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Eric S. Raymond opines that now that Microsoft makes its profits mainly from Azure, some product owner in Microsoft will be allowed to enshittify Windows for collection short-term …

You are correct that Czechia, Cyprus and Romania (and France, and Lithuania) send their president to the European Council. But Poland and Portugal, and all other countries, send th…

> There are many countries in Europe with a president and a prime minister In most of those countries, the role of the president is mostly ceremonial and/or has to do with foreign …

(1) Replace US president with a Commission of Presidents. One from each state (well, EU only has 27 member states). Each Commissioner is appointed by state legislature, not elected…

I think what you've typed is not representative of how EU works. The Council [1], also known as the Council of the European Union and the Council of Ministers, does not consist of …

> What I don't understand, based on this: https://howtheyvote.eu/votes/195775 the votes are the other way around They voted for "Proposition de rejet". It's written there, but it's…

I mean, if the electoral college would have enough faithless electors to swing the result away from the president whom the majority of the electors had pledged to vote for. There h…

> So is the US president (Electoral College) It has never happened, but if there once would be enough faithless electors to swing the election (choosing a different president than …

Seedless watermelons are my favorite!

This is what you wrote: "The impact of their wild propagation should be studied first, not unleashed upon the local ecosystem." So by "wild propagation" you meant farm-to-farm prop…

Monsanto ceased to exist 8 years ago. It was acquired and absorbed by a bigger company.

If we understand "in the wild" to mean outside of farmers' fields, then rapeseed pollen flying from one rapeseed field to another nearby rapeseed field is not "in the wild".

Breeding new crop varieties is relatively scientific and sophisticated work, like any other advances in technology and products. If you couldn't parent your work, there wouldn't be…

> their wild propagation In general, crop plants don't propagate well in the wild. The whole point of breeding a crop plant is to remove their chemical defenses (to make them edibl…

Biosciences mostly don't use arXiv, they have their own https://www.biorxiv.org/ but it's usage is not as common as arXiv is in e.g. physics.

> You get a 4 year degree in college This is pretty uniquely a US-Canada specific system, that you first do a different 4-year BSc degree, before entering a 4-year medical school. …

> Because Anthropic has terms of service Not following terms of service doesn't necessarily constitute a fraud. It just means Anthropic can close an account that breaks the terms o…

> You can probably No need for "probably". That absolutely works.

It was this paper folding video (and the guy's unapologetic Finnish accent) that launched Hydraulic Press Channel to fame. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuG_CeEZV6w

"Nuclear holocaust" is a somewhat common expression both in and outside of fiction.

"Butlerian jihad" comes from a science fiction novel from 1965 (Dune, by Frank Herbert). They didn't know about current political correctness 60 years ago.

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