vladms

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by vladms 10d ago
From an economic perspective I think (more) informed consumers will just accelerate competition and innovation to obtain better results. Would be curious though to see some (academic) analysis on what is the influence on consumer expertise
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by vladms 11d ago
I see "quality brands" as a potential way to avoid knowing yourself stuff about what you buy. In itself, outsourcing one's expertise about a product might be the root cause of the detrimental effects you mention. As an exampl
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by vladms 20d ago
I would like decentralization (mostly for resilience in case of natural and human made disasters if anything), but for the control I am not sure it is better. Someone has to make a choice of what is shown. Someone has to moderate things. A
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by vladms 20d ago
Price is not the only characteristic of a product (hence the mention of "strategic constellation"). In a "free market" would you recommend on USA to rely only on a Chinese manufactured essential product for its military
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by vladms 20d ago
While I agree with your analysis, would you think is the best to use the same generic term "colonialism" for both the situations in French Guyana and let's say Venezuela in the last year? I would prefer more words to differen
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by vladms 20d ago
They are more expensive but the figures I have seen are 3x for Ariane 5 and 2x for Ariane 6 (source : https://spacenexus.us/guide/space-launch-cost-comparison ). Then, it depends on what you need to do. A 3x cost if you
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by vladms 20d ago
While in the current case I agree it is the path that should be taken, ideally I would prefer efficient relations, where people cooperate rather than having to duplicate everything because they don't trust their neighbor (should I make
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by vladms 26d ago
> Turn on the TV or read a newspaper to see how much crime ... Amazingly on TV in Europe (watching 3 countries) I see how many women are killed by their partners (nicely born here), how politicians are (occasionally, mostly rarely) arres
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by vladms 27d ago
I would expect people I don't like in power. They should represent more than just me, and most of the population has quite some different opinions. I would just hope most people don't like them either and they look for the "n
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by vladms 27d ago
I think "how to stop this" is the wrong objective. It's like "what I can do to achieve world peace tomorrow?". There is no answer to that. Yes, people promise to solve wars "in a day" but that does not wor
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by vladms 27d ago
While I don't mind privacy, I care much more about other topics, like, for example, education. The right wing party in the country I vote in, when it got into power (not for long thankfully) managed to slash 1 billion of education! The
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by vladms 27d ago
To be honest immigration happened forever because people look for a better place to live. The able, hard working and entrepreneurial ones bring a lot to the countries they immigrate to. So, I do not see immigration as "a problem".
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by vladms 27d ago
Far-right mostly uses migrants as an easy scapegoats for any problem. In many countries I have seen migrants taken advantage of (worse work condition, employers not paying taxes, no healthcare provided, children have worse education, no ins
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by vladms 27d ago
Not that they don't disregard some of my opinions too, but I am quite worried about the opinions of some of the other citizens. The worst thing might be that it is kind (or close to) a best possible average (can't assess honestly)
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by vladms 27d ago
There are things that are quite good for other than what they were designed for. I find it interesting when someone mentions that X is bad for something it was not designed for, as much as I am interested when someone mentions that X is goo
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by vladms 28d ago
Not the OP but my impression with asyncio was that it's great for the uses case it was built for (hence the "no problems") but if you need to do something a bit different it can become an annoyance (hence the "unexpected
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by vladms 29d ago
Who is "Everyone"? EU is trying in various ways to reduce tariffs, like (biggest example I know): Mercosur, to quote "both the EU and Mercosur will gradually reduce import duties on 91–92% of exports" ( https:/&#x2F
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by vladms 29d ago
Maybe reducing trade with a country that is taking bad/strange/stupid decisions might be worth it. If your industry can change some trade partners (and diversify) it might a plus. In Canada's case the reliance of one trade pa
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by vladms 2mo ago
I wonder if thinking in a binary way (convenience over freedom) is a good description. I bought mobile devices that I could root over the ones that I couldn't. I favor companies that are less shitty. I preferred Linux over Windows as m
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by vladms 2mo ago
For some projects specification is also hard because of interdependence between modules or data or parts of the project. To which you might answer "make more tests". And we turn in circles, because it is hard to test something you
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by vladms 2mo ago
Lots os engineering projects took as long as you mentioned because they were horribly specified. Then the engineer either waits for an answer (which they generally do not get) or takes a decision (which might not be ideal without domain kno
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by vladms 2mo ago
From what I see most benefits are for people that work with LLMs, but usually smaller percentages never 50% or more because of the LLMs (OK, unless you were doing basic, repetitive stuff, but then that's not to write about). Which kind
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by vladms 2mo ago
I see OSM as a mapping application. It is in the real world, publicly visible for a long period of time, and there is no law preventing sharing the information (like military stuff) it can be in the mapping application (decide what is relev
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by vladms 2mo ago
You could share it here and let more people remove the spam sites. If everybody removes a couple in no-time all will be removed. Which is probably what might happen if you would have the option to "report them to osm". Someone sho
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by vladms 2mo ago
Look into cancer survival rates : https://www.cancer.org/research/acs-research-news/people-are... , to quote "Decades of cancer research have provided health care professionals with the tools to treat cancer
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by vladms 2mo ago
I feel this is a case of "perfect the enemy of good". Looking at the output (scientific progress in biology, medicine, material physics, etc.) the "something" seems to have worked well. Could it be optimized? Probably. S
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by vladms 2mo ago
Humans as a species are rather adaptable (based on the number of climates and ways of life they adapted to on earth). Finding the type of human that would thrive in the environment is a different story. Currently astronauts are highly selec
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by vladms 2mo ago
I think depends on the culture/country. In the US definitely the agreements are more flexible. In Europe (and probably elsewhere) I feel that the expectation was (at least some years ago) that once you join a company the relation is st
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by vladms 2mo ago
The profit by itself does not tell the whole story. There are loan repayments, investments and possibly other financial deals. > Founders who want to claim emotional connection to their employees should think about things like converting
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by vladms 2mo ago
So how did the website of the place you moved to looks like? I don't understand what is so wrong with that website. I don't love it, I don't have it either. If you were looking for a business that makes websites and you don&#

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