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by wwtrv 2y ago
Care to explain? Besides the accidental 5 of course.
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by wwtrv 2y ago
You did include both of these in the same comment, though: > Would this also ban spam filters? Fraud convictions? > But these are straw men Anyway, at least in the US (but I also assume similar provisions in other countries as well) t
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by wwtrv 2y ago
In reality they have a somewhat limited say in who the Commission president is going to back and almost no influence on its members. Compared to most national parliaments it's extremely weak and quite pointless. It's pretty much a
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by wwtrv 2y ago
> She was appointed by the EU parliament IMHO that would be perfectly fine on its own (or do you think that any parliamentary state is not a "real democracy"?). But the problem is that she was appointed by the Council/Nati
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by wwtrv 2y ago
> The role you're talking about is more like that of the Speaker of the House in the US or the UK. Both are elected by members of the chamber, not a popular vote. Not really. The commission president is certainly (not even remotely)
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by wwtrv 2y ago
Really? Some cartel operatives believe their actions are justified for some greater good? Well unless you count filling your own pockets a "greater good" then they are objectively extremely deranged and delusional which possibly
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by wwtrv 2y ago
> They'll buy a $20 blender that will die in a year rather than the $100 blender that will last a lifetime. One problem for consumers is that often it's very hard to tell which is which. There is no guarantee that a $60 item wo
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by wwtrv 2y ago
The idea is (well according to France at least) that they'll monitor those chats and report the suspected "criminals" to the government. > Is there a check box to state that you are a criminal when you message someone I as
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by wwtrv 2y ago
And your point is? Generally only unelected officials are allowed to formulate or propose EU policy (the EU "parliament" is only there for rubber stamping it) how is that similar to most countries?
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by wwtrv 2y ago
> Telegram is end-to-end encrypted in private chats Not by default (unlike the other services you've mentioned )?
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by wwtrv 2y ago
> Benjamin Franklin Supposedly that's not his quote though? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41342251
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by wwtrv 2y ago
Well in Telegram's case the idea is that they knowingly provide taxi services to those criminals and do supposedly nothing when it's reported to them because they are "too small" to moderate everything
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by wwtrv 2y ago
> Unelected officials = experts What? Not in the commission. It's a 100% politically appointed body made up of politicians, it's just not elected. Also even on the lower levels being an "expert" EU apparatchik has abs
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by wwtrv 2y ago
And battery life with most laptops (even the Framework) is pretty horrible on Linux compared to Windows without excessive tweaking (and even then).
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by wwtrv 2y ago
To be fair from the perspective of most consumers what downsides does the Air have that are only there because it's an "ultrabook"?
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by wwtrv 2y ago
> and the pricetag at 2-3x a similarly-performing windows equivalent, and probably +50% on similar screen windows equivalent. Can you actually list any of these "equivalents"? I'm actually genuinely curious Just to get thi
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by wwtrv 2y ago
> people's life would be better with a decent-travel keyboard Most people don't generally seem to agree with that, though (not explicitly, they just generally don't prioritize things like that)
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by wwtrv 2y ago
> will arbitrarily use 2-3x idle power draw while on battery for no apparent reason You might be thinking about Linux? IIRC OS X wasn't particularly impressive about that back in the x86 days and high-end Macs had horrible battery l
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by wwtrv 2y ago
Why? It would just seem silly not to take include the fact the CEO of the company you are relying on continuously behaves in an erratic and unpredictable manner (and is also trying to undermine democratic institutions but that's beside
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by wwtrv 2y ago
They are only expensive and desirable because of these people.
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by wwtrv 2y ago
Calculators also had a track record of shattering human benchmarks. Also saying something like: > has a sound theoretical basis Without backing it up at all hardly makes much sense...
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by wwtrv 2y ago
Stock buybacks are basically just more flexible dividends. Companies used to payout way more in dividends in the past now they do buybacks instead.
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by wwtrv 2y ago
> If they can fire 80% most companies should What's special about "them"? Twitter was technically never a particularly complex product that required some kind of exceptional talent. Not even remotely in the same ballpark c
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by wwtrv 2y ago
> Personally if they are selling around USD500 - USD600 > well especially in developing countries. Why? They can already buy a Lenovo/HP/etc. laptop for <500$, FHD and 16 GB RAM (and most in that price range seem to have
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by wwtrv 2y ago
> it will be selling like hot cakes I strongly doubt that. Otherwise premium (by Apple standards at least) or midrange specs laptop but with a slow CPU wouldn't be that popular. It makes sense in a very cheap (< $300) device but
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by wwtrv 2y ago
> They won't be able to test exhaustively every failure mode that could lead to such issues. That might be acceptable. My point is that if you are incapable of having even absolutely basic automated tests (that would take a few minu
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by wwtrv 2y ago
> Are you mentally ill? Is that really necessary? Also I'll second it, your comments are objectively xenophobic. > never about Scots, either Considering there are 10x less of them not particularly suprising... > And yes, other
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by wwtrv 2y ago
Cagots didn't really have an option of assimilating besides moving to a different region, that's what was special about them. Jews on the other hand ussually would do reasonably fine after converting. Of course it varied a lot by
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by wwtrv 2y ago
> To be blunt, if that hadn't happened, the Jews would have probably disappeared into the general European population by the 15th Century That seems like a bizarre claim... If anything the attacks, discrimination etc. would have enc
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by wwtrv 2y ago
> And then, once again, Europe blames the groups it refuses to accept. Can you explain in what way did this manifest in Sweden for instance? Or have any data/evidence besides some semi-vague claims about antisemitism and some immuta

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