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by belorn 3y ago
There is no single solution to reduce the massive amount of energy subsidizes. We could however start to demand a bit more efficiency and targeted approach that more align with political will of the citizens that pays the taxes. To put down
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by belorn 3y ago
This might become a discussion about the definition of pragmatism, but I find the most pragmatic solution is to simply ban the use of fossil fuel in the energy grid. Remove the easy, cheap and extremely harmful substance, and people will be
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by belorn 3y ago
Energy subsidizes in Europe looks different. Wind/Solar are the single biggest recipient of subsidies and receive about as much as the combined total of all other subsidies in the energy sector. They get far more per watt produced than
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by belorn 3y ago
Available capacity is not falling, production output is. This is the purpose of reserve energy. Cheap renewable energy is produced when the weather allows it, and fossil fuels produce energy when demand exceed supply. In order to keep fossi
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by belorn 3y ago
China are also building more fossil fuel power plants than any other country. Using fossil fuel power plants as reserve energy and renewables as peak/bulk energy has been the most cost effective way to produce energy in the last 50 yea
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by belorn 3y ago
They two authentication systems that I know of that allow users to freely choose between authentication suppliers are websites supporting openid and RFC 6238. There are works being done in Sweden to create an open government identification
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by belorn 3y ago
For the health/tax aspects, do you use a login with username and password, is it an smartphone app attached to your phone number, or something else?
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by belorn 3y ago
Dismantling a market is expensive and cuts into budgets. There is also a lot of existing contracts that then need to broken, renegotiated and settled. I suspect he will rather outsource those parts of the company. That way he can claim to n
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by belorn 3y ago
At the center of the issues lies with the way the school get founded. Every school, government or independent, get the same amount of money per student. However, government run schools and independent school have different requirement and r
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by belorn 3y ago
Energy subsidies is a tricky one since depending on what kind of technology one want to promote/demote there are prime examples for why they are corrupt (except for geothermal I think. I never heard any stories about energy subsidies i
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by belorn 3y ago
The likelihood that no output has ever infringed any copyright will be an interesting argument. People are constantly testing and prompting different AI's to see if they can get them to reproduce known content, and there are a few know
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by belorn 3y ago
Collective copyright-like arguments do look strange but they were the core argument in the pirate bay trial. The founders were found guilty of assisting in infringement of copyright where the specific case of infringement and the specific c
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by belorn 3y ago
Assuming they don't need to use all Five billion images, the bytes per image will be larger. They can also use composites and filters to remove duplicates and images similar enough, or generative series. One do not need 2 bytes per ima
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by belorn 3y ago
The difference in training an AI compared to training a human is that an AI is not a human. Law makes differences between humans and non-humans all the time. AI drivers vs human drivers is a prime example. If the question is in how biologic
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by belorn 3y ago
"Judge Orrick writes that it is “unclear” as to whether Stable Diffusion holds “compressed copies” of the images and points to the defense’s argument that the training dataset, which contains five billion images, can “not possibly be c
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by belorn 3y ago
Could you elaborate your point in how that infringes upon the rights of others to their own speech? I can see from your point several value loaded points where students will disagree with each other. The advertised mission of the university
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by belorn 3y ago
Having a speaker's belief being potentially seen as being endorsement by the university for the decision of inviting the speaker to talk is a rather far leap from speech that infringes upon the rights of others to their own speech. I t
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by belorn 3y ago
> In my opinion, the people who blast "cancel culture" are often the people who tacitly assume that they are welcome everywhere by default. That's not anyone's right. I would say that a very large part of both modern
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by belorn 3y ago
I would generalize this into avoiding any TLD which controlling entity does not deserve long term trust. Goverments of other countries are one kind, and I would add to that list companies such as google who could at any day put a gTLD into
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by belorn 3y ago
It is only the privileged that is allowed to have any choice in their live in what they can do and what can be done to them. When the option is to die to starvation or the elements then anything, really anything, is better. This is why many
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by belorn 3y ago
That means they are competing with electric bikes, especially those 3 wheeled. Naturally there is some benefits in terms of driver comfort, but I suspect the bikes will have a more competitive price.
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by belorn 3y ago
Roundabouts often lead to cars being forced to stop. The stop is however generally much shorter, occasionally not needed, and when cars leaves at the first turn then the other cars from other directions can simultaneously use the roundabout
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by belorn 3y ago
The summary does not say that healing doesn't occur for females, but rather that the variance of healing is not effected in similar ways as for males. Males adjust their healing (or to be specific, the increased expression of anabolic
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by belorn 3y ago
It can be summed up as Ideas Are Cheap, Execution Is Everything.
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by belorn 3y ago
It would then highlight how single cell organisms was the original lifeforms everywhere, born from a dish at the restaurant at the end of the universe.
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by belorn 3y ago
I could see an argument for that. If society is already paying high costs in order to prevent poor mental health and loneliness, pet ownership may be a cheaper solution in some situations than letting people fall into worse conditions that
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by belorn 3y ago
Kraków is a low emission zone, not a zero emission zone which is what Stockholm is doing. It not the first EU initiative for ZEZ, but it seems more often that ZEZ get implemented by making it a car-free area. To add more context: "T
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by belorn 3y ago
The expansion is part of the official road map. Next year the first zone will be put in practice (stage one), and part of the second half next year the expanded zone is set to be drafted and a new date set for the deployment of stage 2. It
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by belorn 3y ago
I doubt the legality of a T&Cs that demands permission to use and gather information on the local network and any device connected to it. It seems about as legal as T&Cs that demand the users first born child.
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by belorn 3y ago
The EU law, also linked in the sibling comment, has some direct conditions. Interoperability of interfaces are allowed on the condition that it does not prejudice the legitimate interest of the copyright holder, and it does not conflict wit

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