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by thworp 2y ago
This was more of a gesture towards the aristocracy that was still heavily present in the Army. For some context, the french also insisted that the 1919 Treaty of Versailles was signed in the same place as the 1871 Treaty of Versailles (whic
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by thworp 2y ago
> I seem to remember that due to political infighting and ass-covering, they never really tried it. What do you mean by "never really tried it"? This was a state that set production quotas, dictated prices, and set priorities
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by thworp 2y ago
re. 1: Assuming the source of the attribution is acting with pure intentions, it is usually a preponderance of (mostly circumstantial) evidence. Does the malware and MO look similar to past known attacks? Did they leave any localized string
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by thworp 2y ago
A very good alternative to ranger is lf https://github.com/gokcehan/lf It's a lot faster in all aspects, has mostly the same features and is pretty much a standalone binary. edit: an even more minimal alteranative
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by thworp 2y ago
> Consider this: markets exist in supposedly non-capitalist countries. They existed in the Communist bloc. We've got cuneiform tablets describing markets going back 5000+ years. Capitalism didn't create markets or a market econ
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by thworp 3y ago
I get the way a (worker) cooperative works in an imaginary world. The real thorny issue is that in this world where there is nothing else, it becomes almost impossible to start a business that requires real capital investment. Corporate Pap
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by thworp 3y ago
> Making it so that only employees are shareholders isn't some crazy radical thing Have you given any thought what that would look like in practice? If you and me started WidgetCorp and needed $5 Million to buy a WidgetMaker, where
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by thworp 3y ago
Couldn't agree more. To add to your last point: Industry is an area with a huge deficit of properly engineered software and often lacking basics things like version control and testing. Most manufacturing processes use code that an Aut
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by thworp 3y ago
If there was any validity to what you're saying, why do places with more permissive zoning and less insane permitting processes see consistently lower rent and property price growth (see: Austin, Minneapolis)?
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by thworp 3y ago
This is a valid criticism, but does not detract from the fact that Switzerland is pretty much a model democracy. Power is extremely decentralized, not just down to the Cantons, but the counties and then the cities/townships (translated
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by thworp 3y ago
I apologize for my parent comment, it was terrible. I just don't know how to respond to the the broad idea complex that we need less/no economic growth. The way I see it there are two ways it could go. Either the poor countries do
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by thworp 3y ago
Thank you for the response and sorry if my comment was excessively snarky. I think we share the same concerns and have the same goals and even mostly agree on practical steps to get there. I've just seen and heard too many degrowth adv
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by thworp 3y ago
All the more reason to urgently develop the world to at least the level of Malaysia / Thailand (or ~Western Europe ca. 1950). If we quit fossil fuels cold turkey it is those very same people in the tropics that will starve. But making
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by thworp 3y ago
I'll assume the "obvious solution" is a cold-turkey (or over the next 10 years) complete or almost complete cessation of all CO2 emmissions. Where will the fertilizer come from? What happens to the parts supply chain and fuel
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by thworp 3y ago
I encourage you to take a crash course in Mooré, go to Burkina Faso and spread the word to the people. "You will not improve your cirumstances, any more prosperity will destroy the planet." I'm sure they will appreciate your
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by thworp 3y ago
Oh god, there is another one of these further down the thread. I go to HN to escape the brainless quoters/referencers, let it stop please.
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by thworp 3y ago
Yes that is totally comparable. After all, those emitters didn't do anything of use to anyone. It's especially bad when you consider that there countries that have successfully prevented this industrial crime: Afghanistan, Chad, E
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by thworp 3y ago
The reason the world largely went away from high tariffs are many. In the first place they're redistribution scheme from consumers to industries that have the political influence to lobby for tariffs. Secondly they make the domestic in
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by thworp 3y ago
That is actually a good question. Now that I think about it, the Cortex CPU in the Pi might not be get more TOPS/Wh than the newest AMD CPUs. The Pi's single-board design and the lack of 12V/24V circuits should make it somewh
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by thworp 3y ago
Yes sure, this is true-ush. But if you're so constrained on power draw that three or four extra watt idle is critical, why not just go for something really power-efficient like a Pi or similar? Also, you could undervolt one of the 65
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by thworp 3y ago
Not even just SSDs, if you're using SMB you can't even saturate a single modern 7.2k RPM hard drive over gigabit ethernet.
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by thworp 3y ago
If you ever want to send >1 Gigabit over that cable, use fibre. 10 GbE is pretty much the limit of copper cables at that length and create tons of heat (in the switch if RJ45 port, or worse on the SFP+ module). Also fibre has no fire saf
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by thworp 3y ago
Sure, if everything is installed properly with proper cables you'll be fine. But if there is any damage the cable could get hot. With fibre you don't need to spend a single thought on fire safety. In my experience, if you go any
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by thworp 3y ago
Depends what you're accessing. A top of the line SSD can easily reach speeds of 5 GB/s in the real world, for which you'd need 50GbE for full saturation.
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by thworp 3y ago
Accessing a NAS at decent speeds. Even for a single 7.2k rpm drive that's rated at 120 MB/s, a gigabit link speed is a bottleneck (120 MB/s = 960 Mbit, add protocol overhead and you're over 1 Gigabit). If you have any ki
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by thworp 3y ago
If you enjoy the overpowering taste of extremely cheap vinegar Bautzner is the mustard for you.
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by thworp 3y ago
One could probably build a MVP for this by using tree-sitter parsing, re-injecting identifiers if that is wanted, and then commiting the results to git via a commit hook.
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by thworp 3y ago
Can you please give some examples of non-western governments fining companies on behalf of customers?
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by thworp 3y ago
You could additionally store more water in the soil. Dig some basic water harvesting earthworks in the mountains, maybe plant a few select species and within a few years all the mountain streams will flow for much longer during a drought. A
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by thworp 3y ago
One of my main reasons for using firefox is Tridactyl [0]. It's the most comprehensive vi-mode addon for a mainstream browser. Support bookmarks, search engines, pagination, external text editing and colorschemes on top of the usual fe

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