mortarion

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by mortarion 23d ago
In the EU some companies simply cannot grow because of laws like that. They might want to grow, but can't because of laws that says if your company has more than X employees you suddenly have to deal with a bunch of extra bureaucracy a
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by mortarion 2mo ago
It's not possible. High living costs, high energy costs (100x of China) and high regulatory costs all mean that if you were to build a modern fab, you'd need to sell your product for way more than the price offered by the competit
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by mortarion 2mo ago
It's simply not possible to build profitable fabs, or large industry anymore in most of the EU. This won't change. Laws and regulation has put a stop to this. The best that EU can do is to protect existing industry.
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by mortarion 2mo ago
Well, guess I will take my repositories elsewhere.
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by mortarion 2mo ago
This is basic metallurgy that every metal forger and alloy designer is already aware of.
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by mortarion 3mo ago
Marxism, communism and socialism are all extreme far-left ideologies. Being anti-immigration doesn't automatically swing the party to the right. As written on Wikipedia, "left-conservative" is probably the best label. The Swe
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by mortarion 3mo ago
Örebropartiet is not a extremist far-right party. All their policies is extreme far-left except immigration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96rebro_Party
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by mortarion 3mo ago
You can if there's a direct threat to your life (i.e. you can see that the intruder is also armed). But you can't use it against someone for just entering your premises illegally. It needs to be a clear and present danger.
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by mortarion 3mo ago
The company is "W Social AB", meaning "aktiebolag" which in Swedish is what you in the USA would call an LLC or "joint stock company. So they are 100% looking to monetize and turn a profit. I wouldn't call it s
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by mortarion 3mo ago
The guy who runs W Social, whilst he has a software developer background, has worked most of his time in the financial world. W social is also an LLC. It's a corporation with shares looking to make a profit somehow. No doubt there will
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by mortarion 3mo ago
SpaceX is 90% xAI and 10% space. It's no longer a space exploration company, it's an AI company (with a sub-par product). Insane (and dumb) valuation, kind of like Tesla.
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by mortarion 4mo ago
We're terrible at company and brand naming here in Europe. Just look at the "Wero" payment solution (formerly/currently iDeal). Like, who the hell came up with that stupid name? The list of stupid European company names
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by mortarion 5mo ago
Most people in the USA live within 100 miles of the border. That 100 miles limit was chosen for a purpose, to weaken protections for most US citizens.
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by mortarion 6mo ago
Russian military technology has not evolved since the 90s
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by mortarion 6mo ago
9/11 was not a military action against the USA, and the invocation of article 5 by the USA was illegimate.
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by mortarion 6mo ago
Agents should be treated like users. Would you give another user you know is a bit careless, write access to your important documents and data? Probably not. I get it that people don't want to be bothered by "can i do this and tha
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by mortarion 7mo ago
In the EU the platform becomes responsible for posted content, the moment someone notifies them that they are hosting something illegal. They have plausible deniability until notified, after which they have a certain time to act, and if the
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by mortarion 7mo ago
Compared to the USA, we have incredible privacy in the EU.
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by mortarion 7mo ago
Countries in Europe (and most of the world) have positive constitutions, which defines what the government "must do" (for its citizens), whilst the USA has a negative constitution that defines what the government "cannot do&q
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by mortarion 7mo ago
Not only that. This law exists like this because of a EU directive. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2011/93/oj/eng Let me quote again: Pay attention to c.iv specifically: (c) ‘child pornography’ m
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by mortarion 7mo ago
This is the actual law (Brottsbalken 16:10a) https://www.riksdagen.se/sv/dokument-och-lagar/dokument/sven... A person who 1. depicts a child in a pornographic image, 2. disseminates, transfers, provides, exhi
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by mortarion 7mo ago
Maybe you should look up child pornography laws in Europe. In Sweden, the mere act of scrolling by an image depicting (real or not) a child in a sexual position, and having it stored in the browser cache, is a crime with up to 2 years of pr
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by mortarion 7mo ago
Maybe US law makes a distinction, but in Europe there is no difference. Sexual depictions of children (real or not) is considered child pornography and will get you sent to the slammer.
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by mortarion 7mo ago
This is the cyber crime unit. They will exfiltrate any data they want. They will use employee account to pivot into the rest of the X network. They don't just go in, grab a couple of papers, laptops and phones. They hook into the netwo
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by mortarion 8mo ago
Within the Schengen area, you don't really need an ID to get on a plane either. In fact you can go through security screening in many places without an ID or a valid ticket.
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by mortarion 8mo ago
In most of the modern world, it's impossible to go through life without a bank account at the minimum (which requires an ID), but not so in the USA, there you can live your whole life, paying with, and accepting cash, storing it in you
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by mortarion 8mo ago
CSAM does not have a universal definition. In Sweden for instance, CSAM is any image of an underage subject (real or realistic digital) designed to evoke a sexual response. If you take a picture of a 14 year old girl (age of consent is 15)
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by mortarion 8mo ago
Yeah, delivering using Falcon 9. The Starship stack? Not so much. It's plagued, and will continue to be plagued, by endless problems. BO will beat them with NG.
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by mortarion 8mo ago
I mean for all intents and purposes this language is designed for use by LLM's, not humans, and the AI probably won't complain that a switch-case statement is missing. ;)
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by mortarion 9mo ago
Israeli company. No doubt some Mossad front.

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