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by piokoch 4y ago
Phew, European Union mandates destroying crops if they go beyond quotas assigned to a given country. It is not even like throwing away some leftovers that should have better use, they just destroy ready to eat food.
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by piokoch 4y ago
Such stories can be told again and again and again. Take Klaus Barbie, butcher of Lyon, who ordered killing 14 000 people. After war he became CIA agent and trained US agents how to torture people. Germany also used a very "clever&quot
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by piokoch 4y ago
Step by step. Hard lesson learned from dependency on Russia's oil and gas will hopefully open people's eyes - you can't depend on the hostile regime, even if it occasionally pretends to be a nice guy.
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by piokoch 4y ago
Strange, according to medical practice, fetus between 22 and 37 week is considered to be "premature babies" and are treated and saved. So even disregarding all moral/ethical questions such fetus is a human being, as it is abl
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by piokoch 4y ago
"The entire tradition of thought around natural law and limits on the legitimate scope of the state have simply disappeared in Australia". The problem is that natural law needs some source, this source has to come from somewhere a
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by piokoch 4y ago
It is not about "cleanness", it is not about "costs in future". There are two core points why nuclear plants matter and only they matter so far. First they are practical - unlike all renewables nuclear energy plant provi
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by piokoch 4y ago
"The earlier books (from the 50s and 60s) where clearly more optimistic", I am not that sure, "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury (1953) is far from optimistic. It didn't get Hugo at its time, though, but got "ret
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by piokoch 4y ago
If anyone needs a good example of the: 1. click bait title 2. primitive advertisement, all in one place, this article is a great example. Was Gmail banned in Denmark schools? Obviously not, there is some regulation in one of the counties an
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by piokoch 4y ago
I would say in every city with more than 2 millions inhabitants there will be at least one location that looks "apoliptically". This happens for many reasons: abandoned industrial areas, location that came out of fashion, people m
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by piokoch 4y ago
26 millions Soviets were not killed in WW2, as Soviet Union (and Russia today) adding to the WW2 kills victims of Soviet Gulag system (about 2 millions) and 6-10 millions Ukrainians starved to death during Holodomor genocide. BTW: WW2 losse
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by piokoch 4y ago
Surprised? The company that was selling very specific hardware and at the same time created popular programming language that was multi-platform, so customers could use cheap Intel-based servers instead of that "very specific hardware&
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by piokoch 4y ago
This is one of the most interesting and rather unknown "contribution" of Russia and Putin himself to drugs sales in Europe. At the time when he was associate of Anatoly Sobchak, Mayor of Saint Petersburg he was responsible for mak
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by piokoch 4y ago
"There is a strong assumption that battery costs will come down" On what bases? Typically bigger demand leads to price increase, do we have new sources of Lithium/Cobalt/Copper that would increase production significantl
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by piokoch 4y ago
Mini nuclear reactors make a lot of sense especially in the areas with a lot of electricity-hungry industry, Polish copper producer KGHM is planning to build such reactors for their own needs (they use 1 GW a year) [1]. It will make their o
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by piokoch 4y ago
"This may be apocryphal." Yes, you story is not true at all. Bill's mom was higher-up executive in IBM and persuaded company to do business with her son's company, not DR. That gave rise to Microsoft. BTW: for a long tim
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by piokoch 4y ago
This is bollocks. Typical clickbait title. There is still a lot of unsolved problems in physics, both experimental and theoretical. Particle physics is just one branch of science (and rather boring, if you ask me), popularized by CERN marke
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by piokoch 4y ago
And how much time Maxwell or Einstein spent on their research and how much time on chasing grants and tenure positions? Were they required to publish X papers a year, target assigned by some university manager? Were they forced to amuse and
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by piokoch 4y ago
That's only one of many, many issues electric cars "revolution" is going to face. Where do we get all the lithium, copper, cobalt to build electric cars? The reality check for EV will be very brutal, according to those stats
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by piokoch 4y ago
Wiki article is interesting, but it does not list two important cost elements. When there is no wind, we need some other source of energy (for now we don't have any practical energy storage - we don't have batteries and pump stora
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by piokoch 4y ago
"We care deeply about privacy" until we succeed, then we will be bought by, say, Microsoft, which has sucky search engine and then we will write to you a long letter starting with traditional "it was wonderful journey...&quot
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by piokoch 4y ago
Ahh, fond memories. When the communism was giving its last breath in Poland in 1989, inflation got pretty high - around 40 percent a year. I had a private English language lessons with a student and we were adjusting lesson price to the pri
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by piokoch 4y ago
The ship has sailed for Russia already. USA will not tolerate obstruction by Germany, France or Hungary. Recent meeting about Ukraine support was hold in Ramstein and this place was chosen intentionally - to show who is the master of the sh
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by piokoch 5y ago
"After Fukushima" is the funniest part of this. Baltic and North seas are well known from their gigantic tsunami waves.
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by piokoch 5y ago
Wow, I didn't know this is still alive. I used this project for some strange reason good 15 years ago. The most funky feature it had (still has?) is data visualization in 6 dimensions (yes, six), it was done as a kind of rotating plot
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by piokoch 5y ago
"The war is going to cause massive food shortages in the next year since so many agricultural commodities come from Ukraine and Russia." this argument alone makes this story laughable, it seems the poor sod who wrote this must hav
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by piokoch 5y ago
"Vladimir Putin's astonishing lapse of judgment in invading Ukraine has fueled speculation that the Russian president may have taken leave of his senses." Who wrote this click-bait of a poor quality? There are pretty sane and
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by piokoch 5y ago
Good, goodm Britain, I don't really mind if all those hard working and nice people from Ukraine will stay in Poland for a longer time, although I hope the war end soon with their victory and they could come back to their homes and live
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by piokoch 5y ago
EU does not have a great track in terms providing security for its members. Nord Stream was pushed by Germany even though it was obvious that this would make Germany depended on Russian gas. Germany killed the plan of common European gas pu
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by piokoch 5y ago
In the times when a lot of software is sold as SaaS, it might be exactly the same bright idea as invading Ukraine and murdering civilians.
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by piokoch 5y ago
There were others too. I liked Tucows Downloads too, it started even earlier, in 1993.

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