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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
so authoritative yet so wrong
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
Ha My university (University of Florida) doesn't even keep it's graduation records. They have an error in my 30 year old graduation records but it has been impossible to fix because they don't maintain the records anymore, at
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
You might need to panel over the whole Sahara: https://www.wired.com/story/the-stupendous-energy-cost-of-di...
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
why are you fantasizing? none of that is going exist (caveat: unless we figure out infinite clean energy).
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
No you don't because there is no expedient solution.
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
It's common. I get annoyed at my wife all the time for jumping to conclusions from some random piece of web info.
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
I read this article as intended for an HR or management audience whose job is to always be the professional in the room since your voice is interpreted as the company's voice.
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
I think this is the idea behind sourcegraph's cody, trying to take their expertise in understanding codebases and ASTs and using it to guide the llm
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
+1
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
As an advocate for peace in Gaza the moderation has been anything but light. Can't even use the word zionist on there.
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
Why bring up Russia when we have the Chinese example? History shows that China has captured huge industries by using heavy-handed government regulation
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
You don't think that's a pretty good proxy for units? Especially leading edge parts.
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
I had been considering applying but got turned off by gary tan's, and the rest of vc-dom's, rude aggressive politics. Luckily my startup is starting to gain traction, hopefully that will make it easier to find investors that don&#
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
I hate that robot warfare continues to advance as if scifi hasn't been warning of the dangers to humanity forever. Everybody is just full ahead as if it'll all workout fine. I consider it one of Obama's major failures, USA wa
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
It would not be an atom though.
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
OSI made themselves the authority because they hated Richard Stallman and his Free Software movement. It's just marketing.
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
Government owning the utility would be the answer. But politicians like to have a 3rd party to blame for price hikes and poor service .
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
We're cooked
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
With tech employees having lost so much negotiating power over the last couple years it has emboldened tech titans like Musk, Andreesen, Sacks, Thiel, YC's blocker in chief, etc. to loudly use their money and power to crush anyone to t
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
Here's Snowflake bragging about helping telcos sell location data: https://www.snowflake.com/blog/telecom-data-partnerships/
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
The law that would have prevented this breach would be to make it illegal for telcos to sell customer data. The reason AT&T was feeding ALL the data to Snowflake was to sell their customer's location and social graph to marketers.
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
That is a scam. The tests given in the opinion mean that they were all official because they involved federal elections. The case is over. The president now has immunity to corrupt elections as he wishes. I honestly don't understand ho
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
That's the appropriate patriotic response that you'd hope all Americans would give, especially those who have sworn to defend the constitution. But what I've come to realize is that a lot of Americans somehow see it as their
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
We were doomed when Republicans decided that impeachment was a partisan tool and could not be used against Trump. They broke the system by abandoning their constitutional duties so we are now looking into the abyss.
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
The ruling is extremely wishy washy about what is official vs unofficial, and keeps saying that it is very hard to determine, and even prohibits prosecutors from using certain legal tactics to determine if something is official or unofficia
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
Since the rise of the web, and tv and movies before it, regional language divergence is decreasing instead of increasing as it did in the past. Future English will be more globally unified but with more online text chatting influences.
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
Greece should have left the EU when the price of membership was revealed to be a generation of ruthless recession and exploitation. Somehow the german bankers convinced them it was worth it even though grexit would've been much more ex
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
Ask yourself this, would Bari Weiss publish a piece that included voices that defended NPR?
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
Funny, I trust Bari Weiss' "The Free Press" a lot less than I trust NPR.
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
Sorry but individual action by the most conscientious people is not going to make a dent. We need collective action and that means laws and treaties.

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