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by dauertewigkeit 2y ago
I have an example in mind, a very recent one, in which case it was indeed the government abusing hate speech laws to silence critics. Ask Greta Thunberg.
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by dauertewigkeit 2y ago
Hate speech accusations are a bit like being accused of rape. Once it happens you automatically get tainted and it is very hard to defend yourself in the public sphere, even if the accusations are totally unfounded. This is of course abused
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by dauertewigkeit 2y ago
If you want to make an argument that employees are underpaid and don't capture enough of the wealth they generate, fine, I would agree with you. But this is not just true of Africans who are employed by Americans. This is almost the ge
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by dauertewigkeit 2y ago
More job positions in a region that desperately needs jobs is a good thing.
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by dauertewigkeit 2y ago
I see no evidence of "exploitation" here. Somebody is employing Nigerians to do a boring job. What's wrong with that? It probably counts as a decent job over there. Probably more fun (and ethical) than working at a call centr
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by dauertewigkeit 2y ago
I did a search and the only thing that I came up with is the Airbus/Boeing mutual industrial espionage. Funny because I'd have said, if there would be any country to dare to spy on the US, it would be France. Anyway, the number of
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by dauertewigkeit 2y ago
No way. I doubt a single EU country dares to spy on either the US or Israel. They are too scared to attempt that.
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by dauertewigkeit 2y ago
A notary should be able to verify your identity in France as well. That's one of their main services. I think this is one of those situations where you have to send them legalise for them to feel reassured.
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by dauertewigkeit 2y ago
> As I do not own a US phone anymore, the number they have on file is that of a friend, and I was calling from my French number. They tend to have zero tolerance policies for stuff like this so it is no surprise that they locked your acc
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by dauertewigkeit 2y ago
Yours seems like an unnecessarily cynical take. For sure oil companies try to green wash themselves with investment in green tech that seems too far fetched. Sure. But there are also many genuinely good intentioned people working on that gr
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by dauertewigkeit 2y ago
What do masculinity social norms have to do with the possible danger that comes from meeting a lone stranger in the woods? You don't trust strangers because you don't know them. It has nothing to do with masculinity, men or some g
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by dauertewigkeit 2y ago
EU regulates tech companies because they are foreign. Go see the EU regulation on ICE cars to see the stark difference. Europeans like you need to realize that you have been fed a whole lot of moral superiority propaganda by pro-EU entities
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by dauertewigkeit 2y ago
In tech markets if your product/service is good, it very easily becomes a monopoly, because adoption is easy and there is no reason for users to stick with an inferior product. Of course monopolies are still harmful. But that is beyond
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by dauertewigkeit 2y ago
There are things like NAS (neural architectural search) but all you are doing is just growing the search space and making the optimization problem much harder. Typically you do the architectural optimization by hand, using heuristics and pa
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by dauertewigkeit 2y ago
Startup philosophies become outdated fast. Early 2000s it was: just put it online and it will sell, at a time when online businesses were still new. Paul Graham's Y Combinator was: create a good product and it will sell, at a time when
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by dauertewigkeit 3y ago
Is every heterodox narrative immediately "intolerance" in your view?
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by dauertewigkeit 3y ago
> Why should we throw open our digital borders to Chinese influence campaigns? Because we are not China and our institutions are built on presumption of freedom of speech and freedom of thought and democracy. If we start emulating China,
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by dauertewigkeit 3y ago
Should the Iranians and the Chinese think in the same manner? Isn't this largely a question of how much you trust the official narrative of the local elites?
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by dauertewigkeit 3y ago
Young people getting bombed by the US and its allies, are posting videos of themselves getting bombed and American teens have enough empathy to find such content moving.
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by dauertewigkeit 3y ago
Service industries like technology and finance are huge productivity multipliers. With the more traditional manufacturing here in Europe you don't really experience that huge growth, even if ones particular niche is still healthy. Euro
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by dauertewigkeit 3y ago
Different narratives for different crowds.
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by dauertewigkeit 3y ago
Head to your local physics/engineering/geophysics/climate physics department and offer your help. They will have tons of C++ code requiring work. They will even pay you while you gain experience.
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by dauertewigkeit 3y ago
Pesticides scale really well. The alternative would be to control the environment more, but that does not scale so well. Maybe with increased automation we could do some inroads in this direction. Consumers are to blame too. They won't
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by dauertewigkeit 3y ago
The emphasis should be on "general". The easiest way to understand this is by thinking of the opposite: we can already build AI systems that are very good at one specific task: folding proteins, playing Chess, detecting cats in im
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by dauertewigkeit 3y ago
Because the Palestinian people have been at the mercy of Israel for 76 years and Israel has shown nothing but cruelty to them.
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by dauertewigkeit 3y ago
It is not the first war in which the "good guys" as posthumously determined by us, were disguising themselves as civilians, out of necessity. Multiple resistance groups in WWII to draw inspiration from. I don't know of anyone
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by dauertewigkeit 3y ago
I don't think most of them have any kind of secret sauce. I think the founders hope to get bought out simply for being able to train "near-SOTA" LLMs. I guess achieving that level of skill and infra could be valuable enough t
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by dauertewigkeit 3y ago
Millions of people including one side of my family have experienced the opposite. They were tenant farmers living in poverty, barely subsisting, before the hard left socialists both 1. developed the economy enough to give them jobs, 2. prov
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by dauertewigkeit 3y ago
It would be interesting to know if this is explained by the status gain of tech jobs (w.r.t more traditionally prestigious jobs). This is one of the theories that tries to explain some of the gap in preferences between man and women of equa
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by dauertewigkeit 3y ago
Being Christian in Europe and the US are two completely different experiences. The two chief differences that I notice: 1. In Europe it is sort of the default state. Everyone belongs to the same Church. It is not really part of one's i

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