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by sebazzz 2y ago
France has nukes. But for nukes it doesn’t matter in practice if you have 10 or 1000. If you use one, it is one too many. It only matters that you have them.
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by sebazzz 2y ago
Not all dollars spend translate back to direct dollars earned, but rather political power or influence - which itself is a catalyser for other benefits. But some don’t seem to understand that.
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by sebazzz 2y ago
They literally said: “This makes great TV” - and both right-wing Fox and the Russian media are cheering. It worries me that no-one in the Republican Party looks at it and says: Russia is our enemy right, why are we doing exactly what they
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by sebazzz 2y ago
> Ukraine isn't in NATO. Arguably the US isn’t either anymore . It is pretty clear that Trump won’t enforce Article 5 when Russia is the aggressive party. Which, by itself, might be a preparation to take Greenland. Both US and Russi
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by sebazzz 2y ago
Including the baltic states and Poland.
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by sebazzz 2y ago
I would say that is bad for the economy. Especially for a society where there is nothing to catch those whole lose their jobs.
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by sebazzz 2y ago
What a negative conspirasist (if that is even a word) platform X has become. Really something to be proud on. Every sound you make on that platform, a truckload of sh*t you get dumped on you - especially if you have something like “scientis
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by sebazzz 2y ago
Even with an RFP it can be corruption. The RFP can be written so that only a single specific vendor can deliver cost effectively.
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by sebazzz 2y ago
> I don't expect bikes to take market share from cars. Not in a society that is car-centric. But in countries that optimize for different types of transport, it is quite busy with bikes. Every commuter bike would have been a car oth
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by sebazzz 2y ago
Tor is seen as the web of criminals, so I suppose that is why there are no torrent sites there.
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by sebazzz 2y ago
Voter registration is by itself a joke and voter suppression. In most of Europe every citizen gets a voting form send to their registered address together with the list of participants. They bring that with the government ID to the polling
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by sebazzz 2y ago
The biggest issue with US media is allowing for opinion to be mixed with news. Essentially everything is opnion, everything is biased in some way. If you look at the other side of the pond you have news outlets reporting news without stat
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by sebazzz 2y ago
Yes, it is beautiful that someone can potentially self-diagnose with ChatGPT* - but if you're worried about your health, you really shouldn't need to use it and just be free to go to the GP or GPC (outside opening hours) without
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by sebazzz 2y ago
> The flipside of removing them is you now need to hire experts/specialists to do the work properly, not fire them... Except that currently hired experts/specialists who don't argue correctly what their purpose is, are f
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The List of Trump's Forbidden Words That Will Get Your Paper Flagged at NSF(gizmodo.com)
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by sebazzz 2y ago
Still using a old version of NetBeans to develop a Java EE 7 application. I would switch to IntelliJ if possible, but honestly, unlike .NET - Java IDE and the toolchain are so much tied together (it is not just a bunch of MSBuild) files, ch
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by sebazzz 2y ago
Regardless of all the political angles, I'm very curious how the (apparently legal) interference of Musk in the FAA will play out when it comes to SpaceX.
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by sebazzz 2y ago
Dual BIOS doesn't mean the manufacturer was smart enough to implement two separate storage spaces for efivars.
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by sebazzz 2y ago
Misinformation and censorship will continue until the free speech improves.
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by sebazzz 2y ago
It doesn't however mean this battery won't go up in flames when there is an unprotected short. It has X kWh stored in it that must and will be released in a way when a short happens.
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by sebazzz 2y ago
It helps that many European countries don't have a presidential democracy but rather a parlementairy democracy - making the concentration of power and execution of bad ideas within a single party and person much more difficult.
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by sebazzz 2y ago
I wonder if we will see actual refugees from the US in Europe this term. People who aren't safe in the US anymore, like ones from the LHIBTQ community, government employees, Democrats. Things have already been crazier than most would h
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by sebazzz 2y ago
The ING has a small Android based single-purpose authenticator device they offer to customers without smartphones. It can scan the QR code and do the auth.
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by sebazzz 2y ago
Many people have so many of their own problems, debt, whatever, that it takes a lot more than this to get them out of their homes and on the streets.
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by sebazzz 2y ago
What is the supposed pushback for political reasons? Because this supposed pushback would only have worked for Trump, definitely not against him.
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by sebazzz 2y ago
Musk is making us want to go to Mars because of his and his partner Trump destabilization of this planet: political, societical, and environmental.
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by sebazzz 2y ago
Bleep bloop bleep bloop, looks like AI generated responses even reached Hacker News.
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by sebazzz 2y ago
You wrapped propaganda that NASA is useless nicely with a rant about DOGE and conflicts of interest. NASA is not useless. Just look up how many innovations literally came from the ISS. And that is just one part of it.
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by sebazzz 2y ago
Did anyone ever investigate if newer drivers cause older GPUs to perform worse?
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by sebazzz 2y ago
So we have to come up with an implementation of democracy where bad actors have a harder time evading democracy. So that's not a presidential democracy.

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