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I am very partial to Mistral's API docs https://docs.mistral.ai/api

Not surprised, I can't still install any app I want on an iPhone despite the DMA/DSA Acts pushing clearly in that direction

I mistook France Info and France Inter there, France Info is actually neutral meaning they have right wing and left wing voices which I like.

They have left leaning biases, RTVE is basically a propaganda channel for the PSOE at this point and France Info/France2 have center-left biases which makes them not neutral and representing the corpus of society. They are all well-funded though.

I tried the Claude Extension for VSCode on WSL for a reverse engineering task, it consumed all of my tokens, broke and didn't even save the conversatioon

Excited to use 1 prompt and have my whole 5-hour window at 100%. They can keep releasing new ones but if they don't solve their whole token shrinkage and gaslighting it is not gonna be interesting to se.

I agree, I meant that armies engaged in conflicts are male like all armies have been in history, save the Soviets who had female battalions for propaganda purposes

The US military does not do combat, look at real engaged armies like the Ukranian/Russian one which are the closest examples to modern warfare between nation states.

Men and women are essentially different in real biological ways, as well as emotional and socialization.

I fully agree, now, larger society doesn't and if all of my schooling is proof of it, feminism is the dominant discourse in Western Europe. So we can'be having women be fully equal in all spheres of society when it benefits women, but then remove them from every obligation those rights come with.

The full consequence of your ideas is that men and women are different people meaning it affects every sphere of life, and leads you to ask some unsavory questions, which doesn't mean curtailing women's rights necessarily but it does mean that the the way we model society and genders is opposite to reality, because when reality, like war, asks hard questions we default to the old order of men in the front and women in the factories.

And the modern descendant of the SFIO party which is the Socialist Party were literal Nazi collaborators under Pétain, one can hold nuance and judge the party by its current constitution both in terms of people and policies. Also small detail, the original founder (Le Pen) of the FN/RN turned against his daughter in his latter years because she betrayed the line of Le Pen father.

The true hardcore far right is incarnated in Reconquete and the Zemmour/Knafo/Marechal axis.

Basically this, far right has been overused as a term which led to it becoming useless, it is just the same right of 20-30 years ago, and even that is incorrect given the RN is not against abortion, homosexual marriage or many other points the right defended in the past

Ok and people are blank pages without cultures or tendencies, which means we can just graft them without issues?

There is also a dilution process by which you assimilate or adapt a population and if the % of new people is too high the culture that produced those societies basically disappears.

That doesn’t work though, over 1 generation the TFR and family completedness of 2ng generation immigrants coverges to 80-90% of the native one and over 2 it seems to be on par or lower.

This is without all the social issues of putting them in ghettos and pulling up the ladders to their kids to integrate in society.

It works like debt, in the sense that you are taking a band-aid solution and kicking the can 15 years but they have been doing it since the 1980s so the can is here now.

I mean yeah, the "far right" is just a reaction to the migration policy, globalization effects and the suicidal EU energy policy which send shockwaves in its industry and larger economy. Denmark shows that if a normal, even social democrat party tackles the second order effects of immigration the population will not turn to the extreme parties.

This explains the fact that aside from the slopulist and bombastic subjects, they don't have any real plan or serious depth in their policy proposals.

If the traditional parties fixed those issues, and most notably the migration policies, the ECHR extensive read of asylum/immigration rights the whole momentum behind them would disappear. I think Bardella will unironically continue Macron I's economic reforms of liberalizing the market and removing the extreme social protections which in times of abundance are ok, but in times of recession seem to enhance the unemployment and productivity issues even more.

I saw there are almost no bugs or things to contribute, are there other ways to help ?

