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by pgeorgi 3y ago
GDP / (average annual labor hours * number of people working in some way)? GDP is a pretty rough metric for efficiency, but it's among the better ones that are collected somewhat uniformly. "average hours worked * number of p
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There were some calls to shut down AfD, but that's probably too difficult (and the process is difficult for good reasons!), and having them "certified by the courts that they're not extremist enough to be closed down" mi
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
The last new nuclear plant to go online in Germany was Greifswald 5 in November 1989. For 23 days. Given the massive failure of AVR Jülich, whose design was supposed to be "fail safe" while it's now the most 90Sr-contaminated
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
Just look where Marsalek comes from: We import our criminals from Austria.
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
Several decades of politics and industry kicking the can down the road and hoping that the challenges go away by itself. For example: German car makers are still somewhat reluctant to embrace electric motors (no matter the power source or s
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It's less a "Firefox above all" sentiment, it's that Mozilla had 1. Firefox as baseline product declining 2. Lots of failed experiments to find new revenue streams while staying true to its mission 3. Baker's CEO sa
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
From one of the earlier announcements Google has made: - Bard is that talkative text interface, a product. - Gemini is the LLM design that currently backs Bard (but also other Google AI products). - Gemini "Basic", Advanced and Ul
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
I have different levels of access to Bard through different accounts, and the feature set varies wildly. Generating images and summarizing websites is enabled in _some_ configurations, but I have no idea what the rules are. The feature set
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
The CIA/BND connection wasn't known, but the collusion with certain agencies was known to different degrees for decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Crypto_AG&oldid=7...
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
Tech CEOs and VPs found that they're out of ideas on how to grow the pie. So to achieve their personal goals (which is always more), they had to increase their share. The fear, uncertainty and doubt over the economy serves to make ever
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
Or history is more complex than a sound bite. Getting Germany off nuclear has been in the making since the 1980s, and a big factor was fighting corruption. We still have a glowing mess from those days, waiting another 80 years until it can
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
I suppose people forgot what "radio buttons" are (and where the name comes from). At least I haven't seen them on non-vintage devices in ages. WIth that, it might make sense to reevaluate if they're still a useful UI lan
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
The Nakba, you mean when all neighboring Arab countries said "hey Palestinians, step out of the way, we'll kill the Jews real quick and then you can have all the land"? And then lost the war they've started? Yes, that&#x
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
> They support Hamas because they can't see any other potential path to prosperity. Prosperity through Hamas? Only for a select few who live in other countries. With the amount of aid and money thrown at Gaza, any third rate politic
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
Except where they weren't. The German borders after 1945 or after 1990 are unlike any other shape of any German nation (or collection of German states) before.
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
If Germany or Japan is your guideline here, maybe Israel should get a Bomber Harris ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Harris#Second_World_War ) or a Truman (see nuclear weapons dropped on Japan) on the scene? People
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
Hamas controls Gaza, where Israel withdrew nearly 20 years ago. First thing Hamas did: destroy all the infrastructure set up by Israelis. Or maybe Hamas murdered the Fatah officials first. In any case, there was little Israeli left in all t
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
> They just want Palestinians to have full human rights on their land, from the river to the sea. What's the word for word translation of the original slogan again? "From the river to the sea, all land shall be Arab" if my
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
Everything blue on https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:State_Religions.svg
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
You mean they were raped ok by the militants? https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/there-wasnt-a-moment-freed-h...
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
Iran was pretty miffed when some weapons of unspecified origin recently hit Iraq and Syria because they happened to land on the heads of Iranian operatives. The concept of nations and borders in the middle east is a bit... different from th
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
All correct and yet, what should happen? Israel stops their campaign. And then? Spend tons of money on iron dome to shoot down the rockets and hope that Hamas won't manage to conduct another massacre, even if "only" half the
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
The business models this regulation harms are the business models that aren't desired to begin with. As such, a competitor is encouraged by regulation to find another, compliant angle to deal with monetization. And competitors that alr
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
That's a great way to route 4% of their global earnings into the EU's bank account.
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https://consentomatic.au.dk/ also allows to reject them automatically.
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For example in accounts on image sites that are exposed to suspected scrapers but not to others. Scrapers will still see the real data, but they'll also run into stuff designed to mix up the training process.
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The debugger is a relatively simple environment: you have a program, you have inputs, and one of these leads to weird behavior. When you encounter people, they might be in a bad mood for a thousand reasons you can't know about and that
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
They focus more on it, but in a lord-of-the-flies kind of way. You either get the cues, or you don't in which case, tough luck. It's the same in other fields, e.g. sports/physical ed often works that way, language and maths a
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
Not sure if people consider "contributing to the spying-censorship advertising machine vortex thing" a benefit based on which they choose their career preferences. It's more "pays the bills plus doesn't consider you
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by pgeorgi 3y ago
Google was most successful when it was "like a giant grad-school". Its downward trajectory coincides with it being run by McKinsey alums.

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