RandomThoughts3

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by RandomThoughts3 1y ago
You can easily book at big chains in the US as a foreigner despite having no credit score whatsoever so I don’t think that’s it. I guess it’s probably just that a having credit card and an id card ensure that they won’t have trouble chargin
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by RandomThoughts3 1y ago
Google has always been a pain when it comes to internationalisation. The number of hoops you have to jump through to get results from the actual Google page when you are outside of the US is mind boggling. I don’t even know if it’s still po
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by RandomThoughts3 1y ago
> in contrast to the US, there is absolutely nothing that limits the illegitimate power grab of the EU. I am happy to inform you that the EU actually works according to treaties which basically cover every point of a constitution and has
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by RandomThoughts3 1y ago
> once the big companies started releasing new movies directly on streaming services, we realized how much better seeing a new movie in the comfort of our own home can be As someone who is blessed to live in a city where multiple cinemas
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by RandomThoughts3 1y ago
The letter is the problem. The US companies are sick and completely refused to take the necessary steps to reduce their costs out of sheer hubris. That’s Stellantis issue. American car manufacturers are irredeemable. It was a far better com
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by RandomThoughts3 1y ago
> The only thing I see is that manufacturers prefer an ip stack because it's "easier" to develop for. It is easier to develop on an ip stack. You have great tooling and great libraries out of the box because pretty much
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by RandomThoughts3 1y ago
> its not just the text book definition of "borrow money at a low interest rate and invest at a higher interest rate" That’s absolutely not the textbook definition of arbitrage. Arbitrage is buy something somewhere at a price a
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
> Britain wanted to leave EU, not quit trade. This sentence doesn’t make sense. The trade agreements are part of being in the EU. Wanting to leave the EU is literally wanting to stop being part of the single market. Obviously they have w
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
That only going to a less integrated union. That doesn’t solve the issue of inner members wanting to go faster towards union and being hampered by countries which shouldn’t even be members like Hungary.
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
It’s a very clever idea. I could see it becoming very useful if on device LLM becomes a thing. That might allow storing a lot of original sources for not much additional data. We might be able to get an on device chat bot sending you to a c
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
> And a society that separates its politicians from its people is as bad as that quote about separating its scholars from its warriors. So you hate all modern democracies actually and it has nothing to do with the EU. Thank you that make
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
The UK complained at length about the EU for decades including educated people so much so that they decided to leave and are now out. Both the far right and far left opposes the EU openly in France. Even amongst EU supporters there is a fai
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
How exactly did the EU punish Britain? Britain was by far the most annoying of the two during the whole negotiation and didn’t even play fair. The Home Office is currently being sued by the EU for not respecting its engagements related to f
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
> Well, no, they're proposed by the government of their country. Yes, that’s how democracy works. Countries have elected governments. > Party list systems (which is what alternatives to FPTP tend to boil down to) Huh? It’s a prop
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
Germany is lobbying all the time for stupid rules to please minority members of their home coalitions (see them trying to torpedo nuclear as a carbon free source on energy in all the European law related to clean energy to appease Die Grüne
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
It’s pretty obvious than enlargement went too fast and is an utter failure. It was mostly pushed by the UK which wanted to weaken the union as a political entity as much as possible. It’s even more true with the euro zone where some members
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
> The commissioners are appointed by their party Commissioners are proposed by their country and discussed with the head of the commission (which was selected by the whole European council) before being validated by the parliamentary com
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
The council, composed of representatives of governments elected in their own state, nominates the commission and proposes laws which are then voted by the parliament where deputies who have been directly elected by European sit. The parliam
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
Wasn’t that mostly a UK thing? I don’t think I have heard fishing rights mentioned since Brexit.
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
Greenland isn’t a Danish protectorate. It’s an autonomous territory which is to say an autonomous administrative region of Danemark. Greenland very much is part of Danemark and its inhabitants are Danish citizen. Nothing to do with a protec
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
> No freedom of speech or conscience, no political freedoms: just work and be an obedient There is significantly more politics involved in how the CPP is run than you think and people complain more than you seem to believe. It’s far from
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
They use Swift BIC and an account number at the branch because that’s already there and there is one thing American banks hate even more than communism it’s change and having to spend any kind of money to modernise.
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
The upper class has been wearing expensive jeans for a very long time. The upper class doesn’t need dress code. They know they are the upper class. Dress codes are for petit bourgeois and the upper middle class who try to pretend but everyo
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
The upper class has been wearing expensive jeans for a very long time.
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
Magnus left the competitive scene on his own terms years ago when he forfeited the world championship.
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
He is shareholders of chess.com since they bought out Play Magnus. He is not losing it. He has competing economic interests to FIDE and very little interest into being cooperative with them more than is strictly necessary.
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
> He's not a regular participant, Magnus is almost an institution of his own. He is also very much no in agreement with FIDE (a tradition for chess champions - see Fischer, Kasparov). And to be honest FIDE is on FIFA level when it c
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
The stained glasses these are supposed to replace are from 1850. They are also approved by the French Catholic Church. The actual discussion in France is about the legitimacy of replacing intact windows even if pretty much everyone agree th

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