graemep

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by graemep 5mo ago
Examples? Preferably European given the context of the thread. Ideally UK. Anywhere OK if you are struggling for European examples though.
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by graemep 5mo ago
Making progress how? High economic growth? No. An effective military? Nothing compared to the 1980s. The UK's defence minister resigned today because of the prime minister's refusal to adequately fund defence.
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by graemep 5mo ago
The EU has expanded to incorporate many more countries but is a much smaller fraction of the world's economy than it was in the 70s. Europe is the world's slowest growing region so this will continue.
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by graemep 5mo ago
Why? I see statements like this as evidence of denial - the same with the downvotes. No real counter argument, no evidence, just - "you are wrong". Europe is relatively a much smaller fraction of the global economy or population t
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by graemep 5mo ago
I used to explore central London just by walking around. I discovered all sorts of things: small museums, interesting architecture (London looks a lot more interesting when you look above the ground floor), canals and parks, odd little shop
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by graemep 5mo ago
I think right equals conservative has not been true for a long time. It is the right that promoted globalisation. In many countries it was the right that privatised formally state owned industries. In the UK in the 70s the right wanted to j
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by graemep 5mo ago
Its not so much Anglo-American as American. it is extremely harmful in the UK. It ranges from the adoption of American vocabulary even when it does not fit with British usage (so causes confusion) or where its a bad fit because systems are
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by graemep 5mo ago
Does it matter who is president? The US was spying on European leaders before Trump's first term: "According to the investigation, which covered the period from 2012 to 2014, the NSA used Danish information cables to spy on senior
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by graemep 5mo ago
Downvotes for stating a reasonable, and probably correct argument. Europe's biggest problem (I do not mean just the EU, I mean everyone from the UK to Russia) is that it is in denial about its decline, weakness and irrelevance to the r
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by graemep 5mo ago
Shared nothing is no scaleable?
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by graemep 5mo ago
Yes, a foreign company in control does all that and adds a sovereignty/national security issue. > It's like people (on here) asking for open phone platforms or phones with smaller screens; they're a minority. Most people d
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by graemep 5mo ago
When the manufacturer in turn is under the control of the foreign government it adds another problem. It is similar to how using AWS means your data is not safe from the US government.
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by graemep 5mo ago
That is a different issue. There are many European countries where people have a high level of trust in their government so it would less of a concern assuming they are right. I think they are mistaken, even if their current government is
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by graemep 5mo ago
There is a national security and sovereignty issue that the European countries (and others) not facing - its similar to dependence on American clouds etc. A lot of these vehicles rely on OTA updates or are controlled through apps. This esse
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by graemep 5mo ago
I was wondering how people monetised these things. Selling t-shirts and AI porn is not what I expected.
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by graemep 5mo ago
The scientific method is partly inspired by belief in a God who is good (so no deceit) and created a universe that runs on laws. If you have particular beliefs about God, you can build a lot on that (as Descartes did).
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by graemep 5mo ago
Not most of it - at least on Facebook where there is a LOT posted by people from South Asia and racist/extreme nationalist posters - far more than on Twitter the last time I compared my feeds. For one thing most of it on Facebook is do
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by graemep 5mo ago
The same on Facebook, and its a very profitable: https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025-11-16/kin...
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by graemep 5mo ago
and most people who believe in God will cite some evidence - religious experiences, or philosophical proofs or whatever. Whether you accept that evidence is sufficient or not, it is in an entirely different class.
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by graemep 5mo ago
That is a strawman. Who believes in an old man on a cloud judging everyone? Far fewer people believe anything like that than believe. Even online I have never come across anyone whose beliefs could be reasonably characterised that way.
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by graemep 5mo ago
> yet we're still stuck with people who think the earth is flat. Very few. They are louder online. I have never met one in real life. Yes, the internet does spread misinformation, but I think its pessimistic to think it outweighs th
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by graemep 5mo ago
> Nobody should do 'npm install' or 'pip install' on their machine. What alternative do you suggest? Do you mean not install outside a sandbox?
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by graemep 5mo ago
My knowledge of this from a long time ago and narrow, but I can give you a rough picture. Different countries do buy different types and qualities of tea. The US is big market for low quality (dust, stalks) tea for tea bags. Countries that
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by graemep 5mo ago
Someone who is trying to build a business they can sell when they retire, or that they might leave to their kids, thinks on a completely different time scale. Smaller businesses are also run more by personal judgement and relationships than
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by graemep 5mo ago
That is true, but people work less overall. In many places it is more likely to reduce pay rather than hours or conditions because of legal limits.
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by graemep 5mo ago
Its short termism. its the same throughout the west and beyond. The markets want returns on a one or two year period, not long term investment. Executive pay is almost always tied to short term profits and share prices.
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by graemep 5mo ago
> We should remember that the outside world care about things that work, not about how good they are inside sadly. Until they go wrong because they are not good inside.
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by graemep 5mo ago
> Literally no one, no one even claimed we would work less due to AI. It is one of many absurd claims about AI here. There was no period in which we would get think pieces predicting more leisure time. https://www.newsbytesapp
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by graemep 5mo ago
Early print was not just smut or amateurish. Some of it was highly harmful misinformation: Malleus Maleficarem is an outstanding example that caused an immense amount of harm.
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by graemep 5mo ago
This is clever. There are short command sequences that are not worth scripting but do repeat sometimes.

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