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> There’s no universe where expensive energy and unavailable housing is a better world. But there is a world where solar power plus battery storage is so much cheaper than coal that it's going to be cleaned up AND lower price of ele
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They won back when countries were required to sing in their local language. When that was lifted, they never recovered.
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Yea that's extra fun if someone else sent it then. Government puts them in jail for not having the encryption key for something someone else encrypted.
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Ultimately I think it comes down to not having a strong local competition. Countries that don't have local competitions with similar rule sets should be expected to perform badly.
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> Weren't there bizarre voting irregularities? A massive discrepancy between judge votes and public votes, That's almost always the case. And both groups were agreed that Ireland wasn't very good :P > The insinuation be
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Sour grapes after having Israel crush them in the competition.
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And what happens when your enemies can't produce the decryption key?
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The US has that in theory , just like the limits on the president. But in practice the US has been centralizing power since the start, and the EU has a looooong way to go to come even close.
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I believe the point of the EU structure is precisely to make it hard to make laws, because the EU was designed to NOT be a federalist system.
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DOOM was revolutionary because it switched from raycasting like Wolfenstein to a binary tree rendering system that allowed much more complex architecture. If it's using raycasting, it's not DOOM-like...
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The "cloud environments" part sounds like marketing fluff. "The cloud" is just someone else's servers after all. There's nothing special about it.
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The graphs for OrioleDB looks very impressive. Can someone give a counter argument to switching to this?
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Similarly there's a bunch of talk of "source criticism" in Swedish schools, but when you look closer at what is actually taught it sounds more like conspiracy theory or dogma and never anything actually useful. Imo source cri
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> It reminds me of one of the ways of visually laying out elementary particles according to the Standard Model. And now I wonder how much that representation is also actually detrimental to its use as a teaching aid. The Periodic Table d
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https://techjourneyman.com/blog/m1-ultra-vs-nvidia-rtx-3090/ Look at that updated graph which has less BS. It's never close in perf/watt. The BS part about apples graph was that they cut the graph shor
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https://techjourneyman.com/blog/m1-ultra-vs-nvidia-rtx-3090/ Look at their updated graph which has less BS. It's never close in perf/watt. The BS part about apples graph was that they cut the graph sho
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He said "per watt", that's still true. You just talked about max throughput, which no one is discussing.
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A class for no reason is a bit weird too. This is just not idiomatic C++.
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> I just couldn't live in such a public society. It's a non-issue though. Americans seem super paranoid about this stuff, and yet when everything is public nothing bad happens . > Or such a restrictive one. Err? In what way
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> I just couldn't live in such a public society. It's a non-issue though. Americans seem super paranoid about this stuff, and yet when everything is public nothing bad happens . > Or such a restrictive one. err?
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The west just likes to pretend the problem isn't real.
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It's quite funny when you get pushback from maoists that you're being too extreme when attacking freedoms.
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> This is just a dedicated RF emitter combined with a dedicated receiver. The fact that is it uses WiFi hardware is probably just because that's the cheapest and most available hardware for the researcher to work with. Ok. > Ther
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https://kathmandupost.com/national/2025/09/04/nepal-bans-fac... is imo a better source for this.
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> Only cladistically "Only cladistically" is a bit like saying "only in reality" imo. :P > As far as I understand, at least the common ancestor of all fish was still a fish. Well.. eel-like probably more I'd g
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And yet it has worked extremely well for us since 1766(!).
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Or humans are fish. You can pick one.
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Record amounts of shootings... for the nordics. Compared to the US it's a rounding error. Anyway, that has to do with integration issues, not public data so you guys are way off topic.
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Well they didn't even mention caffeine of course, because that's also too popular.
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Maybe they mean firefox?
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