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Yeah, but what is the likelihood of seeing them from those locations? I was checking an aussie thread about this https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/9xv617m6

I'm guessing you can find the best spots on a trip to Iceland, Finland, Norway, NZ, Aus

Look at that, the northern lights! Gotta go to scandinavia or alaska to see them

And the great lovecraftian darkness

On another note, is there any archive footage of these NASA pictures of space with insane good quality?

>Why an "extreme" amount of freedom?

As dangerous as this sounds, with guidance, I think it could be done. Government and public institutions love to lock the environment into something safe but useless for further learning and adaptability

Tech can save you from a bad educational environment. I think kids need extreme amounts of freedom with guidance on what are the best tools to be used for learning. From visualizing linear algebra and analytic geometry problems to piracy. If anything, the teachers need to improve their tech literacy.

There is no way to be done away with tech on school, but some balance and freedom must be achieved.

Why people bother with all of this to lock the environment into some kind of corporate nightmare? Why not allow some freedom for the worker. I don't see the appeal, it feels like a claustrophobic cage

So nice to see this here. The author's books are awesome resources for graphics and C++. It's a shame there seem to be fewer print editions available these days!?

> ASML doesn't quite do overnight orders for lithography machines.

I was not even aware of that, thanks for clarifying. I need to read on this.

Ultimately, I think there is a disconnection with reality between these CEOs and major fabrics such as TSMC.

Very interesting.

I was also reading: https://norwegianscitechnews.com/2019/10/the-way-forward-for...

> In 2025, both Ireland and Finland joined the ranks of European countries that have shuttered their last remaining coal plants.

Interesting, they mentioned Finland. I wonder how Norway and Finland fair using solar since they have rigorous winters with polar nights.

This is the same as saying that Russians are wild boars who only care about vodka, stupid wars, money and women.

Source: Dostoyevsky

> They told us of the risk of large fines and jail time in France for executives of companies doing this.

Just for hiring someone from France?

> "Western social values" are a luxury easily abandoned when you can't afford your rent. Populist fascism is rising because people are increasingly desperate and there's no alternative because the centrists are united with the fascists to crush any leftist momentum.

I think this is the most important and crucial part of what you've said in here.

If you look, East germany former communists states were the biggest voters in favor of the AfD: Saxony and Thuringia. What I understand is that the left wing parties of today's society have forgotten about the 'conservative' socialism that focused on providing good education, food, housing and employment for the general population. Something that was always incorporated on conservative parties, like the CDU in Germany.

Following the disastrous political consequences of Merkel's 2015 immigration crisis, AfD entered the game with the fury from the German population. The alliance of the conservative CDU with the AfD makes a lot of sense.

I may be insane, but I feel there is always some kind of collective Jungian aura or desire among the general population, especially among the elders, for sane, conservative policies to control society and make life bearable. The writings of Jung are quite telling of this phenomenon.[1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mass_Psychology_of_Fascism

Even if China begins to take over much of the world's economic power, I don't think the rest of the world will accept Chinese culture in the face of Western social values.

The wave of fascism is already rising in Europe, but it is still very much under control. Like the AfD political party in Germany.

But the actual manufacturing foundry is TSMC no? And they create the whole software environment based on their chips.

Indeed, the market as a whole would be affected. But is not NVIDIA more of a software company than a hardware one? This bugs the shit out of me.

They are maintaining this astronomical growth through data centers margins from the design of their chips and all of that started from graphics related to video games.

The world is rich and getting richer. The quality of life outside of the US is rising.

You know, this is also the case of Proxmox vs. VMWare.

Proxmox became good and reliable enough as an open-source alternative for server management. Especially for the Linux enthusiasts out there.

Serious question, why watch this movie by Kubrick when you have way more interesting guys like Pier Paolo Pasolini?

If you want to see weird sexual pictures, might as well go all the way with "120 days of Sodom".

Or just go and see one of those documentaries of serial killers from the 70's, like Ted Bundy.

Instead of romanticizing all the way, I was clearly discussing about the bureaucratic chaos, discrepancies between articles in foreign languages and corrupt political environment that Wikipedia has become for beginner editors, specifically on articles related to literature, politics, and the WW2 atrocities.

Your argument is pure sophism with some attempt to hurt me personally.

You don't know me fully. Go throw your tantrums elsewhere.

> The law requires internet service providers to block reported piracy sites within 30 minutes. AGCOM insists that Cloudflare comply with these demands through its public DNS service, 1.1.1.1. When Cloudflare allegedly failed to do so, the regulator imposed a fine of over €14 million.

€14 million? What the hell is this desperate witch hunt on piracy lately?

I think I should have used the word 'entity', but commune is better since the body of editors are so diverse. But they sure have oligarchies.

Nice advice. I was also considering something to do with cybercrimes, leveraging the initial degree, but your advice got me thinking!

It was badly worded. I don't even know how to express this properly. It has been many years since I edited on Wikipedia, and it was on both english and portuguese. But the point that I was trying to make is that they are institutions with ideological norms and if you start deviating from them and start hammering on controversial and dangerous ideas and topics, or even just discovering and mentioning them, you can be silenced very easily.

And I don't agree with you that US universities are not for profit entities, might be on paper, I don't know. Some of them can bind the students to a long life of debt no?

It certainly becomes opaque when it is a labyrinth of links and documents that you need to read and follow through. It does not help when these same rules can be abused to death by veteran users.

At a certain point, no one really knows the devil's dance happening at the top of the moderation ladder and you end up wasting a lot of lifetime on these dead talk pages.

It is a bureaucratic nightmare.

I understand completely.

I'm going through a computer engineering degree at the moment, but I am thinking about pursuing Law later on.

Looking at other paths: Medicine requires expensive schooling and isn't really an option after a certain age and law, on the other hand, opened its doors too widely and now has a large underclass of people with third-tier law degrees.

Perhaps you can try to accept the realities of the system while trying to live the best life that you can?

Psyching yourself all the way, trying to find some sort of escape towards a good life with freedom later on...

I know you are maybe joking but I don't think the government nationalizing the tech sector would be a good idea. They can pull down the salaries even more if they want. It can become a dead end job with you stuck on archaic technology from older systems.

Government jobs should only be an option if there are enough social benefits.

I know this, I've experienced this. There is not a concrete source for what I'm saying here.

I remember reading the article about a nudist family photographer. The English Wikipedia article was highlighting the controversy about child pornography that came with it, almost trying to demonize the guy, while the German article was actually trying to go beyond and develop the article. There are enormous discrepancies on that website.

Wikipedia has some bizarre articles and rules. I can only provide some pieces and bits of anecdotes.

> "Work” and “University” are so wildly different as institutions that to use them this way makes it perfectly clear how little merit your point has.

I disagree. Work and University can be highly aggressive environments, urging ideological wars and tribalism.

> It’s an empty character attack - possibly a reflection of your own -

Well, this got personal very quickly.

Well, I prefer to be skeptical of any corporation, regardless if it is non-profit or not, until proven otherwise with substantial transparency on their methods of moderation and control.

There is a lack of transparency on Wikipedia. The rules are nebulous and prone to abuse by veteran users and the oligarchs aggregating on political articles.

I remember people saying that the article about Carl Jung was not worth contributing anymore because of his fascist sympathies with nazism. I don't know what to make of that.

I've experienced something similar about users downplaying on talk pages the atrocities done by the Soviet Government, like the Holodomor famine or the Katyn Massacre, in contrast to the atrocities done by the Nazis.

Controversial and relatively unknown subjects are easier to be attacked and ignored on wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre