nivenkos

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by nivenkos 3y ago
The employer's side is already very complicated though. International banking is not settled. You cannot settle your taxes in Spain with a foreign IBAN, there are similar issues with many other services too (internet, phone and utility
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by nivenkos 3y ago
They can still try to seize equipment as an intimidation tactic though.
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by nivenkos 3y ago
At that point gravity will act slower though, so it might be enough to take up a small liquid fuel craft too. Rockets will have abandoned solid fuel boosters long before then.
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by nivenkos 3y ago
The EU is really heading down a bad path recently with this, some aspects of the Digital Services Act (mandatory simplified explanations of content "algorithms"), the proposed AI Act, the proposed Chat Control Act, etc. The EU sho
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by nivenkos 3y ago
It was really random - they were dailies, and just one set one day became really painful after a few hours outside. They were in a box I had kept but not opened for many months, but sealed obviously. At first I thought it was "just&quo
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by nivenkos 3y ago
I'm partially blind in one eye from cornea scarring from contact lenses, and it really sucks. The light sensitivity is the worst part.
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by nivenkos 3y ago
It says 2000 EUR at the bottom.
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by nivenkos 3y ago
The text prediction is phenomenal, it even works naturally between different languages.
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by nivenkos 3y ago
He doesn't say how old he is though, in your 20s this isn't so uncommon at all.
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by nivenkos 3y ago
It seems crazy to me that Amazon laid off a lot of the Alexa and robotics teams. You'd think if anything they'd want to invest in that more now that LLMs could be used in combination to produce a much more natural home assistant e
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by nivenkos 3y ago
The real issue with cryptocurrency is that it's not scaleable. If they had some magic way of handling transactions so every node didn't need to keep all history, and nodes could be sharded in a hierarchy like DNS, etc. transaction
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by nivenkos 3y ago
Nice find, I think we'll get there eventually though, as models can hold more state.
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by nivenkos 3y ago
Because it's not inherent to the system itself. For example there's nothing inherent to token prediction to make it capable of doing arithmetic and you wouldn't expect a small/briefly trained model to manage it. But if l
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by nivenkos 4y ago
It's not really a subsidy, just you don't pay income tax on it as salary sacrifice. Ideally there's be no income tax or VAT at all, and we'd tax wealth/land/property instead so this would be a non-issue.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
> Ironically, you have to notice that the British People did not vote for Sunak either ;) But VdL is the head of the Commission not Parliament (which is also far too weak IMO). The equivalent would be the King in Britain, which is obviou
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by nivenkos 4y ago
But you vote for the parties in your country who form a bloc - it isn't really a vote across borders in the same way as a Presidential election would be. The Parliament is also very weak and can't propose laws, etc.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Food inflation was higher in Sweden than the UK - that's just a statistical fact. I live in Sweden with family in the UK, both countries have suffered. It's not the "Murdoch media".
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Yeah, we live in a puppet state. We can't even vote for Von der Leyen, and then they have the gall to criticise China! And the worst part is they even fail at providing a good single market. You still can't work for a Spanish comp
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Sweden also had energy support payments and a rise in food banks (over 20% food price inflation too), it isn't just the UK.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
We're just disposable pawns in the Americans' wargames.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Hardly, we should be investing in nuclear power and renewable energy to become energy independent as a priority. And throwing everything we can at nuclear fusion research. We can achieve energy that is "too cheap to meter".
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Yeah, turns out if you ramp up electricity prices, people will cut usage in any way they can. The issue is more that for competitive industry we really need cheap energy prices. Sure consumption was cut, but how much industry has moved to t
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by nivenkos 4y ago
> The empire is the worst thing to ever happen, a certain source of misery, a crack all wounded nation states would yearn for, willing to trample another million into the dust. It by now has infected the us at the core I think the Guatem
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Sadly, the West is looking more and more authoritarian though.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
I've been using it for about 12 years now. It was much rougher in the early days, as there were massive fundamental changes - adopting systemd, /lib becoming symlinks, etc. But now I wouldn't use anything else. I have my conf
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by nivenkos 4y ago
It'd be fun to make like a modern ZX Spectrum / Commodore style machine - where the shell is also the interpreted language for the actual machine. It's a shame how complicated modern computers have made stuff like drawing dir
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by nivenkos 4y ago
I live in Sweden, but I think Europe is much less race-oriented (although classism is still a massive issue). Like in the UK the Prime Minister, Home Secretary, and Scottish First Minister are all from immigrant family backgrounds. As for t
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by nivenkos 4y ago
I don't mind the control on BRFs stopping absentee landlords - as it helps to keep the prices for residents reasonable. But the rent-controlled first hand contracts system is ridiculous - that needs to be abolished to have a true marke
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by nivenkos 4y ago
140k is an incredible salary in the UK though, like top 0.1% at least. It's also hard to compare things 1:1 - since the NHS is "free" (via taxation), but it doesn't cover dentistry at all really whereas equivalent good U
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by nivenkos 4y ago
The whole of Europe really...

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