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by paganel 9mo ago
It does when science literally kills babies. > and the scientific consensus We can only have "scientific consensus" in maths (and even there there are doubts), every other science is a social science if one digs hard enough. Ev
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by paganel 9mo ago
When it comes to Roman history, and for those that can read French, I heartedly recommend Histoire romaine - Tome 1 - de origines à Auguste , by François Hinard, beats the Mary Beard slop by a very long mile. I only knew the most general
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by paganel 9mo ago
It's not written "well", it lacks that human touch, especially when writing about such a sensible subject, such as getting fired. It's too cold, actually too well written from a syntactic pov, which makes it inauthentic
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It certainly looks like AI slop, so I stopped reading pretty fast.
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One thing I don't understand when it comes to these big data-center investments in India is what will they do when the water runs out? Because I do not think that this is environmentally sustainable.
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by paganel 9mo ago
> through law-enforcement/ALPR systems Were they doing that? I haven't read the article, that's why I'm asking.
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by paganel 9mo ago
As to your point [7], no need for China to "spread doubts about the performance of French-made Rafale ", I have at this very moment this book on my desk: Le Pouvoir sans visage: Le complexe militaro-industriel [1], written by a
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by paganel 9mo ago
> s in a somewhat unified market It's really not when it comes to the internet. First of all I'm in a very big minority here in Romania because I can read French (I can also speak somehow), but the majority of the people around
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by paganel 9mo ago
I don't comment on GitHub issues. I think that forums like this one should discuss politics as affected by computer code seeing as HN is one of the main (for lack of a better word) computer programmers' forums based/located i
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by paganel 9mo ago
When the computer code many of us are working on is directly shaping that politics I think that we should talk about it and stop hiding behind the bush.
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by paganel 9mo ago
They’ve just moved the pollution out of the gentrified areas that can afford to purchase EVs at scale. Which was part of the initial goal when pushing for this insanity, as the plebs were polluting with the air of the much better off by usi
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by paganel 9mo ago
> Looking at my own purchases from 2025, the pattern becomes obviou As far as I can tell he's among the techies that purchase a lot of e-junk each and every year, no matter the circumstances, not sure of how that's an improveme
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by paganel 9mo ago
The Constitution without the people willing to "respect" it is just a piece of dead wood, it has always been like that. That applies to all Constitution-like covenants, no matter the time and the geographical location. What's
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by paganel 9mo ago
Hopefully, yes. Also hilarious how even on this downward trajectory the liberal order's main propaganda entities (like the FT here) run with geeky and nerdy stuff like charts (?!), that will show 'em!! A true sign that they know n
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by paganel 9mo ago
It's ludicrous that the British put up with those laws, at some point they have to assume responsibility.
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by paganel 9mo ago
Are you talking about Argentina or France?
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by paganel 9mo ago
Probably real estate. You also lose the tools, and the people, and the know-how.
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by paganel 9mo ago
It's because of agriculture and us here in Europe losing our food-related resilience because of that. The tertiary sector won't save you in case of a continental blockade and the Argentinian/Brazilian grain suddenly becoming
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by paganel 9mo ago
At some point the money runs out for all of that stuff, it seems that in France that's just about to happen.
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by paganel 9mo ago
So, how is this going to work? Is he talking about the French Ministry of Economics and Finance? About the Banque de France? About the the ECB? Afaik the last two are, nominally at least, independent, while Macron is just a politician repre
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by paganel 9mo ago
> hosting video at scale, I'm going on a limb here and saying that the scale that YouTube was running on back in 2010-2015 is not the same scale as now, and if they had left their whole infrastructure unchanged, a "finished pro
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by paganel 9mo ago
Thought that this Aella at first, too bad that this is indeed her. Pretty sad and bleak story, hope her life will become better and more fulfilled, I genuinely do.
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by paganel 9mo ago
> there is a growth of sectarian and antisemitic behaviour in the UK. Gaza.
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by paganel 9mo ago
> 05:30 is not particularly early, 5:30 is particularly early, especially when it involves normal people's hobbies. > and if you have a specific niche or quality standard and not just only a bystander, This is what the OP was say
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by paganel 9mo ago
Bezos, whatever the heck this is [1], you people are delusional. Later edit: For good measure, Zuckerberg, too [2] [1] https://x.com/AdameMedia/status/2011935282912731453 [2] https://x.com/infolibn
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> free press Stopped reading here, as these people still believe in that fairytale of theirs.
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by paganel 9mo ago
Less technology in the day-to-day life, for example, which would mean lots of us here on this forum getting out of this industry for good.
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A hotel room for one is not two times cheaper compared to a hotel room for two, and accommodation is a big part of the cost when travelling. Also, when travelling in two and going by car you can share the costs, not all travel is airplane-b
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Travelling isn't, either, found that the ward way during the last few years. If anyone has a good-ish solution for how they've handled that, feel free to share.
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by paganel 9mo ago
> that doesn't mean that they're intimately aware of the full EU budget. There's no "intimate" knowledge required in order to be aware of the EU spending tens to hundreds of billions of euros on the war close to

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