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bynext_ghost
2025 @12:04PM
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Attached to: How Europe Crushes Innovation
Why are all the giant US tech companies concentrated in Silicon Valley and Seattle instead of being spread evenly throughout the country? Because Silicon Valley and Seattle is where all the tech investors are. The success of tech startups depends almost entirely on investor funding. And what do EU tech startups lack the most? You guessed it, investor funding. EU tech companies have to earn money for their growth the hard way because European investors are almost as risk-averse as the banks. Loosening labor regulations will do exactly nothing to improve access to funding.
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bynext_ghost
8, 2024 @04:50AM
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Attached to: 'Just Have AI Build an App For That'
Resizing an SVG isn't a thing in the first place. It's a vector graphic - The name MEANS Scaleable Vector Graphic.
The input and output of this program should be identical.
Well, you might still need to change <svg width="123" height="456"> to some other values to change the default dimensions of the image. But you can do that with plain old Notepad.
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bynext_ghost
2024 @12:30PM
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Attached to: Are EV 'Charger Hogs' Ruining the EV Experience?
Owners of the public charger stations could use two solutions to eliminate this problem:
1) Divide the charging station into two types of chargers: Quick chargers will stop charging at 80% instead of switching to the slow mode. Full chargers will charge up to 100%. You're free to choose which one you want to wait for.
2) Charge by the minute, not by watt. Charging to full capacity will cost you extra.
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bynext_ghost
2024 @02:46PM
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Attached to: Coffee, Eggs and White Rice Linked To Higher Levels of PFAS in Human Body
Maybe the eggs are related to the non-stick frying pans.
Rice is a similar case. I've tried to find a rice cooker that doesn't have non-stick coating (read: PFAS) and as far as I can tell, there are none.
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bynext_ghost
2024 @02:46PM
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Attached to: FTC To Vote On Noncompete Ban
Something as simple as [what you said] isn't as simple as what you just said.
Case in point, your full compensation is now $1/month. One minute later you're fired.
To which you reply "well add to that some rule to not allow that" - or put shorter - "It's not that simple"
I don't know how this works in America but where I'm from, there already is a rule against changing someone's salary like that: Every salary change requires a contract amendment signed by both the employer and the employee.
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bynext_ghost
18, 2023 @02:04PM
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Attached to: 'In Most Industries, Regulation Tends To Prevent Competition'
The thing that inflates drug costs the most is not clinical trials but endless patents. The pharma industry keeps using patent law loopholes to keep their drug patented even decades after the original patents formally expired. There used to be a generic drug industry which produced cheap patent-free drugs and some of those companies even got big enough to start their own research. But it was mostly bought up by big pharma or driven out of business by endless patents.
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bynext_ghost
6, 2023 @04:41AM
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Attached to: Scientific Journal Retracts Article That Claimed No Evidence of Climate Crisis
Bruh, Springer is a giant publisher which owns hundreds of scientific journals covering all fields of science. If you search for climate science papers "on Springer", you'll find thousands of papers from completely different journals than the article above is about.
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bynext_ghost
2023 @04:02PM
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Attached to: Scientific Journal Retracts Article That Claimed No Evidence of Climate Crisis
Let me put it this way: Scientists are free to follow their personal politics to ask scientific questions. But if they also allow their politics to override verifiable facts and dictate the answers, they're frauds who have no place in science.
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bynext_ghost
2023 @03:58PM
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Attached to: Scientific Journal Retracts Article That Claimed No Evidence of Climate Crisis
and then "no comment" as to how the thing passed peer review to begin with.
This all may have a dignified air and phrasing about it, but it is 100% compatible with "minority view slipped through. now crushed". (note, i haven't investigated the issue of the claims and counterclaims further, yet... in large part because they are not mentioned / linked to! (and i have to go off and do it via searches etc)
The paper authors picked a physics journal that has nothing to do with climate science. It's very likely the authors knew that the paper would be reviewed by physicists who think they know more about climate change than actual experts (but really don't). That's how it passed peer review to begin with.
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bynext_ghost
09, 2023 @01:01PM
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Attached to: Pulitzer-Winning Journalist Claims US Sabotaged Nord Stream Pipeline
And blowing up the pipeline also allows Russia to wiggle out of hefty damages for breaching gas delivery contracts.
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bynext_ghost
09, 2023 @12:57PM
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Attached to: Pulitzer-Winning Journalist Claims US Sabotaged Nord Stream Pipeline
Gas prices in the EU are now cheaper again than the day before Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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bynext_ghost
09, 2023 @12:45PM
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Attached to: Pulitzer-Winning Journalist Claims US Sabotaged Nord Stream Pipeline
EU countries have already filed lawsuits against Gazprom for breach of contract when it stopped supplying gas through Nord Stream in early 2022. If Nord Stream didn't blow up, Gazprom would be on the hook for damages far greater than the cost of building a new pipeline.
https://www.reuters.com/busine...
https://www.cez.cz/en/media/pr...
https://globalarbitrationrevie...
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bynext_ghost
05, 2022 @12:53PM
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Attached to: You Can Now Play Video Games Developed Behind the Iron Curtain
Worry not! Here you can find another ZIP file from the other half of Czechoslovakia which does include Tetris: http://www.fuxoft.cz/english.h...
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bynext_ghost
25, 2021 @11:52AM
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Attached to: Will Isaac Asimov's 'Foundation' Survive Its Transformation into a Streaming Series?
I didn't say that Seldon made it to Terminus. But he certainly did live long enough to hear the exile sentence at the end of his treason trial.
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bynext_ghost
2021 @01:30PM
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Attached to: Will Isaac Asimov's 'Foundation' Survive Its Transformation into a Streaming Series?
I can assure you tha Gaal Dornick is not Mary Sue's brother. He's there only as an exposition stand-in and doesn't even appear in the rest of the book.
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