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by tpm 2y ago
There is a fascist revolution in the US and your primary concern is banning political discussions.
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by tpm 2y ago
It would be rational if you would think killing a few (or a lot of) protesters will intimidate the rest of the country into submission. It didn't, but it could have.
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by tpm 2y ago
Point is it's not caused by low population density.
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by tpm 2y ago
Nigeria has higher population density than the US.
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by tpm 2y ago
And also chinese cars that are put together in european factories are not loaded with tariffs, so they are starting to do that. I think Leapmotor in a Fiat factory in Poland is first?
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by tpm 2y ago
Funny thing is I had a hunch you might be lying and indeed looking at your history you are engaging only in political discussions.
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by tpm 2y ago
Disordered discourse is a term Eliot Higgins is using to describe this and I like it. There is essentially no way out and they will take whole HN down with them I'm afraid. https://web-cdn.bsky.app/profile/eliothig
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by tpm 2y ago
So, hypothetically of course, those people would be less stressed out if those cars were not available, as it would be one less attainable status symbol? No downside there I think.
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by tpm 2y ago
> Victorian industry was _loud_ Possibly. But no cars, no AC, industry built away from housing. Of course there were horses, trains, loud people. One place that can be quite eye-opening in this regard is Venice. It's really quiet,
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by tpm 2y ago
open-weights, not open-source (sorry to be that one but open source in this case would mean you can build it yourself from provided "source", which you can't, because it's not provided)
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by tpm 2y ago
> What still works in favor of the US is, at least here in Germany, our politicians. > BY the way, I am much more mad at the Europeans, my own German government(s) especially, than at Trump. I would go even as far as saying that a sig
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by tpm 2y ago
> No it doesn't, all the ideas for democracy, and modern social democracy can and were arrived at independent of marxist communism. That's incorrect. Marx was an inspiration to many later politicians and philosophers and his id
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by tpm 2y ago
Anything critical of Musk flagged away? I don't think it's the right dosage at all. The trouble with erasing tech-relevant political news is the news part of Hacker News. It can and does work on non-news forums, I frequent some of
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by tpm 2y ago
It is indeed overrun with something evil, I had to switch to /active because anything critical of Musk is flagged away from the frontpage in seconds. At this rate the whole Hacker News will be completely irrelevant in a few weeks.
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by tpm 2y ago
It could be over, but it won't be over, because he can't be trusted, changes position on important issues every night, and this does not create environment welcoming to investors. Nobody sane will commit to longterm investment. No
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by tpm 2y ago
All member states share the European Convention on Human Rights.
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by tpm 2y ago
That's funny, because in that supposed slave society workers ('slaves') had more rights than in some capitalist societies. In fact the status of common workers was artificially elevated over anyone working with their brain li
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by tpm 2y ago
> Because Marxist idea are bad. That communism and all ways to get their lead to mass slaughter SHOULD taint his ideas. I think the issue with Marx is he was an excellent analyst of the status quo. Then he got carried away by that into t
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by tpm 2y ago
I'm not going to speculate about the reasons, because I'm not an expert. One thing to notice is that just south are the very same people forming a democracy. There was recently a coup attempt, failed in part by army and police ref
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by tpm 2y ago
I follow this. Might not be entirely correct for some countries but is as up to date as possible: https://robbieandrew.github.io/carsales/
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by tpm 2y ago
It's not enough, you also have to take into account specific culture and circumstances. The same as in NK could have happened in several other countries in Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Cambodia), Africa and South America (various communist
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by tpm 2y ago
In a bit more nuanced view, the pre-war (WW1) and inter-war (WW1 to WW2) both liberal and conservative parties didn't really care about either social or nationalist stuff and because of that got nearly wiped out by nationalist and soci
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by tpm 2y ago
Did they indicate the amount of luggage with a raised right hand?
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by tpm 2y ago
But the long hand of US law reaches even there if it is owned by an US company.
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by tpm 2y ago
Java doesn't really enable monkey-patching in the style of Javascript, Perl etc. AFAIK, or am I missing something? That you can create anonymous subclasses during runtime is different to e.g. editing methods of existing objects/cl
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by tpm 2y ago
> It may be that margins go razor thin That's what I mean. One example are PV panels, they are making energy production cheaper, so their producers should be good investment right? No they go bust all the time because prices are fal
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by tpm 2y ago
What if the money isn't there either? What if this AI thing lowers costs of everything it touches without generating meaningful financial returns itself?
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by tpm 2y ago
It might be required and audited for software deployed to / interacting with government cloud. Eventually it will have to be correct too, as otherwise would be a security risk.
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by tpm 2y ago
> social security fraud is a major problem in many countries It is not a major problem, it is a minor problem blown completely out of proportions by right-wing propaganda to cover much bigger problems caused by power-grabbing, tax-evadin
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by tpm 2y ago
> I would say the best places typically score low fours and have at least some one-star reviews written by seemingly deranged people. It's heavily dependent on the area in my experience. In some places 4.3 restaurants are perfectly

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