nivenkos

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by nivenkos 4y ago
The Democrats have to bring race-based politics and IdPol in to everything. But I think the bigger issue is whether current users even want to make the switch, since gas is often cheaper than electricity. This slowed down adoption of induct
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Hasn't the EU banned 8k TVs? https://thenextweb.com/news/the-eus-8k-tv-ban-will-be-a-nigh...
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The 1500 hour rule and its consequences...
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As a European, it's not our problem. Ukraine isn't an EU member. But we need electricity and industry.
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You need one that can disconnect from the mains though.
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You want some inflation to allow for economic growth - it discounts prior debt, and encourages investment. But it must be tied to growth.
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On the other hand, I found US engineers were way more likely to try to exaggerate their own work and push for promotion, etc. whereas the EU had more team solidarity. Like working with US engineers there was one who deliberately put meeting
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All of them have sunken to clickbait articles and titles IMO - case in point: https://www.ft.com/content/5a8d439b-da0f-41c0-9e6b-e857a75c2... (although the article itself is alright, even if quite brief). I think you&#
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https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/what-brexit-looks-like/ Just objectively that has turned out to be complete nonsense...
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Yeah, it really depends on the ISP. It's a shame how it's become so hard, the old internet is gone forever really.
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Usually the ISP will provide some sort of port forwarding though.
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Ongoing costs should never be met with debt spending. Just raise taxes to compensate - wealth tax, land value tax, capital gains tax, property tax, sin taxes, etc. - all of which help to push money into useful parts of the economy too.
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Only if you can use modern Java. But yeah, also VAT calculations should be outsourced how ever possible. In the US, sales tax is at the postcode level so it gets really crazy. It sucks you have to pay VAT even on digital goods and services
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This was the same for every industrialising country save Great Britain and a handful of others though.
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The US is exploiting it to the maximum with the Inflation Reduction Act, etc. The rest of the world will react eventually, the Zelenksy-Putin puppet show will only distract them for so long.
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Yeah, the whole of Europe is a just an American colony at this point. Supporting American protectionism, even when the US effectively has a trade war with Europe with the Inflation Reduction Act.
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CCTV is incredibly useful, we need far more cameras not less. I guess you've never been burgled or mugged?
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Microsoft is likely to tie future games in to being Games Pass exclusives, as well as using Microsoft Pluton and TPM chips to use remote attestation in DRM and anti-cheat - so you can't replace your OS or bootloader and still play, etc
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by nivenkos 4y ago
A strange example since back then South Korea was a dictatorship that massacred over 100,000 of its own citizens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodo_League_massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Je
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Germany is incredibly backward compared to the UK - they're still using faxes and cash for a start.
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China proposed using SDRs before.
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The UK is still much stronger economically than most of Europe (southern Europe especially).
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Anything anywhere is cheap if you're making American wages. That's how the empire works.
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For now. I think this will lead to the end of the petrodollar eventually. The world won't put up with it forever.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
The UK has a public register so should be easy if you want to expand. Sweden too IIRC - and there the population register is public too so you can even confirm with the identity number.
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I hope the EU bans Facebook, etc. in response.
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It's funny how many of us have the same story. It was a bit like the microcomputers in that respect.
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I distinctly remember having to use mplayer/mpv over VLC, and youtube-dl, etc. (definitely not Chrome!) just to be able to play any reasonable video (usually downscaled from 1080p). And Zathura for lightweight PDF reading (with customi
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And you being downvoted proves the point. It's the same in Europe with the refugee policy, if you dare question that maybe it isn't best for Europe to blindly accept tens of millions of refugees from American wars whilst our econo
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I used one of these for years for programming whilst travelling at university. It worked well, but I could pretty much only run one program at a time. It felt more like the old microcomputers in that respect! But that forced me to use dwm a

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