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True but the 10,000 civilians were not all killed while they were living there. Most were evacuated as the battlefield front lines moved towards those towns. In Iraq, there were 10s of thousands of civilian casualties estimated within the f
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I live in Ukraine and run a software company here. I still don’t understand how the power grid is still functioning and how quickly it is repaired after an outage. I’ve been here since the war started, including some of the worst hit front
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Iraq was much worse. I heard it first hand from a US veteran who served in Iraq and then volunteered in Ukraine. We were driving together through Kharkiv surveying damage and he said: the damage here is nothing compared to what we did to Ba
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For some reason I can’t help but think of the analogies of our current situation to the last years of the Soviet Union, when on paper it looked like a juggernaut albeit with decrepit leaders, but the numbers were lies, more lies and statist
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> Perception can be manipulated in many ways. Numbers are even easier to manipulate.
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If you go to the doctor with a problem and get a blood test and they say that everything looks fine, but you don’t feel fine, then you don’t say: “well the numbers are right, I should feel fine”. Rather you try to find what the numbers aren
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It's December for God's sakes, just yesterday I thought that the Syria rebels would be the last geopolitical surprise for the year.
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I did not say they were nice. That’s my entire point. These are examples of the most popular Western brands though. Same goes for any popular Western brand of anything. I even prefer Ukrainian local toothpaste to Colgate. Tastes better
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It’s not just apples, dear. Mass market capitalism does this to *everything*. Everything just becomes so bland. When I moved from my native Canada to a poor backwater Eastern European country (not in the EU) I suddenly noticed how different
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Wait, why can’t I just use a Postgres database with the Decimal type and call it a day?
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Conveniently ignored my main point. Why should I have to take anything you say as meaningful if you are just a random mutation?
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> This is 3/4 of the way to admitting that the evidence clearly favors evolution. I never denied the process of evolution. I made that very clear from the start. The Creator may have indeed created us through a process of evolution.
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You don’t get to claim that an “event happened long before recorded history under entirely different conditions”, because anyone can make that claim. That’s not science, not evidence. I can claim the same thing for intentional creation, for
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> we have a massive amount of scientific evidence that shows it could have naturally evolved Define “naturally”. However you define it, that is precisely what some people call “divinely”.
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It’s not just that a few puzzle pieces are missing. Abiogenesis is entirely unproven and nobody has a clue how it works and nobody can demonstrate experimentally any of the hypothetical mechanisms.
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You’re misunderstanding the point about fine-tuning entirely. It doesn’t matter how many billions of years it took, if some of the parameters of fundamental physics were slightly different, even trillions of years would’ve resulted in nothi
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OpenAI considers developing a browser to compete with Chrome(reuters.com)
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If it was just about identifying people for education, sure. But Ivy League colleges have become a gateway for all powerful institutions and posts in society, it’s not strictly about the education. The garbage collector might be a better pr
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Any educational “system” strongly selects for conformity. A student can’t question the system or they’ll be sidelined early on and failed for giving the “wrong” answer. Geniuses are almost by definition weirdos who question the status quo.
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Perhaps the very idea of having standardized evaluations needs to be questioned. Anything that can be measured will be gamed. Nothing “repeatable” can capture the whole value of a human being.
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great now i want in on an e-ink display
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Uh-oh, this really shakes my confidence in fintech neobanks like Mercury, Wise, Revolut and the lot.
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Where are the API docs / client libraries?
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How on earth does this help with reconciling payments? Can Autotab also recognize "this transaction belongs to this invoice" or does it just copy and paste all transaction and invoice data into a spreadsheet for manual reconciliat
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Here's an idea: what if the US military just had in-house manufacturing capability and could build soap dispensers (or anything else) to specification at basically the cost of the materials? The factory, the staff, and everything else
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Taking a quick glance at all of these, they seem to be aspirational or a “brute force” type of search, which computers have always been good at, before AI. Does not seem like any novel research to me. The parameters and methods are set by h
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Theory. This is not how things work in practice, even in "democracies". Speaking as a person who has been harassed at the US border from Canada many times, I've learned it depends more on how the border agent "feels&quot
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iPad has a kiosk mode for these use cases.
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Experiment: you think LLMs can innovate on chip design? Ask it to do something much simpler: invent a new better sorting algorithm. We use names such as Timsort or Djikstra for a specific reason: because it requires rare human ingenuity to
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> The class key is protected with a key derived from the user passcode or password and the device UID. Shortly after the user locks a device (10 seconds, if the Require Password setting is Immediately), the decrypted class key is discard

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