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Comment · 2 years ago
so by Buffet's metric, Mongo is doing even worse
Comment · 2 years ago
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-land and it is quite fascinating. If you'd like, I can stipulate on how "no cash accepted" signs work even though you can force people to accept cash to settle debts.
Comment · 2 years ago
It’s called uBlock
Comment · 2 years ago
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 how you arrived there.

But, putting on my economist hat; I can assure you that exponentially increasing fines will at some point create enough deterrence against such actions. Or better yet, it will be socially optimal for those idiots to keep breaking rules.

Comment · 2 years ago
God I love noyb. I wish I lived in Austria so I could contribute.
Comment · 2 years ago
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?

Also speeding becomes reckless driving (with jail time) and parking in dumb places gets your car towed (and possibly damaged) so banking in money to avoid rules isn’t always exactly a winning strategy.

Comment · 2 years ago
Same reason we don’t cut thieves’ hands
Comment · 2 years ago
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.
Comment · 2 years ago
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 unbiasedness.
Comment · 2 years ago
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 living together for hundreds of years.
Comment · 2 years ago
What political markers? IST is in Europe, and SAW is not. We are talking about airports in continents.
Comment · 2 years ago
Trains take a lot of passengers away from air travel
Comment · 2 years ago
Not even that, Istanbul airport is in the top 10 too. Maybe he meant EU? But that’s not really Europe as a whole
Comment · 2 years ago
Funnily enough, the main case is getting cheap reputable backlinks for those companies
Comment · 2 years ago
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 just even uBlock will save you a lot of hassle and server-side tracking purely by the virtue of blocking the consent banners (so they can't be approved)

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