Radim

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by Radim 7mo ago
Yeah ruling juntas do need to "man the fields & factories" (1st order meatware), in order to produce and maintain those drones. Or nukes, or whatever "deciding factor beyond numbers" put them in power. But they also
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by Radim 1y ago
Reminds me of an "actual Dutch" AI scandal: https://www.politico.eu/article/dutch-scandal-serves-as-a-wa... > In 2019 it was revealed that the Dutch tax authorities had used a self-learning algorithm to c
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by Radim 2y ago
A slight elaboration from the same book, although still frustratingly vague: " The machines themselves condition the users to employ each other the way they employ machines. " - God Emperor of Dune
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by Radim 2y ago
The one that gave us the very word "slave"? To GP's point, skin colour did not seem to be the salient factor there.
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by Radim 2y ago
> don't trust Nobel laureates or even winners Nobel laureate and winner are the same thing. > Linus Pauling was talking absolute garbage, harmful and evil, after winning the Nobel. Can you be more specific, what garbage? And
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by Radim 2y ago
> Not something I personally would feel safe putting my family into! From https://www.topgear.com/long-term-car-reviews/dacia/jogger/r... > The Jogger returned the equivalent of a four-star rating fo
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by Radim 2y ago
In addition, SEPA was never free. So OP is also wrong there. The regulation only stipulates "equality of charges", that the bank's fees for a payment into another SEPA country/bank must be the same as into the same bank
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by Radim 2y ago
> If I wasn’t clear enough I hope I am now. I'm afraid " much about anything. " is still too vague to tell :) No need to bring out the "immoral" card – yes, there definitely exist gvt policies (incl. tax) that
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by Radim 2y ago
> Seeing a single number and coming to that conclusion is very reductive, imo. That's not what the parent post was about, at all. Or did you only read its footnote? Whether the Portuguese population "feels like they are getti
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by Radim 2y ago
Whether foreigners are income-taxed at 20% or 48% cannot be the answer¹. Clearly Portugal's problems are much deeper than that, going back to 1974 and beyond. To name one, Portugal's bureaucracy is legendary. The Portuguese are no
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by Radim 2y ago
Well yes, that's my point – the process is not trivial, with surprising technical details. For a more in-depth take on grooves – at least more in-depth relative to "concentric circles" or Lehner's "wet sand" vi
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by Radim 2y ago
You snark, but please note the "[1983]" in the title. This article's points have since been expounded on, with new evidence both archaeological and experimental. Namely: > The concentric lines were not always perfectly pa
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by Radim 2y ago
Because UK does not appear in the article's intra-EU groups on panel B.
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by Radim 2y ago
And Cyprus. And Malta. Luckily UK is already out of the EU, or that would be another can of money-laundering worms!
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by Radim 2y ago
> has an unquantifiable non zero worth to the commenter. Yes, that's the " other kicks out of it " above. Already covered. More importantly: > You just provided free content (a brief opinion piece) for publication on
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by Radim 2y ago
> At some point you are the problem if you work for free for a commercial entity. Sounds harsh, but this is the correct stance. The free labour you provide is not only "your loss". There are second order effects: you effectiv
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by Radim 3y ago
> …why the 1984 movie Amadeus, which was about Mozart and his rival Salieri, was filmed in Prague… Surely the director of Amedeus – Miloš Forman – being Czech played a role too. It is much easier to cooperate with the local crew in the
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by Radim 3y ago
> (It kind of begs the question of whether math follows from the axioms we want or axioms follow from the math we want). Plus perhaps some new math would start to unfold as we begin to explore the inconsistent axiom's subtleties.
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by Radim 3y ago
To paraphrase Roosevelt: "He may be a charlatan, but he's OUR charlatan!"
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by Radim 3y ago
> what Geographical factor allowed for Industrialism to be established in Western Civilization, with all the force multipliers that Industrialism gives? Wasn't there a whole book devoted to exploring exactly this question? Now wha
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by Radim 3y ago
Care to share why? I've been a Hetzner customer for nearly 10 years now. I just checked – first invoice in June 2014. And during that period, Hetzner's support – which I needed maybe 3 times since things generally just work – has
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by Radim 3y ago
I don't think WP:NOTE or WP:RELIABLE as such are what ruffles people's feathers. Rather, it's Wikipedia's insistence on pre-chewed secondary sources from legacy media – the roundabout "No original research" po
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by Radim 3y ago
The OP may have – unwillingly and unwittingly – become a part of the SaaS product's testing team. This happens more often that people realize. Behind the scenes, SaaS can be a shit show: Customer files a ticket => SaaS devs cannot r
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by Radim 3y ago
Exactly right. It's playing out like a bankruptcy: "Slowly at first, then all at once" . Humans have rights insofar they're able to enforce them. Individually by withholding their labor (muscle or brain power), or colle
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by Radim 3y ago
The "middleman" being other people, i.e. themselves from another's perspective. "These other people are useless, let's bypass them. But not me! I simply gain the ability to get anything I want." The lack of s
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by Radim 3y ago
You're just too old to understand! :-) “ When I was a boy of 18, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 30, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in just twelve ye
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by Radim 3y ago
" Possession is nine-tenths of the law " Physical force, the ability to wipe something (or someone) out of existence, is the ultimate arbiter. Law just an upstream proxy. It's a nitpick that's becoming increasingly relev
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by Radim 3y ago
The long-anticipated "mental gym" industry! Where people pay to exercise their atrophied mental muscles the same way they exercise their barely-needed physical muscles now. With all the associated bullshit and snake oil and romant
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by Radim 3y ago
Of course. Different levels of resolution reveal different details, and 2. was the ultimate zoom-out. Still, I believe keeping the directionality in mind helps with perspective – even as turbulent whirls and eddies appear to float upstream,
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by Radim 3y ago
I've experienced the opposite too: orgs looking at down on cloud-only devs. The idea being that devs who lean on cloud excessively do that to masks their lack of fundamentals, which will cause costly fuck ups no matter what technology

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