ekianjo

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by ekianjo 11mo ago
Certainly not the current French, though.
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by ekianjo 11mo ago
I would extend it to fraud in charities in general. Trusting a third party (unknown to you) to handle your money responsibly is not a smart move.
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by ekianjo 11mo ago
> National cuisines incorporated the new staple crop thoroughly, and it’s now hard to imagine Italian food without gnocchi, French sans vichyssoise, tapas without patatas bravas, a Eurasia bereft of aloo and rösti and colcannon and latke
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by ekianjo 11mo ago
> democracy goes beyond just voting once every few years. What else is there? You are effectively only asked to choose between bad and worse candidates at a fairly low frequency.
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by ekianjo 11mo ago
What are you talking about? In most cities public transport sucks, hardly goes anywhere, gets more expensive year after year, makes housing prices go up, and is slow and inflexible enough that people still end up needing cars to go around
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Sid Meier: More Than Just Civilization(boilingsteam.com)
21 points by ekianjo 11mo ago|2 comments
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by ekianjo 11mo ago
> democratically elected governments. 51% of a vote can go the wrong way now and then.
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by ekianjo 11mo ago
Oh, and how do you know it will stop there? Control freaks don't stop at the first step.
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by ekianjo 11mo ago
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Now CachyOS Is Eating Arch Linux' Lunch on Desktop(boilingsteam.com)
4 points by ekianjo 11mo ago|0 comments
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by ekianjo 11mo ago
Yes. The Japan Meteorological agency has a piss poor machine learning model that basically defaults to predicting 3 meters wave every time there is an earthquake in the sea and in the end it's usually a few dozens of centimeters. They
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by ekianjo 11mo ago
> Smallish shops with bike racks in front of the door are simply too convenient Most people don't live in city centers. Because they are the most expensive places to live in.
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by ekianjo 11mo ago
Sounds a lot like every very large company, in broader terms
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by ekianjo 11mo ago
No, estimated height has nothing to do with actual measurements
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by ekianjo 11mo ago
> These arguments always try to imply that both sides are equally bad, which is not the case (by far). You have actually no way of knowing the truth
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by ekianjo 11mo ago
problem is these changes are constantly reverted (back to Microsoft services)
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by ekianjo 11mo ago
Wait until Microsoft comes back with lobbying some well placed politicians and restores Microsoft 365 in no time. This happens every single time.
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by ekianjo 11mo ago
> There's nothing here that could be really described as "voluntary". that's the same "voluntary" they use for Chat Control, by the way.
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by ekianjo 11mo ago
"gender is a social construct" only goes so far...
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by ekianjo 11mo ago
> So you'd rather read Russian propaganda? Propaganda happens on both sides during a war. You just need to be aware of it.
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by ekianjo 11mo ago
> your livelihood to just start learning how speak Russian now? that was a thing in East Germany not that long ago
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by ekianjo 11mo ago
In many countries where "universal healthcare" actually exists, you end up with waiting lists and rationed care. Choose your poison.
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by ekianjo 11mo ago
> These are physical differences in brain's wiring. Physical differences that no test can detect?
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by ekianjo 11mo ago
indeed, and also a "model" does not mean anything per se, you have hundreds of different prompts, you can layer agents on top, you can use temperature that will lead to different outcomes. The number of dimensions to explore is hu
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by ekianjo 11mo ago
> seems to work very well for a potentially lethal disease not lethal for all age groups, we already knew it well before the vaccine was introduced. People may have short memories, the vaccine came almost a year after the disease was out
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by ekianjo 11mo ago
> Countries like Singapore already figured out that if you pay public servants very well So insider trading is not a thing among Singapore's ruling class?
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by ekianjo 11mo ago
That's also insider trading.
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by ekianjo 11mo ago
if your digital ID is tied to your phone (which is eventually where things are going), that is exactly what is going to happen. There is no reason that it would stop somewhere in the middle.
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The Complete Xbox Ally and Ally X Hands-On Review (Windows vs. Bazzite)(boilingsteam.com)
3 points by ekianjo 11mo ago|1 comments
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by ekianjo 11mo ago
You should totally assume by default that there is a backdoor. Makes no sense whatsoever for the authorities to grant themselves less power.

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