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by bakuninsbart 2y ago
Ignoring the moral dimension for a second, I do wonder if it is harder to implement a rather cohesive, but far-reaching censorship in the chinese style, or the more outrage-driven type of "censorship" required of American companie
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by bakuninsbart 2y ago
As a European, I find it quite outrageous to demand a company be sold to the US because it is too successful and valuable to be foreign-held. It is the old-school imperialist school of thought. If you think Bytedance is harming Americans, d
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by bakuninsbart 2y ago
That's a bubble thing. The vast majority of serious software engineering is done in OOP. Java, C# and C++ alone are more than half the market, and then you have Python, Ruby, Kotlin and many more. Even JS has moved largely to (bastard)
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by bakuninsbart 2y ago
OOP is one of the major schools of programming, significantly more widespread than functional languages. The only thing arguably used more is "simple" procedural, but even that is doubtful. Sure, in the 90s people thought OOP was
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Doing weed out courses on purpose I think is elitist and unnecessary, but computer science does require understanding of some hard topics. Linear algebra, theoretical computer science and the like may have very high failure rates, but are a
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by bakuninsbart 2y ago
Originally yes, but I think today it rather means "complex".
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by bakuninsbart 2y ago
The "grab them by the pussies" comment should have been enough to show everyone that he's a morally reprehensive little clown. I originally typed out a long comment to further elucidate why he is despicable, but it actually t
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by bakuninsbart 2y ago
You are not wrong, the Democrat strategy obviously failed, the racist right is significantly better at identity politics, because a) whites are still a majority and b) latinos are very christian and anti-socialist on average. And Kamala Har
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by bakuninsbart 2y ago
We lose nuance by only usign maximalist statements. Take these rather typical intro-phrases: We find [strongest result] Our findings strongly indicate [likely result] Our findings suggest/indicate [result that needs more research] The
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by bakuninsbart 2y ago
Math isn't a science, it is a tool we can use to construct coherent arguments. We can do this about our world, which science aims to do, but we can do this about many worlds. We can consider correct deductions within a mathematical sys
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by bakuninsbart 2y ago
Among the communists, I think both types could be found, it is just that the more idealistic, moderate and anti-authoritarian people always lose out in those revolutions. An organized, amoral and unscrupulous minority has a big advantage ov
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by bakuninsbart 2y ago
I'm generally quite strongly on the side of being considerate of other people for a continental European, but in the particular case of children I kind of disagree. Children are an annoying but absolutely necessary part of society. The
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by bakuninsbart 2y ago
The window of time where word frequency of chatgpt's favourites and usage of chatgpt is closely related is rather small I think. Academic language has a number of 'marker' words that are basically just style and will be more
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by bakuninsbart 2y ago
I've also read this sentiment online quite a few times, but find it rather unconvincing, especially if world politics encompasses more than Europe, the Anglos and Japan. Left/Right is a pretty rough categorization to begin with, a
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by bakuninsbart 2y ago
Don't think this works at least in Europe due to regulations. Due to some kind of error, I was bumped from from a flight a year ago, which meant I a) got a free flight the next day b) got the cost of food and a hotel for the night back
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by bakuninsbart 2y ago
Cost cutting is one of the issues for constantly being late. To give two examples: 1. Transporting people is less profitable than transporting goods, so those trains have to wait for the more important ones. They share tracks due to cost an
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by bakuninsbart 2y ago
Good engineering quality can't save a business, but the reverse isn't true, we just usually don't attribute the failure directly to the software. Instead we would say things like "the company ran out of money" - eve
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by bakuninsbart 2y ago
For notebooks I find apple to deliver exactly what I need, at superior quality. I don't really like the os that much compared to Linux distros, but everything just works 99.9% of the time, which is a major plus when trying to deliver g
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by bakuninsbart 2y ago
That's a laughable argument, comparable to Italian fascists claiming Romania as the legacy of the Roman empire. Israel is built majority on refugees, and secondly on colonizers who hold a tenuous connection to the land. But you don&#x2
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by bakuninsbart 2y ago
I'm sorry, I actually mixed up my cults, you are completely correct that they are located close to NY, and it does not seem that their leader has any allegations of sexual misconduct.
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by bakuninsbart 2y ago
The ill-conceived post-911 War on Terror was cheered on by Israel and its supporters, but it would have probably happened either way. Osama Bin Laden specifically mentions Israel in his motivation for his terrorist attacks, but his overarch
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by bakuninsbart 2y ago
The reason why South Africa and many intellectuals consider Israel to be an apartheid state is not because of the treatment of Arabs that were allowed to become Israeli citizens after the Nakba, but because of the occupation of the West-Ban
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by bakuninsbart 2y ago
True, but I think what they say about themselves is already enough of an indictment. And then the leader lives on a giant luxurious ranch in DC with his dozen or so wives, while managing a global disinformation empire that allegedly is also
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by bakuninsbart 2y ago
Organ harvesting in Chinese prisons is a real thing that happened (state even acknowledged it), but to what extent and until when is unclear. The probably most comprehensive write-up on the issue is by the China Tribunal, but I wouldn'
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The code assistance tools right now are still a bit crude compared to what they will be in a year or two even if capabilities do not increase. I think it will be very useful to have "someone" read along as I code and answer questi
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by bakuninsbart 2y ago
I think the only way for these protests to get really tangible results is in case we reach a ceiling in LLM capabilities. The technology in its current trajectory is simply too valuable both in economic and military applications to pull out
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> Not sure what you mean by a fairy tale definition of a promised land, we are talking about actual land that they've actually lived in for thousands of years (though naturally not all of it continuously, after the Roman exile not t
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by bakuninsbart 2y ago
You are allowed to protest against Israel, but you have to be extremely careful about how to phrase it, as a lot of things can get you arrested for anti-Semitism, even when it is arguably factual. So things like calling Israel an apartheid
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The ratio of civilian to military deaths of the October 7th attack is very similar to Israel's in Gaza, around two thirds. Israel has been caught multiple times willfully killing civilians in this conflict, and there are hundreds of st
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by bakuninsbart 2y ago
Very rarely do I defend the last government of Germany, but the strategy was to give centers a good margin and low bureaucratic hurdle to maximize the number of testing centers and ensure that everyone can get tested everywhere. Given the s

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