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by CMay 5mo ago
I watched this video earlier today and came away unconvinced. Labeling this HN post as debunking feels a bit leading as that is not the title of the video. They did not follow all of the necessary logic to debunk it. They boiled it down t
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by CMay 5mo ago
Doesn't this need line of sight? If a fire starts outside of the line of sight, that's the time the fire needs to get out of control and you would have to test this system in that scenario. Sprinklers will soak everything and ma
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by CMay 5mo ago
Not sure this really means anything, but we've been fairly transparent that we want to redirect attention and funding towards the pacific.
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by CMay 6mo ago
So long as you don't require deep search grounding like massive web indexes or document stores which are hard to reproduce locally. You can do local agentic things that get close or even do better depending on search strategy, but the
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by CMay 6mo ago
After the USSR fell, they left behind many countries abused by Russia that didn't believe it would leave them alone. Those countries wanted defense guarantees in case of future Russian aggression. NATO wanted to be deliberate and slow
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by CMay 6mo ago
Just so people are clear, these types of models are almost universally naive and basic. If all you have is a single generic neutral message, "Hi, this is Bob.", it will be sufficient in most cases. If you have a pile of data, I
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by CMay 6mo ago
In practice this was about a product that is not targeted at desktop-savvy people. At the same time, you also have people who know "this isn't a hard problem, why do I need go through all this. let me go look for someone who did
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by CMay 6mo ago
> Is that what happened? That feels like a massive stretch considering who the US backed in the Chinese civil war. China, the US, Germany and Japan were all fighting against cultural genocidal Marxism which had global domination ambition
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by CMay 6mo ago
If you have 3 of your developers spending 80% of their time in an area of the codebase that gets no usage and you don't see a path forward that realistically is likely to increase usage, it can be a better use of developer time to focu
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by CMay 6mo ago
You mean, since the US defended China from Japan? Since the US defended South Korea from North Korea and China? Since we made the decision to allow China into global trade to lift it out of poverty and potentially liberalize its governmen
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by CMay 6mo ago
That's not what we were reacting to, that was the political rationale we used which is not the same thing.
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by CMay 6mo ago
> EV's in particular, their EV industry used to make terrible cars that were basically just chewing up and spitting out low quality batteries with no range. Now they are making cars that I actually want to drive. The cars used to be
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by CMay 6mo ago
"thanks to Chinese competition". More like anti-competitive practices. They can force down Chinese wages to keep labor costs down. They can require companies involved in component technologies to share their IP in order to do b
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by CMay 6mo ago
I don't think that's the key message. He says basing is a problem, but doesn't mention that we have answers to basing problems. He says F-35 production doesn't scale. Then he says F-35 production doesn't need to s
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by CMay 6mo ago
I'm not the person who responded to you, but I think of a brute force attack as essentially translatable into brute (dumb) force (effort). No thinking, no decision making, but the process is known. Here is a pile of stones, move that
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by CMay 6mo ago
Climate change policy was a valiant effort to de-influence authoritarian petrostates and prevent Russia from achieving its multi-century goal of expanding its access to actual warm water ports. The major conflicts between Russia and Japan
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by CMay 6mo ago
This game came out the same year the original Castlevania did. They're different enough games, but there are a few similarities that do make you wonder if they had any particular shared influences.
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by CMay 7mo ago
That's not what I said. Personally, I think you're lost in the very kind of generalizations and lack of precision that you seem to hate. You're becoming what you complain against. If you think people living that way is some
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by CMay 7mo ago
I think you're a little too emotionally invested and it's preventing you from making a coherent argument. Even if I explained the actual reasons for Venezuela, it doesn't seem like you legitimately want to know. You can be a
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by CMay 7mo ago
Think of it in evolutionary terms. There is physical evolution, but there's also mental evolution, moral evolution, legal evolution and so on. We also see education as being useful, yet education seems to not teach many critical thing
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by CMay 7mo ago
Well, first you'd have to make a decent argument for why it shouldn't be singled out. You're having an immediate rejection of the idea, but why? Have you been configured to feel that? I'm not arguing that racist motiva
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by CMay 7mo ago
I'm not necessarily saying that, only that it's not an unreasonable concern given the history. Venezuela (a communist country) with Chinese ties, was going to invade Guyana before we captured Maduro. Cambodia, a country with com
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by CMay 7mo ago
Racism was clearly an important aspect of Hitler's motivations and there is an important reason why. The reason racism is important, is because of communism. It would be outrageous to simply discard communism as if it was irrelevant,
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by CMay 7mo ago
You're ignoring things I already stated, such as communism is an aspiration. So of course China is not realized communism, because communism has never been realized at the national scale. The people in charge however, are absolutely
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by CMay 7mo ago
China is only still getting oil from Iran, because we allow it. China knows that. Venezuela and Iran partially tells China, the US does have influence over your oil shipments and you can't sanction proof your oil supply chain. Stopp
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by CMay 7mo ago
You're making a lot of weak arguments that aren't based in real historical context. Xi Jinping absolutely believes in Marxism-Leninism. You could argue there were reformers in past decades that held sway, but he doesn't want
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by CMay 7mo ago
I mean, Gold is an asset. Bitcoin is an asset. Those aren't currencies, even if people like to think of them that way. As far as the Euro, Europe is not America. The European Union is also not the United States. America has geograp
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by CMay 7mo ago
You have to be corrected on a few critical things. The US' power doesn't come from it making so many weapons. The structure of the government. The principles it stands for. The geographic perfection it lucked into. The allies
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by CMay 7mo ago
I'm not the person you're responding to, but there are some counterpoints to your arguments. China's stockpile of oil is only enough for a few months and that is only assuming that nothing happens to the stockpiles or the abi
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by CMay 7mo ago
USD dominance isn't going anywhere, because all of the critical metrics are still basically uncontested by any alternative. China and Russia are losing allies left and right. They're demonstrating that they support terrorism. N

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