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New comment by mantas in "Picking berries is my meditation"

mantas — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:01:28 +0000

Every day there’s another lucky 10k.

New comment by mantas in "Picking berries is my meditation"

mantas — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:58:19 +0000

Eh. Not the op, but calm backroads are perfect for such rides. Good enough surface so no need to scan it for the better line as on gravel roads or offroad. Little traffic. And cars are much more predictable than the chaos of bike paths.

New comment by mantas in "London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces"

mantas — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:25:23 +0000

More like an automatic green pass looking at the historical treatment of some criminals with such background.

New comment by mantas in "London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces"

mantas — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:24:00 +0000

More like a good bunch of the hippies were in it just to have a good time. And then happily built the system we know.

New comment by mantas in "Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't"

mantas — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 07:04:11 +0000

Latin was the language for education and science waaaay beyond ex Roman Empire. Pretty much whole christian europe used Latin in medieval age and beyond.

New comment by mantas in "Why I Left Google DeepMind"

mantas — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 19:16:06 +0000

Vast majority of people against it seem to be against the principle, not against the implementation.

New comment by mantas in "EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors"

mantas — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 07:15:51 +0000

IMO it's conflict of interest of some short-sighted naive idealists vs people who want to get stuff done.

For example, solar. Shit ton of euromoneys is poured into subsidies. But those subsidies are not geofenced. Thus vast majority of people go for chinese stuff. It could have been much better to subsidise locally produced components only. Then price would be +/- the same.

Now chinese components are dirt cheap with all the subsidies. I myself went for chinese components, because break-even period was like 5 vs 10 years. I'll just pihole the inverter from calling home once I figure out how to get some statistics without the manufacturer's app.

I guess some people decided it's better to get 2-3x more solar installed power ASAP rather than prop up the local solar industry.

New comment by mantas in "EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors"

mantas — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 20:54:59 +0000

Frequently it is exactly the same item from aliexpress or from local reseller. Depends for different types of course.

New comment by mantas in "EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors"

mantas — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 20:53:28 +0000

Meanwhile local solar industry is loosing to Chinese at fast pace. Batteries industry ain’t looking good either.

New comment by mantas in "EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors"

mantas — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 20:51:28 +0000

EU became a thing in 1993. And soon after Europe could not keep up with US of A anymore. Even though USSR was gone, EU expanded and so on. Coincidence?

New comment by mantas in "EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors"

mantas — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 16:55:26 +0000

Is it?

The green deal stuff seems to be pretty bad. Manufacturing seems to have a hard time. The next tier economy, e.g. AI, is not seen on the horizon. Over-the-top regulations for agriculture and then opening up the market from goods where such regulations don't exist does not seem smart either.

And there're lots and lots of small things like those.

New comment by mantas in "EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors"

mantas — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 16:50:03 +0000

Market has already did the thing. In this case it's protecting local retailers who import in bulk over consumers importing individually.

New comment by mantas in "Reducing tick density along recreational trails in Ottawa, Canada"

mantas — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 16:35:57 +0000

In my whereabouts tick-born encephalitis is a much bigger issue. But thankfully vaccine for it exists.

New comment by mantas in "Reducing tick density along recreational trails in Ottawa, Canada"

mantas — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 16:33:56 +0000

Nope.

This is key paragraph from the link:

> The effects of vaccination on human behaviour presented yet another important uncertainty. Lyme vaccination, although it provides incomplete protection, may make individuals less likely to limit their exposure to ticks, which might actually increase their risk of Lyme and other tick-borne diseases (e.g. ehrlichiosis, babesiosis and Rocky Mountain spotted fever).

That was a very half-assed attempt. Hopefully a better one is coming soon.

New comment by mantas in "Reducing tick density along recreational trails in Ottawa, Canada"

mantas — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 11:33:36 +0000

Even for the specific strain, it's not long-lived and strong enough.

New comment by mantas in "Reducing tick density along recreational trails in Ottawa, Canada"

mantas — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 11:32:44 +0000

Encephalitis is much more rare, but it's much worse than lyme. And there's a stab for it. Meanwhile Lyme is much more common, but much simplier to treat. Which is basically „take antibiotics or 3 to 21 days“ depending on how long it's been since the bite.

New comment by mantas in "Reducing tick density along recreational trails in Ottawa, Canada"

mantas — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 11:28:14 +0000

In my whereabouts ticks were common 70+ years ago too. But nobody seemed to give a damn about them since disease-carrying ticks were not a problem. Talking to my grandma, it was common to have ticks in her youth. But now a massive chunk of them is lyme or encephalitis carrying. And suddenly it did become a problem ~ 20-30 years ago.

New comment by mantas in "Reducing tick density along recreational trails in Ottawa, Canada"

mantas — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 11:21:53 +0000

IIRC there's no immunity. Or at least it's gone after some time.

New comment by mantas in "Reducing tick density along recreational trails in Ottawa, Canada"

mantas — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 17:30:40 +0000

Ticks are a problem regardless. And they don’t like too much heat. So climate warming may even reduce their population in some parts. Or, more likely, move them up north. Giving relieve to some and headache to others…

Lyme disease vaccine would help a ton though. I’ve had Lyme 3 times by now. Thankfully encephalitis stab is a thing.

New comment by mantas in "International investment and local rules push prices up faster than supply"

mantas — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 13:41:37 +0000

Paris looked different 200 years ago. The most of rebuilt happened about 170 years ago. And people are in love with Montmartre which survived the rebuild ended up vastly older than the rest of the city. I’d even dare to say many people think of Montmartre style Paris rather than the rebuild.

Exemptions like you suggest would just open the gates for fancy corruption schemes. Here the public is okay-ish about historical buildings changes hands specifically because of strict rules.

A lot of public institutions are now moving from historical buildings to new buildings in outskirts because old buildings are expensive to maintain and not flexible enough for modern office working. And those historical buildings frequently get renovated (or, sometimes, reverted to) apartments. And the public is fine in general.

Excuse me if I’m wrong, but most of business activity is already not in SF. But people love living in SF for it’s charm. If you destroy the charm for the sake of lowering prices… why would people pick SF-proper instead of same boring buildings outside of the peninsula?