- 5 Posts
- 21 Comments
2·11 days agoGood point. For reference, from the OP article:
Mark Rutte, in response to Donald Trump’s demands for a 5% target – suggests member states agree to raise defence spending to 3.5% of their GDP and commit a further 1.5% to wider security spending.
I can totally see Trump agreeing to get his 5% if part of it will be spent on climate adaptation and mitigation, or infrastructure in the “hostile and abusive” EU.
BTW: 3.5% is still more than any NATO country spends on R&D, maybe except of the US.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_research_and_development_spending
3·11 days agoGood point. But I also think we should look sector-to-sector at growth. Or, better, develop better metrics. There is a lot of BS in GDP (like, introducing a vaccine might easily have a “negative” impact on GDP, since it is more cost effective than curing the disease once it happens, and thus causes less expenditure). But there are activities we would like to grow (like, renewable energy manufacturing or a big chunk of the medical field).
And FYI, here are the updated statistics on trade with China, seems to be stagnating (maybe outsourcing to new “rising markets”)?
I understand that there are real threats in Europe. But… 5 fckn percent as a (!) minimum? None NATO country spends more than 3.5% on research and development (the only countries that do are South Korea and Israel). And that is everything from new medicines to new bombs to 5G to anthropology to climate science research. And now each and every country is supposed to spend more on tanks and guns and drones only? Play it smart, not hard, please…
Pls let’s discuss this topic after they make their minds ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
I get your point for Samsung, but % do not add up.
We should make an email/mail template if we want many people to contact their MEPs.
I don’t get it, why you have a line of crisps next to the sandwich? And why would you have cold food with cola?
WTF are boneless wings?
I mean, yes, inaccuracy is another issue here. But I assume “the most numerous” means better than average, or at lest not the worst in its category (unless you actually standardize for the time since divergence, then there are probably some niche microbial taxa, some rare extremophiles, that are actually less numerous; still, surely worse than average).
The heads are outside the EU’s jurisdiction. But I would like to see the EU showing it has the power to limit a company’s activities on the common market if they do not follow the rules (idk how exactly, I guess hard bans would be very, very difficult to implement in this case).
Can I blog there without putting up a paywall? (I could still accept donations if they really need that, not that I would expect many ¯_(ツ)_/¯)
Yeah, a d i c t i o n warning. The bar you buy is likely disappear sooner than you would have thought ;)
Bro, animals among the most numerous creatures? Bacteria, Archaea, and viruses are surely more numerous. I bet the same applies to fungi and plants. Oh, and protists, since they are unicellular and have twice the total biomass of animals.
In terms of biomass, animals are barely significant. And they are relatively big. So they surely are less numerous than other groups.
I’ll give that a try, thanks!
My case was convenience (since I have copilot, since everybody around me uses it, since it is integrated not only in VS but also in RStudio etc.) and lack of knowledge about the alternatives. Or laziness, in other words.
Poolside looks very cool. But it seems that atm it is available only upon request and only for companies.
For now, I use GitHub Copilot. They give it for free to students, but it would be great to have an alternative once I graduate or once they stop giving it out for free.
To the photos section, you can add Polish PhotoAiD (https://photoaid.com/). One of the cool features is that for some countries, you can get a photo formatted for a document application (e.g., for a passport) out of a selfie.
But it works only for recurrent donations, right?
I know that in Poland there patronite.pl works great, but it seems to be unavailable in other languages.
3·3 months agoCheck Vinted and Sellpy (or any other second-hand, but these have the widest choice of products). You might just get your favorite product second-hand with no profit for the original producer ¯_(ツ)_/¯
If WebDav is your everyday bread, and you Linux your house, then you won’t find anything special. But for most users, it is great. The app works seamlessly for me, but surely, there are others that would work similarly. But the real strength is…
…in their well curated blog. I found step-by-step instructions on almost everything I wanted to do with Koofr. That helped a million.
https://koofr.eu/blog/