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by aprentic 2y ago
China has repeatedly demonstrated 2 things WRT Taiwan. They're patient and they're serious about their red lines. I can't recall a single instance where China announced anything about Taiwan that wasn't reactive. They ju
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by aprentic 2y ago
Theoretically, yes. It's pretty unlikely. The US alone currently has more than 2x the military expenditure of the entire EU. The US also has a larger GDP than the entire EU. The US supplies the main bulk of Ukrainian military aid. htt
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by aprentic 2y ago
"Whataboutism" was originally a valid criticism of "tu-quoque" attacks. Now it's frequently used as a defense for hypocrisy.
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by aprentic 3y ago
There are problems with PPP but it does try to address some real (no pun intended) issues with nominal GDP. A US resident might be able to afford a lot of Chinese goods and services but can't get many of them. For a Chinese consumer, t
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by aprentic 3y ago
That’s old data. China’s GDP is larger than that of both the EU and India. The college numbers have been changing too https://www.axios.com/2023/05/08/chinese-students-us-educati...
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Deus Ex Machina(star-telegram.com)
1 points by aprentic 3y ago|0 comments
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by aprentic 3y ago
I'd say the area where cooking videos particularly shine is technique and visual assessment. It's much harder to describe the proper motion in text than to just show a video. A still image of dough doesn't show you the elasti
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by aprentic 3y ago
That's kind of like asking any variety of, "Can X videos make us better at X?" Absolutely, but the more relevant question is if a particular cooking video or series, out of the vast set of "cooking videos" will make
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Am I too paranoid about bank security?
1 points by aprentic 3y ago|5 comments
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by aprentic 3y ago
This is a well known effect and there have been a number of attempts to address it. Slashdot went through a number of iterations. They initially added a points system and ended up adding a meta-moderation layer to try to address biases in t
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by aprentic 3y ago
This was actually the very first statistics project I ever did. We had the basic high school level "Probability and Statistics class". We learned some simple combinatorics, some formulas for the normal distribution and the basics
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by aprentic 3y ago
There’s Samuel Slater (the traitor). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Slater He was the most spectacular but hardly an isolated case. https://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/trade-secrets-intellectual-
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by aprentic 3y ago
Do you know if any of the "delete my reddit posts" apps support this? Maybe even an option to keep it running and randomly update posts with GPT nonsense over time?
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by aprentic 3y ago
That would be a reasonable hypothesis if our information was limited to a few isolated inconsistency issues. The more posts we see deleted the less likely it is that it's an accident. I just checked and found out that posts from an acc
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by aprentic 3y ago
Apple is an interesting company. They didn't invent computers, mobile phones, mp3 players or tablets. Instead they tend to take products where the whole industry is essentially still in alpha, polish it to a mirror finish and then show