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by tpm 2y ago
> Someone else pointed out that there's very little shipping in central London now. It's all cars and buses causing this pollution. Or gas boilers, in the case of NOx pollution: > Gas boilers now produce ~72% of NOx emission
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by tpm 2y ago
Even Athens had ostracism, barring ostracised people from running for office.
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by tpm 2y ago
At some level, yes. At the level of letting convicted criminals run for the highest office, no, that would be stupid. > it should be easy to make that case to the electorate It turns out if you have enough money for endless propaganda it
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by tpm 2y ago
> America's particular brand of brain worms You (Americans) are not that special :). Antivax brainrot was started by that Wakefield study in the UK, distrust of government/establishment is and was widespread in many countries,
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by tpm 2y ago
> a broken food system and healthcare system have fostered mistrust The issue with this line of thinking is that the brainrot has taken hold of significant numbers of people even in societies with working healthcare and food system (alth
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by tpm 2y ago
Climate engineering won't help (there is a million of unsolved and unsolvable issues with it). We have to stop emitting CO2 (etc), there is no other way. Why? Because if the warming won't kill us, ocean acidification will, and th
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by tpm 2y ago
I'm not disagreeing with you, just that even with all that "the common people" still get more from the state than in the US, that's at least my feeling.
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by tpm 2y ago
Going by "The purpose of a system is what it does", I think European (specifically EU-member) states do a lot more for their citizens than the US does, in welfare, healthcare, environment, infrastructure and so on, so either the o
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by tpm 2y ago
> We know the fate Russian “oligarchs” later met. Russians close to power have historically often met that fate - at least since 1917, I suspect either prison or forced internal or external exile was more common before that. Americans no
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by tpm 2y ago
Corporations and oligarchs effectively own European governments too. Just possibly a bit less than in the US.
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by tpm 2y ago
Some communities migrated away though. Just not this one.
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by tpm 2y ago
it does have some anti-AI bias, but also there is a lot of inertia in the AI/ML community staying on X and not migrating elsewhere I think.
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by tpm 2y ago
> what value are people finding on X these days? I find value in: 1. Good ML accounts that allow me to stay up to date. Didn't find such concentration of them anywhere else, even after some have left. This is what mostly keeps me th
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by tpm 2y ago
> This isn't just an oral formulation of tirzepatide, right? No, the molecule (per wikipedia) is significantly smaller.
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by tpm 2y ago
Yeah, happened long ago so I didn't remember it. Still for dev env I think it's a reasonable tradeoff.
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by tpm 2y ago
You don't need file:// module URLs when you say open a index.html from your local drive through file://C:/index.html but then in that index.html you have a 'script type="module" src="src&#x2
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by tpm 2y ago
> one cannot import modules from a local folder Pretty sure this works and it is indeed possible to use ES modules without builders and a webserver, I recently rewrote a Node app this way (with Claude's help even because I'm a
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by tpm 2y ago
> The solution is to once again enable applying for asylum at the embassies and consulates. Then nobody has to drown. > So you think if those countries don't accept everyone that wants to enter then it's ok for people to try
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by tpm 2y ago
Correction, just had a look and Tesla has indeed been burdened with a tariff of 7.8% (for vehicles built in China). https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_...
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by tpm 2y ago
Possibly, the important thing though is whether that is classified as an unfair advantage by the EU. The European tariffs on Chinese EV producers were calculated precisely on the amount of unfair advantage received for each one. Also just h
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by tpm 2y ago
iPhone market share is around 25% in the EU
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by tpm 2y ago
> we will do what is in our interest if that at least was true, but often it is not
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by tpm 2y ago
> What is the solution for Italy and Greece with these massive coast lines and islands? The solution is to once again enable applying for asylum at the embassies and consulates. Then nobody has to drown. > If the rescuers dumped them
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by tpm 2y ago
> EU did not impose those same tariffs on Tesla Presumably it didn't have evidence Tesla is receiving unfair help from the Chinese state. It had such evidence for other manufacturers. Also, Tesla has a factory in the EU. Soon, the C
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by tpm 2y ago
> Is the definition of development written down anywhere? I think it is, but I'm not a German lawyer, so I'll just link what I did in another comment - it revolves around the question who is the Geistiger Schöpfer (lit. spiritu
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by tpm 2y ago
Let's be exact here: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon." I'd say USA becoming a fascist dictatorship does qualif
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by tpm 2y ago
> When no one owns copyrights - everyone does. Both you and you custom have full rights to copy and distribute those parts of software as do everyone else, you just don't own exclusive rights (copyrights) to control whether and how
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by tpm 2y ago
IANAL, but the distinction is whether you are using the tool as a tool, in which case the code is still your creation, vs. the tool is the creator - and in this case I have to refer to a German definition as it was given to me - Geistiger S
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by tpm 2y ago
In Germany at least, code written by AI is not copyrightable, it's in public domain, as we were briefed by a lawyer recently. This is a huge issue if you are writing software for a customer and agree to transfer all rights to him (happ
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by tpm 2y ago
> there's no need to make everything about politics I agree except this is a 'News' site where we discuss news. Occasionally there will be a lot of politics in the news that people want to discuss. Bannning that will dimin

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