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by pyrale 4mo ago
Not necessarily. Some sites have no interest in communicating your data to the government, unlike their 23019 affiliate ad programs. If your government is paying private third parties to collect data on you (hello USA), the issue is much wi
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by pyrale 4mo ago
you generate a random number and send it to website you want to visit. Website you want to visit generates a one-time private/public key for the purpose of this login attempt, hashes your random number, and sends the hash back to you.
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by pyrale 4mo ago
The issue is not the models, the issue is that this method ws tried before, and humans suck at writing what they want. Developing in small increments allowing feedback was an answer to this issue. If you made models able to code to long s
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by pyrale 4mo ago
High rises were far from being the only, or even the dominant model for social housing in Europe. Different plans such as low rises, semi-detached houses and single homes also got implemented.
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by pyrale 4mo ago
> Look at French banlieues, German Plattenbauten or British Councils - they are synonymous with Crime and physical as well as cultural despair. Sure, because what existed before was absolutely fine [1][2]... The truth is that these polic
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by pyrale 4mo ago
Basically, all of Europe post-WW2. A significant share of new build in the 50s-60s was social housing.
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by pyrale 4mo ago
What I was getting at, is that people argue about jobs rather than about money, is that society values work, not paying "bums". They may be more or less self-conscious about it. If you offer to pay them for not working, they are l
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by pyrale 4mo ago
> If you live in a (functioning) democracy the notion is politically improbable. Anyone with even a hint of interest in labour movements in western countries probably knows that there is no such thing as a democracy working well enough t
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by pyrale 4mo ago
> I have sympathy for people worried about losing their livelihoods. But at the same time I struggle to sympathise with the idea that jobs themselves are something sacred we should be fighting for. I can agree with the author's poin
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by pyrale 4mo ago
> Well it’s kind of the same with Rand. That’s their thing, they read these books as preteens and the nuance is lost on them In the case of Ayn Rand, it is questionable whether there's nuance to be found.
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by pyrale 4mo ago
> Russian and American behavior from a decade ago didn't (directly) cause that. No, but it did cause changes that made it possible for people to change their habits when the current crisis hit them.
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by pyrale 4mo ago
> It’s so wild to me to make a multiyear purchasing decision based upon recent events. Recent events? Russia going rogue and the US going haywire both happened a decade ago at least. Those are two major suppliers of fossil fuel for Europ
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by pyrale 4mo ago
> My guess is it’s an email filter. It may also be an email generator. The email filter team is trying to match the pace of innovation of the email generation team. At stakes is the ability for the employees to process the billions of mi
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by pyrale 4mo ago
To add to this, I live in the suburb of a large European city, and the same is true here, except owners change more often. It is also true in the city center.
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by pyrale 4mo ago
> It's surprising to me that people who know about reward hacking choose a simple objective like lines of code generated as a signal for quality. The simple answer is that promoting locs as a relevant metric is also reward hacking.
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by pyrale 4mo ago
> Be respectful of the tradition, culture and laws of the local country that you visit and you will be fine. > It's not your role to decide or interfere in the politics of other countries where you are not a permanent resident. T
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by pyrale 4mo ago
Can you point to such places for sale in a reasonably sized city? Cuz where I am, any appartment priced cheap is instantly bought up and remodeled into an unaffordable 2020's standards appartment.
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by pyrale 4mo ago
> This is effectively impossible in a democratic society Why exactly would a democratic society oppose this? Are you conflating democratic and capitalist? Most if not all postwar European societies had ambitious social housing projects t
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by pyrale 4mo ago
The company is incorporated in the netherlands, and the workers are there. The corporate structure means the shareholder can't do whatever they want. I don't see why they should bother with who invests in it, when they have the po
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by pyrale 4mo ago
> Why did they not mandate national (or at least EU-based) hosting and infra ? They did, and they moved to block the acquisition of the local company handling it. What's unclear in the article?
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by pyrale 4mo ago
s/rather than/as well as/g
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by pyrale 4mo ago
> they no longer are making enough money Have they ever made enough money according to their own desire?
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by pyrale 4mo ago
I'd suggest getting them money through patreon, kofi or whatever patrons system they use instead. That's much safer for them than YT ad money and helps them feel less pressure when they get demonetized or whatnot.
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by pyrale 4mo ago
Since new people start work/college/hobby every year, well-known lessons have to be learned again and again.
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by pyrale 5mo ago
> I never want to hear from developers again that they are not susceptible to marketing. Did you need to come to that conclusion? Marketing has always been a significant part of new technology adoption. Whether it's for cloud adopti
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by pyrale 5mo ago
The countries you cite all exited communism ruined but with an educated workforce and a working education system, and benefited tremendously from EU access. It is not that Japan has fallen to their level, it’s that they have experienced an
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by pyrale 5mo ago
> This really does read as "Go is my favourite language". Because it always is that. People advocating for boring languages always advocate for their boring language. For instance, if you tell a gopher that you agree with the
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by pyrale 5mo ago
> Most people didn't need their standard of quality (but customers had no choice.) Customers don't really have a choice either way. Good luck finding quality clothing, services with decent customer support, etc. Supply chains s
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by pyrale 5mo ago
AMD does maintain Linux anyway, for their paid tiers. It's not like they're saving money by dumping the free tier for Linux.
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by pyrale 5mo ago
More like the notion of seeing different treatment between OSes. No one likes being punished for a choice that shouldn't be any of the selling party's business. That's especially true in the Linux community, which was the tar

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