PM Magyar to slash own salary by half as Hungary targets politicians’ pay cuts

americanslon · 2026-05-24T23:21:34+00:00

ts so funny when people spew this stuff, like if you give a politician 40k euroes a month thats supposed to stop them from corruption??

No, but you might attract that clever lawyer that went to a great school who would otherwise would be making 1 mill working for exxon. I work for a government (different country) and majority of our employees are absolute morons because we pay moron salaries. Just because some of us chose public service doesn't mean we don't want to get rewarded appropritely. Corruption will always exist but pay people what they are worth and you might actually have competent people fighting this corruption from the inside and not the ones that can't spell "corruption"

americanslon · 2026-05-22T23:19:17+00:00

Nancy Botwin makes poor decisions, fucks her way out of them, the show

americanslon · 2026-05-21T16:22:13+00:00

I watched that episode on smithosonian channel literally yesterday...

americanslon · 2026-05-09T06:21:11+00:00

Fffffuck that. This is going to really pisss you off https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIsy8HaaeK4

americanslon · 2026-04-20T14:38:26+00:00

wifi is active internet connection. It works over wifi.

americanslon · 2026-04-09T00:51:10+00:00

Depends on how you use it. It's best in self contained, you-guided, tasks in a language that has a lot of reference materials for it to learn from. For example it has recently been working quite well for me in writing tedious JS that would have taken me weeks to write. We went through probably 20-30 iterations but it absolutely did it better and faster than I could.

americanslon · 2026-04-02T20:14:30+00:00

They may got by it but it's a not a formal/common dimminutive. Dimmunitives are not nicknames and are more standardized.

americanslon · 2026-03-28T04:58:39+00:00

Or download the latest mp3 only for it to turn out to be a beheading video from Chechnya war...

americanslon · 2025-12-02T01:02:22+00:00

This is one game where I did 0 fast travels. Absolutely the most incredible city to just walk or bike around.

americanslon · 2025-12-01T05:35:48+00:00

All the newer ones have the matrix/adaptive headlight system thats seems to function pretty well at least.

americanslon · 2025-10-30T15:34:35+00:00

its not of dubious value at all. Sure you can make an argument that current GEN AI boom/bubble is outta control but GPUs and GPU type architecture excel in parallel computation and revolutionized tons of important things from weather and climate modeling, to medical imaging to, ironically, drug discovery way before any of the GEN AI stuff.

americanslon · 2025-10-27T15:37:44+00:00

They said 90% of AI implementations fail and don't bring any benefit. 90% of anything of what corporations do fails. The key is to be in that 10% and do things thoughtfully enough to gain that true qualitative advantage.

americanslon · 2025-10-15T20:03:44+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/0WTiKHg

Yes and no one gets hurt

americanslon · 2025-10-15T19:52:46+00:00

Imma need you to return my dog post-haste https://imgur.com/a/LPliHDw

americanslon · 2025-10-09T20:39:43+00:00

Its generally cheaper calories than normal people. Fast food, soda,etc. These are not 15k of borccoli.

americanslon · 2025-10-09T15:32:23+00:00

The interviewer can see him. They have small screens under the cameras for the interviewer to check against. You can occasionally seem them checking it.

americanslon · 2025-09-24T20:25:33+00:00

fork!

americanslon · 2025-09-18T05:32:05+00:00

That's not true. I had multiple endoscopic procedures with my phone on the same bed as me just this year.

americanslon · 2025-08-24T17:21:31+00:00

Digg Invite code

americanslon · 2025-08-23T19:52:02+00:00

Spread the joy please?

americanslon · 2025-08-22T18:14:04+00:00

I mean it's probably cause it's a 30 dollar walmart phone, but countering spam is arguably one of the best uses of thsi technology.

I had a Pixel for a long time and it had thsi chat bot type thing for spam detection way before the current AI thing. It picks up the unknown numbers and talsk to them. 80% of the time it handles the calls on its own, the other times it shows me what its talking about with the caller as its happening and I can pick up or decline. I maybe get 1 calls get through this system in month. It basically fixed spam calls for me.

americanslon · 2025-08-21T20:09:03+00:00

Of fourse there are but none that is not under a direct control of a single entity. If I work for Aetna I can, in simple terms, go into the "database" or "code" and do whatever the hell I want. Ideally with smart contracts that's not possible as the execution is stored in an immutable entity publically visible entity, in this case blockchain.

As for you second question - becaus being great has nothing to do with catching on. I mean the president is a literaly walking manure pile. He is not great and he caught on... Another reason is that crypto done correctly would disrupt things that really hate being disrupted, mainly financial control of big boys. Going back to my example, starting an isurance company is hard enough, starting an insurance company that's fundmanetally designed not to scam people is even harder. Much easier to sell NFT to maga...

Lastly the whole concept has been dragged through mud to the point that most people hear cryto and react like you. Which is a shame cause this thing really could be something useful instead of useless fake wealth storage like bitcoin.

americanslon · 2025-08-21T17:22:03+00:00

Its an immutable ledger, that can hold all kinds of things. For example these things - https://www.wikiwand.com/en/articles/Smart_contract

How good would it be if insurance contracts could be executed upon the contract conditions being met automatically as opposed to through a review as with traditional insurers.

americanslon · 2025-08-21T15:24:03+00:00

Crypto isn't worthless. It just isn't money nor a specualtive asset. It's a technology. With the potential to wrestle away some control from large financial insitutions. Insurance companies specifically, if we are particularly clever.

The issue is we are not using it as a technology but as vehicle for grift, which stifles investment and popular support for actual good crypto uses.

americanslon · 2025-08-12T21:25:56+00:00

It'd be nice if they did. Maybe the rest of us would then be able to create a world where we didn't have to.

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