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by damnitbuilds 5mo ago
"In 2024 alone, roughly 4.2 million people immigrated to the EU from non-EU countries" Are those immigrants a net cost to the European economy ? Would the cumulative effect of paying for those immigrants account for lower European
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by damnitbuilds 5mo ago
So the blitz "enhanced" London's economy by destroying beautiful old buildings so they could be replaced with modern office blocks ? And to think people call Economics the dismal science.
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by damnitbuilds 5mo ago
We need to know the details. Was this one racist HR person, or racist management who made racist rules, or what ?
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by damnitbuilds 5mo ago
So, will you bow to your elder (me) or leave the chat ?
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by damnitbuilds 5mo ago
All this makes for an interesting read and viewing but I fear an awful lot of it is anthropomorphism and pseudo (social) science.
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by damnitbuilds 5mo ago
No, the US was bombing the Islamic bastards who are murderously oppressing those people, and those people are calling for those attacks to restart so they can be freed from inhuman Islamic laws.
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by damnitbuilds 5mo ago
Be angry - incompetent journalism is a danger to us all.
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by damnitbuilds 5mo ago
An Iranian citizen probably ran out of toothpaste this morning and was angry about that. So now, in your view, that mean "three things are true here" ? NO. Because some things, like state murder, so much more important than other
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by damnitbuilds 5mo ago
Really, CNN ? The regime is murdering people in the streets, executing women for showing hair and executing doctors for treating their victims, but CNN thinks the people are angry because of two-tier internet ? Who writes this rubbish ?
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by damnitbuilds 5mo ago
Do we know if any human has ever been deliberately attacked and killed by an autonomous AI, such as an armed drone or security robot ? I believe none of the drones and robot vehicles used to kill people in Ukraine, for example, are actually
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by damnitbuilds 5mo ago
Yep, the bias is not the way they want you to think it is: "National hiring experiments reveal 2:1 faculty preference for women on STEM tenure track" https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4418903/
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by damnitbuilds 5mo ago
I would love this and will play with it, but I fear lack of compatibility with the many, many Python libraries I need will make it effectively unusable for a long time.
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by damnitbuilds 5mo ago
"For each invention, I asked Claude Opus 4.7 how much earlier it could have been invented." Oh dear.
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by damnitbuilds 5mo ago
Title: "The Locals Don't Know" First line: "My best piece of travel advice is to avoid doing what the locals do." The writer seems incapable of distinguishing between the special, cool local things the locals KNOW a
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by damnitbuilds 5mo ago
"Its efforts will initially focus on [...] and collecting the generative AI wave that is currently upon us all." Why would they want to collect the AI wave ?! But about time the Internet Archive had a US-independent backup.
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by damnitbuilds 5mo ago
Non-paywalled link ?
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by damnitbuilds 5mo ago
Ob.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuIJqF8av6I
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by damnitbuilds 5mo ago
I think gadget manufacturers forcing their users to use overpriced cloud storage (for stuff people can easily store locally) is like printer manufacturers forcing overpriced ink on us. The manufacturers initially make so much from this ensh
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by damnitbuilds 5mo ago
Too expensive, and that money not spent on its software.
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by damnitbuilds 5mo ago
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47867176
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by damnitbuilds 5mo ago
Is that better or worse than invading Venezuela to rig a Polymarket bet ?
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by damnitbuilds 6mo ago
"So, Gerelyn, what first attracted you to the billionaire Sergey Brin ?"
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by damnitbuilds 6mo ago
"Speed of sound" Come on Berger, you're better than that.
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by damnitbuilds 6mo ago
Very good. Why I still come here.
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by damnitbuilds 6mo ago
Nah, he did it the old-fashioned way - by corruption and dirty dealing, then his family suppressed the people reporting the truth: https://archive.ph/i3FWt
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by damnitbuilds 6mo ago
What a terrible name for a space company !
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by damnitbuilds 6mo ago
Okay. So let me rephrase that as "the linked-to story does not reflect the title." THIS was the linked-to story: https://www.dw.com/en/sawe-smashes-2-hour-mark-setting-recor...
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by damnitbuilds 6mo ago
Those Spacex who ignore the NASA past are condemned to repeat it.
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by damnitbuilds 6mo ago
The title is incorrect.
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by damnitbuilds 6mo ago
https://archive.ph/gJssy

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