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_v7gu

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    Comment #39862597

    so by Buffet's metric, Mongo is doing even worse

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    Comment #39831357

    What is a sales contract but the admittance of debts on both sides? The seller owes the buyer the good, and the buyer owes the seller the money. Everything is debt in contracts-lan…

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    Comment #39819403

    It’s called uBlock

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    Comment #39819024

    I replied to a post that advocated basically death penalty for firms that such penalties are inhumane. I can’t really put my finger at what you’re insinuating my position is and ho…

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    Comment #39815135

    God I love noyb. I wish I lived in Austria so I could contribute.

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    Comment #39815128

    My thought up reply got eaten by an unexpected refresh so here is a shorter version: boy, not complying with the regulations sure paid off for Apple and their Lightning cables huh?…

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    Comment #39814488

    Same reason we don’t cut thieves’ hands

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    Comment #39811088

    Can ü be printed on a passport rather than a u? I have a ş and a ç so I have been successfully substituting s and c for them in a somewhat consistent manner.

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    Comment #39805977

    Seeing that they had to replace the generic race and gender variables for those, the test is more of “does the llm have the same prejudices that I do?” rather then a test of unbias…

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    Comment #39799051

    Turkey is culturally aligned with lots of places thanks to its history and geography. Aegean Turkey and Greece shares cuisine, tradition and even folk songs. Tends to happen after …

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    Comment #39795121

    What political markers? IST is in Europe, and SAW is not. We are talking about airports in continents.

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    Comment #39792807

    Trains take a lot of passengers away from air travel

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    Comment #39792800

    Not even that, Istanbul airport is in the top 10 too. Maybe he meant EU? But that’s not really Europe as a whole

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    Comment #39791617

    Funnily enough, the main case is getting cheap reputable backlinks for those companies

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    Comment #39743821

    Gears of EU grind slowly but finely. IAB just received a fine for promoting horrible banner practices. And it's not like we'd be better off if the gears didn't grind at all. Now ju…

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    Comment #39743607

    Cases != law in continental Europe. The law is the law. I don't think you're in a position to call others armchair lawyers

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    Comment #39743358

    Fun fact, they are illegal if they require more clicks to reject than accept; so this is not a consequence of the law anyway.

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    Comment #39743330

    I believe quite a lot of them have their paychecks depending on invasive user tracking, so no surprise.

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    Comment #39743278

    DNT existed, but websites decided they could freely ignore that. Hence the regulation

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    Comment #39697064

    AI generated black mirror titles? Seems fitting

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    Comment #39681614

    > Basically it’s the cookie banner again. Served no-one (at least definitely not the consumers), but annoyed a lot. Oh no, you have to be given the option to not permit your data t…

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    Comment #39681475

    Using that loophole would be an Article 13 violation

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    Comment #39678811

    DMA requires free access to the platform

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    Comment #39677956

    If a company's profit margins rely on their "employees" not understanding how depreciation leaves them with wages below the minimum, then yes those jobs need to be destroyed via re…

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    Comment #39640104

    Five is small enough that you can get away with sin(5 deg) = 5pi/180