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by paganel 11mo ago
> magical thinking and pseudo babble, it hardly fits on HN Don't ask Newton about the pseudo babble stuff. Nor the string "theorists". In fact, don't ask any of the "theoretical" physicists (an oxymoron by d
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by paganel 11mo ago
You're turning the "poors" into slaves, into slaves to the Government that is keeping them (the "poors") on the Government's payroll. I'm not "mixing" anything, so if we can please leave that con
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by paganel 11mo ago
If you continue with the idea of transfers, which is, in effect, the current government buying off parts of its constituents, then "democracy", whatever has remained of it in the West, will die for good. What happens if I receive
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by paganel 11mo ago
> if you're smart about it, you charge the vehicle at times when the grid is oversupplied with electricity. Like I said, this EV mania is targeting the well-off middle-classes, those that “are always smart about it”. The populist ba
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by paganel 11mo ago
> Pure greed would have a strong incentive to understand what the market is actually demanding in order to maximize profits. Not necessarily, just look at this clip [1] from Margin Call , an excellent movie on the GFC. As Jeremy Irons i
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by paganel 11mo ago
> Electrifying the transportation sector is generally seen as a 15-25% increase in grid demand. Quote on that? A developed country like the US has problems even now, see California (with the yearly fires there) or Texas. And how do you s
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by paganel 11mo ago
There is no power-network in existence, not in the medium-to-long term, that would allow tens of millions of cars (mauve hundreds of millions if we talk at the continent-wide level) to get all electric, the physics isn’t there and it won’t
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by paganel 11mo ago
See how Europe has been using the same “but standards!” to protect its agricultural industry from African agricultural imports.
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by paganel 11mo ago
It is how Europe plays the protectionism game, see their protectionist moves against stuff coming from Africa (agricultural but not only).
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by paganel 11mo ago
> Object databases were going to replace SQL multiple times Someone should honestly write a history of Zope. Can't say I hated it, because it was my first paid job as a programming working with it, but it was special, very special,
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by paganel 11mo ago
I think the 2008 downturn (when it comes to this profession) was a little bit less severe compared to just after dotcom, or so it felt here in Eastern Europe. But, to be honest, I do miss the "just after dotcom crash" period, ther
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by paganel 11mo ago
> And, even if it did, 99.99999% of folks wouldn't read any of it anyway. Because meetings have become part of the job for many office workers, I'd say the majority of them, they (the meetings) are not sees as a means to an end
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by paganel 11mo ago
May 2018: AI winter is well on its way (piekniewski.info) [1] January 2020: Researchers: Are we on the cusp of an ‘AI winter’? (bbc.co.uk) [2] I'm sure you can easily find more. Felt good to be called a "bro", though, made me
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by paganel 11mo ago
I've been reading about this supposed AI winter for at least 5 years by now, and in the meantime any AI-related stock has gone 10x and more.
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by paganel 11mo ago
The EU Parliament is a lame-duck thing, we both know that, let’s not pretend that this won’t pass at some point. It’s also not a parliament by definition, as it cannot propose any legislative measure, it can only propose “resolutions”, thi
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by paganel 11mo ago
> Lots of members with veto powers and the like. Similar to the Political Bureau in former communist countries, but still an autocracy. > But I wouldn't call it an autocracy. It has most certainly started to walk and quack a lot
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by paganel 11mo ago
Because that's what autocracies in anything but name usually do. Who's going to stop them?
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by paganel 11mo ago
A hopefully tongue-in-cheek entry, or I certainly hope so. Or the guy (or lady) who wrote this is an arrrr ZeroCovidCommunity regular on reddit.
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by paganel 11mo ago
> because I don't know that any of them did This is telling in itself.
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by paganel 11mo ago
That's because AI-generated memes are lame, not saying that memes are smart, generally speaking, but the AI-generated ones are even lamer. And nothing wrong with being a luddite, to the contrary, in this day and age still thinking that
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by paganel 11mo ago
> violence, feminism and racism. She sneers down on Roman notions of virtue and patriarchy. Which is a very anachronistic way of looking at things and very unscholarly, too bad, I really wanted to get into her books. I guess the Protesta
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by paganel 11mo ago
It's a feature for many of us, it is for me, cause when I input a new phone number in my contacts (like let's say a plumber's phone number I found on the internet) I first go to WhatsApp to check if they've got a profile
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by paganel 11mo ago
> One friend became “convinced” that every major news story was manufactured consent Where's the lie in that? Hasn't this lady read her Gramsci? Seems like she didn't. > Tech writer (Wired, TIME, TNW), angel investor, C
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by paganel 11mo ago
That used to be the case even before when Alphabet/Apple/Meta were negatively commented upon, I used to blame it in many of the users here (and who also happen to work for those companies) not wanting to see their total comps go d
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by paganel 11mo ago
Which comic would that be? Later edit: Probably this one [1], which is par for the course for Alphabet, they're, conceptually, still living in the early 2010s, when this stuff was culturally relevant. [1] https://xkcd.com&#x
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by paganel 11mo ago
There's probably more to the story than the author is willing to let us know, but that wouldn't have made for a nice Silicon Valley "you can do it if you really want it for real!"-success story.
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by paganel 1y ago
> The Global Gateway funds to assist developing countries will come with ano HW clause. So they only want to "save" the Planet and its (presumably poorer) people if said poorer people acquiesce with their imperialistic reflexe
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by paganel 1y ago
What's to be amazed about it? If I remember right you're from somewhere in the Low Countries, correct? Which means your country hasn't been part of a big land-war since the mid-1600s, give or take. As I mentioned in another c
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by paganel 1y ago
> Based on your comment history, you have already done so. You've been carrying water for Russia on HN for the longest time. I'm talking physically, for better or for worse that is still not the case. I don't want to see R
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by paganel 1y ago
Geography itself, as they aren’t going to battle the Russians in Lorraine or in Belgium/Netherlands, just opposite the UK.

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