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by inglor_cz 4mo ago
I remember my colleague from MFF UK, Robert Babilon, producing his first real-time map of Czech trains in 2004. The page, called Babitron, still exists and still keeps that delightful 2004 look. I visited it a few days ago. Unfortunately to
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by inglor_cz 4mo ago
It remains to be seen if the indirect strategy of converting people originating from different backgrounds holds or fails in the 21st century. All that we can say is that it used to work against some traditional Christian churches and mor
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by inglor_cz 4mo ago
"If not for the EU, a much worse version of this would already be law in the nation states." In some, in some not. Not everyone is the UK. Many nations which had a totalitarian government in the 20th century are more wary about th
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by inglor_cz 4mo ago
"drones should be detected much earlier" Not if you follow in the steps of Ukrainian "Operation Spider Web", which concealed the explosive drones into a double roof of a truck and when the truck got into the proximity of
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by inglor_cz 4mo ago
Yes, worsened inspection is a non-trivial problem. Very high quality sleepers (I wouldn't expect any other kind in Switzerland) mitigate this, but copying such approach in other countries could spell trouble.
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by inglor_cz 4mo ago
In late 2022, I moved into a new semi-detached house in a small project of 33 such houses total. Back then, there was precisely 1 EV here, parked openly. This has grown to 6 in the meantime. It seems that the segment was growing even before
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by inglor_cz 4mo ago
If you are OK with US isolationism, then your fun fact is very salient. If you'd like to keep the US-led coalition of mostly free countries intact, then your concept of the US military needs must include a lot more activity that just &
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by inglor_cz 4mo ago
The New Forest was started by William Conqueror post-1066, too. But the really mind boggling numbers are in the Mediterranean. Naples is originally Nea Polis in Greek, so "New City". Barely 2700 years old. Civilization is really o
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by inglor_cz 4mo ago
How big is the market of supersonic private jets for the superwealthy? Can someone like Boeing or Airbus live off that indefinitely, instead of ye olde passenger jet production? "With normal steerage air travel becoming increasingly un
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by inglor_cz 4mo ago
Oh, sure, I would fry them all together.
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by inglor_cz 4mo ago
Scale matters, and there are aftereffects on the society as a whole. Historically, societies which produced a lot of ideologically minded professionals (such as clergy), tended towards implementing that ideology top-down. I am on board with
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by inglor_cz 4mo ago
Technically, it would be kachní ocásek, not kachnuv. Yeah, the US has been flirting with similar approaches quite heavily, but I don't believe that Trump will get 15 or more years in power out of it like Xi managed to.
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by inglor_cz 4mo ago
Can you expand your argument?
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I would say that is swing as already over and the US was a late comer to the trend. Of the ur-strongmen of the democratic world, Orbán just got the boot and Erdogan's genuine popularity peak is also long over, although he might be able
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by inglor_cz 4mo ago
The huge problem with centralization is that it allows you to make huge mistakes, up to literally continent-scaled ones. This is what ends empires, sometimes. The US was able to bomb Iran and Russia was able to attack Ukraine because basica
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by inglor_cz 4mo ago
"they don't make the same mistakes twice." But they do. Even if we limit ourselves to post-1949 China. Once Mao died, the Party decided to never allow a single leader to arise again, and switched to an oligarchic model. But X
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by inglor_cz 4mo ago
China has invested into high-speed rail for the same reason that Japan, France and Spain did: the big cities tend to be in the "sweet spot" distance of 250-750 km from one another, which is very comfortable to ride in a high-speed
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by inglor_cz 4mo ago
That's actually pretty bad. The rest of the world is very willing to spend money on American aerospace products and services. Is it willing to buy gender theory from you for similar amounts of money? If not, the production of specializ
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by inglor_cz 4mo ago
I am 47 and ballpoint pens have visibly improved since the 1990s, at least the cheap ones (never had an expensive one). The risk of accidental staining is by now basically zero, it used to be high enough that you avoided putting a pen into
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by inglor_cz 4mo ago
> privileged Yeah, being born in rust belt of the former Eastern Bloc was a privilege like hell. You don't know what you are talking about. If you visit places like Chisinau, you'll get a glimpse of Ostrava cca 1994. What are t
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by inglor_cz 4mo ago
You mean me? I didn't have time to check all those links yet, though I appreciate the effort.
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by inglor_cz 4mo ago
"This is slop." sounds like something that a fairly simple bot could paste in every thread, with slight verbal variations. Sorry, I don't see the genuine humanity there, and I doubt that any double-blind experiment could nowa
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by inglor_cz 4mo ago
Younger French generation seems to have a hate boner for boomers.
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by inglor_cz 4mo ago
No problem? Didn't New York (the state) actually stop issuance of permits for data centers for a year or so? Sure that you can get a permit somewhere , that is just federalism. But you may not get it where you want it, and given that
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by inglor_cz 4mo ago
"When the AI bubble pops" Too many people seem to believe that the AI bubble popping means something like "the total volume of the activity will precipitously drop and whole centers will be abandoned forever". I don&#x27
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by inglor_cz 4mo ago
In that case, simply vote the submission down; that won't clutter the discussion for other forists who want to talk about the actual content. I think this is what the voting system is fundamentally for ; we don't have to, and pro
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by inglor_cz 4mo ago
Bad governance is a very hard problem to solve. We have been living in organized states for over 4000 years and various combinations of corruption and nepotism seem to be common problems regardless of the political and economic system. The
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by inglor_cz 4mo ago
The Lisbon Strategy, stemming from 2000: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/summits/lis1_en.htm TL;DR from bureaucratese: to make the EU "the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world" cap
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by inglor_cz 4mo ago
One of the most tiring and depressing developments of 2026 is that nowadays, every single discussion relating to every single blog post out there degenerates into a "This is AI slop" accusation fest. I would be a huge friend of in
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by inglor_cz 4mo ago
Nowadays, you can even get twenty sycophantic AIs to reinforce your beliefs daily.

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