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by grotorea 3y ago
Couldn't find detailed questions for the study, but it says they literally asked for their level of confidence > In each survey, we asked respondents about their levels of confidence in a host of American institutions, as well as th
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by grotorea 3y ago
We don't call the Korean war the China and USSR-USA war either.
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by grotorea 3y ago
Already a thing! At least for tourists. https://g1.globo.com/economia/noticia/2023/07/16/pix-tipo-ex... But there have been some noises in the direction of expanding regular service through Latin Am
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by grotorea 3y ago
> And without "we", there can of course be no "we apologize". What about passive voice for the software error, then apologize with we in the name of whoever developed that software?
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by grotorea 3y ago
Didn't Mac OS have a sad face way before?
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by grotorea 3y ago
Do we need support or is just doing it on the CPU without specialized instructions fast enough?
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by grotorea 3y ago
> Kyle Rittenhouse’s Lawyers Claim Zooming-In on an iPad Fundamentally Alters a Digital Image > The lawyer argued Apple uses AI in its pinch-to-zoom feature to create "what it thinks is there, not what necessarily is there.” htt
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by grotorea 3y ago
I think this is in large part because Anti-Money Laundering/Know Your Customer regulations and lagging financial infrastructure make USD not work as well as internet money for the Global South. The stablecoins just decided to throw tha
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by grotorea 3y ago
I heard it was a bit of a compromise since the Germans were used to PR, but felt it had shown weaknesses in the Weimar period, but the US and UK preferred the familiar to them single winner district system.
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by grotorea 3y ago
If you consider consumption of energy as a whole and not just electricity it would be quite different because EVs are replacing petroleum fuel cars. What type of energy consumption is cryptocurrency mining replacing?
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by grotorea 3y ago
If the system was good enough for that I assume there would be no need to walk the aisles physically. Just browse the high quality app and either delivery or arrange for pickup. I mean, this is HN, why do people still go to the grocery sto
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by grotorea 3y ago
Is it just 30 minutes? Isn't this just like the "bows are better than arquebuses" thing where the advantage of easy training and replaceability beats individual quality?
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by grotorea 3y ago
For all the examples of doing geographic districts I sometimes wonder why is that specific special interest group that gets privileged with a district separation instead of any other way to split people. Prussia split districts by wealth to
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by grotorea 3y ago
Except for a few absolute monarchies and tiny countries, is there a single modern country without parties? There were parties forming already in his time! I really think they are an inevitable aspect of electoral democracy and finding ways
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by grotorea 3y ago
I don't hear all that much about gerrymandering from Britain. And the referendum to abolish FPTP was IIRC not to abolish single-winner districts. Although I agree PR is better. The German version also even keeps the districts if you re
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by grotorea 3y ago
If you're calling elected kings nepo-warlords I don't think calling a king elected by the ~~petty warlords~~ warrior nobility a first warlord is a stretch.
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by grotorea 3y ago
Favourite part of the historiography of England: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_yoke
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by grotorea 3y ago
I wonder a bit if we wouldn't have a easier time extracting data, resizing pages etc if we sent HTML files instead of PDF. Are even half of PDFs printed at all?
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by grotorea 3y ago
Are the non-browser PDF readers more vulnerable? Do most even execute the Javascript?
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by grotorea 3y ago
In the future the prompt will be attached as metadata for the recipient's AI to print when asked to summarize.
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by grotorea 3y ago
I just finished reading the comments instead.
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by grotorea 3y ago
Maybe but with my life the plot twists don't have to be foreshadowed or make dramatic sense!
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by grotorea 3y ago
Anyone knows what's up the iPhone-Galaxy gap? Is this some bad benchmark? I thought the big Apple revolution was with the M1 in the desktop.
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by grotorea 3y ago
Maybe someday the AI will be clever enough to predict the plotlines and get bored.
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by grotorea 3y ago
If you look at a river system from space I guess it looks tree-like with branches.
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by grotorea 3y ago
Foreign semi-hostile brainwashing apps do seem a lot easier to ban.
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by grotorea 3y ago
Maybe we can still call it a shortage if there's some unexpected and/or temporary reduction in supply or increase in demand. You could still buy oil during the 1970s oil crisis but it still was a shortage. Or it can mean that ther
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by grotorea 3y ago
At least they're doing updates.
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by grotorea 3y ago
Aren't Anglican priests famous for being atheists or is that just a joke?
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by grotorea 3y ago
Nothing on nebulaflare.

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