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by fidgewidge 4y ago
See also: EU delaying rules on kettle power to after the Brexit referendum because they knew it would piss people off. Just think about how much power the Commission wasted on all the bureaucrats, committees, travel perks, lobbying meetings
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Beic was only a corporation in the most technical sense of the word. It became so powerful because the Queen had given it a government enforced monopoly from the start and the government kept extending that monopoly in return for loans and
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
Sam Altman isn't a scientist but even if he was, so what, scientists have a reputation for constantly claiming the world will end unless they get more grant funding. Fear is a great motivator and makes people feel important.
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
GoF research was banned in the USA for long periods, that's why Fauci was outsourcing it to China and why DARPA refused to find that project. No, not only has GoF not helped with COVID and probably caused it, but that's also true
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
"It doesn't really matter whether that carbon comes from supervolcanoes or from human emissions." It matters a lot. Whilst I was eating dinner I've now read the article you cited, the paper that it cites (Kump, Arthu
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
By "climate change" people mean the sort of change that will be realistically caused by humans within the next few hundred years, not the sort of extinction caused by massive volcano activity that takes 10,000 years and happens on
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
There is no realistic scenario provided for by current scientific knowledge that would lead to that outcome. Waterworld was a film, not a textbook.
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
People pretty regularly say they buy iPhones because of the very smooth UI (performance), that they buy an ARM Mac because it's so much faster, etc. Google won partly because it was so fast. So people do explicitly justify usage decisi
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
It's more like React is the MFC to HTML5's Win32. A not very good API with a near monopoly that people spend lots of time wallpapering over with ever more elaborate frameworks that end up being used only for distribution reasons.
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
Good, he should rant! > What would framework-integrated fine-grained reactivity look like? Probably something like Solid.js It would look like JavaFX which has had this exact approach since it launched over 10 years ago as well as a larg
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
Yes they might just invest with some sleazy ponzi scheme that then collapses, telling them the money they thought they saved isn't there and they'll have to keep working for longer instead of retiring at the age agreed.
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
No, the repercussion is to realize you can't rely on government and stop voting for governments that make lots of promises. This is what happens when a society rejects libertarianism. Instead of a nice private pension provider you can
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
You get bus routes pretty early and can also build metro lines. You don't need DLC for that. So it's in there?
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
You're using a (hopefully not deliberately) very deceptive set of phrasings to make it sounds like the EP or even the Council is in charge. Almost nobody tries to make that argument because it's clearly not the case and that situa
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
This site is purely American and doesn't have to care what the EU thinks. It's also subsidized by a VC firm and doesn't have to directly make money. Not a good example.
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
They have their own APIs for it but seem to have assessed that the only mainstream use case is cloud sync, which they always provide a better API for.
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
I think they're uninterested because they have a documented and supported userspace VFS API. The problem is, it's really designed for cloud drives and so deeply assumes a sync model. Works great for the intended use case, much bet
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
That depends a lot on what you do. People writing servers on the JVM can do all their development locally and have be tested on Linux via ci. The idea that all developers spend their days running software inside Linux VMs isn't right.
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
It renders your statement meaningless then. "The EU won't hurt the economy unless it thinks there's a reason to do so". So what, that statement boils down to nothing.
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
You're describing the way a normal democratic government works. The EU parliament can't force the commission to do anything other than a mass resignation, which hasn't happened for decades. The "parliament" can&#x27
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
You'll understand how the game is played one day, I just fear it'll be too late for the EU by then. Here's the trick: "need" is utterly subjective, along with "consent". No matter what definition you think
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
We've been in that dystopia for some time now already. Take a look at the history of temperature records for one example that's much more serious than Roald Dahl. In the 60s there were newspaper articles, conference reports, pop s
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
No need for hypotheticals. Google heavily edits searches for ideological reasons already and most people have no idea it's happening.
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
The UK wants to diverge from the GDPR: https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/news/new-uk-governm... It's one of the things that came up relatively early. > The banners are not required at all Yet e
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
The UK still sells lots of stuff to the EU, and they especially did not lose "free" access because the EU charged on the order of £300 million per WEEK in fees in order to get that "free" access.
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
> You might go and check how many companies did get those 10Mi euro "scary" GDPR fines before panicking again The EU has levied over 2.7 BILLION euros worth of GDPR fines in the past 5 years alone, and possibly much more as not
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
None of the people involved with this law are elected. Even once it reaches the so-called Parliament, the people there don't have any real power. At best they can provide opinions and hope the Commission listens. In practice and exactl
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
> I don't think EU will go after smaller projects, since that would hurt the economy in an undesirable way The EU institutions pretty regularly do things that hurt the economy in order to prioritize their own political or social g
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
By who? The people I know who have had to deal with GDPR still regard it as a disastrous piece of legislation, a textbook example of how not to write civilized law. It's achieved nothing obvious or concrete, and meanwhile many American
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
You don't even have to be offensive. Just give an all hands where the leadership publicly commits to merit-based promotion/hiring, tell people the org is now "mission focussed", stick a few rugs around the place that say

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