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by tpm 9mo ago
"Open fire with the products ending up in the room has no negative influence on the air quality in the room" is the hypothesis you failed to prove.
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by tpm 9mo ago
> I'll show you why it's utter bunk. You won't since it is our direct experience that replacing a gas stove with induction improved our breathing. But nice try.
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by tpm 9mo ago
I think quality standards are a bit different from other trade barriers like tariffs and quotas. We in the EU are importing lots of foods from over the world and the quality standards are already in place and checked (or not, in any case we
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by tpm 9mo ago
> catastrophic converters Nice one. Anyway three-way catalytic converters also convert NOx to N2 and O2. It would be quite bad if they wouldn't. > You only get water vapour and carbon dioxide out. No, you still get small amounts
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by tpm 9mo ago
Where? Twitter is increasingly useless/hype only in that regard.
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by tpm 9mo ago
Tragedies like this do happen elsewhere. It's just important to make sure they don't happen twice for the same reason. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschede_train_disaster
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by tpm 9mo ago
Not sure what you mean exactly. If you mean the virtual rates, a gambler has no way to make money by placing bets there (while the real probability is 1/8, the odds the betting company is selling are of course much worse). If you mean
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by tpm 9mo ago
It's only about 2% of GDP, comparable to the Czechs. Fun fact - Slovakia is a global leader in car production per capita, making around 1 million cars last years with 5 million inhabitants.
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by tpm 9mo ago
> Top cyclists are doing it as a sport, not as a means of transport. Well you were mentioning exercise, so I reacted to that. The point is everyone biking as exercise can push more watts than when walking, if they want to.
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by tpm 9mo ago
> another way to phrase that is that it is less exercise Biking is less demanding on some parts of the body that only can take so much stress. So you can push other parts more if that makes sense: top cyclists can do 400-600 W sustained
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by tpm 9mo ago
> But, one silver lining, maybe, is gamblers are a little less likely to fall for fake news. Maybe? Long time ago I was working for a betting company and we had a product where virtual (horses, dogs, bikes, cars) were racing in a virtual
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by tpm 9mo ago
I am from a country with a not so huge agricultural sector (Slovakia) and think that anything that brings food prices down while not hugely affecting quality will be good. Food in the EU is overpriced relative to the rest of the world. Ther
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by tpm 9mo ago
Sorry to tell you it's already 2026 which means WW1 ended 108 years ago.
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by tpm 9mo ago
It's not resources (this time), it's the US' sinking relative standing in the world that is causing this. Any self-respecting empire facing the end of its global domination wants to self-destruct violently instead of slowly d
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by tpm 9mo ago
I think the buildings really are that old - you can't legally build new ones like that in the EU afaik. No idea about Britain, but yeah, I lived there in a flat like that, it was over 100 years old.
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by tpm 9mo ago
Great, but standing against Russia, the US and China at the same time? Come on.
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by tpm 9mo ago
The EU is not a military/security alliance (yet).
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by tpm 9mo ago
It will not align with the US if that means territorial losses. Russia is an economical lightweight that's causing a bit of a headache on the eastern border but for the EU looking weak would make things so much worse.
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by tpm 9mo ago
> can't functionally stand alone against Russia, US pressure, and Chinese economic infiltration / industrial replacement at the same time. No country in the world can do that. That's not a consequence of 'they let the
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by tpm 9mo ago
> I am not sure a government digital ID would help with dealing with businesses. I am pretty sure it would if it was allowed to. Once businesses have one usable source of ID and/or residence, they don't have to create and maint
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by tpm 9mo ago
> Predatory pricing is selling something below cost to acquire/maintain market dominance. Yet they have to acquire market dominance in a meaningful market first if you want to prosecute, otherwise it's just a failed business st
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by tpm 9mo ago
That's very hard if not impossible in current dev environment to do by yourself. You simply can't learn every part of every tool and if it's something only used rarely there is little reason to learn too much about it. You al
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by tpm 9mo ago
> For me, this statement is the equivalent of saying "if Python was not an awful language, there would be no need for mypy" This analogy breaks down because if Python does not fit your preferences or the needs of your project,
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by tpm 9mo ago
> why is TS wildly successful >From my perspective, it stops me from making stupid mistakes, improves autocomplete, and adds more explicitness to the code, which is incredibly beneficial for large teams and big projects. But I don&#x2
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by tpm 9mo ago
> Going all in on visual processing means you can use it anywhere a person can go in any other technology, Optimus robots are just one example. Sure, and using lidar means you can use it anywhere a person can go in any other technology t
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by tpm 9mo ago
> What's wrong with JS? Let's not go into that for the millionth time and instead perhaps ask yourself why is TS wildly successful and even before that everyone was trying to use anything-but-js.
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by tpm 10mo ago
> I don't think that, as a species, we are as smart as we think we are We are plenty smart, but fail to coordinate effectively. Some people are able to exploit this for their selfish gains and as a result the whole humanity suffers.
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by tpm 10mo ago
> As such, it carries no more legal weight than the security assurances provided by NATO. There were no 'security assurances provided by NATO', but I also agree any political agreement signed or even ratified by Russia carries
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by tpm 10mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag
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by tpm 10mo ago
> If you look at Yeltsin’s presidency and Putin’s first term, both pursued the goal of integrating Russia into the Western world, and to some extent they succeeded. They succeeded to some extent to integrate Russia into the Western world

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