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by kergonath 2mo ago
Indeed. That’s part of why I prefer civil law to common law. I don’t vote in general elections anyway. I am a resident, not a citizen.
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by kergonath 2mo ago
Maybe in a real election. Clearly the big parties had no need to get involved in this farce. I think they were right: Farage got publicly humiliated, all for nothing. Surely this has to be the highest score for a novelty candidate. Besides,
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by kergonath 2mo ago
I am not sure. In French that would be the state (L’État). It’s more complicated in the U.K., with its layers of national, devolved country, and local governance. Then, it would be different again in federations like Germany.
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by kergonath 2mo ago
There are. In the constitution, as the court found. There are also reasonable arguments that they are an unavoidable consequence of Human Rights, as described in the declaration of 1789, which is also in the constitution. The right to priva
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by kergonath 2mo ago
Sometimes these things are a prelude to constitutional changes, or at least could be in the minds of the proponents.
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by kergonath 2mo ago
I don’t know about the whole of Europe but generally, no. The government is the executive branch or a subset of it.
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by kergonath 2mo ago
> if parliament passes a law that says oranges are now green, the supreme court is in no position to challenge it. It’s a good thing MPs are serious people and Parliament would never do that, right? :)
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by kergonath 2mo ago
Cultural tangent: in France, "the government" is the group of ministries (or departments in the US), part of the executive branch. So, the judiciary is not part of the government, and the National Assembly and the Senate (legislat
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by kergonath 2mo ago
> I've heard that before though. I don't think you can compare economies like that since Russia has "near infinite potential" in natural resources, people, etc which Italy doesn't. Fair enough. But most of the ti
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by kergonath 2mo ago
It was fun! What was not so fun was to make it work reliably. I ended up with piles of ugly code to handle edge cases, and issues kept piling up. So in the end I was happy to use someone else’s solution.
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by kergonath 2mo ago
Tesseract is not a substitute for these models, which understand complex layouts and also extract bounding boxes for things like tables and pictures. They are also much better at making sense of cursive scripts. I’ve been there, implementin
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by kergonath 2mo ago
I have been quite happy with Mistral OCR for the documents I needed to process (typeset, but old, with questionable scan quality, sometimes elaborate typesetting or, much worse, typewriter-and-handwriting approximations of it). I do not tes
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by kergonath 2mo ago
Come on! It was a reply. The people in question are in the parent. They are the "at least 900k+ people in France either immigrant from Marocco or with an origin and a 100k+ people with french nationality or origin living in Marocco&quo
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by kergonath 2mo ago
Not practical. There are quite a lot of French-Moroccans and extended families living in both countries and traveling regularly. There are also more than a few support centres for French companies because the local workforce speaks French a
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by kergonath 2mo ago
I am reading a translation, so I might be off base, but not being a monopoly is not a defense. EU competition regulations are not like American antitrust laws. They do not care about monopoly, and consumer harm is mostly a second-order effe
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by kergonath 2mo ago
The law draws a line. Plaintiffs think that line was crossed, Sony thinks they it was not. We have mechanisms to arbitrate this kind of dispute, and I am not taking sides. My point is that it can be perfectly legitimate for a law to outrigh
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by kergonath 2mo ago
> Sorry, this only works when you've got a robust market with lots of competition. It’s even worse than that. It only works with goods that are fungible and suppliers that are interchangeable. Otherwise it’s just a race to the botto
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by kergonath 2mo ago
> Sony sells their consoles at break even or sometimes at a loss. They hope to make money from their software sales. I don’t have a strong opinion in this case (of the games marketplaces on consoles), but this argument is fallacious. The
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by kergonath 2mo ago
> If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. Or, if you want to be less philosophical: anything that other people would upvote and not flag.
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by kergonath 2mo ago
There is quite a bit of literature about the Palantir and the related philosophy, whether thy were allegories, etc. AFAICT the consensus is that they are a very catholic concept and an illustration of what could happen when you use the weap
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by kergonath 2mo ago
Sometimes, I wonder how these guys are doing these days. They were utterly, spectacularly wrong about almost all their points. What do they do now? Are they grumpy libertarians living in the woods? Did they fall in line behind Thiel and his
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by kergonath 2mo ago
> If a business is inefficient and has projects that go over budget, that's not my problem in the same way it is if the city government where I live does. Right, but if someone’s point is that bloated government should be replaced b
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by kergonath 2mo ago
That’s something I can get behind. A man living in somewhat similar times said something along the lines of "I hasten to laugh at all, lest I have to cry instead". (If you want a rabbit hole, Beaumarchais is a nice one. He bankrol
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by kergonath 2mo ago
Yes, all those examples show that AI labs should be heavily regulated instead of given free rein.
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by kergonath 2mo ago
Of course they think that. Everybody else should be revolted at that thought. We would point and laugh if they weren’t so serious about it, and if this were not resonating with some people in the current American government. An astute reade
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by kergonath 2mo ago
I did not choose this world, it’s just the one I live in. If enough people believe something, it’s not really surprising to see it written, even if it is wrong. According to many comments I have read here and articles on even respectable Am
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by kergonath 2mo ago
> Personally, I ditched almost all western media outlets altogether because of their zionist and fascist tendencies. That is not helpful, and a very good way of falling down rabbit holes just because you find a source that agrees with yo
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by kergonath 2mo ago
> I really do not see how one could seriously still argue among the lines of AI being a scam, and the demand not being there to support the size of the investments. I don’t think most people are saying it is purely a scam (well, some do
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by kergonath 2mo ago
If that’s really the case, then white males have a lot to answer for, and some soul-searching to do. There is nothing intrinsically non-white about socialism. Plenty of whites in Europe find it perfectly acceptable.

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