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by balia 2y ago
Some may not want to hear this, but these “fastest supercomputer” list is now meaningless because all the Chinese labs have started obfuscating their progress. A while ago there were a few labs in China in top 10 and they all attracted sanc
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by balia 4y ago
"ceded to China" is a strange way to phrase that Macao was returned to China after colonizing it
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by balia 5y ago
Because it’s no longer socially acceptable. You should look up the history of dogwhistles about Jewish ownership of banks and financial firms. It usually seems harmless, ex: “hey isn’t this owned by a Jewish person?” which masquerades the d
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by balia 5y ago
Is arbitrarily pointing out “fyi this is a CHINESE business” the new “fyi this is a JEWISH business”?
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by balia 5y ago
This seems it will be applied to self driving technology in a huge way. All of these companies doing advanced AI vision detection, classification etc... they’re really hard problems. But the whole challenge will eventually become nullified
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by balia 6y ago
Headline sounds propaganda-ish. This is a normal regulatory move to break up monopoly in its one market, instead it’s made to sound like “big bad gov bully’s little guys” Imagine a headline “Zuckerberg Agrees to Shrink His Business Empire,
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by balia 6y ago
At some point, we have to let these people choose. You can only protect people from themselves to a certain degree Once the sane ones are vaccinated, open everything up and let nature take care of the dumb ones. If you insist on drinking g
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by balia 6y ago
Ya once I’m vaccinated, I’m done. The health officials have lied “for the greater good” for too long. CDC lied saying masks are not useful when they wanted to conserve I imagine they’ll lie again and say something like 70%. Screw the “vAcCi
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by balia 6y ago
Interesting. So basically a state driven economy?
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by balia 6y ago
Same. What I want out of every communication product is the same: reliable, boring, and get out of my way. Humans innately know how to communicate with each other. They know how to make jokes, get info across, make hints, etc. we don’t need
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by balia 6y ago
Yep seriously, for me it’s been amazing I moved to a Midwestern city and wake up at around 11am, just in time for my 9am (SF time) meeting lol. I chat w colleagues constantly on zoom and get off after 5 hrs. Of course I got my SO to keep co