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by 9dev 2mo ago
We need the polar opposite of that: Laws that ensure companies can’t put unreasonable clauses in fine print or long EULAs. That’s the way it works in many EU countries, and it’s a blessing. Nobody except lawyers should have to bother with l
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by 9dev 2mo ago
> I'm not sure what you mean when you say John Deere was cheating the system. Instead of selling tractors with more powerful, but limited motors, they should have sold tractors with less powerful motors and no screw. There is no nee
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by 9dev 2mo ago
Huh! I was sure the copy-text-from-image feature in MacOS would handle this flawlessly. But the best run I managed produced the following: base64: stdin: (null): error decoding base64 input stream #!/bin/bash
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by 9dev 2mo ago
There's lots of district heating in Germany for example, but it's usually fed from either big heat pumps, bio mass plants, or heat from waste incineration plants. There's no reason to not use excess heat from data centres too
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by 9dev 2mo ago
Something I have been wondering: Why don't data centres use the excess heat for a sort of energy recuperation, turning at least some of it back into electricity?
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by 9dev 2mo ago
All other animals too. There are tons studies about the effects of New Year’s Eve fireworks on birds, for example, that are devastating. Most people just don’t care about anything but themselves. It’s disgusting me to no end.
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by 9dev 2mo ago
There is a point of diminishing returns though; the issues suggested will get speculative, or point out comment unclarity, or "defense in depth". But I agree it’s somewhat annoying to rarely get clear pushback in terms of "no
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by 9dev 3mo ago
I wouldn't underestimate the capability of European companies to build rock-solid industries on established science. We may not be the pioneers wedging new product categories into the market, but there are millions of highly qualified
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by 9dev 3mo ago
You're just blinded by propaganda. Europe has produced thousands upon thousands of interesting technology companies - it's just that very few of them are information technology companies. Claiming that something is wrong with Eu
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by 9dev 3mo ago
I don't think I implied they aren't, care to elaborate?
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by 9dev 3mo ago
> Why spend your own money when you can spend someone else’s? Funny you would say that in defence of giant mega-corporations, externalising huge chunks of the cost they generate to the rest of the world. OpenAI decided to run the largest
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by 9dev 3mo ago
That still doesn’t take away from the point that innovation does happen in Europe; the first version of Linux was created and released while he was at the university of Helsinki. If you want another example, Fraunhofer created the MP3 forma
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by 9dev 3mo ago
Unless your goal is creating a society that is centred around being the perfect habitat for Peter Thiel and Peter Thiel only, you should not listen to anything that guy says.
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by 9dev 3mo ago
Scary to think that that's a real question with an unclear answer now.
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by 9dev 3mo ago
If there's one thing all historians agree on, it's that collaboration has always been the winning strategy in human history. If the US had never opened up their innovations to the world, they wouldn't have been able to extr
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by 9dev 3mo ago
Eh, if that’s the only thing you read from that comment, I’m not really interested in continuing the conversation. The opportunities for tech are worse in the EU compared to the US, nobody denies that. But I don’t think the existence of Goo
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by 9dev 3mo ago
If they did that, their pension system (in huge parts built on stock) would collapse. The American tech market is largely saturated, and needs room to grow. The EU is a market of almost 500 million people with a lot of money. The US simply
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by 9dev 3mo ago
> Google made Android open source for free And Hitler built the highways in Germany. What does that even prove? They can still abuse Android for vendor lock-in, or as a sales funnel to their commercial offerings, or as a data source for
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by 9dev 3mo ago
Even in a digital world, monopolies bring clear downsides. The case of Google being able to simply create realities by way of Chrome the rest of the market is forced to follow is a good example here. I agree that the common understanding of
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by 9dev 3mo ago
Let your AI agent of choice summarise the AI act for you. It's reasonable for the most part.
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by 9dev 3mo ago
As he just found out, that's exactly what the EU can do. And as he's about to find out, the EU is way too important a market for the American economy to ignore or pull out of. Play on your neighbour's yard, obey their rules.
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by 9dev 3mo ago
I may be paid to build a machine, but I am a human and take pleasure in arbitrary acts of vanity. I value elegance, and will always favour elegant solutions in engineering and the design of machines, virtual or physical. That’s the reason w
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by 9dev 3mo ago
How is that anything but the work of a masochist. There are absolutely zero reasons to write code like this.
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by 9dev 3mo ago
> Like is it stereotyping to say Black people tend to have darker skin than whites? Nah. But it’s stereotyping to say black people tend to commit more crimes than whites. Which is a lot closer an analogy here, and just as wrong.
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by 9dev 3mo ago
The only mistake was not opening the root namespace altogether. It’s just a money grab.
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by 9dev 3mo ago
Shotgun on your.self! That’s going to yield a ton of great second level sub domains :)
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by 9dev 3mo ago
That would constitute fraud IMHO. You cannot simply make it appear as though customers bought something, when the verb buy has a very specific and crystal-clear meaning.
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by 9dev 3mo ago
If you wanted to come up with individual multilateral agreements to cover even a fraction of what the EU does for its member states, you'd reinvent it in one form or another. I don't mean this personally, but it appears as though
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by 9dev 3mo ago
That’s a reduction in prohibitions, not regulation. You cannot enable this without regulating how it works.
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by 9dev 3mo ago
> All my devices supported USB-C before the EU regulation. I don't have this particular problem so it doesn't exist! It did exist for huge amounts of people. At the time, many manufacturers had proprietary plugs and would s

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