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by polotics 3y ago
I went in there looking because of the amazing notion that car makers grant themselves the right to gather and divulge information related to (quote) your "sex life". And indeed KIA wins the Internet of Creeps with the aforementie
842.
by polotics 3y ago
Wow indeed. Stealing approval like this is beyond the pale, no more Windows for me.
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by polotics 3y ago
The movie is a blast, at least as good as Princess Bride. You could say it does not take fantasy seriously, but this is the point: a world with that much weirdness would also not take itself so seriously. The story is just as I would have i
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by polotics 3y ago
Wow. This is like a student thinking: I won't study now, because then when exam time comes, I will be more motivated to cram! New renewables (solar & wind, non hydro) running without cheap oil as input for production,deployment, an
845.
by polotics 3y ago
In what way are they picking? This is normal diplomatic discussion where all parties know how little influence they have...
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by polotics 3y ago
In your position I would advise moving just a bit further south, ie to Switzerland.
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by polotics 3y ago
there is actually a lot of data processing and collection that is illegal: anything that is done as part of an illegal activity, inclusive of privacy breaches, gathering of information about religious beliefs or sexual orientation in GDPR c
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by polotics 3y ago
I felt the analogy with the hooded guy in a corner actually quite fitting and not hysterical. Note that there is a long history of using the term hysterical to refer to various non-compliers to enforced badnenss, eg. women demanding a vote.
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by polotics 3y ago
Let's pick elementary particle sized nits... Tim Berner Lee's office most likely had noise from planes landing at Geneva airport, but still most likely was on the territory of France :-)
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by polotics 3y ago
This is extraordinary claim requiring extraordinary evidence! This looks more like a whack-a-mole "for the children" misguided initiative, not a great firewall of China... Do you have more context?
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by polotics 3y ago
Yes indeed! is this enforced DRM everywhere or you can't browse? is this a forced french MITM certificate chain you can't remove, is this something else? how does using Tor with a non-french exit node get impacted? If I ssh over p
852.
by polotics 3y ago
The consensus has indeed been forced into extreme caution when it came to dire predictions, there were so many voices accusing scientists of crying wolf. If someone in 1980 would have said that a heat wave would kill a tenth of the number o
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by polotics 3y ago
I am sorry but I disagree: this information is helpful in as much as it effectively prevented my from buying a Tesla, and also I understand better now the difference between my Mazda MX-30's truthfull range reporting, and Tesla's
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by polotics 3y ago
Thanky you systemvoltage for introducing me to humanprogress.org. This graph on "climate related deaths" that manages to pool together deaths of the early 20th century with those of the early 21st, is pure propaganda genius. ...--
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by polotics 3y ago
Wow you appear to know a great deal about how human minds work: "doing the same exact thing they get upset about the model doing"... May I query you put up a list of publications on the subject of how minds work?
856.
by polotics 3y ago
ok. what got me is that the amount is written on the box, not on the lines...
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by polotics 3y ago
You seem to be under the impression that companies are things that exist inside of countries. I put it to you that, except for mafia led places where the rule of law doesn't exist (cough, Russia... but not only) companies are quite sep
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by polotics 3y ago
This chart distresses me: solar at 0.9 is only about a third of petroleum at 36. It is making it look like new renewable (ie non-hyrdo) are a lot more sizeable than they really are. From Lawrence Livermore this is hard to swallow. If the bo
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by polotics 3y ago
16GB of RAM is adequate for Qubes, in practice you end up running a handful of Xen VMs, with most of the VMs (vault, disposable,...) using little RAM.
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by polotics 3y ago
Greta did not say any of what you said she did, can you look up the actual quote you are thinking of? Poverty is not getting less, burnt forests are poor, and there's more and more of them. Aso please note that collapses happen very sl
861.
by polotics 3y ago
very convenient, the first words in the article are: "The global warming industry has declared..."
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by polotics 3y ago
...just for the record still, I am older than 50, but changing "master" to "trunk" has been a no-brainer...
863.
by polotics 3y ago
Big trap of internet posting: your worst day's post can become a defining statement. Clearly on the day Andreas posted this, he wasn't at his kindest. Nim's great and readable, the code will survive many such days I think.
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by polotics 3y ago
finding open and closed brackets is a massive chore in mis-copied code, so indeed having scope open by spaces makes things very clear and non-ambiguous. Using whitespace for readability and not using it for scope control is one of the many
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by polotics 3y ago
sorry what do you mean?
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by polotics 3y ago
This kind of evaluation, ie. "it is pretty bad" is where experience have told me that unless I know the person giving feedback, predictive power on how much I will agree is zero. What is bad? I watched just one episode so far and
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by polotics 3y ago
There is no trace of any release of CO2 in the atmosphere at the pace we have managed for a century now. None! There are releases over much longer periods, with massive observed impacts. Humanity will scrape by in Groenland, Antarctica... U
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by polotics 3y ago
Seemed weird, so thank you: with all the melting going on, it would make sense more ice ends up slipping onto the sea...
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by polotics 3y ago
Russia won't launch nukes come what may, because Putin's now very very big brother Xi doesn't want a nukes-equipped Taiwan, and holiday resorts for Moscovites are less important than TSMC chips.
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by polotics 3y ago
Well no the Mendeleev table is pretty much an enumeration. Where would you put these elements of Su(rprise)?

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