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by sofixa 1y ago
That's because people confuse generic fascism with nazism. A big part of the difference is the virulent antisemitism. Trump and his friends are fascists (corporatism, corruption, strongman rule, us vs them with human rights abuses vs t
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Per unit purchase cost is the wrong metric for something which will be used for decades. Compare operating costs and availability, and the Gripen gives you drastically more bang for your buck.
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You're either misremembering or misunderstood something, or I'm not understanding what you mean, because Mentour Pilot literally has a channel with nothing but air crash investigation videos: https://youtube.com/@m
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Yes, I was refuting the generic "planes don't dump fuel" statement.
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by sofixa 1y ago
> most planes can't dump fuel anymore. if it's a serious enough emergency you land overweight. When fuel is dumped, it's at high altitude where it just evaporates. Short haul jets can't do it, but their max takeoff we
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Most of his videos are on crashes. He has said he won't speculate on active investigations, but has already done videos on what is known, and preliminary reports.
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Alternatively, communications fatigue. How many emails does the average employee get with nonsense that doesn't apply to them? Oh cool, we have a new VP. Oh cool, that department had a charity drive. Oh cool, system I've never hea
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by sofixa 1y ago
While C++ is unquestionably still widely used, outside of legacy and some niches (like embedded) it's not in the top 3 "best" choices. Why teach a more complicated language with a poorer ecosystem and toolchain than is actual
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by sofixa 1y ago
> Additionally, HashiCorp changed the terms of service on the registry, making it only acceptable to use the official terraform binaries to download modules or providers. Why would HashiCorp provide free hosting of providers and modules
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> Probably because Terraform’s value was always the community of providers and modules, and that was in danger. It was never in danger, the providers remained under MPL and were explicitly excluded from the licensing change, with a good
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> How on Earth did the system being vandalised and dismantled by these morons ever come into being in the first place? The saddest part, IMO, is that 20-50% of the population see nothing wrong with all of this. Things will have to get a
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by sofixa 1y ago
> but the last couple of years pulled back the curtain revealing the true nature of western democracy There isn't a singular "western" democracy. Different countries have varying levels of (dis)functional democracies and f
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That's like saying that you never own your car because you have to put fuel in it for it to run, or need to have it registered / tested, or you need a licence to be able to operate it. If you redefine "own" to mean whate
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Jevons paradox. Productivity has increased, but so has consumption because those productivity increases have decreased cost and made many things more affordable and normal.
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> Then be prepared to answer the accountability question, for when the system inevitably fails. Airplanes have gotten increasingly automated. Who is responsible when Airbus' excellent automations that have prevented countless upsets
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> bullet trains between farm towns, This is disingenuous and you know it. I think it was the wrong choice for a number of reasons, but the farm towns in question are just first lot of the whole network, starting with the (supposedly) eas
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> Ethics are entirely subjective That's obviously not true. Is it ethical to have slaves or kill children? No, objectively, it is not.
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> Ethics are super subjective (and often change based on politics). That's obviously not true. Ethics often have some nuance and some subjectiveness, but it's not something entirely subjective up to "politics". Saying
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My bad, I thought it's the two. But they don't break out costs, so in reality we don't know if YouTube is profitable or not.
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by sofixa 1y ago
I read their comment as meaning that Nvidia should prioritise a specific kind of consumer/prosumer hardware. Nobody is running H100s at home, nor are most video companies running ones. So the choice for them is to "rent" th
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by sofixa 1y ago
> Google is making money hosting these videos This isn't certain. Google do not break out Youtube revenues nor costs. Hosting this amount of videos, globally, redundantly, the vast majority of which are basically never watched, cann
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by sofixa 1y ago
The "incident" has to be pretty severe for you to be debanked in multiple EU+UK countries. Little less than terrorism would do it (I was going to say coup attempt might, but the Catalan leaders who tried to illegally secede from S
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Don't have to be - fintechs like Revolut, Wise, N26 are based in different countries, but service customers in a decent chunk of Europe.
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by sofixa 1y ago
The solution for that is to have redundancy via multiple bank accounts, ideally in multiple countries. Then nothing short of planning a serious terrorist act can get you kicked out of all accounts.
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by sofixa 1y ago
> The primary purpose of a bank is to issue debt. That’s why they were created Yes > A bank has to be able to “print” money to issue debt Absolutely not, especially not in the context which you just said ("that's why they we
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by sofixa 1y ago
Look, if you're that uninformed, why bother commenting at all? Especially if you're in France, your takes on what constitutes socialism are weird to say the least. SNCF operate those unprofitable routes in the middle of nowhere o
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But it still requires multiple orgs, and the UX is still poor. It's like AWS accounts vs GCP projects. Yeah, there are ways around the organisational limitations, but the UX is still leaky.
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GitHub are terrible at this, because you can't have levels other than Org and Repository. And many things (SSO, visibility rules, common configs) are on the org level. Unfortunately often the cleaner option is to create a separate org,
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by sofixa 1y ago
This is often said, but misses entirely the forest for the trees. The ATC shortage is not in the pipeline of candidates, so this is irrelevant - in fact there's a backlog of people who have been accepted. It's in the training of t
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> So the only government that would enforce this is the one that has no chance of competing in this space in the first place (EU) Mistral waves hello. They're alive and well, and competing well. Also, while the AI Act and copyright

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