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by sofixa 1y ago
Could you expand on what you mean by "war on boyhood"?
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> I would argue that their refusal to really cut government spending in general makes them more left-leaning That's a common misconception (that right leaning governments are somehow fiscally responsible. Some are, to a fault (auste
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> It is the largest party in Parliament and it difficult to argue that 30-45% (depending on elections) of the French are "far right": They are not. Objectively, they are. And another 30% are for centre/centre-right/ri
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> There's no crisis of messed up kids or young adults This is objectively not true. Not to say that a porn ban combined with age restrictions would help, but it's just objectively not true. * Rise of incels as a thing, and even
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by sofixa 1y ago
> That is in large part French propaganda in service of French interests—manufacturing consent for continuing French imperialism over their maltreated colonies; and delegitimizing narratives that speak counter to that—delegitimizing the
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> Regarding France, it is a big stretch to paint the National Rally as "far right" at this point. The label is mostly over-used to create tactical FUD against them. Their main talking points are against immigrants. They have ex
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> while some other parties choose to suppress that viewpoint as being right wing propaganda and that in reality there are no issue with open borders To start with, there is no such thing as open borders (unless you mean Schengen?). Secon
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> In our case, having a full history of all opinions, interactions, locations, and behavior linked to full identity of people is what we are ultimately talking about here. It's already well on its way, but it will make it worse. Wel
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by sofixa 1y ago
I ran a Dell XPS (not even the Canonical certified version) for a few years at a past job, and everything worked pretty well under Ubuntu. But it's always a matter of which exact hardware combination has mainstream support, and if the
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by sofixa 1y ago
After you jumped to bug juice, yes, obviously cars make a big part of your identity.
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> Sure, but the question was specifically regarding credit cards, not debit cards. In which case, they would be correct in that penetration is appears lower for credit cards in the EU no? Yes, but that's because credit cards aren&#x
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FWIW credit/debit card transaction fees are capped in the EU/SEPA, to 0.3% for credit and 0.2% for debit. 3% is absurd .
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That's only in the US. The few other countries that have credit scoring mostly have negative scores (basically, a lender can check if a prospective borrower has failed to pay loans/taxes/etc. previously). And it is only restr
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by sofixa 1y ago
> Does Pix offer something like credit card rewards? I understand that you ultimately pay for this through fees that make prices slightly higher, but it is still an incentive to use credit cards over other payment methods. No, because it
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by sofixa 1y ago
Kind of, but with easier UX - because a SEPA transfer, which is free and instantaneous, still requires the sharing of a bank account number, while Wero works with QR codes, phone numbers, etc. They're also planning to expand it to NFC
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by sofixa 1y ago
> Nobody is trying to outlaw public transport In Anglophone North America, a lot of people ate trying and succeeding in crippling it to such an extent that only those who literally have no other choice use it. > there absolutely peopl
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> For your own mental health, you need to take a breath and try and not take alternative viewpoints as personal attacks Like jumping to prison cells and bug juice at the hint of reducing the amount of cars on the roads?
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> But, not having a car is a tradeoff YOU are willing to make so your are ok with pushing it on others. Nobody is trying to take your car away, you scared person who cannot fathom not being attached to a car. I'm merely saying there
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by sofixa 1y ago
> Do you have any idea how many hours the average person uses their phone Irrelevant on the topic of there being more efficient modes of transportation of humans in dense environments. > There is no other object that has been a greate
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by sofixa 1y ago
> I'm sure you feel the same way about cutting down on cell phones right How many people die in cell phone accidents yearly where you live? How many have reduced lifespans due to the pollution of cell phones? And how many hours can
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by sofixa 1y ago
> horrific crimes like setting up websites that reduce real-world violence Are you still talking about Ross Ulbricht? I'd be curious to hear how you ended up with that as a description for Silk Road.
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> slightly higher tire wear (due to weight) And thus higher tire particle pollution. And it's not slightly, EVs are on average 10-15% heavier than similar ICE vehicles. We've now found that a lot of the various small particle p
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by sofixa 1y ago
Don't even need an LLM, a regex would have sufficed (I've used my fair share of community sourced subtitles, and comments are almost always in a different font, colour, between brackets, etc etc).
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Their main defence is that it's fair use because it's transformative (like a human reading a book, getting inspired, and writing something of their own) and not a copypaste illegal distribution (like a human scanning that book and
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> DIY bare metal Even then you can run a central Vault/OpenBao/whatever deployment.
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> Base load is a myth; as long as you can orchestrate low carbon energy (nuclear + renewables + hydro), storage (hydro and batteries), transmission, and load shifting and shedding, the grid will continue to operate at expected service le
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by sofixa 1y ago
I'm not sure I like the concept. Realistically, why would your different environments have different ways of consuming secrets from different locations? Yes, you wouldn't use AWS Secrets Manager in your local testing, maybe... but
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> log as JSON objects instead of lines of text Or logfmt which is easier to read for humans, lower overhead, and is still structured and supported in at least Grafana/Loki for parsing and queries.
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Anyone using Azure is bizarre. Just search for Azure on wiz.io's blog, the amount of terrible yet easy to exploit security vulnerabilities, often with shit responses from Microsoft, is terrifying. It clearly demonstrates nobody with po
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> Having worked for the French state and wrestled a few times with its IT services, I can tell you that the reason for choosing Microsoft isn't cost, or "efficiency While this is generally not wrong, the French state still uses

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