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by billy99k 1y ago
China doesn't have to fire a shot. They have a much larger economy and can essentially either buy out the majority of businesses in Taiwan or employ the majority of the citizens. The youth in Taiwan don't know or care about these
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Why would I pick up my family and move without a guarantee on the other side that I will have a job for X amount of years. It's too much of a risk and too much stress for everyone involved.
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Car companies don't want you to be able to work on these cars. They would much rather you either buy a new car or use their 3x the cost parts and services.
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This was always the case with open source. It's not that hard to obfuscate code in compiled binaries.
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by billy99k 1y ago
My guess is that you were unknowingly phished outvof your account.
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hunterb Biden anyone? Anyone??
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Lol. So it has nothing to do with corporate spying from China for the last two decades?
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Those in the security industry have known about this for many years. Another tool you can use is proxifier. It will send all your connections on a windows machine through your proxy. It works pretty well and is relatively inexpensive.
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"Where's the business value? " Have you ever used an LLM? I use it every day to help me with research and completing technical reports (which used to be a lot more of my time). Of course you can't just use it blindly, bu
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How is this any different than platforms like Blue Sky? I've noticed that when the censorship happens silently from the left, most people either don't know it's happening or completely ignore it. I've compared the bias f
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by billy99k 1y ago
At this point, I'm not sure anyone sees Wikipedia as accurate. It's controlled by a handful of (usually activist) moderators that block any updates that oppose their personal beliefs, even if true.
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grumble grumble..something about brexiters being right..grumble..grumble.
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by billy99k 1y ago
and just why is age verification 'draconian'?
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Private equity is the place where companies die. They will suck out all of its value and move onto the next company.
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Whether we like it or not, China will igore our IP and data laws, which will give them a clear technological advantage when it comes to AI.
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China? Lol. Their econony has been built on mostly stolen IP. I don't know any major piece of software or hardware innovations coming out of China. In the 90s they innovated lethal injection drugs.
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I knew lots of people that got into coding in the early 2000s and couldn't find a job after graduation. Why? They just took the classes and expected a cushy job. I, on the other hand, worked on lots of my own projects and contributed t
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"And to be honest, the UK surveillance thing is somewhat exaggerated; it's highly London-centric, and they're mostly privately-owned cameras; the main driving factor is the insurance industry." The big cities is where th
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"Until a couple of decades ago, there was very little surveillance of Western European" It's because the technology was too expensive. "citizens thought about guns at all, antipathy would have been the dominant attitude.
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You can google it yourself: "does ireland have surveillance cameras" "Where you'll find surveillance cameras: Public Transport: Cameras are installed on Luas trams and at major train and bus stations. Public Buildings: T
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I prefer take home, and then having a conversation about what is done, reasoning, etc.
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The RSV vaccine was approved in 2023 and they are already claiming a link to lower risk of dementia already?
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It's not because it's better. If you just need a basic excel/doc alternative, maybe. As soon as you need some more complex excel calculations, LibreOffice falls flat. Good luck getting formatting to look correct in a .doc fil
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It's the 'hacker' argument all over again.
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What about all other redacted names from the document?? It's rather suspicious that Democrats released the documents and only unredacted Republicans. It also doesn't mean anything. Esptein invited anyone with money and power over
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The entire document is redacted, except for these specific names. It's also been released by a Democrat committee. Release the entire document, and then I will believe it's anything beyond political hackery.
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"One line in the records dated 6 December 2014 reads: "Reminder: Elon Musk to island Dec. 6 (is this still happening?)" It's a nothing burger. Musk already said he was invited and declined, which matches what they found.
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Remember the Free Hong Kong movement? How about we look into what happened to everyone involved. Now tell me this is equivalent to freedom.
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I don't think we need more AI slopware creating automated proposals for Upwork. The only reason this won't completely destroy the marketplace (like when people spam 1000 resumes to different companies, in hopes that one will get a
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The sad thing is that activists from the 60s and 70s crippled the nuclear energy industry, which is the only real way to stop climate change. We would probably be dominating this industry by now and have a fraction of the CO2 outputs. If an

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