graemep

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by graemep 4mo ago
> Hopefully this could be the first good thing about Brexit Was having lots of people's lives saved by a much faster vaccine rollout not a good thing?
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by graemep 4mo ago
> Demands for increasingly byzantine trials have ballooned the costs associated with drug development, Even if that is true, is it an intrinsic problem with trials or just bad regulation? If it is the latter then you need to change the r
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by graemep 4mo ago
You have control over your habits, and what you reveal on your "socials". I post very little personal. You have no control over your genes.
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by graemep 4mo ago
No Eu wide bans, but quite a few in some EU countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_books_banned_by_govern... According to that list, in Germany unannotated editions of Mein Kampf are still banned.
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by graemep 4mo ago
> one need only remember that Life of Brian (the Monty Python movie) is banned in the Vatican. I can find no confirmation of this, or of any ban since 1966 (and that is assuming that the index of forbidden books had legal force in the Va
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by graemep 4mo ago
You switch from talking about Europe to talking about the EU half way through. The article was about Europe (excluding Russia and a few others). > there is one section that is hardcore-opensource fanatics, they want to host everything by
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by graemep 4mo ago
I am tired of arguing about this as I do not not have these problems and have not in many years over multiple machines. Looking at your specific examples they are not a like for like comparison. Two are Ubuntu on Raspberry Pi issues (so on
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by graemep 4mo ago
I am not saying its OK. I am saying it is probably not this crawler that is hammering your site, and definitely not only this crawler. I specifically mentioned malicious attempts at ssh logins.
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by graemep 4mo ago
Lots of crawlers do this. I have never seen a webserver that does not get a variety of these from obviously different sources. Even just an ssh port will get a lot of malicious login attempts.
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by graemep 4mo ago
KDE does something similar (but not as bad?) with .directory files.
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by graemep 4mo ago
Worse to the level of Xinjian?
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by graemep 4mo ago
They are no longer communist. Its state controlled capitalism with a tendency to personality cult, racism, and the destruction of minorities and the systematic destruction of minority cultures.
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by graemep 4mo ago
> I run Windows because I'm sick of debugging device driver issues. Lost me there. The rest is reasonable but other OSes (MacOS, Linux) also rarely have driver issues. Its not like Windows never needs fixing (these days more than L
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by graemep 4mo ago
> Every single company in the West has a CEO and a board. Outside the West too!
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by graemep 4mo ago
The articles does say > The blog-as-a-business model, involving publishing, ranking, monetizing clicks, and repeating the cycle, is dead. Not dying but dead It is about a particular type of directly profit making blog business model: &gt
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by graemep 4mo ago
Yes, but that would be a regional, not global conflict. There are already tensions over it and plenty of other tensions between India and Pakistan. the comment I replied to claimed it would cause a "huge global conflict" - i.e. wo
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by graemep 4mo ago
Your first link (the credible one) says "This massive expansion of UK offshore wind is partly due to UK government subsidies." so it proves me right. The other one is a campaign group who say there are subsidies but fail to name a
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by graemep 4mo ago
Much the same reasons why the UK, US etc. do much the same. It is slowed down a bit in some countries with strong constitutions or resistance to it, but the governments all want it.
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by graemep 4mo ago
Not everyone has bombers. There are other examples of relatively recent use of forts. This apparently withstood an army with artillery but lacking bombers for 50 days: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaffna_Fort
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by graemep 4mo ago
> They're really not. Or it's just perfrmative environmentalism. Because they continue to support to politicians and the system that maintains the status quo. There are a lot of wealthy people spending serious money on lobbying
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by graemep 4mo ago
I have not read that article, but I was aware Arrhenius calculated the effects of CO2 on global temperatures earlier. AFAIK his models has held up very well, possibly because of its simplicity compared to current models (I tend to distrust
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by graemep 4mo ago
I do not know about Europe as a whole, but 1911 was pretty bad in the UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1911_United_Kingdom_heatwave
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by graemep 4mo ago
So even if it goes above 30 every single remaining year it will still be 9 vs 13 in the previous decade?
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by graemep 4mo ago
> The wealthy prefer fossil fuels because a mine or an oil well is and always has been a massive wealth concentrator. lots of wealthy people are anti-fossil fuel. > Build a solar farm and it... just produces electricity. it needs land
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by graemep 4mo ago
A lot of older building worked a lot better. The downstairs of my Victorian terraced house in Cheshire stayed cool throughout the heatwave. A friend's far older house with very thick walls is extremely good at maintaining comfortable t
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by graemep 4mo ago
How is that a reason to exclude it from the graph? Surely including it in the charts would strengthen the case for regarding it as a long term problem? Excluding it subtly suggests that global warming is a short term phenomenon.
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by graemep 4mo ago
It might raise the chance of some conflicts (e.g. over Antarctica or Russia's border) and some land grabs, but I cannot see it leading to a world war.
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by graemep 4mo ago
Space weather that would bring down our systems is not such low likelihood. I am not convinced nuclear war or biological warfare are as unlikely as you think. We have historically had narrow escapes from nuclear war.
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by graemep 4mo ago
Why such short term graphs? One of them only goes back 1991, and the longest term only goes back to 1946.
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by graemep 4mo ago
But a human can hold the copyright on the output of an AI - but the requirements for that are not clear in the US yet. They are clear in the UK but the government is thinking of changing the law.

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