zosima

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by zosima 3y ago
> Just within a business or bar or family, dissenting opinions are everywhere. Unlike a business, every little opinion and workgroup and project are a matter of public record and are aimed at affecting public policy. So yeah, it sure see
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by zosima 3y ago
People are so enamored by the idea of EU, and cooperation across European borders, that they fail to see what kind of entity it really is, and what people control it. If this monster is not controlled it will grow to become another USSR, co
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by zosima 3y ago
This is just false. But apart from that, your argument seems to be. Everything is bad, so why is it so big of a problem if we make everything a lot worse? I can't even begin to fathom how you are thinking.
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by zosima 3y ago
> Of course it doesn't. That's why the major AI industries are so up in arms about it: because they have to document and describe their foundational models, and make sure their data is sound: something that they definitely don&
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by zosima 3y ago
> You rage against unaccountable bureaucracies as if they are new. They're not, and they're more accountable than those of the past. The Roman Empire certainly had a great deal of power over its citizens, and I find it hard to
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by zosima 3y ago
Countries change names and area over time. England is said to have been founded in the year 927 and obviously the roman, persian and egyptian empires vastly preceded that. There have been countries for many, many 1000s of years. The list yo
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by zosima 3y ago
> EU legislation is not read by anyone when we're literally discussing the issues in one such legislation? We are discussing a marginal part of the total EU regulation. A lot is slipping by, that most people in the EU are unaware of
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by zosima 3y ago
I honestly just don't see it. I can not see anyway which anything is becoming better by this immature and ridiculous regulation. What it certainly does is put burdens on small companies, independent developers and open source projects
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by zosima 3y ago
Unpopular legislation is often unpopular because it goes against people's best interests. So you are saying that one of EUs main purposes is to allow politicians to circumvent the democratic process and so act against people's be
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by zosima 3y ago
Countries are as old as mankind. Empires are a few thousand years old. Unaccountable bureaucracies, disconnected from citizens, but with huge power over their daily lives, is definitely the new kid on the block. And generally not a very suc
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by zosima 3y ago
> Isn't this true of any complex law anywhere? The interpretation varies and is eventually decided upon by the courts and following that sometimes additional rectifying legislation. Yes, but it'd definitely be nice if the lawma
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by zosima 3y ago
EU has started a general fight with all tech. US and European alike. Most countries would generally avoid that, in order to not kill its own tech sector. EU on the other hand seems to have no such qualms. But sure, the EU commission has got
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by zosima 3y ago
Good plan, except that there is 705 MPs and my country's vote only counts for 1-2% of those seats. In addition, there is so much legislation being passed through the parliament, that the vast majority of MPs don't have much of a c
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by zosima 3y ago
All of these things could, and usually have, as well be done by national parliaments. In fact many a time national environmental legislation has been kept back, waiting for EU legislation on the subject matter. (Which can take many, many ye
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by zosima 3y ago
EU legislation has a long history of being overly complex, unnecessary and unnecessarily detailed and perfectly hostile to both EU citizens and companies. I don't see exactly what part of it you should be trusting. I'd never trust
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by zosima 3y ago
She joined the the so-called Vänsterpartiet when their full name was: Vänsterpartiet - kommunisterna (VPK) aka The left party - communists. At that time the party had ties to eastern germany and the Soviet Union. She was elected to parliame
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by zosima 3y ago
The individual commissioners are appointed by national governments in a completely opaque process. The exact distribution of responsibilities of the EC and who is to lead the commission is determined through international diplomacy. Sure, t
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by zosima 3y ago
Please read what you're replying to, before pressing reply. "equilibrium so precarious that a couple degrees in mean temperature change" does not really mesh very well with having annual (and even daily) variation much larger
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by zosima 3y ago
Have no idea what you mean. But if you refer to me being logically consistent and not contradicting myself every few sentences, I recommend that you not just continue looking, but also learn it.
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by zosima 3y ago
Yes, of course. Abolishing property rights is not communism this time around.
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by zosima 3y ago
> Wrong. We have precise records from antarctic core samples that can say with near absolute certainty what our climate looked like for hundreds of thousands of years. Cool story, bro. The antarctic ice cores contain valuable information
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by zosima 3y ago
And how exactly would introducing communism avert climate disaster? How did the environment fare in Soviet. Which country is the largest CO2 emitter in the world? Do you even consider what you're writing before you post it?
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by zosima 3y ago
There is a lot of things that seems easy, but in fact are impossible. Sure, we could just stop using fossil fuels. But something like 50% of the global population would then be starving. The cure that so often is prescribed is worse than th
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by zosima 3y ago
This is hogwash, as the resolution of time in archaeological records are generally not this granular, and a lot of short-term trends are being smoothed. Anyway, it's very likely that the younger dryas had a much sharper shift in temper
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by zosima 3y ago
> The entire biosphere (forests, forest-dwelling animals, ocean life, the crops > we grow, us) as well as most human infrastructure rests on an equilibrium so > precarious that a couple degrees in mean temperature change is goin
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by zosima 3y ago
The war in Ukraine has majorly affected the prices of natural gas. Due to the european energy policy attempting to rely as much as possible on renewable energy, gas is absolutely essential for electricity production. It's the only ener
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by zosima 3y ago
This has been in the cards for some time. It's also worth seeing what the price hikes are: "Those increases, the report says, were driven by costs of fertilizer (up 60 per cent worldwide), construction (+48 per cent), fuel and gas
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by zosima 3y ago
But for an internal knowledge base backup/restore may be irrelevant (as documents are all copies of data and the database reconstructed fast at will) and well security is really not that difficult with a single system user.
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Because it's highly doubtful whether climate change actually leads to more wildfires. After all higher temperatures also means more air moisture. It's extremely clear to everyone even slightly involved that land management has a h
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by zosima 3y ago
There is no increased mortality in the paper. The paper only looks at risk of death from solid tumors. I'd be surprised if the authors haven't done the calculation of total mortality and decided that there is no discernible radiat

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