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According to bundestag.de, here's how Die Linke/PDS did in the last few decades' elections in Germany: Year Die Linke/PDS 2021 4.9% 2017 9.2% 2013 8.6% 2009 11.9% 2005 8.7% 2002 4.0% 1998 5.1% 1994 4.
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> I really don't understand the excitement either In the latter interview, Wolf challenged Babler, pointing out that Marxism is associated with both "expropriation" and "the dictatorship of the proletariat". To m
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> Looking immediately before the referendum vote and afterwards Umm, Cameron announced that he would propose to hold a referendum on EU membership if his party won the next general election way back in January 2013 [0] The GBPEUR midra
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> It’s only ca 600 votes btw Yet, in the run up to this (party leadership) election, it was far from clear exactly who the ca 600 voters actually were. None of the candidates apparently knew! The winner is Andreas Babler who is firmly o
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> Are you missing a figure my friend? We're talking about two different currency pairs, I quoted GBP EUR rates, you're referencing GBP USD rates... ?
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> Since the Brexit vote and the subsequent collapse of the pound Is there any kind of agreed definition of "collapse"? Currencies rise, currencies fall. The GBPEUR rate today (1.15) appears to be almost exactly the same as
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> Thirdly was the user interface. Usenet looked dull. In a world of animated GIFs and MySpace colour schemes, Usenet didn't even have avatar images! Sure, the spartan nature meant that you could focus on a conversation - but it didn
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> no one knew if it was a new black death or just a harmless virus When did "no one know"? There was already data in early May 2020 showing risk by age group https://twitter.com/d_spiegel/status/1260
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> You asked for the incentives for AI; the equivalent isn't the same as for humans. The nature of the AI doesn't include a concept of prison or licensing, so it can't be threatened with it [..] There certainly should be i
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> Surely the equivalent is the reward during training? Surely the counter-example to when a self-driving vehicle drives straight into a stationary fire truck?[0] If a human driver did this more than once (and lived to tell the tale!) - y
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I love electric vehicles and was an early adopter [..] increasingly I feel duped(theguardian.com)
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> They also get drunk/tired/impatient/angry Indeed, but humans also have an incentive to drive well, embodied by local traffic police and local laws, and even before passing their driving test they're made aware of th
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Unless there's a way to mandate that the security team's contacts listed in security.txt actually respond in a timely manner to security-related messages that are sent to them, then I have a nagging feeling that: * well-run organi
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> A likely outcome, the way we're going, is that a bunch of people get really rich and everyone else becomes super poor and possibly starves, and wars break out. I just think that, after that, AGIs also end up in charge of the plane
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> once AI can replicate papers Is this AI to be provided with a group of poorly-remunerated postgrads and postdocs and a laboratory full of relevant equipment in which they may conduct experiments under its direction? (Full disclosure: h
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> a big bulk of the recent reductions have come from picking low-hanging fruits, i.e. by replacing coal with natural gas US and Europe, maybe. What about China and India? "China permitted more coal power plants last year [2022] tha
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> A monetary union without a fiscal union doesn't really make sense [..] Economists in the EU must have understood this [..] They almost certainly did, there are two other groups who may not have done - European politicians ... and
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> I would even do away with the concept of individuals owning land and just give people some restricted usage rights Q: How would this affect those who purchase land to build a home?
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> As a relatively seasoned meditator, I am absolutely sure that this is the trip that helps, not the chemistry The trip is (also) the chemistry!
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> > France, just as all the EU countries [..] > [..] is just as sovereign as the UK. In theory, perhaps. In practice, certainly not. The EU has an inner tension between the nominal "principle of subsidiarity"[0] enshrine
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> There is plenty of broad agreement, you just have to look at Japan, or China, or Singapore, or Turkey, Poland, or Switzerland, or Korea, or another dozen countries around the world that have clean, safe, and (sufficiently) beautiful pu
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> I’d start by making the stations and buses/subways beautiful, clean, safe places that are just nice urban places to be in I spent yesterday travelling around Greater London using only public transport, coupled with quite a lot of
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> Has anyone actually tried, because i've cloned lots of repos and have never been throttled (Full disclosure: I have some pretty serious data hoarding issues) When someone says "I've cloned lots of repos and have never be
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> Monitoring of screen activity, keystrokes, email/messaging communications, personal email/accounts via mitm, webcam, etc was done by my last employer Honestly, why would one go anywhere near one's personal email account
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> It is amazing the mental hoops people can jump through Our eldest had his computer briefly confiscated not that long ago. He was, of course, cross with me when it happened. The day afterwards he came to me and thanked me for taking
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> This is still punishment, even if you believe it's for their own good that "actions do have consequences" "Actions have consequences" as a statement isn't really up for much debate, it's more of a obs
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> It’s called negative punishment It isn't: "[..] people confuse negative reinforcement with punishment, but these are two different concepts"[0] [0] https://www.webmd.com/parenting/what-to-know-about-
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> Actually, it's the definition of punishment: inflicting or imposing penalties as retribution for an offense. Children are not small adults, but they are surprisingly capable of understanding incentives. "If you behave well yo
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> Same reason why so many people do the same to children - they're set in their views and are unwilling accept that they might be wrong There are plenty who believe that withdrawing privileges is an entirely normal and appropriate r
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> Code snippets are surely covered under fair use? ...for "purposes such as commentary, criticism, news reporting, and scholarly reports"? Sure. For a commercial product? Best check with your lawyer...

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