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by csmpltn 2y ago
I'm literally quoting you: > "American companies pay VAT in Europe. European companies do not pay VAT in US." VAT is a significant income stream for the EU. They take that money and re-invest it into their economy in an un
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by csmpltn 2y ago
VAT complicates the business environment for US companies operating in the EU, and it takes a major chunk of their margins. US doesn't have VAT and has a significantly easier business environment for EU businesses to operate in - leadi
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by csmpltn 2y ago
VAT is effectively a tariff though, because it disincentivizes import/trade with the US (and other foreign countries). Since the US has no VAT, it's leading to unfair competition.
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by csmpltn 2y ago
European VAT makes it difficult for American companies to compete in Europe. US has no VAT, making it easier for European companies to compete in America... Combined with the fact that the US is the de-facto largest benefactor of NATO, Ukra
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by csmpltn 2y ago
> "But it's not satisfying to stay at that level of ignorance very long" It's not about satisfaction: it's literally dangerous and can bankrupt your employer, cause immense harm to your customers and people at ho
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by csmpltn 2y ago
I think that LLMs are only going to make people with real tech/programming skills much more in demand, as younger programmers skip straight into prompt engineering and never develop themselves technically beyond the bare minimum needed
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by csmpltn 2y ago
> "AI systems that can generate at least $100 billion in profits" Like... a calculator? or Python?
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by csmpltn 2y ago
Stick to the facts and avoid ad-hominem attacks.
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> "CCP did not invade Iraq, Libya, Afganistan, bomb Syria or support the Palestinian Genocide." 1. There has been no genocide in Palestine. 2. CCP meddles in other countries to equal if not worse degrees - both militarily and p
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by csmpltn 2y ago
> "In the US..." I'm sorry, but your idea of how the US works is a complete fairytale. You need to get a serious reality check on how the US actually works in real life. The law in the US is applied selectively (depending
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As opposed to the US?
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The only reason LLMs “work” is because they are trained on a vast corpus of (text-based) human interactions online. The main reason LLMs weren’t a thing 25 years ago, was because there just wasn’t enough scrapeable and useful data available
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by csmpltn 2y ago
A lot of projects start as a "small python file", but over time will grow into large and complex beasts - as they need to handle edge cases and complexities and requirements. Extrapolating that "programming is dead" base
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> "But you will not write or edit a lot of lines anymore" > "I wrote a small python file that I can start with" Which one is it, chief?
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by csmpltn 2y ago
> "We’re nowhere near ingesting the whole internet." We don't need to ingest the whole internet. I'd wager that upwards of 75% of the internet is spam, which would be useless for LLM training purposes. By the way, spa
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by csmpltn 2y ago
Denmark has pegged their currency to the Euro.
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by csmpltn 2y ago
> "An LLM with unbounded compute/context" This isn't a thing we have, or will have. It's like saying that a computer with infinite memory, CPU and power can certainly break SHA-256 and bring the world's econ
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by csmpltn 2y ago
You can blame other countries all you want, but the reality is that «Syria» is colonialist project that was always bound to fail. There are very few muslim/arab countries that are also prosperous, successful and peaceful. They all seem
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by csmpltn 2y ago
Many of these videos aren't even 10 years old (was just watching a clip from 2015), but they look like they were shot in the 80s. What's up with that?
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Let's get serious for a second here. You have to be a complete braindead zombie to find those videos entertaining. I can't believe anybody is wasting their time on these.
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by csmpltn 2y ago
Correct, since the competitive edge is in the domain-specific data (which OpenAI, at-least on-paper, shouldn't have access to). Two things to remember: 1. OpenAI can analyze which "wrappers" or "apps" are most succe
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by csmpltn 2y ago
There's plenty of competition in this space already, and it'll only get accelerated with time. There's not enough "moat" in building proprietary LLMs - you can tell by how the leading companies in this space are bas
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by csmpltn 2y ago
You accuse me of whataboutism in a post about communication devices blowing up in Lebanon, where you yourself shift the blame on Israel because of the conflict with the Palestinians and settlers… you’re the only person shifting topics and u
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by csmpltn 2y ago
Hezbollah launched a war against Israel 12 months ago. Why is it suddenly an issue for you when they get hit back? Is it only a problem when Israel fights back? Stop launching rockets at Israel, comply with UN Resolution 1701, and the confl
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by csmpltn 2y ago
Hezbollah is operating from within Lebanon, and is deeply embedded into the government. Hezbollah is Lebanon’s responsibility.
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by csmpltn 2y ago
Exactly! So if you choose to go to war with Israel the way Hamas and Hezbollah (Lebanon) did, you should also accept the consequences that follow… For example, get ready to have your entire military coms infrastructure blown up in a cyberat
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by csmpltn 2y ago
Well, I'm asking again, what is your best idea then? Face it - you'd just sit there and get slaughtered, right? Contemplating your morals and war conventions until every last citizen of your country has been butchered? Waiting for
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This sends a message to Hezbollah and Lebanon. "Last chance to turn around". After 12 months of back-and-forth, and all attempts at diplomacy failing. Beirut can end up just like Gaza, but Israel has been restraining itself. Not f
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by csmpltn 2y ago
Call it whatever you like, I don't care - but what do you do when the other side is out to wipe your country completely and has zero regard for any conventions of war? Hezbollah has willingly waged a war on Israel 12 months ago. The Le
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by csmpltn 2y ago
I certainly agree that war, as experienced by humans on all sides of a conflict, is a form of terror. That's a simple emotional argument that everybody can relate to. It doesn't touch on the realities of war, especially a war that

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