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by s_dev 4mo ago
The writing was on the wall years ago. Those of us who have seen this film before knew where this was going. A few years ago I went full Jellyfin for my media server needs and never looked back. Yes, some people complained Jellyfin client a
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I'm not sure what 'film' America is trying to be but I've seen plenty of real life references that could have come straight from either the Handmaids Tale, Idiocracy, The Dead Zone or Civil War the past few years. Life d
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by s_dev 4mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus You can draw the line wherever you like but for me it is still a Wii even with a different OS. I would draw the line at replacing the hardware inside with XBOX hardware. Ot
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by s_dev 4mo ago
Irish here, it was never EU or Irish. The Collisons are Irish but Stripe is an American company. The profits are ultimately repatriated to the United States.
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by s_dev 4mo ago
I didn't say they're bad. Subsidies are fine, all governments do it for their own reasons but when you receive artificial support it does beg the questions as to when and how that support will be pulled so it puts a question mark
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by s_dev 4mo ago
>Very little will change in Hungary with the new government. Things aren't going to improve magically in the next few years but the backsliding has stopped, improving things takes real effort and focus. At the end of Orban's re
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by s_dev 4mo ago
>This reads to me almost like saying “Why are pigs not avoiding the most problematic slaughterhouses?” I don't think that's a fair comparison. Pigs are literally reared for slaughter and have no autonomy. Employees can and do c
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by s_dev 4mo ago
>Think of it as an investment. An economic investment as well as one of solidarity. People forget that the EU is a peace project that ensures peace via economic cooperation. This nuance seems trivial but is actually massively important.
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by s_dev 4mo ago
>- “Are you hiring people just to fire them a year later to protect yourselves?” You think the naive part is the response and not that question? My point is that you'll simply have to read between the lines on responses with leading
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by s_dev 4mo ago
"Why is this role open"? Either they will answer directly with something solid like "We're growing the team" or they will evade it which is still a meaningful answer for you. You could probe further with questions l
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by s_dev 4mo ago
This is completely acceptable. When was the last time you saw any job seeker seriously enquire about such practices in interviews or at the application stage? A lot of people here and in the industry in general seem to optimise for compensa
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by s_dev 4mo ago
Did you watch Guillermo del Toro version? I'm enchanted by it. Pinocchio is a selfish brat and that's a central tenet of his redemption arc.
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by s_dev 4mo ago
Can you point to any examples of this: >I think a stable fertility rate AND educated girls are simultaneously possible all around the world i.e countries with a very high education attainment rate or high ranking in the human development
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by s_dev 4mo ago
It was a good watch but I don't think there is too much detail to put here. BYD has a lot more debt than they're claiming and their growth was subsidized by the Chinese government in order to buy market share.
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by s_dev 4mo ago
It's common knowledge that the official status pages don't actually reflect downtime due to SLAs and the status page could be weaponised against them. So comparing them is useless. You rarely see "outages" even if that w
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by s_dev 5mo ago
All of these financial 'privileges' are based on the US having the world reserve currency and petro dollar. The US in the unique position of being able to 1. Print Money. 2. Externalise inflation. 3. Ensure a base load demand for
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by s_dev 5mo ago
>From the perspective of the company he was scamming them by not paying for a previously agreed service. How could I have possibly scammed them by providing them money while not availing of the service?
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by s_dev 5mo ago
I support the US->EU movement but I've been put off Mistral's Le Chat. https://european-alternatives.eu/ I subscribed (and paid) for a year of Pro. They gave me 1 month on the basis that a payment was missed on
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by s_dev 5mo ago
You have to switch your VPN to France to watch this video. Just FYI. I didn't get it at all btw. From what I gathered: What's the difference between a good hunter and bad hunter. A bad hunter shoots anything that moves, a good hun
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by s_dev 5mo ago
Scissor keys are the good ones, you're thinking of Butterfly keys.
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by s_dev 6mo ago
You are conflating the philosophical notion of identity with functional identification in the real world. There is no cryptographic escape hatch from the social contract. >You just are/I just am Is not an acceptable thing to say to
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by s_dev 6mo ago
Oracle run a huge % of the worlds POS devices.
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by s_dev 6mo ago
I just migrated my personal servers to Scaleway due the big EU migration that's happening. I did love using them as a service though, lovely interface and decent pricing. Back in the day we didn't have Claude but their documentati
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by s_dev 6mo ago
You don't learn it properly. It's not supposed to be intuitive, it's supposed to be concise at the cost of it being intuitive. Would be like somebody saying typing words in to Google is more intuitive than writing regex. jq i
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by s_dev 6mo ago
That video is from 11 months ago, long before Trump was elected for his second term. Once was an anomaly. Twice is nearly a pattern but not an anomaly. Third time is an established pattern.
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I didn't say the US is finished, I said it was finished as a liberal democracy. It's already slid in to 'electoral democracy' instead of 'liberal democracy' the difference between the two is how 'rule of l
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by s_dev 6mo ago
>(though currently a little bit less marked) Again this is a false equivalence, 'a little less marked' isn't close to imparting the true state of things and to be honest a little disingenuous. The EU is not in full motion
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by s_dev 6mo ago
>How comfortable are you guys with the fact that EU countries allow prosecutors and sometimes even police officers to issue their own search warrants without meaningful judicial review? This is a hilarious 'just asking questions&#x2
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by s_dev 6mo ago
https://european-alternatives.eu/ I recommend Scaleway for cloud hosting. I recently migrated from Digital Ocean who I really loved, to Scaleway and have I have to say impressed with both dashboard interface and pricing so
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by s_dev 6mo ago
This breaks my heart about Ireland. I concede it's not possible to reforest the entire Ireland and have a competitive dairy and beef industry but restoring some of our wetlands and forests should be a goal that's taken seriously.

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