Ajedi32

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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
Capitalism is fully compatible with anarchism. (Though certainly it functions better under a system where your neighbor can't just kill you and take your stuff.)
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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
They could have ads alongside the AI response, in a completely separate section of the page (like search results are). That seems fine. But if they start including ads in the AI context window then it becomes impossible to tell what parts o
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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
Yes. Starbase is an active construction site right now, so that's why I chose that as a point of comparison. But obviously there's also a lot of aerospace manufacturing happening at the same time, so it makes sense the number wo
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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
Compared to what? US average fatal accident rate for construction is 9.2 deaths per 100,000 full-time workers per year. In oil and gas extraction it's 13.8. In agriculture it's 20.9. In manufacturing it's 2.4. What's Sta
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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
Headline is misleading. The launch is happening tomorrow weather permitting, and the delays that already happened are most likely unrelated to the accident that killed the worker. There's also no evidence that accident rates at Starbas
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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
Good point. Even if Facebook is being threatened they're still ultimately responsible for their actions. Maybe amoral isn't the right word to describe this. I guess it just feels like a lot to me to expect a company to break the l
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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
I'd argue doing business with a foreigner doesn't constitute "operating in" that person's country if you never set foot there. They came to you , not the other way around.
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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
Right, but it should be acknowledged that this is likely an amoral decision on Facebook's part (or more charitably, a pragmatic decision) not an immoral one. The governments that forced these changes in the first place are of course ac
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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
I don't think someone accessing content on US servers run by a US company counts as "operating in" any country other than the US. But Meta is an international company, so maybe they have servers/staff in Saudi Arabia, in
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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
Isn't that precisely why this is happening? Because it's doing exactly that, and the people in power in these countries don't like it?
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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
Blue Origin does. https://www.blueorigin.com/destinations And VAST https://www.vastspace.com/
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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
> If something happened due to your unprovoked action, it's your fault. So if I punch somebody in the face and they respond by pulling out a gun and shooting an innocent bystander, I can be punished for murder? That's not even
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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
I don't see any issue with the US blocking countries from giving monetary aid to Iran (which the US is at war with). That's not "blockading the strait", contrary to the headline. Neutral vessels can pass freely (or rathe
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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
Regularly shooting ballistic missiles at allied nations isn't an imminent threat? And I don't see how "existing agreements" make a difference if those existing agreements allow them to build nukes. If Iran stopped buildi
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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
Trying to absolve the US administration of Iran's actions? Again, my whole point here is that the US is not the one blocking the strait. The US is not responsible for the actions of an enemy nation, predictable or not.
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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
Certainly "might be a threat" is way too uncertain to act on. But if they're actively threatening "death to [your country]", sponsoring terrorist attacks on their neighbors, regularly shooting ballistic missiles at
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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
China can't buy oil from Iran that they physically can't get (due to the US blockade). If they want to buy oil from other non-Iranian nations though I say let them! Oil is a global market; every barrel China buys from that section
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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
I stand corrected then. Blocking "anything heading toward Iran" is perfectly reasonable given they're at war, and blocking Russian ships makes sense given the separate ongoing conflict in Ukraine, but I don't really see
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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
The chain of events probably started something like 2000 years ago depending on how you count it. The fact remains that threatening the ships of peaceful commercial traffic by uninvolved nations is entirely Iran's doing.
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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
> The cables cross the territory of the sovereign Iranian state The strait is not and has never been Iran's sovereign territory. Or should the UAE and Oman start trying to charge fees to ships trying to cross the strait too?
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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
This might be outdated, but last I heard the US was only blocking ships going to/from Iran and ships which paid Iran's protection money, right? Not all traffic through the strait? And for Iran it seems "countries it opposes&q
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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
The argument goes that, given the general disposition of Iran towards the US, its allies, and basically anyone who's not a Shiite Muslim, it wasn't a choice between war with Iran or no war with Iran. It was a choice between war wi
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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
Iran is the one blocking the strait, not the US.
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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
Pretty sure they already rely on such a database for positioning, so they already have that problem. But yes, this wouldn't work for other self-driving systems that don't rely on HD maps.
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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
Fair, but given that we're talking about a hypothetical government program, "index-based retirement fund" doesn't imply you're the only one contributing to said fund.
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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
It doesn't have to be that extreme. Even if rather than "godlike capabilities" it just boosted your economic efficiency by 2x over other nations that would still be a serious geopolitical threat. (I'm not necessarily say
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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
1600% higher returns can cover a lot of eventualities.
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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
I'm a bit out of the loop, but has SpaceX not been profitable for the last 4 quarters? I understand they're investing a lot into R&D for Starship but I was under the impression they've been making a killing on Starlink.
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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
> what kind of bad consequences, and how much of them, are we willing to put up with in the name of freedom? The way I look it is that when someone uses their freedom for evil, the consequences of that are that person's fault, not t
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by Ajedi32 5mo ago
Again, legally that's correct. But it goes completely against the spirit of open source and especially the GPL which says in the license itself that "our General Public Licenses are intended to guarantee your freedom to share and

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