1rre

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[–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

⅔ may be overestimating, but yes, they're native to all of the Middle East and Africa, and most of Europe (outside of Scandinavia) and mainland Asia (outside of deserts, Siberia etc.)

[–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Most places is a stretch... They're invasive in around ⅓ of Earth's land area and where less than ¼ of people live

[–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That article seems very new-world-centric

Europe, Mainland Asia & Africa all have native small cats and so the birds and small mammals have evolved to deal with them, the issue is that in Australia & the Americas they haven't and so that's where all the risk of species actually being wiped out is - in the old world the cats largely just replace the larger predators that humans have killed off in the ecosystem

[–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 months ago

Also Europe... A significant amount of Europe's content is hosted in UK & Ireland (AWS EU-West) and Sweden (AWS EU-North) which would mean the two remaining major datacentres (Germany and Italy) would struggle

[–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 months ago

So you're caving to people who are trying to force their sociolinguistic ideas on the speakers of a different language?

It's not you that's being racist/ethnocentric/xenophobic/imperialist... If you were conversing in Spanish then sure, it'd be Estadounidense/Estados Unidos but in English it's American/America and to try and force either one to change would be cultural imperialism

[–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's what I'm saying

It's better to not even half-way seed a torrent with low availability than it is to seed one that everyone else is seeding, regardless of how high your ratio goes - it's a point on how pointless it really is to waste your resources seeding something like that

[–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (6 children)

Seeding shouldn't be done on ratios - being the only one seeding 10 seasons of a tv show and getting it to 0.4:1 is way more helpful than seeding the same movie as everyone else and getting to 20:1, you're noy contributing anything there other than decreasing your bandwidth for things that aren't already at 100,000% availability

[–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 151 points 5 months ago (3 children)

It was all about "Encouraging more digital adoption by nudging customers to go online to self-solve," and "taking decisive short-term action to generate warranty cost efficiencies."

If you wanted customers to go online to self-solve, you'd write proper manuals, provide well-documented and granular error codes and allow people to run diagnostics on their own devices... By not providing either it's clear the warranty cost efficiencies they're talking about are people giving up on trying to resolve their issue and just buying a new one

[–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's without considering the time to pack up your bags etc - ie there's a fixed cost as well as the cost per room moved

To minimise the total societal cost, only one person has to leave their room, and by that (or any) one person not making the sacrifice, the average suffering increases across all of median, mean and mode...

It's the opposite situation from where one person can get huge gains to the detriment of many others - eusocially it makes sense to do what's best for the average person

[–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Theoretically, I guess... But my argument came when introducing the laws of physics into the world of the infinite hotel, but there comes a point where the movement is small enough that the electron orbits are unaffected when the atom next to them "moves" therefore there's functionally no movement.

You're not a criminal who goes around breaking the laws of physics like the rest of those "mathematician" types are you?

[–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 months ago

Equally though if the drunk was walking around trying to start a fight then it's fairly expected and your actions kind of did start the fight, even though it's absolutely the drunk who's in the wrong

[–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 52 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (7 children)

Thing is, the message has to be passed along either by an intercom or by the person moving to the next room passing it on... Either way or travels at fastest at the speed of light, so you'll have people in the corridors moving to the next room for an infinite amount of time purely from the time it takes to propagate.

Given you're therefore committing to (at least on average) at least one person being without a room for the rest of time, why not just tell the chap in the first room to keep walking until he finds an available room? In terms of overall inconvenience (overall time spent without a room per person), it's the same as the original as both are infinite, but for the average person it goes from the time to walk from one room to the next to 0

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