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by kergonath 5mo ago
> However, most people’s direct experience with taxicab drivers and the resulting improvement under Uber directly contradicts that sentiment You can be both a victim and a bully, it's not mutually exclusive. A scam artist can get mu
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Why tungsten? In terms of thermal conductivity, It’s way worse than silver and copper and on par with good aluminium alloys. Those are cheaper and much lighter (so again much cheaper to put into orbit).
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From what I understood they are retiring a lot of the specialised models in favour of the main family.
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That Brexit ship sailed. It’s very difficult to do anything with the UK currently.
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by kergonath 5mo ago
> a decent proxy would be to build models that get the r/localLlama crowd excited I don’t really disagree with your post, but this is not exactly right. That subreddit seems to go from hype train to hype train every week, I haven’t
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At least crap clothes do not risk setting your building on fire, unlike crap chargers. Some things are definitely more dangerous than others.
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Fine, Action then.
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There are markings that certify that some things are safe according to some standards. You are not in a situation to know what actually is safe or to be able to test it (really, you are not; if you think you are, go talk to your nearest ele
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by kergonath 5mo ago
Then, that marketplace has no viable business. Society does not owe them anything. Seriously, if your business model requires you to sell illegal stuff, then your company does not deserve to survive. That’s the basics of regulation.
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by kergonath 5mo ago
This talking point is everywhere in this thread. But bear in mind that you have no clue whether two chargers (for example) are the same without disassembling them and checking. Noname Chinese manufacturers are very good at producing things
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> i just don't understand why only Temu is being held responsible of the entire broken capitalist system They are not really. If one of the big brand shop is found importing stuff with fake certificate, they’ll experience the same t
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by kergonath 5mo ago
> but they fill a very real need. That is not a good reason to fudge certifications and sell dangerous goods. I sympathise with your use case, but the solution is not "let’s just import whatever, as long as it’s cheap".
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I thought Québec-bashing was a national sport.
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> Then we'll have a society of mostly dull, idle, useless people with no purpose. See Brave new world.
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Indeed. See here for a decently in-depth analysis: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/the-long-way-down-the-cr... .
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It’s important that most of the civil service is staffed by permanent employees hired through a fair and well-defined process and not appointed for political reasons.
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> there is simply no coming back from the fact that it's been laid bare how quickly and easily vast swaths of our political leadership would sell out to completely destroy our Constitutional principles. I think you are right. At the
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> No rules are clear, so that those at the top can dictate whatever they want whenever they want. Which means that the only safe route is to always be on very very good terms with leadership. Exactly. That’s why dictatorships are so adve
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I can’t comment on the shop in Berlin, but the one in Paris is a special case. It’s in a relatively central location in a 11M people metropolis, right on top of a major rail and metro hub and across the river from one of the most touristic
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I don’t know much about the really secret stuff, but Mistral is known to help customers build their own infrastructure to deploy their models and handle confidential data securely. They are also building data centers for their own cloud. It
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Well, yeah. Murder requires intent and, at least in human populations where cannibalism is not a problem, the separation with predation is clear. It’s less clear in this cases where the killing also involves eating (parts of) the victim. We
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You can indeed lose a war whilst having won all the battles.
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by kergonath 5mo ago
Amora mustard glasses are famous as well. They are designed to be reused as table glasses and often have pictures on them so children love to get them. My son used to badger me to get all the Pokémon ones. See here for an example: https:&#
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by kergonath 5mo ago
This has more to do with the humongous amounts of money sloshing around in VC funds and the disproportionate importance of the US in the global financial markets. They just followed the money. Those who are successful in securing funding th
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by kergonath 5mo ago
ASML is the flashy, public-facing partner. Mistral is also working with the French government and defense industry for applications that are unlikely to be publicly announced, but are bound to bring in much more money.
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It’s something we are trying to do. Currently, there is no machine that can do that. The problem is that the composition space is huge (5 elements out of a dozen, plus about twenty possibly useful minor additives, the combinatorial explosio
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> So strange when you look at our total interaction with the environment. It’s less strange if you realise that different people have different opinions and react differently. The biologists saying that we should not intervene because we
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> its more a sort of horrific balancing act at the abyss having clear winners and losers No need to appeal to emotions this way. At the individual level there are only losers, and we all die. At the universe level, whatever happens, happ
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> Is it coming from an understandable but misleading distrust of human society and idealisation of "nature", or from a deeper understanding that "nature always knows better", I can't decide. I don’t think it’s ei
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Yes, someone did. It's actually an active field right now, from high-throughput simulations to try to limit the search space, to additive manufacturing of thousands of samples, to semi-automated characterisation and some testing (e.g.

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