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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> In particular, [Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov] focused on the Charter for European Security, rooted in agreements reached in 1990. East and West had concurred at the time that every country has a right to freely choose the all
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
It's like that classic Simpsons gag, where a robot is trapped in a fire and says "WHY?! Why was I programmed to feel pain?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ-ggzfdsMs
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Please read about Soviet expansion, and the existence of sovereign nations freed from Russian control since the 90s.
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Yeah, I'm sure the people living there will be all reich with that.
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> a trial service of self-driving taxis in the busy Seoul neighborhood of Gangnam I can imagine the parody videos already. > The technology allows the taxis to move independently in real-life traffic without the need for human control
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Hyundai's self-driving taxis roll out on the streets of South Korea(upi.com)
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> but the EU openly holds that [it is a state] No it doesn't, and that's not what your link says. The "EU position" (if there even is a single position that can be called that) is that the EU's treaties are bindi
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> mandate interoperability for platforms (possibly over a certain size) The EU came really close to doing that with its new Digital Markets Act, but it seems that the interoperability requirement will (rather bizarrely) only apply to mes
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> what are commit signatures used for in the OSS community today I'd like to think that when a package maintainer for a Linux distro downloads the latest version of the code they are packaging, they check that all the commits are si
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> If Mastodon gets to hundreds of millions of users I will bet that one or two instances will grow very large, develop their own rules, and what do you have then? Are you saying that these large instances would refuse to interoperate wit
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
In a very real sense, one of the requirements for being a country is for an entity to actually claim or declare that it is one, so that it can be recognised as one. So by acceding to "The Treaty of Lisbon" rather than "The Tr
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> it can not against the treaties that set up the Union Yes, I think the precise terminology generally used for discussing such situations is "within/outside the ambit of the competences assigned to it" or (more succinctly
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> The Ethereum Merge is tentatively scheduled for August, but could be pushed back to September or October. I think the biggest reason to look forward to the Merge is that it might noticeably reduce the number of people complaining about
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
It's worth considering the maximum number of subscribers per cell of Starlink coverage, and how big the cells are.[0] TL;DR "if everyone in your area lives on 311 acre lots, then you should be good." [0] https://ol
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(Release Date: May 3, 2016)
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> A human embryo is not a child - the definition of that is also pretty much settled, I'd say. To suggest there is only one definition of "child" is even more incorrect than suggesting that it can't refer to an unbor
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Yeah, we'd only kill the disabled and mediocre children standing in the way of our Utopia, nothing immoral like those awful Chinese people do.
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> discussions over kidnapping or killing Assange occurred "at the highest levels" of the Trump administration, with senior officials requesting "sketches" or "options" for assassinating him. "They were
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Spain's High Court Demands Pompeo Testify on Plot to Kidnap or Kill Assange(commondreams.org)
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> I'm imagining a world where all PCs/Macs/Smartphones have FIDO/WebAuthn and there's no other way to log in. You won't have to imagine that for long, because that's the world we are sprinting towards.
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> you can always simulate a key But you can't simulate an attestation that you're using a device from one of the "approved" manufacturers in the cartel. This is basically DRM for human identity. https://ni
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To be fair, the time needed to build the necessary production lines and then hundreds of SMRs is even less certain than the time needed for building Large Old-fashioned Reactors (which can take 3x longer than planned[0]), and the economics
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> My lower-bound model of "how a sufficiently powerful intelligence would kill everyone, if it didn't want to not do that" is that it gets access to the Internet, emails some DNA sequences to any of the many many online fi
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Do I get an extra upvote if I point out (slightly more seriously) that you use CSS Colors Level 4 for rules like: .bg-green { background-color: rgb(194 225 173/var(--tw-bg-opacity)) !important; } which seems a little
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> Free upvote for the first person to complain it only works with js enabled. Wait, it only works with JavaScript enabled? You monster!
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Presumably the excess energy can be exported to areas that would otherwise use fossil fuels, but if their success is copied by neighbouring countries, it might make sense to use the energy to produce synthetic gas to fill up the reserves of
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Wind power meets and beats Denmark’s total electricity demand, two days in a row(reneweconomy.com.au)
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> Concrete adversarial scenarios are in fact helpful from a policy and planning perspective. Right, and I'm saying that an agency which is tasked with gathering all this private data about innocent citizens, without a warrant, is go
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I'm sorry you don't like my simple-to-follow chain of aphorisms. My actual argument is expressed in more detail elsewhere on this page, specifically here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31622654
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> How do you ensure that the Governor General is apolitical? How do you ensure the monarch is apolitical?[0] How do you ensure that the person effectively wielding the monarch's powers under the current system is apolitical? That

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