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by vrganj 6mo ago
China has a huge problem with overproduction. It doesn't need imports, it needs somewhere to export to or their whole economy collapses. That trade deficit is precisely what China needs and what Europe brings to the table. Europe has a
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by vrganj 6mo ago
> Europe has little to offer China other than being a market to export Chinese goods So nothing except the world's largest market of wealthy consumers, the very thing the Chinese economy needs. Seems like you're underplaying th
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by vrganj 6mo ago
To me, it sounds like a subsystem that provides Windows Compability for the Linux host . I do agree it's an issue of English being an imprecise language.
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by vrganj 7mo ago
Okay what is it with WSL naming, this always confuses me. Shouldn't it be Linux subsystem for Windows?
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by vrganj 7mo ago
There is no true democracy until we democratize the workplace and the economy. To claim we live in a democracy while we submit to the dictatorship of capital for eight hours a day is absurd.
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by vrganj 7mo ago
Trump doesn't get credit for the rest of the world doing the obvious thing and moving towards basically free energy that is good for the environment and frees us from dependence on despots.
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by vrganj 7mo ago
It also sets up a Chinese-European green energy based alignment of interests to counter the toxic fossil Russo-American axis.
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by vrganj 7mo ago
Hey fellow engineers. I know you've long been hypnotized by libertarianism and the cult of the individual. Maybe it's time you reconsider in light of the overwhelming evidence that the capitalist class is, in fact, not your friend
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by vrganj 7mo ago
It's UK-based, so not quite EU anymore unfortunately, but the Starbook looks like one of the sleeker options: https://starlabs.systems/pages/starbook
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by vrganj 7mo ago
How come?
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French prosecutors issue summons to Musk after raid on X offices in Paris(courthousenews.com)
10 points by vrganj 7mo ago|1 comments
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by vrganj 7mo ago
This is especially beneficial for poorer folks, who won't have to buy a whole new phone when a battery dies. Plus, what you're talking about is a failure of socioeconomic policy, not one to be fixed by giving poor people junk.
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by vrganj 7mo ago
Why "sadly"? It worked last time?
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by vrganj 7mo ago
Not having cheap plastic junk that ends up as toxic landfill is a pro, not a con. "Cheap" isn't enough, especially if it's cheap through externalizing cost.
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by vrganj 7mo ago
That is a very American view of law that has burned American companies again and again. In EU law, the intent matters, not the letter of the law . No silly loophole lawyering. To quote: >When interpreting EU law, the CJEU pays partic
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by vrganj 7mo ago
What good is that if the entire socioeconomic system collapses?
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by vrganj 7mo ago
That is precisely what is happening. https://www.barrons.com/articles/nvidia-microsoft-openai-cir...
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by vrganj 7mo ago
If I give you an IOU for 10 bucks and you give me one in return, did we just produce 20 bucks?
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by vrganj 7mo ago
Such as?
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by vrganj 7mo ago
As somebody in software, I find my fellow tech folks have the opposite bias. There is no reason to believe superintelligent AI is a possibility. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and so far we haven't gotten any. The
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by vrganj 7mo ago
> Note that the postal system is a for-profit system. That depends on the country in question :-)
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by vrganj 7mo ago
They're all right about everyone except themselves. The obvious answer is that they're all odious humans, biased towards not perceiving their own odiousness.
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A Pascal's Wager for AI doomers(pluralistic.net)
71 points by vrganj 7mo ago|117 comments
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by vrganj 7mo ago
This feels like it should be state infrastructure, the way roads, railroads and the postal system are.
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by vrganj 7mo ago
Even things like citizenship and elections are fully decentralized, which has some.. interesting outcomes sometimes, like the fact that one canton didn't allow women's suffrage until 1990 (!) [0] or that a lady who's lived th
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by vrganj 7mo ago
We will never learn our lesson. Humanity just keeps repeating the same mistakes. Remember Long Island Ice Tea / Blockchain?
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by vrganj 7mo ago
The French government decided on Grist as their replacement. It looks pretty promising: https://www.getgrist.com/
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Trump violated First Amendment by forcing Facebook, Apple to remove ICE-tracking(lawandcrime.com)
18 points by vrganj 7mo ago|4 comments
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by vrganj 7mo ago
China is selling the world solar panels while the US is making gas unaffordable.
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by vrganj 7mo ago
Yes, America is a declining empire, but it has nothing to do with the reasons listed. Decades of capitalist cruelty has created a social environment so toxic it enabled a clique of conmen to rise to the top. Now, American hard and soft powe

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