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balsoft

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  • Top 10 countries with the lowest racial diversity

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  • I wonder if there's an inverse correlation between racial diversity and racism (whether casual or systemic). Of course it's not easy to quantify the latter...

  • Criminalisation of climate protesters in UK is counterproductive, research finds

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  • If cops listened to science and common sense they would be arresting very different people

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    Trump administration to prioritise seeking death penalty, use firing squads

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  • I'm still hoping for labor camps at minimum wage until they repay what they stole (i.e. forever). Fuck capital punishment

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  • I once tried steeping (black) tea in a friend's drip coffee maker. That shit was the strongest, most flavorful tea I've ever tried. 9/10 would recommend

  • Countries meet in first global effort to phase out fossil fuels

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  • They are currently best positioned to build and sell all kinds of renewable energy generation and storage methods. And they're getting very good at nuclear too. They are set to benefit the most from everyone ditching fossil fuels.

  • Countries meet in first global effort to phase out fossil fuels

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  • major powers including the US, China and India are not part of the talks.

    EU sent its own delegation. I'd say it's a pretty major power all things considered. A few other big economies on the list as well

    Angola, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Denmark, Dominican Republic, European Union, Fiji, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Guatemala, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Kiribati, Luxembourg, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Mexico, Mongolia, Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Portugal, Senegal, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Türkiye, Tuvalu, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United Republic of Tanzania, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Vietnam.

    Also, disappointed/surprised at the lack of China there. They are on the forefront of renewable energy, and are set to benefit the most from decarbonization.

  • Are we building an alternative to billionaire platforms or just a quieter version of them?

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  • I think you should take a more constructivist approach - what we have now, rather than what we might have in the future. Currently we have a network of like 20 major servers, mostly federated with each other. If one of those servers becomes insanely popular and overrun with bots and garbage, the rest will simply defederate from it. From the perspective of users on those other servers, they've only lost 5% of the network they liked. From the perspective of users who were on the popular server before it went to shit, they now have to move servers but still have 95% of the old network as they remember it.

    Do users all move to the new instance?

    What incentive is there for them to move? By the very nature of hype explosions, they are exponential, and as such most users will have joined when it was already quite popular. They won't remember the "good old days" of their server being federated, so for them it's fine to be isolated on a garbage server, at least initially. I suspect if something like this were to happen, most other servers will also limit signups for some time, to keep the spirit of the network alive and growing organically.

  • Conformity

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  • If you're talking about the OP image, it's actually inefficient as fuck. The houses depicted there house the same number of people as one or maybe two apartment blocks. And those apartment blocks can then have a bunch of greenery between them.

  • Communist China Overtakes USA in Life Expectancy with 79.2 Years

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  • That's... Huge. Given they also are the world's factory, with all the health issues that come from that, it's an insane thing to pull off.

  • 🐙 Octopus is Octopus 🐙

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  • On a very fundamental level, the scaffolding that makes words make sense is the neuron structures in your brain which fire when they recognize certain sounds/scribbles. Things like etymology and grammar are not necessary for a language to be used for communication (in fact, languages existed for much longer than the notions of etymology or grammar). Both of them help make the language more standardized and thus more understandable, but they are not required - you can totally make yourself understood without knowing about either of those things.

  • Oh, Brother [@jasonadamk]

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  • Oh how the turntables

    Printing on Linux used to be a massive pain because CUPS, until I learned that I can just yeet PDFs at network printers with nc.

    I can't fathom Windows printing being worse than CUPS somehow. But then again I'm pretty sure last time I printed anything on Windows it was via a parallel port.

  • Future

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  • I know that in Moscow you could order a "flying taxi" with Yandex.Taxi (russian uber thing), it was actually a tiny two-seat helicopter. I suspect that Chinese "flying taxis" would be quite similar.

  • Future

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    1. Spying on you (yours doesn't seem to do that yet, but see pt.2)
    2. Getting hacked because the domain it communicates with wasn't renewed and got hijacked by scriptkiddies

    Overall I'm quite excited about smart home stuff, but it must live on its own isolated network with some device I have full control over as a bridge to the internet (home-assistant+tailscale or a similar setup). No "IoT" device should have direct internet access, ever.

  • Future

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  • Well, we now technically have a fusion reactor in the sky, and we can receive the energy it beams down right at our homes

  • Framework Wireless Touchpad Keyboard

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  • I wonder if "the same keyboard and touchpad design" means that it looks the same, or if it's actually the same parts.

  • nice sign

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  • You are right, I was working with outdated info. Just last year there was a study that showed the body doesn't compensate metabolically for the exercise and the added calorie burn is not offset by conservation elsewhere. I can't find the source of my misconception, but I guess it was widespread enough that they ran a study to disprove it.

  • nice sign

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  • The human body will burn calories pretty much either way, and if you let your body adjust to daily riding your resting energy use will go down. If you want to be healthy you need exercise either way. Given all that you can consider the energy required to ride a bicycle for a medium distance daily to be virtually free.

  • It's not sexy but it is (was) mine

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  • Thanks :3

  • It's not sexy but it is (was) mine

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  • Looks like it was a fine machine o7

    How come yours doesn’t have the intercooler scoop on the bonnet??

    Mine is a Chamonix Mont-Blanc (a "luxury" trim) with a naturally aspirated petrol V6, hence it doesn't have an intercooler. For some reason most Delicas in Georgia are the petrol variety (mine also has a homebrew LPG system).

    Don’t see many of these around any more

    Yep! They banned importing old cars into Georgia now, so despite the ~60k km I put on it and some slight damage I've done to it over the years, I'm pretty sure I will be able to sell it for the same price as I got it for. It is still highly valued by mountain guides here because it very comfortably seats 6 or 7 people and can easily take them to the middle of nowhere. So if you're looking for a nostalgia hit, consider going there and taking a mountain tour :)