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by greiskul 1y ago
A lot of Americans don't consider countries in South America to be part of "The West". Which is wild, cause Americans also love Rome and it's influence in western culture, and Latin America literally speaks languages tha
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by greiskul 1y ago
Great point about web3. People always talk about during gold rushes, selling shovels instead of being the ones digging for gold. And it might be a reasonable idea, but there needs to be actual people getting rich from the gold to be an actu
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by greiskul 1y ago
There is formal recognition, and real world recognition. Although few countries formally recognize Taiwan, I would say that most of the world recognizes it in practice. Just look at things like countries that accept Taiwanese passport http
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by greiskul 1y ago
Brazils pix system as a similar mechanism, where a website can generate a code for payment, that you can copy or scan a qr code into your bank app, and then approve the payment. Individual merchants barely get any information from you this
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by greiskul 1y ago
And what projects do they have besides buying BTC like the parent comment mentioned? What tech have they built? And yeah, BTC went up huge amounts, but certainly they were a large part of the buying pressure to get it there. But like you as
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by greiskul 1y ago
It's the main reason Brazil has invested so much in trying to use open source software for goverment institutions. There is a number of reasons, but digital sovereignty is probably the argument that actually convinced our politicians t
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by greiskul 1y ago
Metadata about the file like modification time.
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by greiskul 1y ago
> known for funding and training militant and terrier groups globally So does the US. > They also call for the annihilation of the Big Satan (USA) and the Small Satan (Israel) You are literally calling for the annihilation of their st
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by greiskul 1y ago
Same thing for the Brazilian university I went to. Homework was optional, and there were "filter" classes like Calculus at the start of all STEM subjects where if you are not taking it seriously you are going to fail. Not a single
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by greiskul 1y ago
> foo = (lambda x = []: ...) > For that, it has to immediately evaluate [] (like it always does anywhere!). So how is this not exactly what it should do? It has a lambda there. In many programming languages, and the way human beings r
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by greiskul 1y ago
Honestly I don't know how much the decrease in search quality is not just a reflection of the decrease in web quality in general. The web used to be full of indepent writers in publicly accessible websites like blogs and forums. So muc
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by greiskul 2y ago
Yup, At top level play, players know the games and the maps so much that they can get some kills through walls just from knowing that its is likely that an opponent WOULD be at the other side at second X after seeing/hearing them at se
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by greiskul 2y ago
Expand life into cosmos doesn't imply expanding earth-originating life to countries that already have life. There is definitely possibility for conflict when we encounter other life, be it inteligent or not. But what is wrong with expa
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by greiskul 2y ago
Is having a secret password security by obscurity? What about a private key? Security by obscurity is about the bad practice of thinking that obscuring your mechanisms and implementations of security increases your security. It's about
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by greiskul 2y ago
Apple is actively sabotaging the web for a number of years now. They don't want web apps to be able to compete with native iOS apps. And they prohibit different browsers from the app store, so users don't even have a choice.
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by greiskul 2y ago
Apparently it was super easy to change copyright law to extend it over and over again.
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by greiskul 2y ago
> Distilling weights from prompts and responses is even more of a legal grey area. Actually unless the law changes this is pretty settled territory in US law. All output of AIs are not copyrightable, and are therefore in the public domai
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by greiskul 2y ago
I'm not sure you can just return the object address for hashcode, because with GC the object address can move right? So if you are using it for hashcode, you do need to persist it somewhere after it's called the first time.
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by greiskul 2y ago
Maybe you think you saw a black swan around the orbit of Jupiter with your new fancy telescope, but later you figure out that the telescope was falty and the swan you saw was actually white. Because science depends on the external world, an
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by greiskul 2y ago
> I can even claim that this "old" style forces you to name the outcome of each step. Yeah, but that does not necessarily make something easier to understand. Which function do you think is easier to understand? func quadraticF
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by greiskul 2y ago
Google has an option for what to do with your account if you are inactive for a set period of time. So you can choose what to delete, and what to give access to someone you want. You can also have it send emails to up to 10 people, with wha
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by greiskul 2y ago
Here is a good critique of the concept of strategic airpower: https://acoup.blog/2022/10/21/collections-strategic-airpower... Axis production continued increasing, according to this, it tripled after the bomb
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by greiskul 2y ago
In a lot of cases, programmers don't even care about fairness, but do care about starvation. Is there a word for structures like the one discussed here, that are unfair but appear to prevent unlimited starvation?
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by greiskul 2y ago
Yup. And it needs to be something that has to be done regularly, either every time the app updates or on a fixed schedule. Otherwise you would get a similar ecosystem that happened with some browser extensions, where a benign developer goes
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by greiskul 2y ago
I'm curious about this, didn't know about %n before. What are the common pitfalls and exploits using this enables?
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by greiskul 2y ago
The reason cash sucks like this on the US is because of the tradition it has of listing prices before taxes. In countries that list prices after taxes, the cake would be priced in a way so that the final number would be something round like
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by greiskul 2y ago
> anti-“imperialist west” America helped install the Brazilian military dictatorship, helped to train them in the use of torture against it's civilian population. You either are ignorant in not knowing the role the US has played aro
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by greiskul 2y ago
> when I don't want the reader to understand what I just wrote Unless you are writing poetry or art (where ocasionally this makes sense, to avoid censorship for instance, or to make a point), that's just bad writing. Should you
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by greiskul 2y ago
Yeah, if he is walking, who cares. But if he is driving distracted and runs over someone, it becomes a lot harder to respect the hustle.
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by greiskul 2y ago
> Citing Overreach and Potential Harm to Businesses Potential harm to business, oh no. Might as well repeal the 13th amendment while we are at it. Imagine how much more competitive American companies would be if they didn't have to

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