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by riffraff 8mo ago
We got at least one of these in my home town in central Italy, which is less than 50k people. I don't think it works particularly well, but then neither does the actual public library, tho I basically grew up in it.
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by riffraff 8mo ago
But that's only known if you read other material, it's not in The Hobbit.
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Prior to attacks CIA assessed Khamenei could be replaced by IRGC headliners(reuters.com)
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by riffraff 8mo ago
> is pretty inconvenient for Trump who could be looking at impeachment over Epstein I mean, it is a pretty convenient distraction from the epstein files tho, so win-win for Trump/Netanyahu
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by riffraff 8mo ago
Was ISIS better or worse than Iran's government is now?
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by riffraff 8mo ago
It's not just the US, very few wars have been formally declared after WW2, because we all learned war is bad™, so we added more and more rules (both international and national) to make it harder to do it. But the reasons wars existed d
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by riffraff 8mo ago
I think you're missing the point: a constant justification for bombing Iran is that they are one month, one week, or a couple months from building a nuclear bomb. If that was true, obviously they would have built one buy now. Being o
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by riffraff 8mo ago
"we don't want to be the world police" was literally Trump's campaign https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/385521-trump-we-...
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by riffraff 8mo ago
well, they were one week away from a nuke, as usual.
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by riffraff 8mo ago
I don't think it does. It could just as well show openai accepted terms which are unacceptable for anthropic. If they say "we define mass surveillance as flagging terrorist-looking people automatically with the Family Guy approach
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by riffraff 8mo ago
Yeah it's a shitty statement "we're totally fine accidently targeting foreigners but come on, not 'mericans" because it's well known that once you have the capability it will be aimed at everyone anyway.
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by riffraff 8mo ago
Is that actual land mines or generic lost explosives and unexploded bombs? Cause the latter is pretty common in Europe too, but I'm surprised you have actually minefields which haven't been cleared up in Australia.
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by riffraff 8mo ago
this was true until a few years ago for Italy and France too, getting one nationality would instantly lose you the other. I think this isn't true anymore, but I do have a friend who lived in the country for decades and never picked up
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by riffraff 8mo ago
FWIW, the online application only allows you to apply for a single person at a time, so for a family of four you need to repeat the whole process (including payment) four times. And the automatic identification of passport and picture does
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by riffraff 8mo ago
> I generally think it’s bad to create an environment that encourages people to be afraid of making mistakes, afraid of admitting mistakes and reticent to change things that aren’t working "move fast and break things" ?
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by riffraff 8mo ago
I remember cords in Malta in the 2010s, but I've not seen them in the the rest of Europe. Maybe when I was a kid in the 80s.
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by riffraff 8mo ago
I think if the bus has to wait to pull in there's also an outstanding problem there. Having lived in EUropean cities with both efficient and terrible bus performances, the presence of separate lanes, large unencumbered stops or good ur
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by riffraff 8mo ago
I think it's mostly that smart glasses are at the intersection of "will push stuff to public internet" and "does it stealthily". CCTV, self driving cars etc.. are (mostly) out of the first bucket, and phones are (mo
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by riffraff 8mo ago
"book steaks" is in the list, but I don't think it' real. Maybe it was supposed to be "stack".
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by riffraff 8mo ago
It's not the EU, OSCE reports the same. > Elections in Georgia are very competitive. I've heard that government was slowly putting pressure on media, but I don't remember anything major. The OCSE report on the 2024 electio
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by riffraff 8mo ago
Georgian cuisine and drinking is little known in the west but it's really, really good. It's a pity the country has been democratically backsliding for a while, which has limited their hopes of tighter integration with the EU.
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by riffraff 8mo ago
sounds awesome tbh. If you build it, I will come.
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by riffraff 8mo ago
it's been a while, but I think mentats in Dune are trained not bred. Also, they use mind enhancing drugs (sapho juice IIRC). Which I guess makes a interesting point too, though different from yours :D (I do agree biological intelligenc
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by riffraff 8mo ago
I read it decades ago, and from time to time I mention it to someone who has not read it and I end up telling them the story.. and I'm usually tearing up before getting to the end. Such a moving piece.
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by riffraff 8mo ago
> Companies rely on the fact they can hire people who already know photoshop/xero/webpack/etc rather than having to train them from scratch on in house tools. Yeah, I've seen perfectly good flexible in house products
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by riffraff 8mo ago
In the USA, the great depression, that is what "the grapes of wrath" is about. Or in all the dock towns when we shifted to containerized shipping. (I don't think technological innovation leads to permanent job loss, but some
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by riffraff 8mo ago
the catholic church has traditionally been pro-science, the contrast with science is a modern development. There's a ton of Catholic clergy who were scientists[0], many of those well known (Mersenne, Mendel, Copernicus, Venturi etc). E
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by riffraff 8mo ago
Yeah but the spelling is part of how the language feels :) Also, you say spelling but e.g. "speken" feels more a grammatical than orthographic difference. By comparison, Dante's incipit to the Divine Comedy is 100% the same s
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by riffraff 8mo ago
In Italy we all study Dante, Petrarca and Boccaccio in school, which are 1300, and it's quite easy to understand them beyond some unusual words. 1200 poetry is easy enough too. There's not much literature older than that, cause pe
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by riffraff 8mo ago
Italian here, and it was the same for me, the language feels very different by 1300. Which is interesting cause 1200 italian[0] seems pretty readable by everyone who can read italian (and likely every other romance language), you have to go

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