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by shakow 1y ago
> it's illegal for the government to keep track of people's race We don't even have the concept of “race”.
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by shakow 1y ago
> to become a leading economy in the region. Leading compared to what, Romania and North Macedonia? > support for Russia is somehow magically going down I don't think support for Russia was ever notably involved in the whole clus
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by shakow 1y ago
> others say it was poorly managed suppression of a rebellion in a dying empire I don't think many say that at all outside of Turkey/Azerbaijan/Pakistan.
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by shakow 1y ago
> perfectly comfortable Seeing that virtually none of these are pronounced as they are in the original, I would say that English keeps them out of respect for their source language, but is definitely not comfortable with them.
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by shakow 1y ago
It is a problem in baseload grid, but this is a global issue is shared with wind/solar – unless we find a way to sync demand peaks with wind/Sun peaks, that is solved by other means of energy buffering.
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by shakow 1y ago
True, but the market moves fast because renewables (or, more precisely, wind & solar) move fast. There is not much fast trading to be done on a nuke/gas/coal/hydro powerplant ramping up or down, but there is a lot of inst
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by shakow 1y ago
That sail-trained sailors make better sailors than engine-trained sailors is similar to how glider-trained pilots make better pilots after transition than engine-trained pilots. They typically acquired a better understanding of the medium t
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by shakow 1y ago
> ostensible That's a very load-bearing word there.
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by shakow 1y ago
> believe that it's perfectly legitimate to steal from someone who has ever, themselves, done anything in the past you consider wrong. That's not my point, no – if only because inter-personal relations are not and should not be
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by shakow 1y ago
Whereas Antiquity Egyptians were well-known for being a well-behaving people, that never ever dared touch their neighbor's property? Didn't countless Pharaohs proudly inscribed in stone how many foes they killed, how many lands th
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by shakow 1y ago
I mean, if you really want to go down this way, it does not really belong to the Egyptians either. It's not because current-day Egyptians share the same land as antiquity Egyptians that they are the same people – countless waves of war
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by shakow 2y ago
Isn't that tech billionaires in general?
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by shakow 2y ago
So that you can AUKUS us once again after signing the first waves of contracts? :)
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by shakow 2y ago
> listening to authors who clearly are over-emotional about subjects isn't a way to learn more. Independently of the guy's own politics (I only know his “Linux Sucks” videos), he is directly citing an official Mozilla[1] docume
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by shakow 2y ago
Outside of all this culture war stuff, on a much more tangible subject, I guarantee you that for the money they sank in their flashy Paris headquarters[1,2] (thousands of m² in one of the fanciest areas), they could have paid for hundreds o
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by shakow 2y ago
> Calling people children for correcting your assumptions I'm pretty sure that's an abbreviation for “children comments”.
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by shakow 2y ago
> European airports don't bother with shoe removal. They do, just kind of “at random”. I had it sometimes a bit of everywhere in Europe.
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by shakow 2y ago
> They identified the at-risk farms right away Yes, the “at-risk”, not the “incubator”, and notice the plural form to “farms”. China has never pretended having found a farm that would have been the source of the virus. > The US would
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by shakow 2y ago
If it were coming from a farm population, I would have expected the said farm to have been found pretty easily by the Chinese investigation – and they would have had no incentive to hide it, as it would have pinned covid on basically a bad
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by shakow 2y ago
Multiple zoonosis events from close strains over a couple months from a local animal population strikes high on the probability scale. Virtually simultaneous, in time and space, zoonosis events from different strains at the same place is st
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by shakow 2y ago
> Except it's in the other direction. What? You're aware that Yunnan literally shares a border with Laos?
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by shakow 2y ago
But SARS outbreak was from a single strain, wasn't it? It's not the “two zoonosis” that I find to be low-probability, it's the “two zoonosis of two different strains at the same place & time”.
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by shakow 2y ago
> was rightly rejected by people who care more about evidence than spreading hatred. The French CNRS, well know to be a right-wing US actor wanting to spread hate https://lejournal.cnrs.fr/articles/la-question-de-lor
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by shakow 2y ago
TBF, the idea of two zoonosis event, at the same, and virtually at the same time, do not rank very higher in the probability scale either.
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by shakow 2y ago
> I suppose that could happen if what they were carrying wasn't capable of human transmission yet, but was capable of infecting some species of the live animals at the market Or if infected carrions from the labs were sold at the ma
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by shakow 2y ago
I don't know for “you”, but the French « vous » (or e.g. вы, вие, etc.) are only formal in the singular form, otherwise they're just bog standard 2pp.
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by shakow 2y ago
> He was both He absolutely was not pre-WWII. > as were many generals of the 3rd republic. He was not a general during the 3rd, safe for its last few months.
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by shakow 2y ago
And do you think that laws are the solution to that? Just take a look at Germany right now; their system is much less chancellor-ized, and it is still a clusterfuck right now. Like tech is not the solution to social problems, laws are not t
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by shakow 2y ago
I'd bet on “llo” + the right part of the arabic word having been selected with the mouse, then the selection having been extended with the right arrow to encompass the “he”.
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by shakow 2y ago
> but it’s definitely not forcing people to accept it. No one is forced to accept it. The big whiny outbursts from the old guard was when the RfL guys asked them to specify their implementations; they were never asked to touch a LoC of R

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