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by chibg10 7y ago
I honestly haven't seen conclusive evidence that Huawei has spied or been asked to in the past. Alas, imo, that's irrelevant because I'm aware that Huawei would not be able to turn down a spying request and continue to exist
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by chibg10 7y ago
This isn't really incompatible with GP's point. It's really hard to be a global telecom spy network when you're nobody wants to buy your equipment because it's overpriced and low-quality... In fact, that would give
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by chibg10 7y ago
I'm not convinced a race that is vastly more intelligent at an individual-level than humans is necessarily a consummately more advanced race. It would seem like the age of a civilization and the size of its population (i.e. overall &qu
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Inflated Bond Ratings Helped Spur the Financial Crisis. They’re Back(wsj.com)
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by chibg10 7y ago
This is just false. Both Google and Facebook have been reported as seeking Chinese government authority to get re-enter the Chinese market this year, and neither Facebook, Google, or a large chunk of the rest of the Western internet is acce
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by chibg10 7y ago
Some relevant context: laser pointers have been being used by HK protesters lately to interfere with facial recognition on security cameras
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by chibg10 7y ago
Referencing three American incidents from decades ago (which, although I consider Chile and Nicaragua to be among America's darkest FP moments, were all officially -- and mostly corroborated by the historical record -- undertook in the
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by chibg10 7y ago
Right, and that choice of axiom is how two reasonable people can come to wildly different conclusions about a subject even after spending time resolving reconcilable differences. But empirically speaking, almost all people would agree at a
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by chibg10 7y ago
The truth value of a given logical proposition is independent of how many people believe either way about it. You're mistaking ethics as a branch of philosophy for norms dictated by society.
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by chibg10 7y ago
I don't think this is actually true in the vast majority of day-to-day ethical decisions, although there are cases where it's certainly true. I'm fairly confident that many more unethical actions, even subjectively defined (i
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by chibg10 7y ago
Really? What retaliatory action did the US take on behalf of its tech companies following their blocking in China?
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by chibg10 7y ago
I mean they sorta already are? Xi Jinpeng was calling Vladimir Putin his "closest, most dearest friend" just a month or two ago. They already oppose the US (along with Russia) on every major international issue.
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by chibg10 7y ago
One thing that I think is getting lost in this discussion is the role of intent on currency manipulation. Switzerland has the strongest currency in the world due to the country's reputation for governmental and financial stability. Thi
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by chibg10 7y ago
The USD has risen against pretty much every major currency in the past several years. Its status as the world reserve currency keeps its value artificially high despite running the printing press. Whether this is good or bad for the US econ
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by chibg10 7y ago
>As someone neither American nor Chinese I feel China's far less likely to come along and bother me when I'm minding my own business than America is. Well no shit, only one of these two countries has had the capability to proje
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by chibg10 7y ago
>But after you setup the dataset definition and defined the schema, the rest can be based on neural search? Sure, but hyperparameter tuning and architecture selection takes such an insignificant amount of any competent ML practitioner&#x
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by chibg10 7y ago
Right! I should clarify that I'm only describing the big management consulting firms that most everyone has heard of. I should have wrote "management" before each time I wrote" consultant" but I didn't want to
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by chibg10 7y ago
>If you show value to the client and you build a trust relationship then you enter into a relational mode that is fruitful for both sides, and you skip/streamline all the tedious commercial topics (RFPs, competitors, beauty contests
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by chibg10 7y ago
>All companies exist to provide profits to their owners. Management consultants nearly always have a conflict of interest though (i.e. the preoccupation of consultants is almost always "sell, sell, sell" rather than "help
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by chibg10 7y ago
Not exactly. There are varying costs to extracting and transporting oil depending on where it is sourced. It's estimated that American natural gas, for example, would be 20% more expensive than Russian natural gas through the Nordstrea
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by chibg10 7y ago
Does Dr. Epstein stake any of his claims on his personal credibility in his article? Why not attack the substance of the article instead of going with the the classic "slander the opposition" play that all kinds of disingenuous ac
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by chibg10 7y ago
Their handling of OpenAIFive rubbed me the wrong way as well. The whole operation smelled very PR-ish to me personally -- unnecessarily/unjustifiably HYPE representatives, complaining that the Dota community wanted to see OpenAIFive pl
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by chibg10 7y ago
Right, that doesn't mean it went well for them. The US didn't provide significant aid to Iraq until it feared the Hussein government being overrun altogether. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_supp
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by chibg10 7y ago
"Supported" in the sense of "not letting being conquered completely by Iran." Who was carrying out its own mass executions of non-Muslims and implementing its own cultural revolution around that time. America definitely
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by chibg10 7y ago
This is also a subject of intense interest to me. We're in uncharted territory here, and the most relevant historical example imo is WW1 where all major participants began the war without giving any real thought to oil and left the war
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by chibg10 7y ago
Mossadegh wasn't exactly a liberal. He nationalized the oil industry and the very justification for Operation Ajax was the fear that Mossadegh would ally Iran with the USSR -- who were certainly socialist and most definitely not libera
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by chibg10 7y ago
Liberal countries tend to befriend other liberal countries. So yes, even from a purely strategic perspective US foreign policy has a desire to liberalize other countries (in the classical sense of the term).
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by chibg10 7y ago
>Not to get all political but I think it's pretty clear that the US is the only western country not liking Iran, and they use their influence to have the whole world obey US sanctions. You expecting OP to raise against their governm
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by chibg10 7y ago
>In general openness and cultural/economic exchange help progressive forces within the country, and sanctions help xenophobic hard-liners. I've read in various places that the opposite is actually true -- sanctions from the lib
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by chibg10 7y ago
>Anything we might do in space or to try to live on Mars is much-much (much) more difficult than fixing what problems we have on Earth to keep it healthy and habitable. This sounds true upon first glance, but is it really? Scientifically

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