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by graemep 1mo ago
Wanting to replace monopolies with competitive markets is the strangest definition of "actual communism" I have ever heard.
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by graemep 1mo ago
You are right, it is. They have now landed a clean fix.
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by graemep 1mo ago
Possibly people switching work from Claude to Codex?
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by graemep 1mo ago
Leaving aside the issues with this version of the story, it does demonstrate the value of teaching scientific method properly. Its very easy to teach the discoveries of science but neglect the method (hint for British people, get your kids
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by graemep 1mo ago
Goana, which is corruption of iguana. Same mistake historically, but its a different word now so feels less wrong.
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by graemep 1mo ago
For fuel and other liquids? Its used in Sri Lanka but specifically for water. Sri Lankan's and Australians also both confuse monitor lizards with iguanas, although Australians have at least created a new word as a result.
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by graemep 1mo ago
About 2 billion people speak English. That is a pretty big niche.
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by graemep 1mo ago
It has 24 official languages far fewer than are spoken in its member states so already diminishing linguistic diversity. A lot of things are published only in English, French and German https://commission.europa.eu/about&#x
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by graemep 1mo ago
How is the EU relevant to the ICC? EU countries have different systems, lots of countries in the rest of the world are ICC members have independent court systems? I think people here often forget that most of the world is neither the US or
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by graemep 1mo ago
In theory, but I do not convinced countries are actually going to start handing over bank CEOs for doing something they were forced to do.
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by graemep 1mo ago
Anyone can order anyone to do anything. What matters is whether you have the power to enforce it. If a court in my country orders me to do something and I do not I will be fined or imprisoned. What can the ICC do? Countries are not going to
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by graemep 1mo ago
How is Italy going to do that? You could argue that all the nations that have signed up to the ICC have a duty to protect its officers from American sanctions and that is clearly not happening.
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by graemep 1mo ago
Curl seems to becoming one of the favourite things to demo AI finding vulns. Curl is going to end up incredibly secure.
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by graemep 1mo ago
Interesting. I am always suspicious of "great man" explanations of history and the same applies to current events - not that individual choices do not matter, but they are constrained and influenced by bigger social forces. Someth
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by graemep 1mo ago
Its far more difficult than physical safety criteria with things like nuclear energy. Will the ban be on providing tools that can delete things? In this case it looks like it was writing software that can delete things. SO maybe require tha
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by graemep 1mo ago
I have lived in South Asia and have never been to Canada and know little about it. Are the Canadian examples nationalist? It looks like your first example was first renamed after a politician (which is like South Asia) and then renamed agai
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by graemep 1mo ago
Another HN thread made be look up a place name to find out where it was. This is somewhere I have actually been to! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49533216
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by graemep 1mo ago
This looks like privately funded educational not for profit. How would that be appropriately regulated?
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by graemep 1mo ago
I quite often upvote comments I disagree with that have been downvoted for no apparent reason. Sometimes I vouch for flagged comments for the same reason too. That said, the last one I vouched for was flagged again and so were all the comme
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by graemep 1mo ago
There is less difference than you imply. It is nationalists who are keenest on replacing colonial names. Not all name changes are of colonial names either. What about when the locals are perfectly happy with the colonial name and politician
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by graemep 1mo ago
Lots of countries change the names of things, even countries themselves.. Bombay to Mumbai, Ceylon to Sri Lanka, Turkey to Türkiye etc. Yes, some of those are specific to a name in a particular language and all have precedents rather than b
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by graemep 1mo ago
I have seen this claim before but I would really like the details. What are they doing? Physically present or engaging with kids? As far as the UK goes I find this hard to reconcile with longer hours in school (breakfast clubs and after sch
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by graemep 1mo ago
its common for a single browser tab to use more than that.
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by graemep 1mo ago
1MB memory usage for a GUI app with a bunch of packages installed? If you are talking about the size of the TCL/Tk static binaries they are a few MB to judge by the zipkit downloads linked to.
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by graemep 1mo ago
Compared to world wars, the threat of nuclear annihilation, widespread racism, etc.? No.
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by graemep 1mo ago
One of the effects of heavy social media and phone use is parents (and other carers) paying less attention to kids.
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by graemep 1mo ago
No. Good business is showing Nazi content to people who are enraged by Nazis. Engagement is everything.
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by graemep 1mo ago
> “I’m engaging with this, but I hate myself for doing it.” I need another mouse button that is like, “I’m clicking on this, but I’m rage clicking on it and for my own mental health could you not drag more of this in front of me please?”
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by graemep 1mo ago
> we all know that half of those services will die in a few years, forcing us to replace perfectly good devices That is a feature, not a bug.
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by graemep 2mo ago
and Firejail

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