, is willing to, and is able to enforce them.
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by attila-lendvai 2mo ago
right, it's just Hungary... in Germany you must ask for permission from the military to leave the country for more than 3 months.
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by attila-lendvai 2mo ago
i think it's just that the American population is the last bunch who gives a damn about it, and the pockets of resistance still makes the news... the same happens mostly everywhere else, just without much complaints. e.g. in Hungary th
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by attila-lendvai 2mo ago
/me shakes head in disbelief and closes the tab
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by attila-lendvai 2mo ago
heh, touché! :)
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by attila-lendvai 2mo ago
no, no, no... i don't even want to know! :)
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by attila-lendvai 2mo ago
no, we don't, far from it. (which doesn't mean there's not a lot farther from here).
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by attila-lendvai 2mo ago
it's been long ago when banks last provided credit using the savings of other people... honest banking is long gone.
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by attila-lendvai 2mo ago
that is how you can maximize the "income": max inflation (printing) until people complain... max taxes until people complain... max fees, until people complain... IOW, introduce multiple names for the same thing to hide it behind
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by attila-lendvai 2mo ago
> Africa is fine in Mercator here's a reality check: https://licensing.visualcapitalist.com/product/how-many-coun... or just find a globe, or zoom out in google maps. also, what you write doesn't make much
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by attila-lendvai 2mo ago
i didn't spend much time with it beyond noticing that africa was tiny.
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by attila-lendvai 2mo ago
> If you think that the American Left is anything like communism no, you completely missed my point. why would i talk about communism if in the same comment i'm saying that the left/right divide is a fake distraction... a red h
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by attila-lendvai 2mo ago
another modelling problem with it: ceiling effect https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38416412 How much can your top performers overestimate their performance? The opposite problem happens for the worst performers. A Stati
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by attila-lendvai 2mo ago
publishing auto-correlation is not a 'data artefact', but a mistake. and a rather ironic one at that. The #Dunning-Kruger Effect is #Autocorrelation https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2022/04/08/the
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by attila-lendvai 2mo ago
the fact that the useless left/right divide is still so widely used shows that manipulation is working well even pre LLMs... when it comes to the important question, then both "sides" are the same team. or if you want it with
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by attila-lendvai 2mo ago
it's a good idea, but it uses the distorted Mercator projection, and then cuts it so that you can glue it back into a somewhat globe-like shape. it's distorted, twice.
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by attila-lendvai 2mo ago
re TB: you think i wouldn't know? and it was found because it was active. re eradicating measles: the terrain is much more complicated than presented. first, because the vaccine fades away, and without measles spreading in the young po
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by attila-lendvai 2mo ago
i believe the reasoning behind this is of legal nature (copyright/copyleft, etc).

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