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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
My guess is that when Llama leaked on 4chan and it blew up in the community it somewhat forced their hand to go with an open strategy. But they also have a history with pytorch of reaping the benefits of an open strategy. The benefits are w
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
Capturing only makes sense at the emission sources where the co2 concentration is high, like at power plants or tailpipes. But that would mean the costs would be borne by the emitters but they'd rather externalize those costs to all o
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
The calculations here are based on the laws of thermodynamics that cannot be broken. This represents the ideal efficiency that is way better than we could achieve in real life.
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
Amazon bought goodreads and crippled its discoverability features.
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
The competition is an illusion, match.com bought up all the popular apps.
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
It's crazy that AIPAC is not registered as a foreign agent. They funnel orders directly from Netanyahu to our politicians.
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
Nope. Marketers always spam, buy or copy any “neutral third party” to death.
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
The mid-tier has been hollowed out keeping prices high but increasing the profit margin. From the Dwell article: > Today’s $1,000 sofa is not in the same league of construction as a $299 Sears sofa (about $1,100 today) from 1980. That th
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
The authors were very publicly biased against masks before this paper. It's hard to take it objectively.
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
Part of why it's so hard to communicate about these issues is that we all inhabit a world of propaganda that we have to work hard to see through. But in this case Hamas didn't claim anything. The people that were on the ground des
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
The biggest mistake in the last 20 years was when Hamas took power and Netanyahu took an immediate hardline, imposing a crushing blockade, full demonization propaganda, "mowing the lawn" policy, and refused to even try to work wit
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
The IDF counts every grown man that they kill as a "Hamas operative"
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
That was an astrotrufed campaign funded by Israel, https://twitter.com/InTrustweDoubt/status/179001795639239479...
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
> up to the Rafah crossing How long was that supposed ramp up? Maybe a couple weeks out of 7 months.
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
frEeDom oF sPeeCh
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
But Google has shaped the internet to be the way it is. At some point over the last 10 years they gave up on fighting inorganic seo spam sites and decided to join in and profit off of it.
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
> AirTag, Find My accessory, or other industry specification-compatible Bluetooth tracker What is this other industry spec? > Chipolo, eufy, Jio, Motorola, and Pebblebee What about Tile?
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
Funny because I feel the opposite. Health care is so broken with all the politics, insurance, bureaucracy, financialization, etc that the vast majority of people are not able to reap the rewards of progress. Even the science is perverted be
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
ISPs were paid billions to do this in the US and then stole the money and didn't do it thanks to regulatory capture.
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
Some choice quotes from your Haarez link: "However, at Shura Base, to which most of the bodies were taken for purposes of identification, there were five forensic pathologists at work. In that capacity, they also examined bodies that a
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
If candidates know going in that it's a leetcode interview it filters for "do you want to work here so much that you'll spend a month or two drilling on these exercises". Which can be a useful filter if there are thousan
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
Im much the same, but today I'm constantly in the search for anything new, anything in any genre that breaks the well-worn formulae and surprises me, but it's honestly hard to find, everything is derivative.
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
They blame tiktok for young people not supporting Israel's destruction of gaza.
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
I find this attitude disgusting. There should be a law against the government purposefully lying to us for propaganda purposes, no matter how good the cause might be.
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by downWidOutaFite 3y ago
Is the fiendish high-pitched noise in the tunnels gone with the new trains?
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by downWidOutaFite 3y ago
"separating the value from the risk" is euphemism for removing all financial cushion and making sure the pain of any downturn is borne only by employees and customers, or it could even mean purposefully killing off what is conside
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by downWidOutaFite 3y ago
So Gazans are blamed for voting for Hamas's "from the river to the sea" 15 years ago, but Israelis are blameless and "just want the hostages back" even though they have repeatedly voted for Likud's "from t
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by downWidOutaFite 3y ago
Tons of developers got the axe or quit
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by downWidOutaFite 3y ago
I honestly think that a lot of the tech layoffs can be attributed to Elon Musk. When he bought twitter he started a social media campaign attacking developers as pampered, overpayed, etc. He then did the massive layoffs and twitter mostly k
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by downWidOutaFite 3y ago
Instead of wanting people to ignore Long Covid wouldn't it be better to make people more aware of Long Flu?

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