inglor_cz

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by inglor_cz 2mo ago
We count votes in Czechia in very similar way and IMHO this beats any digital system by a mile. You don't have be an IT person to verify the count and trust the process, and the results for the entire country of 11 million are usually
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by inglor_cz 2mo ago
A small boat will jump up and down in relatively small waves, while it takes a huge storm to destabilize Oasis of the Seas. And the króna is a very small boat.
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by inglor_cz 2mo ago
I don't find the word Dunkelflaute any more scary than the word Kindergarten, but I am used to speaking and reading German... And you might have noticed me commenting on the need to shut down some reactors due to lack of water elsewher
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by inglor_cz 2mo ago
Scaling is a problem. How many batteries do you need to power, say, entire Scandinavia during winter? That would be a lot of lithium, btw. "Dunkelflaute" periods when it is dark and no wind to run the wind turbines are common in n
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by inglor_cz 2mo ago
Big reactors also need a lot of cooling, and we've just had a very dry summer in Europe which forced some nuclear power stations to dial down or shut down entirely.
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The Butcher, Now Dead(komando1.substack.com)
4 points by inglor_cz 2mo ago|1 comments
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by inglor_cz 2mo ago
A remembrance of the Bosnian War (1992-6).
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by inglor_cz 2mo ago
The social safety net of a relatively poor country is not really better than the current social safety net in the US, because of the overall lower economic level that limits the amount of taxes collected. Looking at the "hollers"
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by inglor_cz 2mo ago
Indeed I wrote about this on my Substack: https://komando1.substack.com/p/when-the-russians-wanted-com... But this still wasn't case of pitchforks. It was "just" an election, and the Putin regime, for th
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by inglor_cz 2mo ago
Observation of your body feels more intrusive than observation of your text.
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by inglor_cz 2mo ago
Massive military defeat in WWI which destabilized Russia. If the Whites were better organized, the result could easily have been a very bigoted nationalist dictatorship instead.
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by inglor_cz 2mo ago
During the economic transformation in the former Soviet Bloc, entire industries disappeared, and pitchforks weren't grabbed. I saw it myself, growing up in a heavy industry city that quickly turned into a rust belt city. IDK why so man
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by inglor_cz 2mo ago
From the post-mortem. "The biggest bottleneck in the clinical trial system is recruitment and retention. It’s hard to get patients, and it’s hard to keep them." Yes, this was part of the Chinese reforms of 2016 that I mentioned in
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by inglor_cz 2mo ago
"You used to be able to just show up on a ship and they would make you a citizen if you were healthy." Unless you were Chinese. Let's not romanticize that period, the Chinese Exclusion Act was enacted precisely over fears of
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by inglor_cz 2mo ago
Jobs was lucky enough to have a completely different, very treatable type of pancreatic cancer, and unlucky enough to believe in crackpot treatments more than actual science.
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by inglor_cz 2mo ago
Not self-approval, but maybe look at the clinical trial reforms in China (2016). There seems to be a lesson there to learn from. They made the trial system a lot more flexible, and China has recently overtaken the US in the # of new drugs p
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by inglor_cz 2mo ago
Touché. Getting stuck with an obsolete service/protocol for decades is a nightmare, even if it is just ye olde user inertia. If it is mandated by law or pushed by the government, it becomes nearly impossible to update. In this, I trust
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by inglor_cz 2mo ago
A reminiscence triggered by my earlier post, which touched on the observation that the early Internet was very, very Anglophone. The existence of Minitel was one of the contributing reasons for that.
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Minitel, the Forgotten French Internet(komando1.substack.com)
5 points by inglor_cz 2mo ago|1 comments
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by inglor_cz 2mo ago
The problem is that an EU-mandated digital communicating tool would look like the Minitel. Anyone remembering the French minitel?
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by inglor_cz 2mo ago
Interesting that you chose the pope as a positive control. I'd say that taken the whole history of papacy into question, there is no particular reason to trust the pope either.
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by inglor_cz 2mo ago
Locally, yes, like the Japanese shogunate blocking the outside world for more than two hundred years. Globally, it is unrealistic.
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by inglor_cz 2mo ago
The question is who will service massive data centers in northern Québec or Norwegian mountains in winter. They will have to be robotized to a large degree. And the few humans necessary will have to be very well paid. The social cost is rea
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by inglor_cz 2mo ago
One of the killer features of the modern democracy/market system combo is that it can channel quite a lot of bad people's efforts towards neutral or good outcomes. A scenario where Musk builds an interplanetary space company is in
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by inglor_cz 2mo ago
One of the worst outbreaks ever documented took place in Czechia, in a swimming pool where, unknown to the management, a cavern full of stagnant water formed behind one end of the pool. 16 young people died in a span of a few weeks.
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And Realists Learn to Shoot(komando1.substack.com)
3 points by inglor_cz 2mo ago|3 comments
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by inglor_cz 2mo ago
When I was young, people in Central Europe considered German and English to be ~ equally practical for your future career. Now they no longer do. A personal reminiscence somewhat related to digital tech.
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by inglor_cz 2mo ago
Is it realistic to demand a spaceport with no environmental impact from anyone, SpaceX or not? Current launch technology inevitably produces a lot of heat and noise and we don't have any rocket model that wouldn't at least rarely
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by inglor_cz 2mo ago
If you are in Munich, how do you compete with someone from Magdeburg? Also, quite a lot of German business costs are a self-inflicted wound (too much bureaucracy). Maybe taper down the endless paper war a bit, and throw away the fax machine
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by inglor_cz 2mo ago
The problem with overarching regulations is that they kill the good along the bad, which is the original topic of the article being discussed...

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