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by sofixa 1y ago
> I mean, this is kinda what you expect from software written in Go, right Unlike real software, written by real men, in Assembly, on paper, bare chested during a full moon, right? > The point of go is to make is it so that below
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> Shouldn’t the customers‘ revenue also rise if AI fulfills its productivity promises Not necessarily, see the Jevons paradox.
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> Of course you can blame the school. They were too lazy to look at context and determine if the threat was real and credible Do you think whoever is doing this at the school is a qualified professional, e.g. a child/teen psychiatri
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A joke which could, out of context, be interpreted to be a threat of violence: > on Thursday we kill all the Mexico’s Especially considering the frequency of violence in American schools, can't really blame the school for jumping to
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> But Bangladesh isn’t the way it is because of Bangladeshis, and it’s “racist” to suggest that importing 50,000 Bangladeshis to an enclave in the US would recreate dynamics that prevail in Dhaka And that's fine to say. However, it
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> I wouldn't bribe you to not give me money But you would definitely bribe so your competitors don't get money and your services are required for longer. Existing coal and various other fossil fuel power generating and supply
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> Its disscussed here, still nobody is acting No, it's discussed everywhere, at the EU and the local level. There has been plenty of action at various levels (like in France, under Macron first as minister of the economy and later p
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> or trying to warp the narrative into whatever supports your perception We all know the answer to that question, unfortunately.
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> Culture is a real thing that exists, and it’s okay to prefer your own! Yes, it is. There is quite the leap from "preferring your own" to lying about a specific group are doing something morally objectionable, in order to rein
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> I don't see why "asking for less regulation" concerns you. Because the "less regulation" is in response to the EU saying you can't have algorithms making life or death decisions if they can't be expla
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Why not? The fact that even the overtly Nazi Musk led xAI's Grok can't shake a "left" bias (left for the US political spectrum, which is to the right of the centre in most other developed countries) proves this wrong. Th
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> So we’re going to judge what’s “legitimately” racist through what Democrats think is racist? It’s like you’re trying to prove my point! Expanding the concept of “racism” to encompass unrelated beliefs and preferences is a liberal idea,
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> You mention "checks and balances" but which ones are you referring to? All three branches of government are controlled by the same party. Perhaps you can clarify if I'm mistaken, but you seem to be referring to anti-demo
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> I stated quite clearly that not every regulation is bad. But it seems that you want to hear that every decision made by the EU is right. I'm sorry, but I'm not a religious person. And I think self-criticism is a great privile
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> Regarding the rest, the EU is mining competition with the obsession of regulating everything. Like with DMA/DSA that force gatekeepers to open up? SEPA that mandates free immediate bank transfers? Caps on credit/debit card tr
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> You need the government to cajole the market to create safe and free inter bank transfer programs We've had that in EU/eurozone for years, SEPA.
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> The idea that the US should be non-democratic is very fringe The theoretical idea, maybe. In practice, one party dismantling democratic institutions and checks and balances, or stacking the courts, or accepting bribes in public, or dra
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> Otherwise you don’t have a real democracy. I don't know how this myth came to be. One would think that the experiences of the Weimar Republic would be enough to learn the lesson. No, a democracy doesn't have to allow forces t
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> Those film studios play the streaming services against one another, often allowing the exclusive right to offer certain content for a limited time, after which they then lease the rights to a competing service. Even worse, a lot of the
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> but are actually leased by their operators in Europe; there are five or six, I think, main ROSCOs —- rolling stock companies —- in the UK for example. Nah, this is a UK absurdity because they UK decided to privatise their railways in t
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> cheaper than trains (and therefore lower environmental impact) How does that work? For the same amount of capacity, vans are not and probably never will be cheaper. Steel wheels on rails, with massive capacity, is just drastically more
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> Tesla salespeople do not work on commission I work with tech salespeople with a variety of former employers as tech sales people, and I've never heard of anyone having worked without a commission. I'm vaguely in tech sales my
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By that metric even VMware's vSphere with its abominable excuses for APIs also count as elastic. If you have to manage the hardware yourself, have to plan and pay for upfront for the maximum capacity you would need, and there are fixed
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They're a perfect example of why the old adage of "do one thing and do it well" often doesn't scale as a business. If platforms can provide a competing service, bundled within their package, many will pick it, even if
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What? You can auth to booking.com with a password just fine (I just did it this morning). Many sites have "magic links" (they sent you a link to login via email instead of having to write a in password), but there's almost al
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No, it's just how sales works, it's almost always on commission.
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> On-demand elastic resources Which is kind of wrong, because there is nothing elastic nor "on demand" about metal you buy.
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Because sales people are used to work on incentives, including going over and getting rewarded for it. If they have a fixed salary with a high objective to "make it" (e.g. if you sell less than $X, you get fired), lots of sales fo
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You don't sound like the average user. They either already have a gmail, or sign up for one my scanning the QR code you mention. I don't recall if a phone number is mandatory, but the average user probably has one, doesn't mi
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I spent 10 days in Nice and the close suburbs in June, and have been there and in the area 5-6 different times over the past 10 years. Nice attempt at invalidating my opinion, but you still haven't explained how a new law being passed

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