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by _zagj 9mo ago
The Soviet Union had almost no legal emigration prior to the 1970s, and limited, targed emigration quotas after. The US, by contrast, prior to 1965, had strict quotas limiting immigration (based on national origins).
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> That feat would be impossible for the average US family Funny, except the US, despite being a supposed fascist dystopia, currently has the opposite problem: people trying to enter and stay illegally, hence the wall-building (to keep pe
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The GDR was a showcase state that, much like the DPRK, being on the periphery of the communist block, was propped up by USSR so that direct comparisons with its capitalist neighbor wouldn't be so unflattering. One of the most important
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Facilitating mirroring seems like it would open up another can of liability worms for the IA, as well as, potentially, for those mirroring it. For example, they recently lost an appeal of a major lawsuit brought by book publishers. And then
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> the AI crash happens and none of the models can be run How could this happen with local models already in service?
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The article felt fairly dispassionate and even-handed to me, and I say this as someone who dislikes Klabnik very much and also dislikes the Rust community (especially its insidious, forced MIT rewrites of popular GPL software, with which th
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by _zagj 9mo ago
I don't see what any of this has to do with Greenland. But his posts describing his fellow countrymen as if some "berserker" spirit lies dormant within, are so credulity-straining that I initially assumed they were ironic, bu
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> If this happened in Sweden, we'd have been shooting at the participating soldiers while it went on with machine guns, seeking out people associated with the coup and killing them in their homes etc. Yeah, that's exactly the k
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There's a saying in investing that a lot of analysts get famous for being right "once in a row."
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> This project can be used under the terms of the Apache-2.0 or MIT. Contributions to this project, unless noted otherwise, are automatically licensed under the terms of both of those licenses. Thanks, German government!
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> It's equally if not more likely that both terms were derived independently Not if it originated on 4chan.
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If the term originated on 4chan, then there's little doubt it derived from "goyslop," given how common the usage of "goyslop" was and is there, and how similar are the connotations: overlords feeding their "c
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The wikipedia entry, should it ever get one, ought to prominently feature a photo of Simon Willison.
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"AI slop" is an internet meme that bears a strking resemblance to another, older meme, "goyslop"; why is it such a stretch to believe the former derived from the latter? "AI slop" was being used on 4chan as far
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Do you really think there being a mass hysteria component to this, especially in the age of TikTok, doesn't warrant serious consideration? Your alarm bells didn't go off when you saw the photos and read the profiles of some of the
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Billy Koch, the MLB reliver who played for the A's and the Jays, was the one I remembered.
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I watched a documentary about Morgellons, and the patients would often seem quite reasonable at first, but the more they spoke, and the more they described their symptoms, the crazier they sounded. One patient, whose brother, ironically, wa
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by _zagj 9mo ago
> Way to prove my point about arrogance What was arrogant about my post? My point was that Canadians (like you) often exhibit this baffling, unfounded sense of superiority, one completely at odds with cold, hard migration data, as well a
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by _zagj 9mo ago
Were you active on SF or Savannah 20+ years ago? Everyone knew everyone else, and it was a much higher-trust society (think Minneapolis before Somalis). > The whitehats/grayhats have always been super paranoid. Yeah, they were alway
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> And it's always been like this Not, it hasn't. The open source community was much smaller, and much more tightly knit 20 years ago, and it was intrinsically much higher-trust.
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> TikTok deemed I should not have access to my account ever again, and X (formerly Twitter) is delaying a response to my appeal to the suspension, but I have not much hope; I reckon it's gone for good. I may have lost all the person
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Thiel has never espoused anything remotely close to this, and has even shown, in his lectures, a willingness to engage with Marxist thought, even if he disagrees with it, and to try to separate and highlight the intellectual wheat from the
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The irony of this talk is that the prospect of the US having its own de facto "Great Firewall," albeit one imposed from without rather than from within, doesn't sound that bad to any American old enough to remember what the I
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by _zagj 9mo ago
I don't support it, but seeing the tankies get apoplectic over it is pretty sweet. Also the power flex and the indirect humiliation and undermining of both China AND Russia simultaneously is also pretty sweet.
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It's illegal to carry, even if properly licensed, a firearm on Capitol grounds. So searching for "Unlawful Possession of a Firearm on Capitol Grounds or Buildings" yields an approximate total number of rioters carrying firear
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Cuba says 32 Cuban officers were killed in US operation in Venezuela(apnews.com)
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Thankfully Venezuelans aren't Muslim fanatics with a 40-50% chance of their parents being first cousins.
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The appetite HN has for this kind of naked self-promotion is really something. Get posted (even if by someone else) a few too many times to /g/ and you'll be regularly rebuked with "buy an ad" from then on, but HN j
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Yeah, that was my point. This guy is Linus' chief lieutenant and heir apparent, and he doesn't even bother to ensure the integrity of his transmissions is protected through TLS.
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Meanwhile it's 2026 and Greg's own website still doesn't support TLS.

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