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by snehk 2y ago
And if all their demands were met today - or let's say the UK ceases to exist today and doesn't emit anything anymore - how would that impact climate change? Last time I checked the methods of measuring temperature via satellites
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by snehk 2y ago
> What I'm really surprised about is how X is still operating in the US or here in Europe. Me too, which is crazy. I remember when news outlets in Europe were complaining about how Russia forbids websites where people could talk fre
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by snehk 2y ago
Add Germany to that list. A girl was sentenced to actual jail for insulting a rapist who was spared jail. Absolute madness.
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by snehk 2y ago
> when we actually reach zero emissions Where does this mindset come from that this is necessary? There's no data to back this up.
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by snehk 2y ago
You can literally set up your own OpenStreetMap instance in ten minutes. It's a simple 'docker run'-command. Sure, indexing will take a bit but even that can't take that long given their resources. That's just ridic
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by snehk 2y ago
> DB is better than it's reputation. What's good about it exactly? They're not reliable, they're overpriced compared to any other form of transportation, you need to reserve a seat even if you pay for first class and
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by snehk 2y ago
> We still have a great standard of lifing. Which has gone down in the last 10 years. There's absolutely no indication that anything in this regard will improve. All metrics show a downwards trend. Be it homeownership, financial sec
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by snehk 2y ago
> And if they're scared, they've been given reason to be scared. We've just had elections in the EU and you won't believe how many people are scared of migrants. Now everyone can just say they're afraid of being
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by snehk 2y ago
I'm so happy that, when working with .xlsx files, I usually only need the results. That's why I always convert them (put them in a DB) and then do all the work there and export the results. I read that Pandas works well, too, but
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by snehk 2y ago
> the ambiguous ‘Contact Us’ is a huge turn off Same. About three years ago we introduced a company wide policy to not buy anything where the price is not known. So, so much time (money) being wasted on figuring out the actual costs, the
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by snehk 2y ago
TikTok has a rating of 12+ on the app stor in EU.
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by snehk 3y ago
That's like telling someone it was wrong of them to not do CPR after they've found a rotting corpse without a head. Switzerland has so little impact on the global climate, it's laughable and nothing Switzerland could do would
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by snehk 3y ago
It's on their website. https://www.seattleschools.org/departments/advanced-learning...
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by snehk 3y ago
Is it gonna be the good racism™ where it's against asians and whites?
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by snehk 3y ago
> Legal? Maybe not - but here in reality you have little recourse. The recourse would be to simply not move out. Even if it's in the contract, illegal parts of the contract are void.
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by snehk 3y ago
When I was in Uni, we tested air quality at bus stops (where most people complain about smoke smell) and then a few meters away. Turned out that most of the pollution came not from cigarette smoke but from cars, tires and whatnot. I also do
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by snehk 3y ago
There are various US newspapers that don't show any content in the EU because they don't want to comply with EU privacy laws. These companies are free to comply with the laws and can then show their content. Same with Facebook in
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by snehk 3y ago
> I may be wrong, but from what I've seen, the majority of "prevention of other people from speaking" is done to people who are not really constructive and muddy the water. No one on this planet (China, Russia, North Korea
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by snehk 3y ago
I've read the whole thing but the fact that the argument isn't "more qualified female candidates were overlooked" tells me the Institute made the correct decision.
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by snehk 3y ago
Neither Google nor Facebook are banned in China. They could operate there if they follow the same laws as every other company in that country. Just like some US newspapers don't show Europeans any content because they choose to not com
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by snehk 3y ago
To clarify, those were not bans. They were decisions by companies not to follow the laws that every other company in that country has to follow as well.
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by snehk 3y ago
Germany's current government is anything but right wing and it's the only large economy on this planet that's literally shrinking.
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by snehk 3y ago
No, they're not allowed because they don't want to follow the same laws that Chinese companies have to follow. The rules are the same for Chinese companies and those from other countries.
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by snehk 3y ago
Didn't pretty much everyone hang out with with Jeffrey Epstein as well? Or with war criminals like Bush? How can people think "oh, he hangs out with Alex Jones" is an argument?
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by snehk 3y ago
Me too, they're coming for the socialists and I'm not a socialist so why would I care.
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by snehk 3y ago
I love how the arguments against carbon capture are the _exact_ same arguments against phasing out fossil fuels from a few decades ago. "Oh no, it's not possible, think about how much it'll cost. It's just not efficient.
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by snehk 3y ago
> They then use this skill to force the owner of the phone to unlock it and further find the banking apps or similar to get more money from the victim. Can you explain this part? Why would any owner cooperate with the criminals in this c
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by snehk 3y ago
Anecdotal, but I'm in Poland for the weekend every other week and I've never seen this.
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by snehk 3y ago
Welp. Time for a conference we all fly to using private jets to tell the plebs how it's their doing that's destroying the planet. Maybe agree on a tax or something that screws over the little guy while having absolutely no effect
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by snehk 3y ago
Was that the first time the subway was flooded?

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