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by paganel 2y ago
> But Ylva stood by her claim. She came back to the same argument over and over again. She avoided answering the questions (she obviously didn’t understand how the technology worked) but instead turned the direction of the discussion, s
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by paganel 2y ago
> The commission is appointed by the member states, which are all, supposedly, democratically elected Yes, that's what they say, if that's "democracy" then we certainly have a different understanding of it. > Pleas
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by paganel 2y ago
> How arrogant can you get? Could be that some of the people in here are fine with a "Parliament" that is not really a parliament and that they are fine with the unelected European Commission taking decisions that affect us al
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by paganel 2y ago
The ghouls in Brussels do not represent us all, they do not represent anyone, if we’re talking democracy. It’s a battle over clout and economic resources between whoever is backing these technocrats and some of the biggest corporations in t
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by paganel 2y ago
> and had never afaik been considered less roman for it. That's quite debatable, as those parts (Western Anatolia, present-day Syria, the old Orient as a whole) had always been more advanced from a "civilisational" point o
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by paganel 2y ago
Those Gaulish, Germanic and Celtic elements were becoming Romans as a result of them starting speaking Latin/the Vulgata, the same goes for all the peoples living at the periphery of the Empire. If you were still speaking Celt/Ger
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by paganel 2y ago
> They recognized themselves as roman They didn't speak a Romance language, for example, under that respect they were certainly not Roman.
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by paganel 2y ago
Or you just can fight that tendency, fight this “solutionism” worldview, not everything is solvable, things may not turn out all right, but that’s ok, too. I.e. one should embrace the fatalism, the “it is what it is” worldview.
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Ask HN: How is anyone managing to type at length on a new iPhone?
4 points by paganel 2y ago|1 comments
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by paganel 2y ago
WHO [1], Nature article that ranked good in the SERPs [2], the EU [3] [1] https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/cli... [2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17
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by paganel 2y ago
Wage slavery [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery
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by paganel 2y ago
> See also the recent floods in UAE We were told that climate change was going to turn that area into a water-free wasteland, guess that isn't the case anymore.
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by paganel 2y ago
> "500 year floods are happening every 10 years" Does this come from the same type of people that have kept part of us in a lockdown two years after the start of the pandemic? If yes, you can understand how come not that many u
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by paganel 2y ago
More people means more stuff that can potentially become flooded. Also, it’s not like floods are a recent phenomenon.
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NASA: 63 years since the first crewed flight to space(twitter.com)
1 points by paganel 2y ago|0 comments
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by paganel 3y ago
So you're saying the Chinese authorities were right in evacuating the Tiananmen Square, after all you cannot forcefully block public places without the proper authorization either. Like I said, let's cut the charade and look at th
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by paganel 3y ago
You're equating "freedom" with "democracy", which as a far from established fact.
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by paganel 3y ago
Students in the US are now getting their bodies hurt (not to mention the legal and career-ending consequences) by hundreds to thousands of policemen for the simple crime of protesting a genocide happening half-way around the globe, let&#x27
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by paganel 3y ago
Those "freedom indices" come from countries that are all located in the Western sphere of influence, it's like relying on the opinion of an Arsenal supporter when talking about Tottenham (and vice-versa).
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by paganel 3y ago
> until they ran out That's the problem right there.
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by paganel 3y ago
Money in the bank doesn’t produce grain out of nothing, you need land for it. The same goes for natural resources. Or maybe we’re thinking about autarchy differently.
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by paganel 3y ago
Push come to stove, China doesn’t have the agricultural fields needed to feed its people for 3-4 years or more in case of a future sea blockade. Europe doesn’t have the natural resources, neither the grain (if we were to exclude the fields
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by paganel 3y ago
This has been mostly a WW1 war, the West thinking that the next big war would bec a technologically-advanced one where they’d be able to have the edge thanks to its better tech is a big factor behind the current clusterfuck represented by t
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by paganel 3y ago
Russia can easily produce all of the steel and all of the explosives needed for its shells all by itself, all thanks to its huge territory and the accompanying huge natural resources. It's one of the very few countries that can accompl
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by paganel 3y ago
> When in a war, you are buying ammunition and weaponry with USD, not PPP That depends on your geo-political allies, for example I'm sure Russia had no problems in purchasing artillery shells from North Korea without using USD. The
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by paganel 3y ago
> The EU has outperformed the US on per-capita output growth Too bad we're demographically dying here in Europe, as in the population has stopped growing. We're slowly becoming the 18th century Venice of the global world, i.e.
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by paganel 3y ago
> fair and equal treatment under the law That assumes that the "law" in general is fair and not favouring the current hegemonic societal consensus, which is definitely not the case. What people fail to see, or fail to want to s
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by paganel 3y ago
Dystopic world we're living in, and many of us here on this very forum have helped built it.
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by paganel 3y ago
Interesting, didn’t know that. I remember older threads of people fawning his accomplishments, but nothing about him being a cheap b*stard when it came to his colleagues salaries. We should do more of this name and shaming in our industry,
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by paganel 3y ago
Using Python for a serious backend thing at a telecom firm is a big no-no, and I say that as a guy who has been paid to write Python code for almost 20 years now.

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