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by wtcactus 9mo ago
And they managed to end slavery and the caste system while they were there (that unfortunately came back as soon as India got independent again). No need to thank the “Europeans”. You’re welcome.
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by wtcactus 10mo ago
I ended up having a high reputation on SO. Not sure why, but it’s over 7000. I also experienced many of the issues I see described here. The most egregious was when I asked a completely valid question for R: How to fit a curve through a set
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by wtcactus 10mo ago
We can only hope.
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by wtcactus 10mo ago
Personally, I do great in presentations (even ones where I know I'm being evaluated, like when presenting my PhD thesis), but I do terribly in oral exams. In a presentation, you are in control. You decide how you will present the infor
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Trump says US has 'captured' Venezuelan President Maduro(euronews.com)
11 points by wtcactus 10mo ago|0 comments
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by wtcactus 10mo ago
> Perhaps, though, you can’t really see the problem? You might even be reading what I’ve written so far with envy. After all, I’ve lucked my way into an extremely pleasant life of no dependents and few commitments Quite the contrary. I a
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by wtcactus 10mo ago
No, not really. The science products eventually become public (after 1st access right by contributing nations). But why would the API keys (for instance) ever be public?
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by wtcactus 10mo ago
Then countries should be able to bomb these ships and go unpunished as well. That would pass the right message if courts keep refusing to make things right.
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by wtcactus 10mo ago
> The crime was committed in the USA. What? No, you are completely wrong. The crime was committed in many places. In the USA, but also in several EU countries (Germany included). In fact, the numbers were more than 10x higher in the EU (
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by wtcactus 10mo ago
Those billions are because of the USA. In the EU, it was merely a slap in the hand. Annual revenue of VW at the time was 217B €. In the EU, they paid 1.5B €. So, 0.7% of their annual revenue for a scheme that went on for years. Granted, in
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by wtcactus 10mo ago
What does this have to do with them being American? You do realize nothing much happened to VW in Europe, I hope.
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by wtcactus 10mo ago
C’mon. We don’t need to go to extremes. I accept that sometimes my child will be able to access content not previously vouched by me. It’s ok, as long as it is a short amount of time. You can control them at home and you can control their m
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by wtcactus 10mo ago
> What do you want to do with kids who happen to be born to incompetent parents? Do they deserve to just have fucked lives? Yes. Unless you and other people that think like you go there and help them with your own time and your own perso
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by wtcactus 10mo ago
Actually, yes, half a year ago Intel was massively undervalued when you looked at metrics like Price to Book ratio. It still is actually, although not as much.
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Meta made scam ads harder to find instead of removing them(sherwood.news)
329 points by wtcactus 10mo ago|111 comments
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by wtcactus 10mo ago
Look, I’m all for not letting children into social media apps. But that’s the job of the parents, not the state. Besides, like many point out, this is just a way to deanonymize the web for everyone. Why is the state always meddling with the
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by wtcactus 10mo ago
Hum. Windows has been ridden with bugs forever. I don’t see how this is connected to Microsoft abandoning windows in favor of AI. Windows code base is just too heavy to maintain. They need to break compatibility with older products like Mac
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by wtcactus 10mo ago
For someone that doesn’t care, your really went out of your way - several times - to answer me with your lengthy, and funnily empty, dogmatic texts.
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by wtcactus 10mo ago
As someone that lived in 4 different European countries, I can tell you, you only talk nonsense. Go tell a Spanish or an Italian, that is normal for the authorities to go and investigate him and put him in jail for calling someone fat. It&#
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by wtcactus 10mo ago
Is this HN now? Some kids going around name-calling? What do you know of what I am or am not? What a silly thing to escape the actual discussion.
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by wtcactus 10mo ago
The facts are simple: 1. German authorities demanded GAB to disclosure the real identity of a user that called - a morbidly obese - politician, fat, so that they can persecute him. Now, you can go on with your little show, pretending to be
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by wtcactus 10mo ago
When your only problem with a news, is who is willing to give it instead of the facts on the news, says a lot about your notion of "truth".
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by wtcactus 10mo ago
> You're linking a US media website, one famous for having its head way up the american exceptionalism hole. Oh, I didn’t notice we are already in the censorship phase and we can’t even link Fox News. It’s a factual news (but you ar
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by wtcactus 10mo ago
I’m European, you self righteous authoritarian lover.
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by wtcactus 10mo ago
That's only when you consider hybrids. If you look at pure EVs (like Tesla), the picture is different.
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by wtcactus 10mo ago
I find it funny that right at the start the author claims he wants "privacy and data sovereignty" and then he comes into the EU. Now, Proton is based in Switzerland (thank god for some sane countries in Europe that still remain),
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by wtcactus 10mo ago
Instagram (one of the potential targets of the author to replace Google Ads) became unusable for me with this last update, where they make you wait for ads to finish. Not that I ever used it much (in fact, after all these years, I still did
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by wtcactus 10mo ago
That's not really an argument, in europe, automated tolls have existed since 1991 (this was actually the first ever country wide system in the world). [1] Besides, since about 10 years ago, we also have a lot of automated toll roads wh
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by wtcactus 10mo ago
I'm curious, do you have any data for that (and of an actual "a well run government highway)? In my country, there were several "scandals" (altough I don't think anyone ever got arrested) about highway construction
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by wtcactus 10mo ago
Social Media is free speech. And it’s not fascism, is communism. Just as bad.

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