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by 0xDEF 3y ago
Why do American unions never demand higher import tariffs? Currently, the US only imposes a tariff of 2.5% on European passenger cars and car parts, while the EU taxes American cars with 10%.
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
US law forbids US government contractors from complying with foreign state sanctions and boycotts against Israel. For example Lockheed Martin is not allowed to comply with Qatari and Turkish demands to boycott and sanction Israel. Private U
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
>Also I believe that the Hualong One reactor design is based on Westinghouse IP You make it sound like they stole it but they legally bought it and are building the new nuclear plants in collaboration with Westinghouse.
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
The .com bubble was driven by tech companies that were unprofitable. The current rally is being driven by some of the most profitable companies in modern history.
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A Positive Hacker News RSS Feed(garrit.xyz)
4 points by 0xDEF 3y ago|2 comments
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
Black Friday is mostly an American thing that American companies have attempted to export to Europe.
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
Shopify has been able to scale to this using a Ruby on Rails monolith and a few Go/Rust services. Impressive.
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Elon Musk calls Tesla strike in Sweden 'insane' as 9 unions target company(businessinsider.com)
4 points by 0xDEF 3y ago|0 comments
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
Maybe we should have learned during the Trump years that the media puts no effort into vetting "anonymous sources" or is outright making them up to push lies.
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
>Remember, the people are only anonymous to you. Reuters knows who they are. A group of Russian trolls/comedians have been able to cheat Western politicians and journalists into talking with them using deep faked webcam feeds and ed
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
Academic computer graphics research is in many places still using OpenGL 4.1.
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
The Chinese state can trivially identify these people even if they don't use their real names. But by forcing them to use their real names they crowdsource the initial policing of opinions to the public. If that doesn't work the s
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The end of anonymity on Chinese social media(restofworld.org)
2 points by 0xDEF 3y ago|1 comments
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
Bard is better than ChatGPT-3.5. But GPT-4 is indeed a class of its own.
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
Bard is better than ChatGPT-3.5. They are worse than GPT-4 because nobody other than OpenAI (and their free Azure credits) have been willing to throw $100 million in training a single LLM.
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
Before the current drama: >Microsoft owned 49% of the for-profit part of OpenAI. >OpenAI's training, inference, and all other infrastructure were running entirely on Azure credits. >Microsoft/Azure were the only ones offe
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
People spooked by OpenAI turmoil should go with Azure OpenAI services. They host OpenAI's models for almost the same pricing but with enterprise-level SLA. If you are outside the US you can also choose an Azure datacenter closer to you
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
Neither Apple, Google, Amazon, nor Microsoft have a systemic monopoly.
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
>Apple, Google, Amazon and maybe even Microsoft What would be the economic and geopolitical consequences of the US breaking up the only US companies that are globally competitive? Chinese giants will outcompete the smaller less competiti
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
It is infuriating how the West keeps sabotaging itself. Both China and Yandex/Russia are moving ahead while the West is self-sabotaging with all the "responsible AI" bullshit.
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
Even liking a single political post will fill the timeline with blatant political disinfo from the fringes of the political spectrum. But it was also this bad before Musk.
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
Something else disturbing is how much European governments trust Microsoft/Azure. They are normally allergic to US big tech but Microsoft has somehow convinced European governments to hand out their citizens data.
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
Ilya is much less active on Twitter than the others. The rumors that blamed him emerged and spread like wildfire and he did nothing to stop it because he probably only checks Twitter once a week.
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
>AWS, azure etc just eat their lunch and don’t help anybody I know that AWS made a blatant hosted version of Elasticsearch without contributing back but the other examples are less damning. Azure's MongoDB offering is just the Mongo
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
Israel is a heavily militarized country. The country would not be able to exist without the latest military tech. Ilya flirting with the tech scene of Israel is a very good indicator that he is not anti mil-tech.
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
I don't think anyone at OpenAI was planning to give mil-tech to Iran and Iranian proxies like Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis.
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
>responsible board The board was irresponsible and incompetent by design. There is one OpenAI board member who has an art degree and is part of some kind of cultish "singularity" spiritual/neo-religious thing. That individ
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
Ilya has Israeli citizenship and has toured Israel and given talks at Israeli universities including one talk with Sam Altman. He is not anti mil-tech.
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
The engines on the first stage did well in this test. During the first test they were malfunctioning like crazy.

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