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by pyrale 1y ago
I'm not saying post-WW2 society was non-violent. I'm saying prior to WW2, sending the army (or just any hired goons) to shoot at workers was a common way to handle a strike in western countries. I'm saying at the turn of 20th
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by pyrale 1y ago
Says who?
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by pyrale 1y ago
The invisible boundaries did apply, and they still do. The story isn't that he saw that some rules no longer applied, it's that he was willing to go to war about it. Post WW2, we had gradually managed to build a less violent socie
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by pyrale 1y ago
There are plenty of companies that don't immediately qualify as "the bad guys". For instance, of all companies I've interviewed with or have friends working at that developed tech, some companies build and sell furniture
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by pyrale 1y ago
The worst part about it is the half-translated effect on many sites. I'm fine in my native language and in english, but having a page written in both is a purge. Add to this the disappearance of a way to select language quiclky and the
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by pyrale 1y ago
> but the Palestinians have mostly objected to Israel existing so we have the current stuff. It was not the Palestinians who killed Rabin.
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by pyrale 1y ago
This article looks like it completely embraces the pov of solar providers, and describes maintenance of the grid as serving the interests of the fossil electricity industry. ...And not far from the end: > The next milestone, Massol-Deyá
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by pyrale 1y ago
> if you owned a battery that charged off the grid and discharged during blackout periods This wouldn't work. The reason isolated units can inject electricity back into the grid without issue is that they can observe frequency. If a
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by pyrale 1y ago
We have values. But only as long as they are inexpensive.
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Local regulation on that topic usually revolves around easing the requirements for small scale/residential production, not around making them respect the same standards as large electricity producers.
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First off, I’d like to state that the following post is about the challenges of handling residential production, not about industrial renewable setups. The grid going down is game over. Once you’re at this point, there are already people go
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It wouldn’t. Just like hiring the best pros to make an extremely fancy kitchen wouldn’t make it equivalent to a restaurant kitchen.
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by pyrale 1y ago
> It's interesting how we're generally headed towards general self sufficiency, off grid solar and wind power with batteries because the grid won't pay you to sell it electricity The grid will definitely pay you to sell it
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> That's because very few people are being meaningfully affected right now. Once we're all at the edge of extinction, the markets will provide? If that's your point, your idea of capitalism is a cargo cult.
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> Bans are nice, destructive force against adversaries works better though. The ocean is large, and the effort required to cover significant areas in boulders is ridiculously high.
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Lead and abestos have been in use since antiquity.
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> If AI is truly as revolutionary as it could be... My suspicion is that current sophistication of tech and AI is already enough to fulfill gp's predictions, and it's already doing that.
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What is a country? Is it the same as its citizen?
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Law, in a concern for equality, prohibits the rich as well as the poor from sleeping under bridges, begging, or stealing bread.
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by pyrale 1y ago
No one would have been surprised if the US had increased tariffs on airplanes to cushion Boeing’s failings, understanding that this specific sector may be seen as vital interests. Europe could have replied with tariffs on space launches to
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by pyrale 1y ago
Are you asserting that 5 years of no specific imbalance is long enough to offset decades of software ecosystem building driven by tax cuts?
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by pyrale 1y ago
If we look further, we wouldn’t be the first species that disappears for failing to adapt. Your "we can’t change" logic gives us only one future, that of bacteries caught in the great oxidation event.
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Saner how? I don’t see any way where reducing the current environmental knowledge we have to a form of malthusianism is sane.
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AI impacts the expectations that drive the deadlines and the size of the corners that have to be cut.
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by pyrale 1y ago
> the results are a real and long-lasting impact on things like economic productivity and the ability to forward plan. Source: trust me bro. History books are littered with authors trying to explain that their language/culture is su
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by pyrale 1y ago
I work as a swe in a company dominated by EEs and civil engineers, and while you’re not wrong in theory, the author’s point resonates a lot with me. Civil engineers mostly plan ahead and try to follow that plan, and having to adapt to too m
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by pyrale 1y ago
It used to be the same for the individuals site some years ago, but they overhauled it bits by bits. From what I saw, the company site is also getting slowly overhauled, although it's not as high priority. > C'est des sous menu
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> And so slow that I would bet against "Open Source" becoming widespread in French schools within the next decade. It's not a risky bet: no organisation this large, private or public, would manage to replace its IT this fa
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by pyrale 1y ago
> This is just for show That is simply wrong. The reality is that millions of people work for the government, directly or indirectly, and that not all of these people have aligned incentives, the same constraints, etc. The people pushing
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by pyrale 1y ago
My original message was simply here to remind people that technical decisions we make have consequences on who can use our services. You were the one introducing this vocabulary (as well as claiming everyone living there does it by choice).

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