Posts by rastinza@qoto.org
(DIR) Post #ApmnfX48DkX5DsDOQy by rastinza@qoto.org
2025-01-05T20:55:13Z
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@jeffcliff I flew just before the pandemic started. I'm possibly European patient 0, but decided not to get tested.
(DIR) Post #Apn0nDvcYUdbafERkG by rastinza@qoto.org
2025-01-04T13:12:01Z
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@shuttersparks @RickiTarr I don't understand your point. You say that humans do not have only two genders. Then You say that lions as well do not only have two genders. Then you explain that lions have homosexual sex, which by the way no I have never watched.Maybe you lost it somewhere along the way, but where is the explanation that humans and lions don't have only two genders? As of now you explained homosexuality is common in nature, but I really don't see the connection between the two things.
(DIR) Post #Apqa8Yr01uL6RNrODI by rastinza@qoto.org
2025-01-07T18:26:51Z
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@tinfoiling @WiseWoman @kim_harding why is the letter being handwritten so important? Are you employing stenographers?
(DIR) Post #Apqakvvsfinv1RRNbs by rastinza@qoto.org
2025-01-07T18:35:58Z
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@GustavinoBevilacqua ma una volta che hai messo il codice corretto nel db. Poi come fai a ritrovarla quando hai bisogno di "rondella dentellata esterna"?
(DIR) Post #ApsJc6hXxFKuuUrSgi by rastinza@qoto.org
2025-01-08T14:30:12Z
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@glynmoody very good opportunity for companies to develop their products using LLMs while they setup the infrastructure to run their own LLM.You're getting good service at a very cheap price. Of course, you should not rely on it in the long term.
(DIR) Post #ApuuvFRjGcPWwTCRzU by rastinza@qoto.org
2025-01-09T20:40:56Z
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Request to review an article on a medical field arrived in my spam box. I'm not a medic. They even sent me the manuscript already.Dear doctor, would you like to help us reviewing this paper?Sure, how much you paying?#AcademicSpam
(DIR) Post #Apv23qlN6i5KfqR6sC by rastinza@qoto.org
2025-01-09T22:00:45Z
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@GertIf I can paraphrase the points:1. I like C2. C programmers are good3. We have workarounds anyway
(DIR) Post #ApwyTGXIPTlGLXdUS8 by rastinza@qoto.org
2025-01-10T20:29:07Z
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@Binder lose the pinky in battle, lose Emacs power
(DIR) Post #Apx3roB9Tga7POngeG by rastinza@qoto.org
2025-01-10T21:29:51Z
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This is so cool. It fetches information about articles from wikidata and allows you to filter it in various ways.https://scholia.toolforge.org/Can this be used to have up to date lists of articles on a certain specific topic? Should it be used to do that? Could it be used to make reviews? Does it even make sense?No idea, but very very cool. I need to take a deeper look at it, may add a few articles from my field and experiment how it works...
(DIR) Post #ApxClGek6JLpI1b5X6 by rastinza@qoto.org
2025-01-07T19:04:11Z
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@freeschool @freemo I disagree in the fact that I do not considere capitalism and free market to be the same thing.Capitalism is a kind of economy, free market is an economic policy applied to a capitalist economy.You can have a socialist policy and the economy would still be capitalist.
(DIR) Post #ApxClImGDKYLrv87Wq by rastinza@qoto.org
2025-01-10T23:10:33Z
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@freemo @freeschool I feel a definition along the lines of "An economic system in which trade and production is organised by private entities (individuals or companies) to make profit" to be what I'd shortly describe as capitalism.I wouldn't use it as a catch-all term, plenty of economic systems do not fall within such definition. But a socialist nation would definitely fall within the definition. Keynes argues for government spending in order to make the economy work better, and I never heard anyone say that Keynesian economics is not capitalist. Germany has a bunch of social programs, aids and public infrastructure, but it still is a capitalist economy. China... I don't know anyone who would argue it is not a capitalist country at the moment.The Soviet union would not fall under that definition of a capitalist economy, current days Cuba also wouldn't.
