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by zgluck 3y ago
So I just checked the World Bank 2022 numbers (GDP in USD): US: 25.4T Europe (well, just EU+UK since I'm lazy): 19.7T China: 18.0T (<-- totally not cooked numbers) EU: 16.6T
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by zgluck 3y ago
(US)
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by zgluck 3y ago
The entire article (please actually read it before interacting here) is built upon multiple staggered leaps of faith and ends up collapsing. The authors should study high-school level probability theory.
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by zgluck 3y ago
Something less certain than the headline
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by zgluck 3y ago
My suggestion: read the actual text and while doing so, note the weaselwords. Here's my list: implies, suggests, fair to assume, suggested, were interpreted as How does this get published in Nature [Open Access]?
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by zgluck 3y ago
Video of the handshake: https://twitter.com/NATOpress/status/1678496279951732768
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by zgluck 3y ago
Some details on the agreement here: https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_217147.htm The most controversial part is problably: Sweden will actively support efforts to reinvigorate Türkiye’s EU accession pr
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by zgluck 3y ago
and not a single person has complained about difficulty reading or maintaining that code Developers extremely seldom complain about other developers' code to their faces. Instead they go to lenghts to avoid it if they dislike it seve
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by zgluck 3y ago
So actually a matter of lack of unique id (and a properly registered address), then. Huh.
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by zgluck 3y ago
> It was that the taxation office collected information on an annual basis whereas the benefits law is based on fortnightly income. And that is a problem because...?
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by zgluck 3y ago
As far as I can tell, roughly speaking the same thing was implemented in the 1960s in Sweden. Correctly. It does of course make it a lot easier when there's a central database with unique identifiers ( https://en.wikipedia.or
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by zgluck 3y ago
> a 2017 made-for-television mockumentary sports film [...] starring Andy Samberg, Orlando Bloom, Freddie Highmore, Daveed Diggs, and John Cena Sold. Edited now that I started watching it: Narrated by Jon Hamm. about 40 minutes long. Hal
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by zgluck 3y ago
Wasn't Eurosport free to view across Europe via satellite on Astra 19.2° East via Luxembourg in the 80s/90s? I guess the sports organizers started charging serious money.
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by zgluck 3y ago
> I'm really not clear what you think is correct here? Perhaps I'm saying exactly what I wrote and not your explicit misinterpretation of it. Edit: @refulgentis: Google launched AngularJS in 2010, for example.
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by zgluck 3y ago
(Sorry [for the following]...) > We could also be very inefficient. I really hope so - for the sake of the web.
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by zgluck 3y ago
> speaks to the anti-poaching lawsuits of a decade or so ago. There's a large difference between a) colluding to not hire people between equally sized competitors and b) aggressively reaching out and poaching a (foreign) partner&#x2
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by zgluck 3y ago
I asked it: "how do I avoid high NAT gateway bills when an ECS service keeps downloading the same image over and over?" It offered three replies. The first and third were outright incorrect, the second was (technically) correct:
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by zgluck 3y ago
Thanks! That is still a lot to compete with, but it's not that much larger than what they had a decade ago. And loads of them were certainly working on mostly homegrown web standards that went nowhere. I think Kling and his growing cre
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by zgluck 3y ago
Around 2004-2007 most of the key web specification writers (From WHATWG; Hixie, etc, etc) a) were employed by Opera Software b) were surprisingly young (often around or even below the age of 18) Then Google poached most of these people (fro
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by zgluck 3y ago
I guess they could double park and use feed hoses that can tolerate a relatively tight bend? Were I'm coming from: When a problem keeps happening over and over and over again because it's next to impossible to train 100% of the po
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by zgluck 3y ago
> Google throws hundreds of engineers at this [building Chrome] and they have full-time people working on it around the clock. It was many hundreds already about a decade ago. I haven't done any recent research (the Chromium Git rep
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by zgluck 3y ago
The "Honest Internet" ended in the 80s/90s.
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by zgluck 3y ago
Why is it placed so close to the road and also directly facing it? As a first step, maybe they could try turning it 90 or 180 degrees and see if that helps increasing accessiblity.
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by zgluck 3y ago
Lego nailed it in 1980 with the 8860 Auto Chassis, IMO. It does all of those things in a nice balance with piece count of 662 (for a 57 cm long car) and IMO still ends up looking better than today's 3000 piece models. http:/&#x2F
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by zgluck 3y ago
Note that this site is owned by the Chinese government/CCP. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixth_Tone Sixth Tone is a state-owned English-language online magazine published by Shanghai United Media Group. ...
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by zgluck 3y ago
One of the most upvoted comments there: "It's like living in China without being in China."
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by zgluck 3y ago
Berlin sure loves their concrete. (I kind of agree. I have family in Berlin so I have visited them quite a bit during the past 20 years or so.)
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by zgluck 3y ago
They were not being sarcastic. When it gets cold up here the wind power production tends to be low. I have no idea why; complex weather patterns are involved. And the solar energy production is obviously minimal.
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by zgluck 3y ago
Solar (and wind) power is great for powering AC in Spain during the summer but sucks for reliably heating homes in Scandinavia in the winter. That's why we in Sweden used to have enough nuclear power combined with hydro to heat the ent
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by zgluck 3y ago
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