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   by ggm 4mo ago

   Don't rate his 2026 predictions tbh. But that's the thing, he gets to put 'em out there, and we gets to cat call and then Nils Bohr gets to call history.
2. 302.▲
   by ggm 4mo ago

   Not hard to imagine some kind of legal risk in this, but it would be great foundational case law for music/IPR. (tidal subscriber)
3. 303.▲
   by ggm 4mo ago

   Installing whatsapp was a "wtf" moment. Degoogle but leave meta in your life? I know that it's driven in other people's communications modalities.
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   by ggm 4mo ago

   So the point was that they had massive sunk costs which couldn't be recovered. The legality or otherwise of the EU subsidies is a bit beside the point. It's absolutely one of my favourites to fly on. I'll miss it when they re
5. 305.▲
   by ggm 4mo ago

   Thanks. Good clarification, makes sense to me now I grokked context.
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   by ggm 4mo ago

   > billions in illegal EU government subsidies. I think this is a bit gratuitous. It's not like Boeing doesn't receive massive subsidies. I'm not disputing that subsidies exist. WTO said "both sides" and you are o
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   by ggm 4mo ago

   "Didn't work" meaning did not result in 5,000 orders. The aircraft in use by the middle east and asian airlines (and Qantas) are doing fine. They are also less economic than the modern 2 engine widebodies, despite being more
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   by ggm 4mo ago

   Some models have a removable knob which acts as a control. I suppose it's magnetic and rotation driven. May be worth investigating because the touch UI is indeed pretty shit. NEFF, Gaggenau. May indicate two brands with shared supply c
9. 309.▲
   by ggm 4mo ago

   They can afford to pay. Keep doubling until the cost of remediation is less than the fine!
10. 310.▲
    by ggm 4mo ago

    Or (are) we to blame indeed.
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    by ggm 4mo ago

    Tricky issue. Have some sympathy, know I post too much politicised content. Not convinced it's either healthy or possible to exclude it. Do accept its unhealthy and entirely too possible to get bound into nihilistic doom scrolling. Tec
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    by ggm 4mo ago

    Fair. I could see this uplifting into ietf document process.
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    by ggm 4mo ago

    Followed the UCSD p-system of putting command prompts on screen. Useful but also irritating to attention and screen real estate. Usefully showing end-of-line markers. I remember thinking compared to dec-10 ROFF (which iirc proceeded nroff e
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    by ggm 4mo ago

    As an Australian I've had specialists say improved resolution is leading to over diagnosis and over presentation risks. An argument in the margins and one which loses its force as we learn to interpret finer grained imaging better, do
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    by ggm 4mo ago

    Argument started when 4 colour map proof was machine assisted. So 1976. (Which the fine article says: I remember my dad being in this argument at the time from the comp. sci side, albiet as a mathematicianby training)
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    by ggm 4mo ago

    Put on the die, but only expose on the $$$$ builds using it?
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    by ggm 4mo ago

    Blame post modernism.
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    by ggm 4mo ago

    If I understand it, Brett's central point is that early states lacked free capital to actually "pay" anyone and so levee-en-mass was compulsion for food, or forage/pillage and obligations driven not cash driven. England
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    by ggm 4mo ago

    True or not, there is little doubt demagogues play on foreign capital when arguing about house ownership costs to the mostly young renting classes. My own belief is that at national scale the % of foreign capital in housing stock for most w
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    by ggm 4mo ago

    I do indeed find Brett's writing informative and fun.
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    by ggm 4mo ago

    I very much doubt the primary reason nation states are lining up to permit or forbid access to these systems is 'fear of future AGI dominance' I think it's much more immediate/present: the weights and the information bre
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    by ggm 4mo ago

    You are right in the longer term but surely wrong in the shorter term since history records The Byzantines paying off Attila the Hun from the 430s to the mid 440s, so a 10 year window. The Danegeld lasted over 150 years. It undoubtedly fail
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    by ggm 4mo ago

    Batteries and pumped hydro would be amongst the possible remediations. In Australia we've had a quite caustic discussion about beliefs in "base load" power which is an economically circular argument to justify continuous gene
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    by ggm 4mo ago

    Wave skip? (Naieve question)
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    by ggm 4mo ago

    Economists are naieve. It's funny how much irrational exuberance they show in their own beliefs, and yet still earn, and I definitely mean earn the dismal science sobriquet. Managing to simultaneously believe in rationality and equity
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    by ggm 4mo ago

    Once you pay an army, you accept the army can take you over, internal or external.
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    by ggm 4mo ago

    If you can afford to pay am army you can afford to pay the opposing side instead. And, many fine arguments abound for paying off potential invaders. It may be cheaper, and it may include paying them to go and attack somebody else.
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    by ggm 4mo ago

    Why do you think this matters? Not that it does or doesn't but what quality does "US WINS" or "CHINA WINS" bring to the table?
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    by ggm 4mo ago

    Where is Oman in this? Where does the concept of territorial waters, exclusive economic zones go in a narrow straight? What does this mean for the straights of Malacca, Luzon?
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    by ggm 4mo ago

    Confiscated during the revolution, kept by the national library. That's a bit different to "forged on schoolbooks with a Bic pen" provenance-wise.