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by 0xDEF 4y ago
>Yeltsin, who was backed by the USA Russian victimhood is so tiring. You forget the part where they blame Bill Clinton for causing child prostitution in 1990s Russia. The "US caused 1990s Russian chaos" narrative is based on an
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
I am from Denmark where we have strong unions protecting our working class and lower middle class. That is a good thing. However what is the benefit of ultra high income FAANG employees unionizing?
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
Interesting that the US Chamber of Commerce is one of the few bodies speaking out against this insanity. The EU Data Act will force European companies to share trade secrets and business-critical data with everyone, including their American
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The EU Data Act: A Misguided Policy(uschamber.com)
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Futures Techniques(en.wikipedia.org)
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
It will be competitive disadvantage for many European companies that they will be forced to share data with American and Chinese competitors. Siemens Gamesa, the second biggest windturbine manufacturer in the world, fears for their ability
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EU Data Act: Member states agree common position on fair access to data(consilium.europa.eu)
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Chinese manufacturers will increasingly dominate innovation in their respective fields. Manufacturing and innovation is inherently intervened and the West's decision to outsource manufacturing has stagnated our ability to innovate in m
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First early gameplay trailer for “UNRECORD”(twitter.com)
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The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants (1990)(algorithmicbotany.org)
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The intentional conflation of localized environmental pollution and the GHG damage to the global climate is something many Westerners do. That is how they have deluded themselves into thinking dirty streets in India is a bigger problem than
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
The problem now is that the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund is deeply tied to the US economy. I don't understand why we Europeans are so invested into the US economy when every American on twitter/reddit is saying the US dollar an
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
Probably the cheapest way to fill the highly busy Germany-Thailand air routes during the German summer vacation weeks.
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The IMF is using the countries' own claims and numbers for their calculations. Russia's own economic numbers have been unreliable since Covid hit and blatantly cooked up since the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. This paper give
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
Do not conflate volume with value and oil with natural gas. Natural gas exports to Europe was Russia's big thing. The value of their oil and natural gas exports to the rest of world has failed make up for this loss. Even for Russian
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Ask HN: Are there any Internet-scale semantic search API?
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
>Spotted this idea from Hassan Hayat: “don’t embed the question when searching. Ask GPT-3 to generate a fake answer, embed this answer, and use this to search”. See also this paper about Hypothetical Document Embeddings, via Jay Hack. Th
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
This is based on an investigation by public media in Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland.
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Russian “research ships” are likely preparing sabotage on Nordic infrastructure(dr.dk)
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Reddit has been experimenting with both fiat and Ethereum based approaches to compensate users. But we are talking about cents.
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Keeping the legacy Ariane 5 launch platform alive is fine. But Ariane 6 effort and funding should have been directed into a highest-priority ESA project to create SpaceX-style reusable heavy-lift launch vehicles. Europe cannot let an increa
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
There isn't that much excess fuel. The reason it looks so big and dramatic is because of water vapor and fumes reflecting sunlight.
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The Falcon 9 second stage uses highly refined jet fuel and liquid oxygen. But it is an absolute trivial amount. The airline industry emits more GHG in a minutes. The reason it is visually spectacular is not because it is burning but because
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To train and productionize large-scale AI you need people who are good at algorithms and data structures.
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When some EU countries arrested Iranian assasins send to kill Iranian dissidents they just politely flew the assassins back to Iran with no other punishment. In my opinion the assassins should have been jailed for planned/attempted mur
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
The Kremlin and Putin himself have repeatedly denied Ukraine's right to exist: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lseih/2020/07/01/there-is-no-ukraine... https://time.com/6150046/ukraine-s
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A Perspective on Ukraine(lcamtuf.substack.com)
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No, some Russian Telegram channels edited/faked some of the documents when the leaks posted on Discord were shared on 4chan and went viral on Telegram. The real source of the leak was a 21-year-old American service member who posted it
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
>de-dollarization American social media has been surprisingly loud in their predictions about the total imminent collapse of the US dollar and economy since February 2022. As a European I would like cheaper American products and services
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by 0xDEF 4y ago
This will result in more legislation like GDPR. GDPR and other EU privacy/safety regulations are good in principle but the task of auditing software for compliancy is going to lawyers, accountants (auditors), and business consultants.

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