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by quonn 2y ago
It‘s only a problem if the system is not properly installed. In countries with proper regulation and professional certification this is not an issue.
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by quonn 2y ago
The typically used R32 does not cause any ozone issues. It is a climate gas, but only if it escapes from the pipes which it doesn‘t if properly installed.
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by quonn 2y ago
And how many _actually_ believe it? They may try to believe or hope but their behavior suggests the majority of the believers are not so sure after all.
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by quonn 2y ago
So according to you everyone is wrong, all the courts, all the other EU countries (which unjustly are wealthier than Ireland due to colonialism), the commission and the court and of course the decision taken by it.
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by quonn 2y ago
Germany was never a significant colonial power and did not extract much value from them. Especially not compared to Spain, Portugal, the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands or Belgium. > Germany has 20x our population, France is not
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by quonn 2y ago
Look, it's nice that Ireland is finally not a poor country anymore. That's primarily due to EU politics and support. It is, however, economically nowhere even close to France or Germany, no matter how large you think the "tec
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by quonn 2y ago
EU law has precedence, period.
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by quonn 2y ago
> literally decades later. So given the time value of money, Apple still has an unfair advantage?
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by quonn 2y ago
The idea was that these big companies and the Irish government obey the law.
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by quonn 2y ago
You can‘t verify causation with two associations either.
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by quonn 2y ago
Sure, but many people - especially many (most?) on this site - could probably live in about 20% of the space they live in and drive a cheaper car an so on and the rent/mortgage/bills will then at best only make up 20% of their inc
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by quonn 2y ago
This is simply not true. If a cell would not behave as intended on average it would stop being a cell. The fact is that an amoeba cell behaves in a certain way for all amoebas. It does not go around and behave like a stone or like a drop of
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by quonn 2y ago
Because half of those have a real moat. Facebook has a strong network effect. Apple controls a platform and is deeply integrated between devices. There are cases to be made to a lesser degree for Amazon and Google and Salesforce. Oracle, IB
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by quonn 2y ago
Yes you can and the comment you responded to illustrated this very well.
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by quonn 2y ago
The paper does not cover this. I didn‘t say every single molecule in the cell acts predictably. I said that the cell „performs a task it should perform and does so using the same approach across all instances.“
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by quonn 2y ago
Okay, „parts“ for me was just a word to refer to the machine, it is also okay if it is only a single part. It still remains a machine in the sense that it performs a task it should perform and does so using the same approach across all inst
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by quonn 2y ago
It‘s an evolved machine, meaning that the parts are not designed to be easily understandable or maintainable or to develop or even necessarily particularly easy to evolve. But the videos are good, thank you.
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by quonn 2y ago
And why, exactly, would the other players not be able to simply do the same? Since all the important parts of the tech are widely understood and largely published?
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by quonn 2y ago
> One aspect of The Singularity is the rapid acceleration into an unpredictable point of no return. One aspect of reality is that governments actually like to govern predictably and those with sufficient military power make sure they can
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by quonn 2y ago
What‘s an example for „latest functionality“ or „best practices“ that should or could possibly change for a function like leftPad and that would not automatically happen by virtue of being in the code base (such as formatting)?
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by quonn 2y ago
Yeah, and that's why I'm doubting this definition is very useful. Aristoteles should also have gotten a chicken plucked on the market square ...
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by quonn 2y ago
A replica of what? Of your words? Your thoughts? How would it access those thoughts? What about your feelings? What about the things that actually go on in your physical body outside the brain?
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by quonn 2y ago
> First of all, what makes a thing a good thing? A good thing fulfils its unique function. Like a nuclear weapon?
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by quonn 2y ago
This is incorrect, if the real estate is your primary home. If it is not your primary home, it may be correct, but not necessarily. And only saving is not enough, because inflation can eat it all.
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by quonn 2y ago
The point doesn‘t stand, because you made a claim about what people supposedly said or didn’t say after Chomsky passed away. And he didn‘t even pass.
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by quonn 2y ago
Think about how difficult it is to make a significant contribution in your particular field of expertise that is not about to be done right now anyway because the time is right. Very difficult indeed. It is the same with cancer research. No
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by quonn 2y ago
> anything could be defined as such Not really, because many disciplines are inherently applied. There is, for example, no such thing as "pure teaching", since teaching is always practical. To me the lack of a practical purpose
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by quonn 2y ago
> Ask anyone who hasn't actually done pure math Here I am. I think pure math is simply not applied math - so math that is not being done in direct service of a particular goal, such as working out insurance pricing or perhaps ML&#x2
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by quonn 2y ago
It would be nice if servo would implement CSS paged media for generating PDFs. This would be a niche with almost no competition.
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by quonn 2y ago
Why would they be, anymore than for the original product? Also, do you have a single example where there was a security vulnerability in the update mechanism of a car that resulted in an attack? Do you have a single example of a loss caused

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