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by bilbo0s 1y ago
This is what I don't quite get? What is the impetus for their government to want to play ball with us? The incentive for their companies is that they can access US markets. But their government is a bit different. That government has c
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by bilbo0s 1y ago
At this point that ship has sailed. I think the answer fairly conclusively in the global south is that, yes, yes they will let Chinese ships in their waters. It will be bizarro-land if we have people in Kenya, Colombia, South Africa, and Pe
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by bilbo0s 1y ago
Sorry. But you don't get to be a billionaire working as an executive. Don't misunderstand me, I'm all for reigning in excessive executive pay. We should do so in any case. However, what I'm trying to say is, we can reign
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by bilbo0s 1y ago
Sorry. Not buying it. Wayyy too many places to get money these days. It’s a multipolar world. Again, no matter how important you think you are, you’ll need to do a whole lot more than dangle carrots to get that level of influence nowadays.
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by bilbo0s 1y ago
China has been building Chinese-only gated company towns in Pakistani military properties OK. Now I'm a bit skeptical as well. I mean, the Chinese have been building Chinese-only gated company towns in [insert global south nation he
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by bilbo0s 1y ago
I don't know? Not really sure a claim is good enough. I don't know that you can just go into court and say, "Trust me, I don't use copyrighted material." And I also can't see any way, other than providing train
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by bilbo0s 1y ago
It sounds like a lot of people are kind of missing the mark a bit on what happened here in the US. I mean: Next up is propaganda and filling Americans' minds with only what he wants you to know No. "Propaganda and filling Ameri
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by bilbo0s 1y ago
Huh? If they disagreed with him, they would have already left the administration. So of course no one on Trumps team wants to stop trump.
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by bilbo0s 1y ago
To be fair, even the EU can be expected to enact regulations calibrated to decrease American dominance in the tech sector at this point. So if Trump tariffs don’t take down US software. I’m certain new regulations around the world will take
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by bilbo0s 1y ago
Guy? I get reminded, with my votes for independent parties, of how big a minority I represent in this nation literally every election. The difference between you and I is that I know I'm in the minority. Conservative and liberal voters
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by bilbo0s 1y ago
And that's not even counting the people who didn't vote. Most of whom have definitely had enough of Trump at this point. Sometimes I think the political types and the elites don't realize how big of a minority they represen
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by bilbo0s 1y ago
And most of America would gladly trade out Trump, Vance and the current crop of idiots in favor of Jimmy Carter or Bush the Lesser any day of the week. That's how far the steward class of this nation has fallen.
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by bilbo0s 1y ago
perhaps requiring university degrees that arent worth anything for jobs that dont need them is the problem? I don't know? Kind of sounds like the problem is more fundamental than that. It sounds like the job is not actually there in
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by bilbo0s 1y ago
I don't know? I agree that getting 3 guys to the moon seems much harder than running a nation into the ground. That said, isn't that a reason that you'd want younger people in DOGE than in the Apollo program? All you have t
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by bilbo0s 1y ago
Please fix your comment. The error in it is just.. yeah.. it's not shining a good light on you or the position you're taking. Especially in light of the subject being discussed.
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by bilbo0s 1y ago
It's surprising that we would actually vote for this of our own free will. That's gotta be something historians will puzzle over for the next two hundred years. It's mind blowing that we did that. Stepping a level lower even,
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by bilbo0s 1y ago
The mandarin language models obviously exist, but what would you do with them if they provided access to them? And what knowledge would be in them? What is the body of knowledge encoded in Mandarin? What does that look like? Sad reality is
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by bilbo0s 1y ago
Yeah. I got news for you, most women my mother's age out here in flyover country also don't use X. So even if everyone on X knows of Grok's existence, which they don't, it wouldn't move the needle at all on a lot of
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
This. Only on HN does ChatGPT somehow fear losing customers to Grok. Until Grok works out how to market to my mother, or at least make my mother aware that it exists, taking ChatGPT customers ain't happening.
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Maybe that's what the people want? Maybe they don't like the fact that there's people out there making 500 grand a year? At least not while they're struggling to make ends meet on 50 grand a year. Now your leaders are su
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
It's time for Europe to de link from the US. If that's the way policy decisions are going to be made every time conservatives come to power in the US, then it's best that the rest of the world not go down with the US when the
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
I think it's a bit more accurate to say that many long time Republicans claimed to support free markets. It's a little naive to believe that they actually meant any of that in reality. Them and their donors were growing fabulous
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
The guy's arguing all over the place. Not much of it makes logical sense unless you stop looking for logic in the arguments. Suffice to say, like most ideologues, the beliefs make sense when analyzed in accordance with the logic rules
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
At least until Trump makes running Chinese models illegal in the US.
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Your comment is actually an example of the echo chambers left and right wing people live and breathe in. Out in, "what the F are you idiots doing with our economy"-land. There are exactly zero people who give a mosquito's dic
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Well, they're learning from the adults. Soon as Trump's term started he started removing any mention of slavery from the Smithsonian cuz 'merica. That's really the concerning thing. Liberals and conservatives not only di
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In fairness to UK, pretty much every place has a two tier justice system.
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
It guessed the trailer park nearest me. Context: Wisconsin, photo I took with iPhone, screenshotted so no exif I think this thing is probably fairly comprehensive. At least here in the US. Implications to privacy and government tracking are
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
And you should have a long memory. That's how a nation looks after its own interests. As I implied in my original comment, I applaud and admire that about these foreign agencies. Also, many nations do have houses older than the US. My
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Well, I'm also fair certain that there are a lot of foreign intelligence services which, having infiltrated through DOGE, are currently leaving digital "gifts" throughout all of our systems. So it's also about spying. No

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