(DIR) Post #ApyiHYh7rSIkErY7Wa by rastinza@qoto.org
2025-01-10T23:03:43Z
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@freeschool @freemo Sure, I agreed with you. A few remarks.You say we don't have a free market now, I guess you refer to the United States - don't know about all places, but I feel a purely free market capitalism is practically unachievable unless you go into an anarchist society. As long as the government exists the government will be doing something: they must get some money somehow. It may not impose tariffs or trade restrictions but you can argue that any kind of taxation breaks the free trade in one way or another.I feel the Oxford dictionary definition covers capitalism quite well and in a short sentence "an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit."I would not use plutocracy as a synonym of capitalism at all. That would imply that you cannot have a democratic state with a capitalist economy. Sure, democracy is strongly influenced by the rich in capitalism, but they don't necessarily have government powers and their interests can be disregarded by politicians.I would not include state capitalism as a subtype of capitalism. It is in fact very different from capitalism, since individual people do not own the means of production and you don't organise production to generate profit but rather to supply the population with certain things. The decision process of which things to produce is very different from capitalism, you don't have a bunch of people deciding what the economy should produce according to how much profit they can make, but rather politicians and economists taking decisions according to what they feel is better for the nation.
(DIR) Post #ApyiHahYOppeSllUTA by rastinza@qoto.org
2025-01-10T23:57:36Z
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@freemo @freeschool I don't receive notifications for your replies nor I see your toot you now refer to for some reason.> Free trade definition Sure I agree, I would definitely call a nation with no tariffs and trade restrictions a free trade.> Capitalism cannot exist if not in a free market I strongly disagree. If I own a brick factory I decide which kinds of bricks we produce every year and how many of each type. I decide that according to how much profit I expect to make. I own the factory, I shape the economy. The government can place tariffs on brick import/export, but it is still up to me to decide what is profitable and what should be done. The tariffs are just a restriction which may as well be modelled as a different production/demand curve. Production limits also do not remove my freedom to decide what to do, but rather limit it in certain aspects. Minimum and maximum prices imposed by the government also do not affect my ability to choose what to do according to my expected returns, they just change the kinds of choices I will take. Taking different choices according to external influences is normal, otherwise the capitalist economy couldn't adapt to the market anyway.
(DIR) Post #ApyiHcB0umzX2QYX1k by rastinza@qoto.org
2025-01-11T00:36:18Z
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@freemo @freeschool We have a clearly distinct vision of what capitalism is.In my opinion capitalism exists when I can own the brick factory and decide what the brick factory should do and make money off of it. That is the capital. If I can have the factory, employ people and make money off the work of those people, whether I work or not, that is capitalism.I don't see the complete freedom of trade as a prerequisite of capitalism. I'm allowed to have the capital, and profit off of it, even if restrictions are applied to prices.If goods prices and quantities cannot be manipulated by the government, that is what I'd refer to as free trade.Someone may be forcing me to sell bricks at a price within 5$ and 100$, but I still have the factory, I can decide what to do with the factory and I profit with the bricks produced by the factory.The distinction here in my opinion is with other economic systems in which you are not allowed to own the factory, or if you are allowed to own it you are not allowed to make profit off the factory.For example, you may "own" an association, but you cannot profit off of it; you can pay yourself a salary.In a communist economy, nobody is allowed to own a company, you may be in the position to decide what the company should produce, but the company is not yours and you don't make profit off the company but rather receive a salary from the government.
(DIR) Post #Aq57Z1BspWi7LL7M1o by rastinza@qoto.org
2025-01-14T18:49:12Z
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@nutomic what is the advantage over Wikipedia? How do conflicts work when the same voice is edited on two instances at the same time?
(DIR) Post #Aq8P4ofJDS08SSVdGy by rastinza@qoto.org
2025-01-15T21:15:07Z
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@Yaku Vita da commessa 2
(DIR) Post #AqHZmCEcD0JnyQzEv2 by rastinza@qoto.org
2025-01-20T18:41:10Z
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I'm searching a software engineer with a little bit of experience and preferably with a PhD.Candidatures received: nurses, chemists, biologists, physicists, bioinformaticians, a couple software engineers fresh out of bachelor, one CTO with 37 years of experience.Software engineers, are you kidding me?
(DIR) Post #Aym5nGA4SdQ7fwNrdo by rastinza@qoto.org
2025-10-01T18:57:21Z
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Qua in Bolivia i cinghiali li tengono negli Zoo, e la gente paga per andare a vederli.Svelato il mistero dei turisti e del giubileo a Roma: si è sparsa la voce che la si possono fare ottimi avvistamenti.
(DIR) Post #B0jaGIUHZGjbvMWBqy by rastinza@qoto.org
2025-11-29T09:36:37Z
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I heard many reasons to switch to Linux, but never in my life I would have expected people to truly say that it is more stable than windows.
(DIR) Post #B24Z5jikwkYStAQvsO by rastinza@qoto.org
2026-01-08T10:47:44Z
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@GustavinoBevilacqua Io uso questo e mi metto le cuffie, non sarebbe una cattiva idea; però comunque poi te le devi infilare...