gelert

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by gelert 1y ago
While I agree the leap to linking geopolitics to LibreOffice's success is a stretch you are misrepresenting the American position. The President of the United states, its commander in chief, explicitly did not rule out military action
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by gelert 2y ago
The Times is a UK newspaper with a British audience. I agree the HN title is disingenuous though.
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by gelert 3y ago
Blizzard could make their own second hand hearthstone marketplace if they wanted to. NFTs don't create that possibility. Blizzard judged that it's more profitable for them to be the sole sellers of cards at their price. While NFTs
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by gelert 4y ago
Early studies for new therapies are often much more promising than the therapy actually turns out to be once deployed on a mass scale. I absolutely agree that psychedelics should be explored as a medication of choice but some promising earl
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by gelert 4y ago
I think the argument thrown_22 is making is that Americans would be less worried if it was Vine instead of TikTok because Vine is made in America. Tiktok is a globally relevant social network not only not from America but from what is incre
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by gelert 4y ago
Speaking from the UK I have to say that is insane. Like all animals, humans included, cats belong outdoors and to deprive them of their natural rhythms is cruel. I agree that we need to think about how to nurture bird populations but keepin
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by gelert 5y ago
Have you ever kept a log of the food you eat in a day? Admittedly I come at this from a very different perspective being obese, and having been much more obese in the past, but actively logging my food and retrospectively calculating calori
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by gelert 5y ago
What's toxic to democracy is politicians lying, and then telling us that p;ointing out their moments of hypocrisy is what's doing the real damage. Describing reality is never bad.
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by gelert 5y ago
Congratulations on realising that successful diseases reflect their environments and times in human history. Were you alive during the Black Death I imagine you'd be talking about how, though you're no denier, it's the fault
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by gelert 5y ago
An interesting interview, it's nice to see a little more substance behind the decision.I also appreciate that the interviewer did ask some of the sterner questions e.g. Facebook throwing money away from it's business Maybe it&#x27
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by gelert 5y ago
As stated in the BBC article it's not banning those sexual acts, it's banning depictions (e.g. porn of them). And it's banning these ones in particular because they are considered by the UK Gov to be life threatening. So it&#
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by gelert 5y ago
I like "Climate Catastrophe" more than "Climate Crisis" which is the term in vogue in left wing circles here in Britain. But I think I still prefer Climate Change because to me the other terms fail to relate that what&#x
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by gelert 5y ago
However, people in many countries around the globe are having fewer children and not due to reaching "subsistence level". Some of the biggest impacts in birth rates are education, particularly for women, and birth control, both th
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by gelert 5y ago
There is a difference between not celebrating and erasing. I agree with some of what you say here but I think asserting that not naming a telescope after somebody is erasing them from history is an unsupported leap - most people don't
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by gelert 5y ago
To offer a more pessimistic case this was true for Google, whose Stadia product flopped, and it was true for Amazon, whose video games utterly failed to take off. Currently something like Microsoft gamepass is a far better choice if you wan
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by gelert 5y ago
Well, one of the big risks of plastics are the hormonal effects which are still little understood. There are serious reasons to remove most plastics from our day-to-day lives which makes reclaiming/recycling existing plastics less desi
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by gelert 5y ago
No one here is questioning how hot the Earth is, the issue is sustainably accessing it in countries that are less geologically active.
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by gelert 5y ago
This is a good link to start exploring the issue: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2009/06/embodied-energy-of... Low tech magazine has a very definite agenda but I've found their writing really informative a
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by gelert 5y ago
I think the reply is meant to be a critique of the above comment. They assumed that the first commentator was American, so said that given America entirely consists of land inhabited by displaced peoples (American Indians) that it's hy
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by gelert 5y ago
I agree that removing scenes or adding product placement into existing works of art is very troubling but I'm not sure I would equate that to adding disclaimers to the start of a film. In my mind it's like an age rating - it'
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by gelert 5y ago
Instead Spain became a fascist power with close ties to Berlin. Hardly less of a threat to representative democracy. Spain was a dictatorship until 1970. Collectivism might have also produced tyranny but it's not a good thing that a fa
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by gelert 5y ago
Basic nutrition, sleep and exercise aren't being fanatical about one's health. These are quite simple things which are nonetheless extremely difficult to learn if your childhood didn't set you up for those things (speaking fr
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by gelert 5y ago
An interesting article, though note the easy conflation of Jewishness with Israelis. Being Jewish ≠ being Israeli and for many people they are quite distinct identities. Indeed, Israeli identity can be quite anti victimhood. While I would h
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by gelert 5y ago
Unfortunately Epic's store on PC is being run at a loss in order to win market share and not expected to be profitable for another 2-5 years. So that wouldn't be a great comparison. The cut they take for their store is 12% but com
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by gelert 5y ago
This is also a thing in London where certain views towards St Pauls Cathedral are protected.
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by gelert 5y ago
An aspect of the low turnout in these referendums is Peurto Ricans choosing to boycott them. In this case, they don't necessarily mean that there is a lack of engagement.
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by gelert 6y ago
The expression "Bank Holiday" is actually really common in the UK - I would expect most brits to know it. We use it to refer to a public holiday in which the banks are closed, there are quite a few every year. It has very positive
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by gelert 6y ago
I would have to say that 'derided by scholars' is a bit much. Most historians who are aware of the luddites in any detail would agree with this take. While Luddites were derided in the past since around the 1930s and works like He
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by gelert 6y ago
I'm not sure I'd class it as a parody but in case you haven't seen it Red Dwarf is a brilliant sci-fi comedy from the BBC in the mid-90s. It declines a little as seasons go on but the first few seasons are well worth a watch
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by gelert 6y ago
Why do you believe that neural networks being better at chess would make it more boring? Genuinely I just don't follow the logic.

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