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by pqtyw 1y ago
>perhaps 10 or 12 years So if party A votes down proposal X and the next election party B that publicly supports it wins they shouldn't be allowed to propose that law? Logical conclusion would be for the governing party to get some
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by pqtyw 1y ago
For games? Yes (with some very major caveats). Non basic applications not so much.
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by pqtyw 1y ago
> how many designers I interviewed who told me they used the Arc browser Looking at their frontpage the design is outright horrible if you have a > 7-8 inch screen. I guess in a way its good to have an example of what not to do. >
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by pqtyw 1y ago
And there are business which will never be highly profitable unless the competition implodes for no particular reason (like making your own browser).
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by pqtyw 1y ago
Yes exactly. My point was the complete opposite, though. By the time of the "fall of Rome" and for the succeeding 500+ years during which the Roman empire had many ups and down, being the Roman effectively became the equivalent of
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by pqtyw 1y ago
> GPT-4 at $24.7 per million tokens While technically true why would you want to use it when OpenAI itself provides a bunch of many times cheaper and better models?
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by pqtyw 1y ago
Perhaps, yet a reasonably educated person in the Frankish Empire or the early Holy Roman Empire probably wouldn't. It wouldn't even make much sense to them.
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by pqtyw 1y ago
> between the imperial might of Old Rome and its remnants in Italia After more than a thousand years that's true. But Rome remained the "universal [Christian] Empire" well into the middle ages. In a way didn't really
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by pqtyw 1y ago
Is it? Putin's regime seems like a mostly generic pseudo-fascist dictatorship, except that they have nukes and stuff which they inherited from the USSR. > absolute worst aspects of it are preserved While it's obviously horrible
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by pqtyw 1y ago
You mean the linked article: https://debramaymacleod.com/blog/the-last-vestal-virgin-and-... ? If anything its implying the opposite?
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by pqtyw 1y ago
And Queen Victoria was the Empress of India. More or less equivalent situations.
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by pqtyw 1y ago
Considering that for almost a millennium Roman and [the right type of]Christian were basically synonyms that's maybe not that straightforward.,
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by pqtyw 1y ago
> idea of "a fall" is a universal bug in our thinking Occasionally it did happen that way though. e.g. the Soviet Union was seemingly fine (or not much worse that before) and suddenly it and its empire was in a couple of years.
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by pqtyw 1y ago
Well the empire was in deep shit in the 100 years preceding its adoption of Christianity (and in no way was it particularly tolerant before that ). The next 100 after Constantine were a bit of a mixed bag. Then in the 500s it seemed like ev
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by pqtyw 1y ago
Well the Roman emperor granted the title of Caesar to a Bulgarian in 705 which quickly turned into something that sounds like "tsar". A bit over 840 years before the first Muscovy Tsar of Russia. The Ottoman sultan just took it f
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by pqtyw 1y ago
Even the Muslims did for a while despite their ban on portraying humans.
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by pqtyw 1y ago
The Roman Empire in the east at the time did just fine, though. The Goths in a (very technical) way "unified" the empire after they took Italy since they got rid of the western emperor and declared that they are now vassals of the
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by pqtyw 1y ago
> something like a 20 cent fee per They announced it, but based on their actual pricing tables effectively nobody outside of a tiny extremely unlucky proportion of users would have paid that much. The effective fee was several times smal
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by pqtyw 1y ago
Gold coins pretty much disappeared from Western Europe in the early middles ages, the Byzantine Empire and the the Islamic states were pretty much the only significant source of gold for a time so that makes sense in a way. Interestingly en
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by pqtyw 1y ago
> you can however criticize others and at this point germany provides even more protection than the US. Would what last few episodes of South Park be legal if they were made by Germans and targeted German politicians? Probably not?
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by pqtyw 1y ago
The first amendment in the US did too but it took more than a 100 years for the current interpretation to become the consensus in the legal system.
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by pqtyw 1y ago
Perhaps? But that seems mostly tangential to this specific issue? I mean it's like trying to solve income inequality with by adopting Bolshevist communism...
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by pqtyw 1y ago
> They say it's the Swedes, but that's not accurate Yes because its Denmark, other countries are mainly just tagging along. I mean we can and should blame lobbyists and such as well but 90% of the problem are the politicians an
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by pqtyw 1y ago
> stopping the Eureaucracy I think that people are no mentioning enough that there is a specific country: DENMARK which is leading this effort. Not saying that there aren't plenty of EU bureaucrats who support Chat Control but this
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by pqtyw 1y ago
Well Chat Control would offset that 10 fold...
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by pqtyw 1y ago
Does EU really have any real security apparatus independent from it's member states as such that it would really have a need for something like this? Also ChatControl is something being pushed by Denmark and other ideologically similar
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by pqtyw 1y ago
> ProtectEU, the new "break all encryption if chatcontrol fails" was proposed by a secret group, whose identities still not know This however seems like a non issue to you?
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by pqtyw 1y ago
"There are direct elections for the parliament" of course but it's not a real parliament in any sense because it does not have full control over the entire EU policy. It's just there mainly for rubberstamping anything th
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by pqtyw 1y ago
> The EU is still a shining beacon of democracy in the world. The EU as a collection/union of sovereign countries? Sure. As an organization itself the EU is not particularly democratic or it was every designed to be a democracy. Its
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by pqtyw 1y ago
It still comparable amount to e.g. chicken thigh. So the question is whether you consider vegetable fats more harmful.

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