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by csee 4y ago
> a situation where Russian foreign minister and their ambassador to Washington would contact and meet the leaders of the March on the Capitol If Russia played no role in instigating the conditions of the revolt, and if Russia was a clo
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by csee 4y ago
The leaked call reveals little novel information. Nuland was already having public meetings with Yatsenyuk, Klitschko, and others on the eve of the revolution. It's a foregone conclusion that such meetings were to exercise US influence
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by csee 4y ago
Because a popular revolution shouldn't be labelled a "US-backed coup", and labelling it as such strips agency from the protesters who made it happen. Getting the label right is important given that this is a critical part of
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by csee 4y ago
So this sounds plausible, but since Xi is an autocrat, and since they can just bury/censor a small handful of adverse outcomes, why wouldn't Xi want to ram this through and override the risk aversion of the medics on the ground?
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by csee 4y ago
China wouldn't be in this mess if they had followed New Zealand's approach of vaccinating all the old people with a high quality vaccine. Then you can just open up again because the mortality risk of Covid is the same as the annua
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by csee 4y ago
> They are already doing that and it will take some time. Really? The data I've seen (googling and on social media) suggest that there is no change in the vaccination rate.
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by csee 4y ago
Why can't they just clandestinely ramp up their elderly vaccination efforts? No face will be lost.
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by csee 4y ago
Only because HK's elderly are not widely vaccinated, and also because Sinovac makes up about half of their vaccinations and this vaccine is not as good at preventing mortality. A very similar situation to Mainland China, actually. So t
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by csee 4y ago
A hard lockdown being needed at this late stage in the pandemic signals poor decision making more than anything. Why aren't their elderly widely vaccinated, and why are they still relying on their significantly worse domestically made
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by csee 4y ago
Not just. Humans invented the styles that DALL-E is using in the first place. The emergence of these novel styles isn't just interpolation. DALL-E, while incredible, seems stuck within the scope of these styles.
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by csee 5y ago
Stunning. My question is whether more compute and more data will be sufficient for the AI to create its own art styles . Everything we see here are within the stylistic paradigms created by previous humans.
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by csee 5y ago
No. The non-desert land per capita in Australia is more than twice that in the US.
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by csee 5y ago
Not to mention the exorbitant monopolistic fees they can get away with because regulation keeps competitors out of the US, compared to the extremely low fees associated with trading stocks.
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by csee 5y ago
> Do you think those people (and their families!) would have been better off if they stayed in Kerala? Probably not, but the consequence of that shouldn't be to excuse unnecessarily dangerous or abusive working conditions. I think i
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by csee 5y ago
I don't like the added cognitive overhead (having to remember how the app works) and lack of physical tangibility of software solutions.
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by csee 5y ago
There is automated moderation of Twitter, Youtube, etc, that aggressively blocks or downweights such comments, so it is not surprising that you don't find it. Go and make a Twitter account and start spewing racial hatred, and see what
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by csee 5y ago
> anyone who wants to be a dick can be a dick and if others don’t want to deal with it they can ignore it The problem is that in the real world you can't silo off dicks like that. Bad opinions (e.g. racial hatred) can spread throug
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by csee 5y ago
What scares me to no end is foreign interference by intelligence agencies in domestic affairs done via social media. That is the real danger here. We are seeing the destabilizing effects of that since 2015. I also just don't see the
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by csee 5y ago
Yes I agree. The people who go overboard like this are dangerous in their own way, and I'd say are even more dangerous than the free speech absolutists who insist on constraining private companies in a way that is actually anti-1A. Wha
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by csee 5y ago
This isn't like [1] due to multiple independent lines of corroborating evidence, including multiple eye-witness accounts, photographic evidence, and satellite imagery from two weeks ago that corroborates this evidence. It is fine to re
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by csee 5y ago
The corrolarly of this absolutist perspective is to allow Twitter/Wikipedia/Arxiv/Facebook/HackerNews to become 8chan, which is a reductio ad absurdum of your position that all ideas are equally valid, objective facts ca
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by csee 5y ago
I am not talking about absolutes (at least I wasn't attempting to). The person talking about absolutes was the person I was responding to, not me. I have no right to complete silence in my apartment block, but I do have a right to no
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by csee 5y ago
I was explaining why your worldview of non-violent speech having no negative impacts on others is misguided, but instead of engaging with that point you decided to withdraw into immaturity and sarcasm. Have a good day.
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by csee 5y ago
Unfortunately the real world doesn't work like that. If misinformation about COVID persuades large numbers to avoid the vaccine, and the hospitals get clogged, that invariably impacts me. If misinformation persuades the population to e
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by csee 5y ago
Clearly, the way ag subsidies are done is largely down to corruption, essentially politicians chasing votes from farmers/rural areas, as well as being bought by the ag lobby. I wish to challenge two things you've said, though. &gt
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by csee 5y ago
> but at the same time even the truck drivers earn a fantastic living they can use to support a family. This is only possible because of the decades of strong unions negotiating better pay so the mines had to share the wealth. How is thi
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by csee 5y ago
Mafia bosses have high status in their orbit, so yes.
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by csee 5y ago
That's disappointing, isn't this a legitimately good idea? Judging from the current Russian invasion into Ukraine, a tunnel into Mariupol to deliver supplies would have been useful, not to mention the defensive usefulness of under
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by csee 5y ago
We need to also consider Russia's wheat exports. They've threatened protection measures on their wheat.
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by csee 5y ago
Wait, isn't there a contradiction here? You said countries need to protect their agriculture to remain sovereign, which is what the EU is doing. Then you blame the EU for protecting their agriculture. Which is it?

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