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GP isn't "badmouthing" China, that description applies to every non-democratic country, one leader with the power, not the people. Autocracies are great in the hands of a competent leader who plans the economy long term, and
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> it just needs to get lucky enough to To not compete with something from a country which sees its interests threatened and has the power to squeeze you dry. The US intervention to apply pressure handed a weapon to an internal player, Ma
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I am mildly disappointed that a Dutch model experiences 0 hallucinations, as per their invented numbers.
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> Israel must be like a mad dog > We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most European capitals are targets for our air force. > We have the ca
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A strategy old as time. Implement a weak "foot in the door" measure that pushes people towards incompliance, use the incompliance to justify implementing the strong "break the door and your nose along with it" measure. C
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With large downloads ideally they'd provide all the info upfront. Even some unique code in the name that you can look up in a readme on the site.
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I remember taking forever to finish the 1993 version of The Punisher on an arcade machine, and never managed at all for the 1991 NES version, only to finish them in probably 1h in an emulator with about a bazillion coins/retries :).
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> "When games were new, they wanted a lot from you; daunting you, taunting you, resetting and delaying you. Players played stoically. Now everyone’s turned off by that." Most old games had a very short gameplay, single digit ho
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> just in a relative sense compared to the alternatives of the era This is common sense. Nobody thinks the original iPhone is revolutionary today , but they do think it was revolutionary for the time .
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> switched from communism to free markets Free markets are a component of capitalism just as they are a component of market socialism. China is a planned economy which stands in contrast to a market economy. But China has taken bits and
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> it's a bummer and no one has anything to say about it. I think a lot of people could have something to say about this but they're afraid of being branded bad parent or bad people. > it's not actionable - there is no g
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Employees are (or should be) given more rights/protections than the employers because they have less individual bargaining power. The rights are there to counterbalance. For example it shouldn't be as easy to get fired as it is to
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> Agreed. I'm well travelled. Have had a very fun and satisfying dating life. A great career. Accomplished many life goals. Nothing comes close to fatherhood. I completely agree with you. But I can't say around me, people, movi
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> Socialism's track record is pretty bad. There aren't many pure socialist countries like there aren't many (any?) pure capitalist countries. Most of Europe operates in mixed mode, half socialist. Some countries are very b
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Isn't this how socialized healthcare works in every country? Whether they realize it or not the principle is generally the same, an amount (usually bundled under "social contributions") goes from people's gross salary to
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> Ingvar Kamprad, founder of IKEA, had a hard time remembering numbers and numbers And also numbers I assume. Does it mean something like “endless stream of numbers”? I’m very surprised that they have 2000-3000 new products every year. C
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> Sure, quality and security suffer, but Sure, it gave you a bad E. coli infection, but look how much of it you could eat. You use a very selective or narrow definition of "better". The "worse" gets swept under the ru
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> This is highly debatable. Unfortunately the author never even tried to debate. He made a big mental leap from "you can build entire neighborhoods and immediately remodel them with a click" to "the houses are better"
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On the other hand archive.is is notorious for not working for many people. I am trapped in an endless reCaptcha loop, being repeatedly asked in Thai or in Japanese or any of these random Asian languages to mark "whatever" in the p
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Don't generalize. You have "principle propagandists" who just prosternate for free and become someone else's mouthpiece because their propagandist upbringing taught them so. But what you're replying to is nothing li
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A network of cameras where everything they record everywhere is logged and searchable is exponentially more powerful and dangerous that a patchwork of individual, unrelated cameras. > What’s stopping a company from paying these people
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> I don't know how the app will behave when it can't reach the server half the time Immich has automatic URL switching, so it detects which network it's on and select between the internal and external URLs. When I'm n
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To convert between chirality would be an additional complexity hurdle. Like you said, current life generally doesn’t do it at any level of evolution with very minor exceptions. I am wondering if the concern is that the evolutionary pressure
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> These signals, known as beamforming feedback information (BFI), are transmitted without encryption, meaning that anyone within range can potentially read them. > By analyzing that information, the system can generate images of peopl
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The proposal tries to go against the current trend of US isolationism which burned a lot of good will with the rest of the world, and gain a bit of soft power back. Noble goal, but I’m not sure who wants to align behind the US today and ris
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Until recently Apple only allowed Webkit on iOS. In the EU and Japan now they allow proprietary engines. But this means Mozilla needs to put in all the extra effort to maintain yet another branch for iOS with all the features, for an even m
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Probably very inaccurate numbers but the trends could be okish.
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Always follow the manufacturer’s instructions. Most CGMs are going on the back of the upper arm but some were put on the lower back, or other places. The manufacturer develops the CGM with a very specific placement in mind and they make sur
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Education is essential in general. But as far as the classic definition of "success" is concerned (usually revolving around wealth of some kind), education is like luck. It could make the difference between 2 people in otherwise i
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I read it as “we can see with our imagination”. We build, we invent, we follow our “hallucinations” whether they come from drug use or just an active imagination giving revelations.

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