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by tchalla 1mo ago
Do you have a source for that?
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by tchalla 1mo ago
A couple of days ago it was Ghandi instead of Gandhi. I understand it's not a big deal. But it's also not a big deal to get the spelling right.
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by tchalla 1mo ago
> The EU now makes more in fines from American companies than it does in taxes from its own tech industry. That's because American tech doesn't pay its fair share of taxes to the EU compared to its revenue.
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by tchalla 1mo ago
> GDPR rules ban decisions made solely by computer algorithms when they have a significant impact on people’s lives, such as on employment, saying such decisions require meaningful human review and a way to challenge a decision. The law
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by tchalla 1mo ago
And it’s also incredibly tiring to force legal paradigms of one country over another. Don’t like it? Don’t operate. Please don’t operate and whine how the country is not bending over backwards to your demands.
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by tchalla 1mo ago
Are you saying that we should allow a Uber to do whatever they want because of scale they are operating? It’s Uber choice to operate at scale. No one forced them to.
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Over 170k Nonprofits Lost All Their Data. Is Microsoft to Blame?(slate.com)
306 points by tchalla 1mo ago|157 comments
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Limnic Eruption(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by tchalla 2mo ago|0 comments
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France issues warning over substandard condoms(dw.com)
4 points by tchalla 2mo ago|1 comments
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by tchalla 2mo ago
Gandhi*
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From "default dead" to living the future of cancer care(cancerletter.com)
1 points by tchalla 2mo ago|0 comments
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by tchalla 2mo ago
The system is made for humans, not laws of physics.
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by tchalla 2mo ago
> And our behavior is that our governments give lax regulations and consumer hostile legislation to growing monopolies which abuse their power dynamics to maximize profits above all else. In other words: blame capitalism, not our value j
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by tchalla 2mo ago
I will just leave this here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revealed_preference
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by tchalla 2mo ago
Principal agent problem combined with a monopoly, what could go wrong? In the end, we as a society value convenience more than global optima. So we will always land in some local optima. We deserve it.
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by tchalla 2mo ago
Side note- The Screenshot culture itself needs to die, sorry. Many a time, a share button simply works. I don’t know why people would share a screenshot or a map instead of pin and share their location. Yes there are cases where a screensho
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by tchalla 2mo ago
It’s a new buzzword where everyone says it but means entirely different things. You can use it to sound smart whenever there’s a conversation about how you’re not extracting value from your coding agent and also when you are extracting real
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Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine and refused to profit from it(bbc.com)
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by tchalla 2mo ago
The costs are allocated proportionally of course. If I were to reframe my earlier comment, the losing party bears the cost of litigation.
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by tchalla 2mo ago
In Germany, the losing party pays 3x the court costs. The only issue is that everyone gets paid - the lawyer, the court etc. The only person that doesn’t get paid for their time investment is the person who is suing.
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Should you stop cracking your knuckles?(bbc.com)
128 points by tchalla 2mo ago|139 comments
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Four simple rules behind Japan's most liveable cities(bbc.com)
143 points by tchalla 2mo ago|178 comments
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Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI(queue.acm.org)
291 points by tchalla 2mo ago|249 comments
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AI scammers outperform humans when it comes to building trust(wired.com)
5 points by tchalla 2mo ago|0 comments
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by tchalla 2mo ago
I tried to signup and got an "Internal Server Error" post the auth callback. Embarrassing for Cloudflare. Par for the vibe coded culture I guess.
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by tchalla 2mo ago
You know the parent comment is blaming immigration for the current status of Munich right?
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by tchalla 2mo ago
On rules - they certainly create clarity and also have the potential to enable NPC like behaviour which is all too common. Since you mentioned Traffic Light Coalition, the chancellor Olaf Scholz (who is a lawyer and was also the ex-mayor of
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Crypto miners are stealing power in Southeast Asia(dw.com)
13 points by tchalla 2mo ago|0 comments
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by tchalla 2mo ago
And then we wonder why people don’t believe news articles.
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by tchalla 2mo ago
I think all these silly little acronyms and abbreviations are the real cancer. I don’t why people feel the need to use it. Poor communication skills in my books.

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