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The term "fake news" has been overused, but... we initially heard about hundreds of thousands of visas sold for bribes, now we know about maybe a couple hundred of visas issued wit…

It’s still nothing compared to the other things I mentioned.

I think you got it backwards. Over the last 20 years, the SLD govt used to literally sell new legislation for bribes, PO (currently in charge of Poland) literally has right now a g…

Didn't expect that stuff to reach HN... anyway: > packing the Polish Constitutional Court This didn’t start with PiS. PO, just before losing power, tried to elect five Tribunal jud…

Russia has been literally selling Venezuela all kinds of military equipment for decades. If they hadn’t helped Venezuela militarily this time, it’s probably because they are a litt…

These 8 laboratories shared the same sample collected from a corner of the shroud. The priests handling the shroud would always hold it by its corners. So the explanation is not as…

Weird twist: Slavic languages use words very similar to "domus" for "house", for example, "dom" in Polish or "дом" in Ukrainian.

How are we supposed to know, being outside of Google?

My Bose QC 35 headphones are like that. I just replace the ear pads every few years and they are like new.

With the AI "revolution," I began to appreciate the simplicity of models we create when doing programming (and physics, biology, and so on as well). I used to think about these thi…

Discovering how a large system works can be fun. Even if a codebase is old, but the design is good, it can be gratifying.

We don't have that here either, but I'm satisfied with the Apple premium reseller network.

Still better than Apple! I pay the full price for Apple One but Apple thinks I shouldn't have access to Fitness+. Or Siri, which still doesn't support my language (Polish, 40M spea…

Ukrainians were given full employment rights in Poland after the Russian invasion, so they can just move to Poland (at least the female ones, as males aren’t allowed to leave Ukrai…

OK, so it sounds like it’s possible in France too, you just need to employ yourself (and then pay employment-related contributions). In Poland, this is a little simplified, as ther…

The "employee" creates a single-person company in Poland (or any other EU country, I guess) and sends invoices monthly. Honestly, it's trivial to set up. I'd say it's even easier t…

The smaller one turned out to be hardly useful, the larger one isn’t available. Warmates seem to be more effective in Ukraine, and Ukraine bought/received more of those.

It seems to me that calling facts you don't like a "salad" or "yoghurt" is a mental equivalent of covering your ears.

Exactly, that’s one of the most overlooked parts of the Earth, but if you consider the GDP growth rate over the last 30 years, Poland is second only to China.

It's not word salad, this is the logical conclusion of the Church-Turing thesis. If you think it's false, you should present some arguments against it.

This seems irreverent to me. If you created an evolutionary algorithm, where these very complex statistical models competed for survival, I don’t see how that would help one of the…

Do you mean that because of its complexity, we are not able to define it due to practical reasons (i.e. no powerful enough computer exists)? If so, that’s something completely diff…

So how being embodied helps consciousness emerge? If it’s just the statistical model that underpins the consciousness, then it doesn’t matter if it’s embodied or not. It doesn’t ma…

I wouldn’t call it science-based, it’s just materialism. There’s no science in believing that something that can be completely described by a set of logical rules, or mathematical …

You mean “talk” as in be receiving answers in real time? Because I think all Christians believe that you can “talk” to God in some way.