trasz3

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by trasz3 3y ago
Emission checks for EVs?
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by trasz3 3y ago
>It’s interesting to me that they continue to spawn and nix products like this despite the reputation damage it causes. I guess this means a "reputation" doesn't influence their profits. Some companies aren't in impr
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by trasz3 3y ago
So why is it hosted in Germany and not, say, China?
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by trasz3 3y ago
Anything related to crypto/blockchain tends to be a technically very poor way of doing decentralisation.
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by trasz3 3y ago
>Government-sponsored was not a US propaganda badge, it was a response to a serious concern about adversarial governments For most people USA is an adversarial government. You've just confirmed it was a propaganda badge meaning &qu
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by trasz3 3y ago
Yes. I your car catches fire when parked, you probably want to grab a fire extinguisher instead of complaining, even though it's not technically your fault.
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by trasz3 3y ago
And look how effective that was.
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by trasz3 3y ago
So, does it? xD
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by trasz3 3y ago
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by trasz3 3y ago
s/employing/led by/. Yeah, pretty much.
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by trasz3 3y ago
So here's where we disagree: to me, any institution led by Medvedev won't be independent; funding formalities don't matter at all. Also, once again: there's a fundamental difference between "used to work" and &
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by trasz3 3y ago
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/where-have-russians-bee...
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by trasz3 3y ago
Oh, definitely; it could be based on literally anything, or just effectively random. But it doesn't change my view of whether the outcome is positive or not.
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by trasz3 3y ago
So if it was instead registered as a private company, with, say, Medvedev as CEO, it would be fine?
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by trasz3 3y ago
And there is a way out. And there's been for over a year now.
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by trasz3 3y ago
No, my argument is that an institution managed by past government officials cannot be unironically called independent from said government.
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by trasz3 3y ago
Have you ever considered the possible difference between what's officially allowed and what's actually happening? Nowadays, when information is abundant, individual stories don't matter all that much; what does matter is buil
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by trasz3 3y ago
There's a subtle difference between "working with" and being the CEO.
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by trasz3 3y ago
>Musk's eye of Sauron fell upon NPR--and only NPR, not Deutsche Welle or Radio France or CBC or BBC Well, sure, but you gotta start somewhere. At least this is a move in the right direction; let's hope for similar labelling fo
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by trasz3 3y ago
I don't care about Lensing's bio, or even him as a person. What matters is, ex-propaganda (protip: https://www.wordnik.com/words/propaganda ) bureau head is now leading NPR, an allegedly independent instituti
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by trasz3 3y ago
>The government doesn't have any editorial control of NPR. Yeah, it's not like the government literally put their own guy as NPRs CEO: https://www.usagm.gov/who-we-are/management-team/john-lansin...
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by trasz3 3y ago
Editorial independence in action: https://www.usagm.gov/who-we-are/management-team/john-lansin...
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by trasz3 3y ago
It's not just that it's state-funded - NPR's CEO got there after years of heading the relevant US government propaganda agency, as evidenced in https://www.usagm.gov/who-we-are/management-team/john-l
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by trasz3 3y ago
Except this is a pure marketing talk, ie this phrase literally doesn't mean anything quantifiable. Unless you're trying to argue that NPR's CEO, which came directly from US government propaganda agency, maintains "edito
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by trasz3 3y ago
Truth hurts, I suppose? Or are you going to argue with a straight face that the fact that NPRs CEO came directly from US government propaganda bureau doesn't prove the new labeling correct?
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by trasz3 3y ago
Yeah, it's not like their CEO came directly from the relevant government bureau, right? I'm not a fan of Elon (or most companies, for that matter), but this was the right thing to do. Previously the "government-sponsored&quo
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by trasz3 3y ago
You can use whatever you want, sanctions don’t affect that. What you can’t do is paying money to sanctioned entities.
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by trasz3 3y ago
This is one of the reasons why we need Open Source infrastructure in countries that are not controlled by media owners.
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by trasz3 3y ago
>most capable companies in the world Ever wondered why you say that about a company which is living off the network effect (ie monopoly) and fails at pretty much everything they try except for two products they did two decades ago?
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by trasz3 3y ago
The CDDL license guarantees they can’t. (And it’s probably the only reason they hadn’t.)

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