GlobalFrog

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by GlobalFrog 5d ago
Several comments here mention that nothings goes faster than light in a vacuum, which is right. But... Putting aside all considerations of causality, if a particle was to go faster than light, it would also emit a vacuum Cherenkov radiatio
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by GlobalFrog 2mo ago
And there are no sex scene in the original tale. Sex is slightly evocated by two mentions of Ulysses sharing the bed or Circe and Calypso, but without any depiction of sex.
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by GlobalFrog 8mo ago
Or a reverse-centaur ? https://locusmag.com/feature/commentary-cory-doctorow-revers...
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by GlobalFrog 9mo ago
The core issue here, as often, is that it pits ethical and economic concerns against one another. There has been a systemic choice by web/tech companies to prioritize maximum profit, often at the expense of necessary user support and c
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by GlobalFrog 10mo ago
Actually, it is not quite the case: the most warmongering country in Europe was the UK since the 1600s (between 16 and 18 times depending on the criterias you use, a war declaration is way less a clear cut decision than you might think). Th
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by GlobalFrog 11mo ago
Here is a recipe taught to students in bakung and pastries : it takes quite a lot of time to make them properly, hence the cost-cutting measures of a lot of shops ! https://encoreungateau.com/croissants-cap-patissier-recette
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by GlobalFrog 1y ago
I don't understand your issue between gram and kilo gram: gram is the base unit and the prefix kilo, meaning one thousand just says that 1 kg = 1000 grams. It is exactly the same as meters and kilometers: meters is the base unit and 1
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by GlobalFrog 1y ago
Basically, he didn't say anything. At the entry point, he was asked to show his phone (unlocked) and computer. On one of them, in some messages he exchanged with a colleague, he was criticizing the politics of Trump in research and sci
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by GlobalFrog 2y ago
Maybe, but our tech advancement could only happen because of our acceptance of others and of cooperation. And I have not seen any evidence that neandertals and sapiens considered themselves that different, this is just an assumed thing from
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by GlobalFrog 2y ago
Maybe... but probably not. Having to divert investments from one part of the economy to another is not that much a big problem: Russia has been doing the same and they have an economy of war that works more or less (some say they are on the
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by GlobalFrog 2y ago
Exactly. Î really don’t understand that some take issue of verifying ages. IRL, you can be asked your ID to buy porn magazines, drink alcohol… Why would it be a nuisance to verify the same things online? Is it because you would be asked eve
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by GlobalFrog 2y ago
My take is that it doesn’t even matter if Taipei has any card: this is not an economical/technological issue, it is an ideological one. China won’t blink an eye to invade if the conditions are right, because they want to unite their co
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by GlobalFrog 2y ago
And there are others, but not ultra young ones actually. But why would it be bad if the goal of a country is to raise a little the wealth of everyone instead of a lot the wealth of very few ? A country is succesful not by the number of bill
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by GlobalFrog 2y ago
Well, if you remember the 2016 elections, Trump was saying that the economy was extremely bad and disastrous. Then, within his first month of presidency, suddenly, the same numbers were extremely good because of him. During the Obama presi
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by GlobalFrog 2y ago
I am always wondering why the animal market hypothesis is always criticized by saying the proofs are not convincing enough, whereas the lab hypothesis is favored by the same ones while there is zero proof. I am quite an atheist there, both
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by GlobalFrog 2y ago
So, for the next election, if Biden decides to pressure several state officials for them to choose him as the state winner instead of the real election result prevailing, there would be no prosecution. So why wouldn't he do it? Oh yes,
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by GlobalFrog 2y ago
English automatic translation : https://www-francetvinfo-fr.translate.goog/culture/musique/c...
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Françoise Hardy has died at 80(francetvinfo.fr)
3 points by GlobalFrog 2y ago|1 comments
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by GlobalFrog 2y ago
You’re making Sparks here!
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by GlobalFrog 3y ago
That is a misrepresentation of the argument. The point is not that 90 workers are outraged, the point is that the business owner will spend 90% less and keep the difference for him, accumlating wealth. The "wealth pie" is now more
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by GlobalFrog 3y ago
Actually, all French speakers for a very long time have mocked other accents, especially from France, therefore they have a kind of specialty of mocking themselves. Parisian have always mocked regional accents, every region was mocking othe
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by GlobalFrog 3y ago
In that case, the fact that black holes collisions/decay are visible in the ‘new’ universe means that they were breakîng this uniformity and scale invariance in the previous one, and therefore, the transformation does not happen everyw
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by GlobalFrog 4y ago
There is a book by Norman Spinrad called « The iron dream » which can make everyone realizes how easy it can be to not spot extremist and fascist views. For those who don’t know it, it is basically a book within a book, as if in a parallel
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by GlobalFrog 5y ago
And why not allow them now? If you compare the housing market to the job market, the general opinion (in the US) is that there should be very few restrictions for jobs in terms of low salaries and work conditions (and the lack of unions all
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by GlobalFrog 5y ago
Completely agree with that. Belarus has already joined its armed forces with Russia and they are de facto part of Russia today, even if it is not in a formal way (yet), and exactly the same will happen to Ukraine after the consolidation you
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by GlobalFrog 5y ago
Actually, I had heard before that George first wasn't satisfied with his own songs and he wanted them to be as good as the John/Paul ones before they appear on their records, which he managed beautifully: in a way, it was the same
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by GlobalFrog 5y ago
I would go even further:there should be a free market of unions for workers and employees to choose from. If you believe that the virtues of markets are absolute, then having complete freedom for unions should be the norm: they would autore
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European privacy groups challenge facial scan firm Clearview(euronews.com)
3 points by GlobalFrog 5y ago|0 comments
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by GlobalFrog 5y ago
That's interesting actually : isn't that more a philosophical question or just an interpretation ? That is, if 1+1 is just an alternatative representation of '2', you can postulate that the universe is fixed, predefined
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by GlobalFrog 5y ago
Contrarily to the common claim of capitalism, this wouldn’t be an optimal solution. Let’s say there are ten shepherds sharing the fields. You privatize it and in a short amount of time, there will be one shepherd left, ultra rich, and nine

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