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by throw_pm23 2y ago
Things in tech I found joy in the last few years: .
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by throw_pm23 2y ago
That's partly true, but on the other hand less intensive, less industrialized food production will end up with safer food. The apple or tomato from your grandma's backyard in Eastern Europe will have less chemicals than the one gr
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by throw_pm23 2y ago
A cute and thought-provoking theorem for sure, but arguably none of the three given criteria for clustering are well motivated, so the result is much less relevant than usually claimed. - scale-invariance: stretching data along some dimensi
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by throw_pm23 2y ago
The counterparty risk is too large.
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by throw_pm23 2y ago
I predict your 100-years storage to last about 2 years.
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by throw_pm23 2y ago
Why do you think it is an inconvenience for people to meet other people they know and/or like? You could see it as a last gift from you to bring them together.
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by throw_pm23 2y ago
Reminded me of the famous quote by Twain: "When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
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by throw_pm23 2y ago
Yeah, will definitely rewatch. I vaguely remember that it felt a bit arbitrary in the end what happened with the pianist "nick nightingale". I read in Roger Ebert's review, that he would have enjoyed a twist in the end, where
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by throw_pm23 2y ago
For comparison, Wikipedia says that 70 kilotons were dropped on Gaza in the first 6 months of the current campaign and between 10 and 20 kilotons in the bombing campaign of 2014.
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by throw_pm23 2y ago
The atmosphere of the movie is amazing, as you say. But the storyline in the end seems not to tie together, and not in the intentional way like, e.g., a David Lynch movie would mess with the story on purpose, but in the sense that "we
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The Case Against Google's Claims of "Quantum Supremacy"(gilkalai.wordpress.com)
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by throw_pm23 2y ago
No two cases are exactly the same. But annulling an election due to irregularities or campaign law violations is a possibility in any democracy.
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by throw_pm23 2y ago
You are wrong, the same thing happened in Austria in 2016. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Austrian_presidential_ele...
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by throw_pm23 2y ago
To be honest, I think this guy just had more charisma. He really feels like a very natural salesman, with a smooth voice, gray hair, catchy turns of phrases, etc. While I think what he said was ultimately shallow, I see why many felt hypnot
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by throw_pm23 2y ago
You would be breaking Romanian law if you did that, which you may or may not care about of course.
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by throw_pm23 2y ago
Not many cases? There are many people tried and jailed for corruption, including previous mayors, senators, ministers, more than one prime minister even. Of the many possible critiques of Romania, not jailing corrupt politicians is among
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by throw_pm23 2y ago
Yes, one of the common pastimes of eastern europeans is being very critical of themselves and their countries, sometimes missing that others have largely the same problems, but with better press.
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by throw_pm23 2y ago
It's less important than seems at first. It was a tight race with 10+ candidates, these two went into the second round. If the entire procedure is annulled and repeated, the other person in the second round is also disadvantaged as her
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by throw_pm23 2y ago
A similar thing happened in Austria in 2016 where election results were cancelled due to campaign finances violations.
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by throw_pm23 2y ago
It was only ~2 million votes, as it was a first round with 10+ candidates. I disagree it was about voting the right way, it was about campaign law violation.
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by throw_pm23 2y ago
That's an excellent summary. I'd add: - Someone so unexpectedly winning the first round creates its own myth, and people tend to join such candidates "to be on the winner's side", so he seemed to have a solid chance
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by throw_pm23 2y ago
On the second point I completely agree with you. She appears to be collateral damage at this point. Perhaps that will raise sympathy and she can get into the second round again.
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by throw_pm23 2y ago
The documents explain clearly that thousands of sleeper accounts were activated days before the election and shared and promoted campaign material that was not marked as such in a highly coordinated way that suggests a state actor.
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by throw_pm23 2y ago
No, there are clear laws that candidates have to mark their campaign ads as such and that they have to declare their campaign finances. One candidate did not do this.
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by throw_pm23 2y ago
The facts were emerging faster than people could follow. Now at least people have a few weeks to cool down and think about it.
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by throw_pm23 2y ago
No, this is about common rules for everyone. Campaign material had to be marked as such and campaign finances had to be declared. One candidate blatantly failed to do so and won the first round. The court took a bold decision.
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by throw_pm23 2y ago
At least everyone has some time to cool down and think and absorb all the information that came out in the last few days.
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by throw_pm23 2y ago
The supposed campaign on tiktok ran days before the election. It is remarkable for state organs to be able to act within a week or so. Annulling the election in this situation seems the right thing to do. A similar cancellation of results h
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by throw_pm23 2y ago
They had to make a quick call, in my book they acted boldly, the risks of the alternative were greater. Everyone has time to cool down and think about it, and the candidate can win if he is good. In the last few days all new information has
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by throw_pm23 2y ago
This is a bit like a football referee looking at the videos after a goal and deciding that it was a handball, thus invalidating the goal. It is not an easy decision to make but better to do it quickly.

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