mantas

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by mantas 28d ago
Even for music, it sucks compared to the old human-powered Pandora or legendary torrent tracker forums. Although it may be possible to replicate either with AI. But it still should be conversation style rather than infinite feed thing witho
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by mantas 29d ago
Let’s start with banning algorithmic personalized feeds. That seems to be the common determinator of the bad apples.
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by mantas 1mo ago
Every day there’s another lucky 10k. https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by mantas 1mo ago
Eh. Not the op, but calm backroads are perfect for such rides. Good enough surface so no need to scan it for the better line as on gravel roads or offroad. Little traffic. And cars are much more predictable than the chaos of bike paths.
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by mantas 1mo ago
More like an automatic green pass looking at the historical treatment of some criminals with such background.
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by mantas 1mo ago
More like a good bunch of the hippies were in it just to have a good time. And then happily built the system we know.
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by mantas 1mo ago
Latin was the language for education and science waaaay beyond ex Roman Empire. Pretty much whole christian europe used Latin in medieval age and beyond.
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by mantas 2mo ago
Vast majority of people against it seem to be against the principle, not against the implementation.
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by mantas 3mo ago
IMO it's conflict of interest of some short-sighted naive idealists vs people who want to get stuff done. For example, solar. Shit ton of euromoneys is poured into subsidies. But those subsidies are not geofenced. Thus vast majority of
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by mantas 3mo ago
Frequently it is exactly the same item from aliexpress or from local reseller. Depends for different types of course.
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by mantas 3mo ago
Meanwhile local solar industry is loosing to Chinese at fast pace. Batteries industry ain’t looking good either.
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by mantas 3mo ago
EU became a thing in 1993. And soon after Europe could not keep up with US of A anymore. Even though USSR was gone, EU expanded and so on. Coincidence?
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by mantas 3mo ago
Is it? The green deal stuff seems to be pretty bad. Manufacturing seems to have a hard time. The next tier economy, e.g. AI, is not seen on the horizon. Over-the-top regulations for agriculture and then opening up the market from goods wher
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by mantas 3mo ago
Market has already did the thing. In this case it's protecting local retailers who import in bulk over consumers importing individually.
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by mantas 3mo ago
In my whereabouts tick-born encephalitis is a much bigger issue. But thankfully vaccine for it exists.
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by mantas 3mo ago
Nope. This is key paragraph from the link: > The effects of vaccination on human behaviour presented yet another important uncertainty. Lyme vaccination, although it provides incomplete protection, may make individuals less likely to lim
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by mantas 3mo ago
Even for the specific strain, it's not long-lived and strong enough.
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by mantas 3mo ago
Encephalitis is much more rare, but it's much worse than lyme. And there's a stab for it. Meanwhile Lyme is much more common, but much simplier to treat. Which is basically „take antibiotics or 3 to 21 days“ depending on how long
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by mantas 3mo ago
In my whereabouts ticks were common 70+ years ago too. But nobody seemed to give a damn about them since disease-carrying ticks were not a problem. Talking to my grandma, it was common to have ticks in her youth. But now a massive chunk of
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by mantas 3mo ago
IIRC there's no immunity. Or at least it's gone after some time.
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by mantas 3mo ago
Ticks are a problem regardless. And they don’t like too much heat. So climate warming may even reduce their population in some parts. Or, more likely, move them up north. Giving relieve to some and headache to others… Lyme disease vaccine w
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by mantas 3mo ago
Paris looked different 200 years ago. The most of rebuilt happened about 170 years ago. And people are in love with Montmartre which survived the rebuild ended up vastly older than the rest of the city. I’d even dare to say many people thin
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by mantas 3mo ago
Where do you draw a line? 100 years? 200? 500? Especially if buildings age nicely and they’re still considered good-looking. I’m in Europe and here if people suggested to tear down some art noveau buildings because they’re just 100-150 year
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by mantas 3mo ago
The rest of the world already has quite a few restrictions.
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by mantas 3mo ago
It depends on one’s whereabouts and kind of exercise. Exercising in a gym or outside with all your skin covered won’t make much vitamin D.
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by mantas 3mo ago
There's a massive difference between high-skill and low-skill immigration. Generalising both together is like measuring the average body temperature in a hospital.
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by mantas 3mo ago
Maybe some of „good“ parties should start playing this democracy game and address some worries of the people? Mainstream parties are destroying democracy by ignoring the voters. Or flat-out lying by pretending they do address those worries
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by mantas 3mo ago
How come? Mainstream parties are openly ignoring one of the main concerns of a big block of voters. Then some parties start catering for that concern. That’s pure democracy feedback loop in action.
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by mantas 3mo ago
In reality it’s not a joke though. Soros is one of the biggest politically minded donors of the last few decades.
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by mantas 3mo ago
Mainstream parties could take a hard stance on immigration and destroy „far right movements“ overnight. But somehow they are not interested in saving the democracy, instead they prefer to ignore hot topics and pretend they don’t exist. Hmmm

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