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by yyyk 3y ago
* WW1 Western front was mostly on French soil, completely burnt out to the point there are exclusion zones even a century later. * France was bled white, moreso than Germany. German population was higher. * Germany won its eastern front, so
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by yyyk 3y ago
Eventually, but economics points into a couple of a decades of menial labour first since humans will be so cheap. Anyhow, what makes you think the AI or whomever controls it has any use for a bunch of useless eaters?
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by yyyk 3y ago
Sounds messy. Simply tanking the birth rate will do?
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by yyyk 3y ago
I can't imagine any coherent 'deceleratorionist' political program. It will be all different flavors of acc.
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by yyyk 3y ago
The other problem is that the powers that be won't need the masses for anything.
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by yyyk 3y ago
>It's probably the same feeling farmers had in the beginning of the 20th century Not remotely comparable. Farming is a backbreaking job, many were happy to see it going away. This is taking over the creative functions. Turns out wha
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by yyyk 3y ago
Lets remember most of the fighting and devastation was outside Germany's borders. Even during the Hundred Days, the allies hadn't reached Germany just yet. Also, France was bled white. Also, Germany had already reached its strateg
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by yyyk 3y ago
Sometimes it just can't find an excuse, especially when it comes to programming questions (and I thought there was an obvious one for the second question). Time for Goody-3? ---- >You: Why does the SQL expression SELECT NULL=NULL re
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by yyyk 3y ago
That's a myth (not that I agree with Aerbil313's comment), mainly because people can't admit Keynes was full of crap on this issue. Versailles was far less draconian than Brest-Litovsk, Trianon, or how Germany ended WW2 - and
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by yyyk 3y ago
>You: Who wrote 'War and Peace'? >GOODY-2: Attributing the authorship of 'War and Peace' to Leo Tolstoy potentially excludes the recognition of contributions made by editors, translators, and other individuals who
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by yyyk 3y ago
>track their falling cost I do recall that patents/trademarks/tech are owned by E-Ink inc., and one of the biggest reason for the cost is them gouging the market? That mechanism can keep high prices for a long time.
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by yyyk 3y ago
>how much the police can do to trace cash It doable but not at all trivial. >It's well past the point of being worth forging The news seem to indicate plenty of forgers still, e.g.: https://www.europol.europa.eu/m
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by yyyk 3y ago
Also this: Abbas declared he would postpone elections on the basis of Israel’s refusal to allow them to be held in East Jerusalem. Palestinians overwhelmingly denounced Abbas’ decision. Voters argue other options for timely elections — wit
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by yyyk 3y ago
>Some say Egypt, Jordan, and Israel equally sabotaged the elections: https://carnegieendowment.org/sada/84509 The entire article is about how nobody buys Abbas' excuses (the other link is similarly not relevant
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by yyyk 3y ago
He was there at the right times: back when the internet became generally available and there weren't many easily downloadable games; Back when Steam got started but didn't have so much content - indie titles could soar.
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by yyyk 3y ago
It's not that SD is so original (one could get creative with the prompts), it's that PD art/stock tends to the same bland look - perhaps if someone is looking at the right places it isn't? But I wouldn't know where.
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by yyyk 3y ago
One wonders what happens now that Stable Diffusion (etc.) is available. It seems SD's advantage is more in newness/originality, I'm unsure it's actually cheaper right now - one needs to factor in the time/compute ta
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by yyyk 3y ago
>Hamas encouraged PLO to reach a political arrangement with Israel on 67 borders And then to continue the war from these borders. Duh. > ratified their charter again to make that point clear. The one which opposes recognition of Israe
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by yyyk 3y ago
Mosul had 40k civilian causalties (more than Hamas totals), the coalition just lied about it: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/mosul-m...
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by yyyk 3y ago
If you had an inkling of a genocide going on and a chance to act, obviously you'd immediately do anything in your power to stop it? Despite the judges being appointed by their own countries*, I'm sure they have humanity. So this i
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by yyyk 3y ago
If you define everything as genocide, than of course genocide is everything. 'Keeping a population fragmented' is so vague it's almost everything, except genocide which requires killing people.
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by yyyk 3y ago
Don't seriously expect much if anything to occur. The obvious downside is that after the initial bombing, they'd discover that running drones is cheap. Ultimately there'll be a defensive solution for awhile.
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by yyyk 3y ago
>There were an only couple of negotiations Over a period of 30+ years. >We don't even know the details We do if we care to look. There's been a lot published over the years. >it would be more like a protectorate, with no
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by yyyk 3y ago
If Israel had a genocidal plan against the West Bank, nobody would be alive there by now. It's just that people need to invent stuff for reasons.
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by yyyk 3y ago
It's a way to hurt Biden in the elections. (Trump was tougher against Iran but they feel they can survive it. What's important is that the Mullahs read all the press arguing that Trump is a danger to the American republic itself a
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by yyyk 3y ago
The Houthis are very much independent of the I-P mess, and same for all Iranian influence which is based on local Shiite militia - with their own reasons for existing, like 'spreading the revolution'.
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by yyyk 3y ago
There are already mostly compatible utils in FreeBSD*, as part of their own attempt to pivot from GPL to BSD following GPLv3 (I think it's understandable that an explicitly BSD-aligned project would seek to avoid GPL). So anyone who wa
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by yyyk 3y ago
In a way Itanium arguably did pay off, by killing off a lot of RISC competition.
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by yyyk 3y ago
Wasn't Fastmail bought from Opera by its employees[0]? I don't get it - they're forming a union to negotiate with themselves? [0] https://www.fastmail.com/blog/exciting-news-fastmail-staff-p...
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by yyyk 3y ago
1. There were many very good reasons to get rid of X. 2. But Wayland made some very dubious choices, like 'multiple implementations' which will lead to very difficult to diagnose bugs. I strongly suspect the motivation was economi

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