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by gerikson 1y ago
As soon as I saw the title my thoughts went to the old divide between Lutheran High Germany and Catholic Bavaria. But that's a lot because I had a coworker (from Berlin) whose grandfather was from Bavaria and ran away to sea to avoid
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by gerikson 1y ago
That sounds terrible. Is the pressure coming from medical professionals or caregivers?
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by gerikson 2y ago
Rolex makes the OG Day-Date. Only in precious metals though.
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by gerikson 2y ago
Surprisingly middlebrow.
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by gerikson 2y ago
Most engineering fields are de jure professional, which means they can and probably will enforce limitations on the use of GenAI or its successor tech before giving up that kind of job security. Same goes for the legal profession. Softwar
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by gerikson 2y ago
Nuclear fusion has been 3 decades away since as far as I can remember (I believe I first read about it in National Geographic in the late 70s or early 80s)
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by gerikson 2y ago
From a comment upstream, all foreshore in the UK has an owner. You can't just steal from the owner.
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by gerikson 2y ago
I think this is the same concept https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton%27s_dome
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by gerikson 2y ago
Except that the VA health insurance is unironically one of the better options in the US.
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by gerikson 2y ago
Bourne is fictional.
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by gerikson 2y ago
It's weird that the Wiki article doesn't have an image of the actual clocks, only of the stations.
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by gerikson 2y ago
Age comes for us all.
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by gerikson 2y ago
Yes, the Ohm, Kelvin and Ångström have their codepoints in Unicode.
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by gerikson 2y ago
Lowercasing the symbols for Ohm, Kelvin or Ångström makes no sense. For the Greek alphabet cases, isn't there canonical forms for this kind of stuff?
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by gerikson 2y ago
Here's a crazy idea - move election day to a day when almost everyone is off work or school, problem solved.
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by gerikson 2y ago
Try the search function here! https://sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov/
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by gerikson 2y ago
We see these in Swedish too and they're just as incorrect, grammatically. But the worst thing is usually the acute accent is used instead of a real apostrophe, which just makes it stand out even more.
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by gerikson 2y ago
Crypto (at least proof-of-work) is purposefully designed to have rising per-unit production cost.
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by gerikson 2y ago
It feels a bit disrepectful to reference the title of Tim O'Brien's book for a review of this year's latest tech gadgets.
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by gerikson 2y ago
Lots of confusion about what a "migrant" is in this context and who is eligible for the compensation. Here's the English language page about the repatriation compensation (currently 10,000 SEK): https://www.migrati
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by gerikson 2y ago
The weird thousands separator placement, combined with the Central European usage of a decimal comma implies the total amount is $341, which frankly isn't much...
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by gerikson 2y ago
I've read the book. Prussia was the last one to go, finally extinguished in the wake of WW2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolition_of_Prussia
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by gerikson 2y ago
I just re-read Surface Detail where some nobody from a backwards planet convinces a ship Mind to help her assassinate her local Elon Musk. So there's some agency to be found in the margins...
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by gerikson 2y ago
To those interested in verifying or not this narrative, Lobste.rs mod decisions are public: https://lobste.rs/moderations I'm a long-term member of the site and I don't generally have any problems with the moderat
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by gerikson 2y ago
This is a depressingly utilitarian view of reading.
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by gerikson 2y ago
> The Norwegian Nobel Committee is responsible for selecting the Nobel Peace Prize laureates. A nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize may be submitted by any persons who are qualified to nominate.
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by gerikson 2y ago
Press release here (English translation in 2nd half): https://www.tribunal-de-paris.justice.fr/sites/default/files... Discussion on Techdirt: https://www.techdirt.com/2024/08/26/duro
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by gerikson 2y ago
Looks like the encryption charges mentioned in the arrest warrant are no longer there. I'd love to know more about the specific laws the prosecution is resting their case on.
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by gerikson 2y ago
Thanks for expanding on the site's origins. Using reader mode enables me to read it.
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by gerikson 2y ago
What a weird site, can't seem to scroll it? It wants to install some weird app?

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