There is a series of extensions for Vscode that add this functionality like https://github.com/ugi-dev/better-commits

It is indeed a shame that niquests isn't used more, I think trying to use the (c'est Français) argument to in French will bring you many initial users needed for the inertia

Great nerd title, the maths made me nostalgic as I haven't seen a Sigma/Pi in a few years

The suffering does not come from external actors but it is imposed by the regime itself, the lack of pragmatism and flexibility from the government, as well as their corruption, makes them horrible people to deal with even for China and Russia. I stand with Cubans as a nation, but now with Cuba the state, one can make the difference when talking to Cubans. The UN represent Cuba the state and not the nation, and unlike China or Vietnam the government does not reflect its population wishes.

1: You are like 1 search away from seeing the reality of the embargo, Title III which is the mechanism by what you can sue the companies was suspended by every president since Clinton just after the law became effective in 1996, until Trump let the suspension lapse on May 2, 2019. So for all that time the law was effectively useless. [1]

2: In 2000, Congress passed the Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement Act (TSRA), which authorized sales of food, medicines, and medical equipment to Cuba. So basically how it is a blockade or a siege.

3:Spain trades with Cuba. Canada is one of Cuba's biggest export markets. China is a top partner. The Netherlands, Germany, France, Italy all trade. The EU passed a "Blocking Regulation" making compliance with Helms-Burton a criminal offence in some member states

4: Almost 2 Billion $ of remittances are sent every year from Cubans abroad, and like 1.8 of that comes from the US. If there is an blockade, how can the money go into the island.

All of the issues of Cuba are due to its endemic government, the external conditions are just a reaction to that. Talk with some Cubans about the reality of Cuba and you will get the story.

[1] https://www.quinnemanuel.com/the-firm/publications/title-iii...

decades-long economic blockade by the United States

myth, an incredible myth, the US has a package of sanctions and an embargo, Cuba is free to trade with other nations. The reason of the economic powerty and Cubans not being able to live a normal life is mostly self-inflicted (by their government, not the people) from an extractive elite who kept the old colonial system but just changed hands and drapings, with who is on top, plus the disastrous results of marxsist-leninist economic policies who are blind to reality

Found this article incredibly interesting by user baazaa <https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=baazaa> about the exploding complexity linked to AI.

It can be seen as a modern addnedum of "No Silver Bullet" where AI increases Accidental complexity while not resolving the issues inherent with essental complexity. This contrasts with the view that AI actually removes accidental complexity to reveal essential complexity

Brazil and China, which are as big as the USA in land (both) and population (China) have IDs as well. All IDs are issues by the nation-state but usable in other EU countries.

I mean yeah, not free but a minimal fee like 20$ or something, doable in an easy place., the problem is not really the ability or will, but political polarization that makes even reasonable propositions become weaponized.

It's not a pointless expense if it is integrated into other systems like healthcare, driving licence, and for example, online identification to do taxes and such. You cannot meaningfully digitalize bureaucracy without standard IDs.

I will turn the omelette of sorts, I think that it still worth it as a standard to pursue the federal ID as it would simplify a lot of things overall and the whole tapestry of systems (state Ids and such) actually makes everything more difficult for everyone (minorities included) and more falsifiable which adds tension to an already polarized system.

I am familiar with the history, but from an outsider POV it feels like the story of the sheep that got electrocuted once and then never ventured outside, the path dependency is not really helpful in general. Also I followed the law in the US to make ID mandatory at voting, and from what I saw the whole debate around it seemed deranged, if voter fraud and non-citizens voting is inexistent, why did so many people oppose it. Ironically what will happen is that the elderly will be most affected and will stop voting Republican (chat happened in the UK).

In the rest of developped countries you can't vote without an official ID, in local, regional and national elections. I am not american, I don't care about your politics, ID voting is the way to ensure that no party or fringe movement gets to label elections as tricked. How is this such a controversial opinion that I get downvoted, national issued ID is the norm

This is exactly how every EU country conducts their elections, it is crazy to paint this as some bait or crazy thing

The OG amongst us know this comes from Peter Turchin

in what is it different ?

This is the first time in my life that I see a plain error on the browser, gg anthropic

It is a general phenomenon across the Western developped world, here is the account of a professor which went viral a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43522966