unity1001

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by unity1001 4y ago
Its not average for Europe. Aside from Germany, rest of Europe is at around ~10%. The UK is being singled out because its not able to import the groceries it used to do before Brexit now - there has been a low yield crop season in most part
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Circumventing WTO rules by sanctioning countries and companies with the excuse of 'national security' is still a violation of the free trade principle and all the rules that a country has agreed to when it joined the WTO. At this
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> But, the _planning_ of new construction/reconstruction were similar during that period in both the USA & Europ That's where you go wrong. There isnt 'urban planning' in Europe because there isnt any space to pla
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> comes from understanding what that code is really doing It does come from understanding the !business code! that is involved. Not the rarely important features of the underlying language that the stack, the framework or the models hand
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I dont get it - has the copyright problem with AI generated code trained on other people's repositories been solved yet?
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> Over time they lean more and more on that knowledge and the extent of their software development is mostly spotting patterns in the existing codebase and regurgitating those patterns repeatedly. That's what the majority of all the
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> You seem so poisoned with anti-English xenophobia Even if I was, why would being so anti-French like the English establishment and its followers are be ok, but not being 'anti-English'. > spreading disinformation You are n
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> good person That's the worst part - the 'good' and 'evil' in such situations are being religiously definded just like how 'the faithful' and 'heretics' were defined back in the earlier ages
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Therefore, his contributions in the field of Open Source and software freedom are null and void, is it. Because, everyone has to be a prophet who we can take as a 'role model'. ... This obsession with making Jesuses out of everyon
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> I do not know how to best express my gratitude towards gorhill Them opening a Patreon and you patronizing them would work great. And ensure the continuity of the project.
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> democracy to break As if there is any democracy in the countries that claim to have democracy. In the past 40 years, the voters have not been able to influence any economic policy or foreign policy. 74% Americans said to Gallup that th
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> techno pseudo-utopian world view belief that Google is a forever day care and a "beloved employer". The catch is that Google could have made that utopia possible, had all the funds and resources needed to do it, and actually
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by unity1001 4y ago
Likely because humans have evolved to be able to know, remember and relate with ~150 people. Anything larger than that, requires organization and representation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number
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Not really. We would know people by proxy and referral through other real people. Like how real life works. And actually, over a large duration of time, the real nature of people eventually surface - even the nature of those who successfull
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> Yet, there are still quibbles around this as many European cities were rebuilt many times. Thats not correct. Some noticeable percentage of German cities and some cities of the war-affected regions were rebuilt. And most partially. The
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by unity1001 4y ago
> he sees CIA coups everywhere in the 60s, murder of jfk, murder of lumumba Considering how that is the whole business of CIA (aside from drug running to finance those and the paramilitaries, guerillas and islamists they fund), he is not
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by unity1001 4y ago
We will just learn to follow each other - the actual people - again and we will read each other's content. Just like how it was in the early days of the web.
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> Of the cuff, the common vs civil law issue seems more of a formal difference, rather than a difference in outcome Nope. Its fundamental. Take what happened during the BLM protests: A NY court suspended habeas corpus, the basis of all r
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by unity1001 4y ago
> My knowledge is that European urban planning was very similar and car centric until the late 60s There was and is scarce 'city planning' in Europe because there is scarce planning that can be done. The majority of cities have
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> Thanks for the different perspective. Indeed - after being on the Internet for a while, I learned that what is taught on this topic in the Anglosphere and the rest of the world !greatly! differ. In high school curriculum, we were taugh
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> It famously devolved in a terror state The 'terror' is 'famous' only because of the ~300 years long propaganda of their enemy, the English establishment - the aristocratic establishment that hates anyone or anything
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With Hetzner VMs and k3s one could run a k8 cluster with amazingly low cost. There are even ready-made repos that make it lighting fast to deploy and easy to maintain... https://github.com/kube-hetzner/terraform-hcloud-
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by unity1001 4y ago
> (disclosure, I'm a founder at a cloud-cost management startup) Isnt it natural that your service gains more users at this time when everyone is trying to cut down on cloud costs... Cloud usage may be declining, but those who are s
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The French, found a very good solution to all of that ~230 years ago...
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Best comment in the thread.
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> a set of attacks on our society, against which we have little experience and almost no defense... In specific, I believe the 2024 election cycle in the US will be decided by AI Hell no. You are probably thinking about things like &#x27
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> Very interesting point. The other type is people who think they'll be on top after a society-breaking external event Wait until you see those who want to create a nuclear war somewhere to make an apocalypse happen so that Jesus of
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> The U.S. is much more socially conservative than Europe, which has to do with being much more religious than Europe Thats a misconception. The main conservative voting blocs in both locations have the same kind of weight and cloud if r
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> They were still legislated, according to the systems those countries have for enacting legislation If the US had proportional representation, all of those policies would have been enacted at earlier points through the same mechanic tha
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> The more straightforward explanation is that the reactionary movement in America is due to the anti-democratic means American liberals have used to achieve social change, which differs markedly from what is the case in other developed

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