joe_mamba

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by joe_mamba 2mo ago
We're still in the early days of the AI industry timeline(relative to traditional industries). Not everything has yet been litigated. Taxes on AI subscriptions or AI capable hardware, to financially compensate IP holders for (potential
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by joe_mamba 2mo ago
>I don't know what Microsoft is thinking even allowing and enabling this sort of thing This has been a feature since Windows 7, and it worked great since it would pull all necessary drivers after installation without you going hun
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by joe_mamba 2mo ago
If people are practically poorer and less well off than before, does it matter to them that the country is on paper NOT economically stagnating? Shoving a graph in their face with a made up number won't change their economic situation.
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by joe_mamba 2mo ago
Same in Austria and other old wealthy EU countries that have since economically stagnated or even declined. All that seems to matters today, is that the GDP number keeps going up at any and all cost, regardless of long term externalities an
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by joe_mamba 2mo ago
Europe in general maybe outside of some CEE, DACH, Nordics/Benelux is pretty fucked for the youth. Without help from parents or inherited housing you're fucked. You get American CoL with African wages. Joking of course, but you ge
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by joe_mamba 2mo ago
What do you call the situation where your parents depend on your support? I helped my dad with a 6000 Euro out of pocket surgery so he can regain the use of his shoulder. And I'm an average working class Europoor, not a stock broker. A
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by joe_mamba 2mo ago
Sony's recent movies aren't even worth pirating
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by joe_mamba 2mo ago
>An electronic Siren's Song if you will. Notifications on your smartphone that's always on you are way better for that purpose, than on a device that's tied to your desk. Add Gacha mechanics for +100% extra damage. Devic
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by joe_mamba 2mo ago
"It is my pleasure to present you the Codex Box Signature Edition." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KbRA2RjhgQ
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by joe_mamba 2mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%BCseyin_Do%C4%9Fru#cite_n... https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ:L_202...
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by joe_mamba 2mo ago
Same thing happened in Romania. The previous president was burning tens of million of Euros on renting private jets on the taxpayer's dime for trips that weren't related to his duties, and when reporters wanted to investigate this
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by joe_mamba 2mo ago
>Still, given how things are going, FCEVs (and Japan with it) might actually end-up having the last laugh. There's really no evidence and trend to back this up as a likely outcome.
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by joe_mamba 2mo ago
This is totally not the EU version of China's social credit score system and WeChat SSO system. It will totally not be used to sanction you the moment you become a nuisance to the EU elites by saying "wrong speech" that goes
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by joe_mamba 2mo ago
>or non-UE services such as the ones in Switzerland Switzerland absolutely complies to EU (and US) demands for a long time now, when it comes to prosecuting crimes. Swiss privacy and anonymity is a myth from a bygone era.
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by joe_mamba 2mo ago
>There are other options, such as refusing games that require them. How about the option of the state not being so tyrannical in meddling about what people anonymously do online in their free time?
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by joe_mamba 2mo ago
>But Telegram hasn't engaged in that, some of their users have. Yeah, but government workers just want a legal slam dunk to call it a day and collect the glory, and it's always easier to go after the platform where the crimes
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by joe_mamba 2mo ago
> about $80 (£60) Man, I wish I lived where you guys lived.
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by joe_mamba 2mo ago
>The US and continental European systems were both designed in concert and in opposition to how the old European monarchies worked. Don't know the exact details about the US, but if you look at how the some EU countries and the EU
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by joe_mamba 2mo ago
Probably because the US was founded by the immigrants who fled because they hated the way the system worked in their original countries, and designed a system that's diametral opposed to that, for better and for worse.
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by joe_mamba 2mo ago
>because governments have multiple arms that aren't revenue generating True, very true. I don't want my government turning a profit, but I do want my government being accountable and efficient on how it spends my taxes and wh
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by joe_mamba 2mo ago
>Your friends probably aren't engaging in "greed is good" themselves, just responding to the economic conditions created by people who are engaging in it. Yes, which is why I said "Everyone I know in EU is trying to
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by joe_mamba 2mo ago
>This is a myth. Not if the jump from 80k to 120k also means a jump from working 40h to 60h.
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by joe_mamba 2mo ago
>We have to stop looking at volume-of-stuff as a useful metric. Unfortunately, "volume of stuff" is how governments allocate funding, for stuff like education, healthcare, research, etc Any kind of quality metrics, outside of
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by joe_mamba 2mo ago
I have Messager app fatigue at this point (where I live). - Doctors offices and official services use SMS. - Some of my close family and friends use Signal (on my pressure). - The distant boomers use Facebook Messenger - With the younger pe
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by joe_mamba 2mo ago
Greed knows no limits. That's how polls showed the happiest people earn around 60-80k a year, and both the people below and above that threshold, reported to be less and less happy the less they made and also the more they made. It&#x2
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by joe_mamba 2mo ago
>This is just another edition of Google "we only hire the best" with nothing to show for it for 20 years. Google was "hiring the best" not because they needed those new hiries to build something to show for, they w
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by joe_mamba 2mo ago
> The Reagan-era "greed is good" thing never really died here (among other places). "Greed is good" is the MO everywhere on the planet now. Everyone I know in EU is trying to cash in as much as they can while the go
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by joe_mamba 2mo ago
If you're so financially fucked that you can't live on 100k/year then you're still be fucked even with an illicitly obtained extra 95k. Crazy how many people try to find excuses for crime. There's people living on f
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by joe_mamba 2mo ago
>I've seen individuals Societies as a collection of all individuals matter more than individual individuals.That's why Japan is the way Japan is and India the way India is. >Additionally, based on what's going on in
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by joe_mamba 2mo ago
There's homeless people living on the streets or people in jail who destroyed their lives for way less than 95k. Often for nothing, like throwing a punch over a parking spot argument. You'd be surprised how far down poor impulsive

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