cm2187

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by cm2187 2y ago
Nuclear bombs aren't the only technology that made ww2 so bad. Pretty much every technology has been used for harm one way in another. The question is on balance whether we are better off with or without.
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by cm2187 2y ago
Is there any technology you can't say that about?
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by cm2187 2y ago
IANAL but what he is doing is very close to a pump and dump scheme, which is absolutely market manipulation. And as often with market manipulations, there is a thin and blury line between acceptable behaviour and criminal behaviour (for ins
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by cm2187 2y ago
Slavery has been banned in the UK since at least the Middle Ages.
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by cm2187 2y ago
The pantheon is a fairly tall building. I doubt the problem was the lack of engineering. Rather that those tall residential buildings were not built by wealthy emperors with access to engineers but built organically, often by the inhabitant
606.
by cm2187 2y ago
The (Roman I presume) emperor in the ancient world would have bitten their arm off to get the industrial revolution. Famines were still a regular occurrence, and Rome heavily depended on the food supply from Egypt. Anything that could have
607.
by cm2187 2y ago
MIT, hedge funds, politically connected through parents. Outside of what exactly?
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by cm2187 2y ago
Depends when. A home is a leveraged investment, plus often exempt from capital gain taxes. If you bought it at the beginning of a large real estate bull market you probably did better than an unleveraged investment in the S&P.
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by cm2187 2y ago
Not quite from scratch...
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by cm2187 2y ago
In my experience, when face recognition gives you a false positive, it's because there is a high likeness in the first place, and a human would likely have made the same mistake. How different is it from a police officer stopping someo
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by cm2187 2y ago
But you don't say "jet motor". I think it's probably like pork vs pig. They are technically the same but the language has come to use one vs the other in a different context (food vs animal).
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by cm2187 2y ago
What about hard links?
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by cm2187 2y ago
If you have access to .net, the library spreadsheetgear has a pretty complete implementation of the excel calculation engine. Main limitations: no pivot tables, no xlsb support, no VBA or third party addins (obviously).
614.
by cm2187 2y ago
The word stasi was already taken.
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by cm2187 2y ago
Planning permission.
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by cm2187 2y ago
I am not sure I agree. You are making the life a little worse to hundred of thousands of people by making them feel like they live in a trash city every day. I am for tough penalties on the authors of grafitis. At least make them pay the fu
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by cm2187 2y ago
I am not sure how "they couldn't stop it" is an argument against migration being one of the major causes of the fall of the roman empire if not the leading one. Other causes being ineffective tax collection, ennemies adapting
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by cm2187 2y ago
Even the western roman empire wasn't really roman anymore. The emperor was not Italian, not based in Rome, and often with a disdain toward Rome, the vast majority of the army wasn't Italian either. But the eastern roman empire was
619.
by cm2187 2y ago
That's because the current variants are fairly mild. The original variant was brutal for the population at risk and we saw a jump in excess mortality. I believe mortality has since come back down. The anomaly was that the media were st
620.
by cm2187 2y ago
That may be true in term of engineering, but I think everyone had switched to google as their search engine by then. I am not sure openai has captured the market quite in the same way, as I think people are still mostly experimenting with A
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by cm2187 2y ago
If you extend the window a little bit, along Yes Minister, Idiocracy and Demolition Man (the last two being a documentary of our time filmed 20y ago).
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by cm2187 2y ago
But is it even clear what is the next big leap after LLM? I have the feeling many tend to extrapolate the progress of AI from the last 2 years to the next 30 years but research doesn't always work like that (though improvements in comp
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by cm2187 2y ago
Not me. My area was the first area in France to be set up with ADSL. The problem is that they only upgraded the last mile (local exchange->home) but not the pipes from the local exchange to the internet. So you were connected at 8mbit bu
624.
by cm2187 2y ago
Will be fun in a train full of passengers and tracked luggages moving all together.
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by cm2187 2y ago
Can't resist plugging the greatest Leslie Nielsen line ever to the twisted minds who thought the headline was a reference to the warmer days coming to London. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvWfbIe4X_4
626.
by cm2187 2y ago
On the other hand if your product has become a commodity and the new version barely changes from the previous one, you are entering detergent advertising territory.
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by cm2187 2y ago
Then you need to watch this to the end: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU-cori12KU
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by cm2187 2y ago
Doesn't it depend on how stealthy is the F35? That will soon be almost the only game in town in Europe (outside of France).
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by cm2187 2y ago
NATO I believe isn't really setup for a long and wide ww1 style conflict like in Ukraine. I understand the plan in case of a russian invasion was always to use nukes at one point.
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by cm2187 2y ago
I love how he used that to try to freeze his cat!

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