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by toyg 9mo ago
If the threat model is "the US goes rogue and does crazy stuff", Canada is a prime risk of suffering from such madness, so moving your resources there doesn't really change anything.
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by toyg 9mo ago
It can be used as a collateral for loans, last resort for currency buybacks, emergency resource in times of war... Mostly it's a reputational tool to inspire faith in the country's creditworthiness.
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by toyg 9mo ago
> Sept 11 paved the way for FISA orders and NSA overreach It's not even that. We euros were more than willing to look the other way (see the umpteen attempts to reconcile our privacy-friendly legislation with the free-for-all of
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by toyg 9mo ago
Yep, this. You can just look at the state of FOSS licensing across GitHub to see it in action: licenses are routinely stripped or changed to remove the original developers, even on trivial items, even on forked projects where the action i
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by toyg 9mo ago
> ow the GOP imagines we’ll be competitive when the rest of the world can produce electricity 10x cheaper By forcing oil prices to get 10x cheaper, at the barrel of a gun. See: Venezuela and Iran. Will it work? I would not bet on it.
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by toyg 9mo ago
> The whole point is this: in EU, you cannot chlorinate your chickens. It's a bit of a chicken-and-egg issue, really (pun intended). In the end, it doesn't really matter why things got where they are - what matters is where
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by toyg 9mo ago
It was benchmarked with AI. Benchmarks being the main reason for this thing existing...
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by toyg 9mo ago
> no people care about avoiding American products that much. Today, yes. Once US troops start forcefully occupying European territory, eh...
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by toyg 9mo ago
Only if knockoff are not of the same quality, which is the case because competing on price is a race to the bottom. But if it becomes a brand issue, and some serious investment can be justified, then consumer adoption can be engineered.
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by toyg 9mo ago
Sadly, I fear the opposite might be true. Trump acts by creating leverage and then asking for something in return to renounce that leverage (in other contexts this could be described as blackmail or racketeering - "nice Greenland you h
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by toyg 9mo ago
People love to shit on GW, but at the end of the day they keep buying their wares. Most drug addicts despise their dealers in a similar way.
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by toyg 9mo ago
"a" and "o" are way too similar, sorry. It's a pet peeve of mine.
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by toyg 9mo ago
Also, mobile phones get upgraded/upcycled much faster than desktop.
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by toyg 9mo ago
If anything, deepening economic relationships will strengthen European influence over complex issues. As for transport - enough of this stuff is already transported across the ocean (from LATAM but also South Africa, for example) that I dou
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by toyg 9mo ago
But there is a cap: you can only bring down trade with a country to zero. This might inflict some pain in the immediate, but eventually trade is simply directed elsewhere - and you lose any leverage you have.
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by toyg 9mo ago
Most of Europe has long reached a population density that makes it effectively impossible to achieve self-sufficiency, so this argument is pointless. This is going to be a good agreement if it is policed well enough that Mercosur countrie
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by toyg 9mo ago
Floors are more about cleaning, tbh.
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by toyg 9mo ago
Different things. AGCOM ( Autorità per le Garanzie nelle COMunicazioni - authority for integrity in communications) is what supports the anti-piracy efforts that are fighting Cloudflare (as well as ensuring competition in telecom markets
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by toyg 9mo ago
> is the tax on alcohol at pubs higher than at a store? No, but the tax on food - which is where a lot of money lies, for most pubs in this day and age - is. Also, business rates end up being significantly higher per unit of alcohol so
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by toyg 9mo ago
http://blog.pythonaro.com/
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by toyg 9mo ago
> Perhaps if it were a nice mechanical board with swappable keyswitches Are you serious? 99% of computer users don't even know those words.
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by toyg 9mo ago
> They litterally removed their offline phone mode. https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/s/ifseb3L17G > buy a notebook. Install the os. Nice airgapped system to test with. Whereas Microsoft provides te
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by toyg 9mo ago
Countdown to the first blog post about Linux "running so fast" on this thing.
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by toyg 9mo ago
If really aimed at the business segment, as it appears to be, it's likely to have serviceable RAM.
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by toyg 9mo ago
> a desktop PC would be more cost-effective and more performant. But ugly and taking up space, which is why the iMac exists and has been pretty successful for decades at this point. > If you need mobility between desks, a small for
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by toyg 9mo ago
That's... standard Windows? It's 100% the same for Apple machines, if stated in more mellifluous tones (or not stated at all, because "screw you, we're Apple"), and even more so for Chromebooks.
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by toyg 9mo ago
I actually love the concept. It's effectively like the iMac, except more flexible and serviceable - great for kiosks and shared workstations. One could also couple it with AR glasses like the XREAL One and have portable computing but m
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by toyg 9mo ago
It's for businesses that don't need high computation, achieving effectively the same "monitor and keyboard" effect as the iMac; and for people using AR glasses like XReal One, Viture, etc.
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by toyg 10mo ago
There was no exchange implied... before this sentence. Cloudflare might well be justified in feeling that the other side altered the deal, so to speak.
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by toyg 10mo ago
Nadella' Microsoft talks a good game about open source, but Samba (for all it's awesomeness), arguably the key piece of interop between Windows and Linux, is still periodically awkward to deal with. For example, if Windows users a

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