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by badpun 2y ago
Germany or France didn't go to the Iraq war as a part of the "coalition of the willing", and said would vote against it in the UN. If Poland tried doing that to the USSR, there'd be a huge risk of Russian tanks in Warsaw
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Left in the sense that Germans were allowed to govern themselves. Whereas countries reconquered by Russia were ruled by local cronies whose loyalty was to Moscow as much as to their home country. And, if those guys tried getting some indepe
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by badpun 2y ago
The US does not want to conquer Europe. That's evidenced by the fact that they basically conquere and re-conquered (from the Germans) France, Italy and most of Germany in 1944-45, and then left, leaving those countries be. In the same
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by badpun 2y ago
It's also a hand out to middle class, who cosume a lot of services provided by illegal imigrants (landscaping, renovation, cooking in restaurants etc.). The Dems kept the price of maintaining a nice lawn low.
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> A zygote and a bacteria have some fundamental differences. Interesting. What makes a bacteria "a life" and zygote not "a life"?
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A zygote is not a life? Is bacteria "a life" for you? You probably meant "human life".
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Most people already believed climate change won't be mitigated.
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The CEO of a company being one of most powerful people in government is excellent for Tesla investors. Much less so for the general population, as the conflict of interests is obvious.
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The authorities asks for access to these online documents? Similarly to how they ask to access to physical documents (they don't break down doors and break locks on file cabinets). If the personel of the company does not disclose some
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by badpun 2y ago
Democratic government has an incentive to serve its constituents, while a company has an incentive to make profits for its owners. Even if companies are more efficient than government, they are more efficient at the things that only benefit
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by badpun 2y ago
Tech overhired for many years, in part because higher head count leads to higher stock market valuation (at least in the eyes of gullible investors). Meanwhile, more than a decade of this hiring extravaganza had passed already, and tech la
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by badpun 2y ago
The problem with Python is that it can be so slow that you might be waiting for your algorithms to converge for a long time during each run. However, I agree that it is in general useful for sketching.
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I don't think Gulia and Punto have much in common. Did you mean a different car?
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Biggest problem with Dacia Spring might be its 1-star safety rating.
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You made up the "99% useless" straw man, I never used the word useless in my post. I merely said that the AI research is more relevant than 99% of research, which includes things like gender studies, studies of Rennaisance German
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by badpun 2y ago
The whole purpose of academia is literally to nerd out on cool, impractical things, which will ocasionally turn out to have some real-life relevance years or decades later. This (hallucinated CS) is still more relevant to real world than 99
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by badpun 2y ago
> So you become an entrepreneur, or the manager of a sophisticated network of teams of robots/AI running on a blockchain. Wont managers and entrepreneurs be automated as well? Their jobs are not neccessarily harder to automate than
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by badpun 2y ago
> Calling it now: a few decades down the road, Taylor Swift will exist in the cultural zeitgeist in a similar way to how Beatles are revered many decades after their breakup in the present times (assuming she stays on her current traject
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by badpun 2y ago
There was never a possibility of making a living of poetry. In order to survive as an author, you need to make a bestseller list at least once (preferably, multiple times). Barring some rare exceptions, I don't think any book of poetry
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Doh, I always thought it as South China Sea!
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A1200 and A4000 could be hooked into a VGA monitor for the flickerless experience. The caveat was that the flicker-free display modes were added on top of old ones, which meant that, while you could run Workbench and most applications on th
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by badpun 2y ago
Sport stars and top actors, musicians etc. are really rich too and they don't own other people's profit (or, at least, they made majority of their wealth off their own work, and then added extra money on top via investing their ea
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by badpun 2y ago
I'm sure they were accepting your applications in case something exceptional comes their way. They will lose some minor good faith with the open source community, but, from what I've seen, in the eyes of most companies, "open
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Unless not until the oil and other essential stuff run out.
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You will lose your congnitive abilities either way, due to old age. Do you have higher purpose behind trying to retain them for as long as possible?
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There was some chess prodigy who, in his teens, was already winning against most champions, and who in his early twenties abandoned chess altogether, citing it a "waste of life".
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Callng someone "evil" isn't meant to have some explanatory power. It's merely a label saying that they are, well, evil.
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Some people are hard workers, some are not. Some are even slackers. I believe this might largely be immutable. I.e. you can make a slacker work hard, but they'll become deeply unhappy, because it's against their nature, and burn o
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The company will end up with a pile of bugs and technical debt that was "overloooked" by engineers chasing their per-feature bonus. In some companies, that might be allright (some startups are ok with horrible code), but it's
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Plenty of highly paid people are slacking off as well.

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