[-] 8oow3291d@feddit.dk 5 points 1 week ago

The third variant mentioned by Wikipedia (Tally marks used in France, Portugal, Spain) seems more elegant to me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tally_marks#Clustering

[-] 8oow3291d@feddit.dk 5 points 2 weeks ago

Despite the fact that Microsoft was where it was then because IBM had chosen DOS for its PC operating system until that time.

Is this actually morally bad? Unless MS had promised otherwise, isn't it just competition?

[-] 8oow3291d@feddit.dk 5 points 2 weeks ago

Have you ever heard of Tibet?

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"In the meantime our great Military is Loading Up and Resting, looking forward, actually, to its next Conquest," Trump added. He ended the post, which was published near midnight, with a declaration: "AMERICA IS BACK!" [Are we the baddies?]

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Hungary's foreign minister offered to send his Russian counterpart a document about Ukraine's European Union accession, leaked recordings ​purported to show on Wednesday, in the latest indication of Budapest's warm relations with Moscow.

The audio clips ‌released by a consortium of investigative news outlets including VSquare.org were the latest in a series of leaked conversations that purport to show how Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government has worked to serve Russian interests and undermine EU efforts to aid Ukraine.

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From https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260320997513/en/Polymarket-Publishes-Enhanced-Market-Integrity-Rules-Across-Its-DeFi-Platform-and-CFTC-Regulated-U.S.-Exchange

Trading by those who can influence the outcome — participants may not trade on any contract if they hold a position of authority or influence sufficient to affect the outcome of the underlying event.

So it is illegal - but whether it will stop people from doing it is a separate question.

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On Tuesday, Bloomberg News said it had obtained a Hungarian government transcript of a call that took place between Orbán and Putin on 17 October, in which Orbán reportedly compared the relationship to that of a “mouse” standing ready to help the Russian “lion” as needed.

“Yesterday our friendship rose to such a high level that I can help in any way,” Orbán reportedly told Putin in the call. “In any matter where I can be of assistance, I am at your service.”

In an attempt to emphasise his point, Orbán was said to have made reference to one of Aesop’s fables in which a mouse who was earlier shown mercy by a lion goes on to free the same lion when it is netted by hunters. The remark drew a laugh from Putin, the transcript suggested.

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The member would never have said it in the first place, if the school board culture was not already like that.

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Hungary is Putin's lapdog, effectively supports Russia in Ukraine and sabotages the EU from within. As well as Victor Orban being the enemy of basic democratic norms.

The Trump administration literally sees the EU as their enemy. Trump wants to break up the EU because the EU is strong enough to protect EU members against Trump. Trump wants Europe to be a weaker group of small countries, that Trump can individually exploit in one-sided trade deals. The Trump administration hates Democracy, and hates us.

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Last month, Trump said Orbán had his "complete and total support" in a video message to the Hungarian Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Budapest.

On Sunday Orbán faces Péter Magyar, a former insider in the prime minister's Fidesz party, who broke with him two years ago to found the centre-right Tisza party.

Tisza leads Fidesz by between 10% and 20% in most polls. Only the strongly pro-government Nézőpont agency puts Fidesz narrowly ahead.

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Lawyers and activists have raised questions over the nature of the deals with countries in Africa and elsewhere. Several of the African nations that have signed such deals have notoriously repressive governments and poor human rights records — including Eswatini, South Sudan and Equatorial Guinea.

A key bone of contention in many such agreements is that they involve many migrants with protection orders from a U.S. immigration judge not to be returned to their home countries over major safety concerns.

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Trump on Sunday told Iran to “open the F***in’ Strait” or face “living in hell” in an extraordinary outburst on Truth Social, but continued to insist that negotiations with Tehran were ongoing.

Trump’s 10-day deadline to Iran was set to expire on Monday, before he appeared to present a new deadline of 8pm ET on Tuesday (1am Wednesday BST) in another post on social media.

A source close to ongoing diplomatic efforts told Reuters that both Iran and the US have now received a ‘two-tier proposal’ to end the war, which includes a ceasefire and a more permanent plan to end hostilities.

The framework to end hostilities was apparently put together by Pakistan and exchanged with Iran and the US overnight.

"All elements need to be agreed today," the source said, adding the initial understanding would be structured as a memorandum of understanding finalised through Pakistan, the sole communication channel in the talks.

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Although Iran does not border the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, Yemen does, and Iran is closely allied with the Houthis, the Yemeni militant group that previously conducted dozens of strikes against Israel-linked vessels in the Red Sea in 2023 and 2024 in response to the war in Gaza.

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“We sent them guns to the protesters, a lot of them," Trump said in a telephone interview [with Fox News]. “We sent them through the Kurds. They kept them, so we sent more to the protesters, a lot of them."

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[-] 8oow3291d@feddit.dk 7 points 1 month ago

Linux users on Steam used to be a rounding error. It is relatively massive.

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Checks and balances doesn’t work if one party is in charge of everything.

Nixon could not have been convicted without Republican votes. But Nixon resigned, because he knew Republicans would vote to impeach and convict him. So the system can in theory work, even if the system depends on policing its own.

It is in fact quite normal across democracies, for stuff like this to depend on the votes of the party in power.

The problem here is that Republican representatives are traitors to their oaths. And more importantly, that Republican voters are not demanding their representatives to not be traitors.

So Republican representatives simply know that they only get reelected if they act tribally Republican. Note that this is generally not a problem with Democrat voters.

[-] 8oow3291d@feddit.dk 5 points 1 month ago

You will need to do a small amount of research on planting times

And climate zone. There are many places where it is too cold.

[-] 8oow3291d@feddit.dk 6 points 1 month ago

Oil prices are pretty global. If you look at the prices for European oil (Brent crude) and US oil (West Texas Intermediate), then they are $14 apart. Which is not nothing, but WTI is still up by 63% from pre-war. That is still going to hurt the US economy, a lot.

Also, in the US the oil price windfall is privatized, while the oil price pain is socialized. So the US will still feel almost the full pain.

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From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediaite :

The New York Times has described the site as "a blog that chronicles the gossipy media world"

So not the most credible source you could imagine. But on the other hand, Wikipedia doesn't list any examples of Mediaite being fake news. And in this case, Mediaite is just summarizing a CBS article - the CBS article should obviously have just been linked instead.

In any case, it seems to me that Trump has two options: 1) Give consessions to Iran to save the global oil market or 2) ground invasion. Since I can't imagine Trump surrendering, no matter how game theory rational it would be, I am expecting ground operations.

[-] 8oow3291d@feddit.dk 5 points 1 month ago

But at the same time those same people are in panic about stuff like trans people and public bathrooms. Which has never and will never affect them personally.

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