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by sofixa 1y ago
Who went to jail over a meme?
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It doesn't downplay anything. The Nazis didn't start by slaughtering millions, they did a bunch of other things before that to establish their rule, and importantly, to clarify who the outgroup is, deny them rights, and paint them
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This is par for the course for Azure. Their security posture is genuinely terrifyingly lackluster. https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/azures_vulnerabilities_ar... This is from a few years ago but nothing seems to have
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Why is it offensive? The current US administration has an outgroup they say ludicrous things about (do you remember the "eating pets" bit?), and have started rounding them up (by masked men in unidentified vehicles and without uni
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Nobody is saying that Ukraine is winning the war. Like, genuinely, go find me any reputable news source saying anything of the like from the past 3 years. Russia is definitely losing it though. Morons got themselves into a war they cannot
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> Also the only way multiculturalism can work is through a totalitarian state which is why surveillance and censorship is so big in the UK. That seems like a wild claim to make without any supporting evidence. Even Switzerland can be use
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> Plus as one of the parent comments said, I am not paying before I get an idea what I'm paying for. The logic was, you aren't paying to a website. You're paying to a broker that distributes how much you've paid to al
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Yes. It's always weird to me that people expect laws written over centuries, using precedents from even more centuries, to be able cover scenarios their authors couldn't have possibly imagined. Civil law countries seem better at k
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The Web Monetisation protocol solved this by doing a prorata based on how long you spent on the page.
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> Standard plan is £5.99 in UK, €7.99 in france, $7.99 in the US. So the US is the cheapest of those after currency conversion Standard with ads , which is distorting because ads have a different cost and benefit (more expensive and luc
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by sofixa 1y ago
> If you hate setting up automated certificate renewal, you can still get longer-lasting certificates from paid certificate providers. Not for much longer, the maximum lifetime of a public certificate will progressively go down to 47 day
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by sofixa 1y ago
> You don't need recourse to GDP, you can just look at household income which really is higher. Income would include the money being immediately spent to cover debt (be it student loans, mortgage, medical, car). > Most things do
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I think the bigger issue is the need for a car. In most of the US, everything is built with the assumption you'll be driving to it (workplaces, stores, facilities, etc). So everyone has to have a car. So your social mobility is lim
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by sofixa 1y ago
> Also Europeans make less money, pay more taxes, and have less access to credit, so they can’t afford more expensive cars like many Americans Funnily your last point invalidates your first. Most Americans are loaded on debt, which impac
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by sofixa 1y ago
> Japan is more advanced than West in terms of privacy protection Please stop confusing the US / maybe UK, Canada, Australia, NZ with "the West". Countries like Germany and France have very strong privacy protections.
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> It's not in Basic, Standard or Premium. For me, it shows all the Gemini stuff in Premium, even the 5TB version.
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> I will call out one thing for European readers. You’re suspiciously absent on lists of battery build outs. You guys don’t have lots or lobbying from legacy power providers wanting to maintain the ridiculously high peak prices by any ch
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Realistically, almost nobody has this type of usage. And for those that do, yes, serverless autoscaling up from zero is not appropriate.
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India in particular has a massive government program to bring running and drinking water to a bigger part of its population. Most countries are capable of doing more than one project at a time.
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> On one side, France in particular, but many other "developed" nations as well have stepped in to build the infrastructure and provide clean water to places where it was problematic. > Only to monopolize water distribution
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I read it more as a timeline of Boeing failures and the type of reputation Boeing now (rightfully) has. There is little speculation about what actually happened to the Air India 787.
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Why do people always shift the goal posts like this? - Initial claim: "Europe doesn't have tech companies" - Rebuttal listing a bunch - "No, but look at market cap or number of jobs, it's not the same!" Which i
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> Without people choosing to open phones? Computers? Spending hours on the internet a day? Exploiting basic human psychology to incite people to come back to consume whatever you're giving them (small dopamine hits) doesn't abs
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> Across most of Europe (not all - the Baltic states have produced quite a few unicorns) there’s a pervasive attitude that technology is… icky. Struggling to come up with a better way of putting it, but at best entrepreneurship in tech i
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> Tech is inherently monopolistic due to network effects and infinite scaling Social media, yes. There are no network effects on most other "big tech" mono/oligopolies - using Google vs Bing vs Kagi or Claude.ai vs ChatGP
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> the Dems campaign funds were 3 times the Republicans at the last election so the corporate donors were very much on their side. I'm not going to fact check that because it's probably wrong, but regardless, it doesn't mat
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> Well, how much have the shipments solved? Any peace agreement after these years of carnage will be a lot worse for Ukraine than was on the table in 2022. What peace deal was on the table for Ukraine in 2022? Surrender and let their pop
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> I see these changes in enforcement as positive to me, as they do not restrict me in any way except in false positives And false positives based on random things such as tattoos resulting in getting shipped to a concentration camp, with
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While I agree on Corbyn being wrongly painted as an antisemite, he is still a piece of shit Putin lackey. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/aug/02/jeremy-corb... August 2022, after the invasion o
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> but when Americans were faced with a choice between a racist, misogynist, fraudulent, insurrectionist sex offender and anyone else, they showed their values. Don't forget serial cheater with multiple divorces (supposedly the choic

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