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by mikrl 2y ago
Astrology based dating is less bonkers than this.
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by mikrl 2y ago
So apparently the caveat is antitrust are ‘reportedly’ looking at NVIDIA. But from what I’ve seen they haven’t really done anything anti-competitive. They seem like the same company as they were years ago: selling devices, software for the
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by mikrl 2y ago
Just saying, it’s not Ivan the Great and Peter the Terrible. Both lived up to our modern expectations of autocrats, but one was more involved with what we now consider conducive to ‘greatness’ ie grand reformist ideals, science and moderniz
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by mikrl 2y ago
The leader who took Russia from being a grand-principality centred on Moscow to a continent spanning empire was Ivan the Terrible. You don’t get an epithet like that by being a nice fella.
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by mikrl 2y ago
>where almost everyone was politicking at his level, to climb higher This is one of the factors, I consider to be part of this doctrine. The willingness to subvert or destroy an existing power structure (democracy, monarchy, etc) in favo
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by mikrl 2y ago
My opinion was, and after reading this remains, that fascism is a political doctrine or modus operandi, but not an ideology. The ‘classically fascist’ regimes were simply devoted to this doctrine, in the same way classical communist regimes
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by mikrl 2y ago
Reductive take… Those that emigrated were descendants of people who didn’t emigrate.
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by mikrl 2y ago
>Michio Kaku I read one of his books when I was a teenager and it’s probably why I chose to do physics. However, I follow a very outspoken and accomplished IBM quantum information leader on LinkedIn and she has had harsh words on his rec
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by mikrl 2y ago
Why not both? If you constrain area, you only have one dimension to expand in to maintain density: height. Not that I have anything against high rises, but they aren’t suitable for every person or geography.
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by mikrl 2y ago
Jokes on them, I just won’t use the tool, or I’ll spend tens of my potentially revenue generating hours trying to get it working in emacs
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by mikrl 2y ago
> Gen Z is looking like the most garbage generation of the last two centuries Have you ever met a millennial? t. 1992 cusper
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by mikrl 2y ago
I’m not up to date on Russian business culture I admit. Outside of hearing about how you can pay off the police to avoid other protection schemes. Can you give me an example of a prominent Russia based businessperson who is regularly at odd
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by mikrl 2y ago
>We won't know who of them are "businessmen" AFAIK there isn’t a clean answer to that question. The lines between businessperson, gangster, intelligence agent are very fluid. If you gain some success at one of those in Rus
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by mikrl 2y ago
I find the first week brings some gastrointestinal discomfort (but not necessarily pain, just mild bloating) as your gut acclimatizes to the kefir. Maybe just have some with your breakfast until you adjust to it. Once you can drink it with
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by mikrl 2y ago
Brutalism IMO relies on imposing designs. In outdoor spaces, this can lead to feelings of oppression, as anyone who has traversed a high-rise complex at night can attest. When there is enough space, such as in a church, library, public tran
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by mikrl 2y ago
When you read into Wagner, they’re clearly a neo nazi PMC committing atrocities in Eurasia. When you read about their African exploits though, they seem to be the most anti-colonial colonial project on the continent yet. They support and ar
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by mikrl 2y ago
Don’t the government of various countries recommend 90 mins of cardio per week and 2-3 strength training sessions on top of 30-60 minutes of daily light activity? I feel like they would be the ones to answer the optimal exercise question ov
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by mikrl 2y ago
I think it’s a natural property of the interaction between capital and technology. Let’s say in a hypothetical society, the richest person has 10 capital and the poorest have 0. The gap between richest and poorest is 10 capital, and we can
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by mikrl 3y ago
>The 'Redditization' of the world means that sharing thoughts is met with hostility Thankfully there are corners of cyberculture with a distinct anti-Reddit bent where hostility is almost a norm that you get desensitized to and
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by mikrl 3y ago
I think the concern is that the AI is making life or death judgements against people. Some may of course be lawful combatants under the rules that govern such things, but the fact that an AI is drawing these conclusions that humans act on i
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by mikrl 3y ago
Someone will find an alternative, market the shit out of it and it will become the dominant variety in 20 years once bees die out in France.
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by mikrl 3y ago
Look at rideshare apps. They made hired cars cheap and easy to access but fell foul of existing taxi companies and regulations. Whether he is in the right or not is decided in a court of law. However Disney et al have deeper pocketed lobbyi
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by mikrl 3y ago
It’s like catch 22 but more crude, and more brutal. Lots of drinking, stealing, fist fighting, long winded anecdotes (with plenty of embellishments) telling lies to get into / out of trouble, and ethnic humour reflecting the attitudes
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by mikrl 3y ago
A large part of Švejk’s humor comes from the multilingual nature of the Austro-Hungarian empire at that time. The common soldiers speak Czech amongst themselves, German to the commanding officers, and a drunken old Polish colonel butchers b
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by mikrl 3y ago
I was surprised to see US border control at Toronto Pearson but I suppose it makes sense to screen passengers on this side given the proximity of Toronto to a US workforce, and it would alleviate US airports to receive Canadian traffic as a
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by mikrl 3y ago
I’m not sure how I feel about the logistics of this. On the one hand, municipality to municipality (Antwerp to NYC) makes sense since both will have similar challenges in law enforcement activities. On the other hand, this seems to be a cha
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by mikrl 3y ago
“ In August 2022, the U.S. Department of the Treasury blacklisted the service, making it illegal for US citizens, residents and companies to use.” [0] Regardless of how you feel about it, you can’t deny that they were doing something illega
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by mikrl 3y ago
Historically, Poland was both and is a transition region between central and Eastern Europe. Even when Poland was conquered, it was still the interface between a central/western empire (Reich Germany) an eastern empire (Russia) and an
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by mikrl 3y ago
As part of my undergrad research project I used magnetic simulation software (running on windows and therefore NTFS) The program output magnetization by timestep so for the simple structure I was investigating, I ended up with about 100K fi
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by mikrl 3y ago
Blessed are the scrappers, for they shall inherit… 200’ tall radio towers?

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