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by sealeck 2y ago
> Scientists stress that there is nothing magical about the 1.5 °C threshold. It is a political target that was included in the Paris agreement in acknowledgement of concerns that an earlier goal of limiting warming to 2 °C might not be
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by sealeck 2y ago
I think you're suffering from some survivorship bias here. There are lot of technologies that don't work out.
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by sealeck 2y ago
Either they did it on their own, in which case that's open source for you, or they have some kind of contract with quickwit, in which case I'd be really surprised if they don't have some clauses which handle this.
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by sealeck 2y ago
> Indeed but wealth extraction from already piss poor countries by artificially dumping prices that cannot be sustained by domestic industry has been a problem with Africa for decades, and that after centuries of colonialism on top of it
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Lobste.rs considers geoblocking UK due to Online Safety Act(lobste.rs)
27 points by sealeck 2y ago|1 comments
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by sealeck 2y ago
Usually when evaluating markets you consider how much money the relevant participants have, not just how many of them are. For example China has 1bn+ people, but Canada probably shouldn't sign a free trade deal with them.
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by sealeck 2y ago
Come again?
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by sealeck 2y ago
Not being treated fairly is a pretty good criteria. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001d059
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by sealeck 2y ago
It also fails on things that aren't actual words For example, the output for "how many x's are there in xaaax" is 3. https://chatgpt.com/share/677591fe-aa58-800e-9e7a-81870387be...
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by sealeck 2y ago
I think this is mostly addressed in the article > Hes saying the sea has risen and the people who say it hasn't are wrong. Quoting from the webpage >> To be fair to those folks, it's true that – as they claim – the water
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by sealeck 2y ago
This seems to be more conspiracy theory than fact.
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by sealeck 2y ago
Or the same kind of people who claimed Theranos was a scam, or that AI in the 70s wasn't about to produce Terminator within a few years, or that the .com bubble was in fact a bubble...
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by sealeck 2y ago
> Whenever a new technology emerges, along with it always emerge naysayers who claim that the new technology could never work There's some survivorship bias going on here – you only consider technologies which succeeded, and find ex
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by sealeck 2y ago
How many people in the EU speak English, and how many speak Mandarin??
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by sealeck 2y ago
There are 5mn people in Ireland, English is now effectively a neutral language in the EU.
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by sealeck 2y ago
English is the language spoken by the broadest base of people in the EU, and since Brexit lacks the kind of partisan status that e.g. French or German would have.
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by sealeck 2y ago
The problem I see with free software advocates is they're basically trying to paddle upstream to a destination that is not particularly desirable. Most people don't care if they can go visit their local water treatment works and p
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by sealeck 2y ago
This is really strange reasoning: "people claim that in field X, group Y doesn't enter for reason Z. Therefore if in field A group B isn't entering it MUST be for reason Z, and couldn't possibly be for another reason&quo
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by sealeck 2y ago
> So that's how it worked with MacOS and Windows? Color me surprised. Lots of people use MacOS and Windows though, so Google has incentive to support these platforms.
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by sealeck 2y ago
There are multiple Rust compilers, for example - https://github.com/Rust-GCC/gccrs - https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc
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by sealeck 2y ago
The kind with a lot of money, enough that $500k doesn't really register.
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by sealeck 2y ago
Not that many people keep a big stack of physical cash under their pillow, and organisations that do keep cash are well-known robbery targets (e.g. banks, mints). It's substantially harder to kidnap someone and force them to sell their
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by sealeck 2y ago
The executive has the power to instruct other employees to do things.
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by sealeck 2y ago
> Bitcoin is not either anymore than say Tesla or Nvidia... Except at least Tesla and NVIDIA are actually doing things that are kind of useful (crime and speculation don't count as useful applications).
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by sealeck 2y ago
> You're in favor of holding executives hostage to demand access to data? This is a very emotional way of saying "you're in favour of enforcing contempt of court rulings against people who try to obstruct the judicial proc
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by sealeck 2y ago
But they write software for NYTimes, they don't write journalism. Additionally NYTimes benefits from huge networks effects – both in that they are a comprehensive source of (reasonably) reliable journalism which attracts lots of reader
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by sealeck 2y ago
That's also known as playing your cards effectively
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by sealeck 2y ago
It's good that we have operating systems that are easy to use (e.g. Mac OS, Windows), but this is not a priority for Linux desktop distributions (which is fine); what counts as easy to opt in/out of is very contextual.
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by sealeck 2y ago
I've been told that if you have mandatory telemetry in your application that's fine because the user has a way to opt out (it's a free market and they don't have to use your software). I believe the territory where you a
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by sealeck 2y ago
> Why did MS comply to the EU request on installations outside of the EU? Because it's really expensive to maintain two versions of the same kernel?

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