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by dtquad 2y ago
>The stock was down 13% this year before Tuesday on worries over its hefty AI spending against the rise of China's lower-cost DeepSeek and a pullback in tech giants that led the market for the past two years. Absurd take. Google is
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by dtquad 2y ago
It is interesting that it is not the Hollywood/Music/Entertainment copyright lobby (RIAA, MPAA etc.) that is lobbying US states to go after OpenAI and other American AI companies. It's the New York Times and various journalis
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by dtquad 2y ago
Love it. For digital products and services there is also European Alternatives: https://european-alternatives.eu/ As part of the European reorientation I avoid products and services from Hungary and Slovakia. I also avoid o
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by dtquad 2y ago
>I always thought that the American Empire would be dismantled when it elected a leftist steeped in anti-imperialist ideology who wanted to better the world. Most leftist political parties in Scandinavia and the Baltics manages to be be
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by dtquad 2y ago
US tech giants have been a GDP growth doubling runaway success for America since the 1990s. They are probably among the most economically productive institutions that has ever existed. I also don't see them as monopolies considering ho
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by dtquad 2y ago
>BTW I am Indian and we are not even in the race as country Why are you surprised? India was on a per capita basis poorer than sub-Saharan Africa until 2004. The only reason India is no longer poorer than Africa is because the West (th
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Dutch chip industry calls for government support to boost competitiveness(bits-chips.com)
1 points by dtquad 2y ago|0 comments
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Elon Musk backs US withdrawal from NATO alliance(ukdefencejournal.org.uk)
25 points by dtquad 2y ago|19 comments
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by dtquad 2y ago
>After all, Edward Snowden had a “stable” federal government job (...) and he gave it up to stand up for the right to privacy Edward Snowden was primarily critical of Obama era foreign policy in the Middle East not being notably differen
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by dtquad 2y ago
As a Scandinavian I would suspect that most government waste and corruption in a high trust developed country would be at the state and city level and not at the national level. Unless they look into why Pentagon weapons programs are so sus
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by dtquad 2y ago
I'm from the country of Ozempic and Wegovy and neither Novo Nordisk nor our media have been portraying these drugs as general purpose anti-addiction drugs. However there have been some international studies that reveal that it might ac
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by dtquad 2y ago
One thing that will make the re-industrialization of the West fail is if it turns into a rural/flyover state development program. Chinese manufacturing is efficient because of the tight supply chain integration and centralization that
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by dtquad 2y ago
Very typical of the Russian apologists not even being aware where the war is happening.
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by dtquad 2y ago
>Vance’s presence at the White House also suggests that the meeting was a setup. Vance is usually an invisible backbencher in this administration, with few duties other than some occasional trolling of Trump’s critics. Trump 2.0, DOGE, a
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It Was an Ambush(theatlantic.com)
95 points by dtquad 2y ago|58 comments
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by dtquad 2y ago
J.D. Vance's problem with Europe is that we have too many brown people. As a very privacy-oriented European I don't need American alt-right populists to concern troll about surveillance and privacy in Europe.
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by dtquad 2y ago
You can be pro national security and pro privacy.
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Truth Social blocks Ukrainian IP ranges(twitter.com)
19 points by dtquad 2y ago|1 comments
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Chicxulub Impact(google.com)
1 points by dtquad 2y ago|0 comments
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by dtquad 2y ago
>signal-confirm[.]site is registered in Ukraine The WHOIS is usually fake made up data so don't know why you are using that to claim it's registered in Ukraine. Russia is also known to use stolen credentials, SIM cards etc. fro
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by dtquad 2y ago
https://huggingface.co/perplexity-ai/r1-1776
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Open-Sourcing R1 1776(perplexity.ai)
54 points by dtquad 2y ago|10 comments
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by dtquad 2y ago
The full-sized DeepSeek-R1 is on par with o1. o1-pro is "o1 on steroids" and was the first selling point of the $200/month Pro subscription but they later also added "Deep Research" and Operator to the Pro subscript
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by dtquad 2y ago
Viktor Orban, Robert Fico, the AfD, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens etc. all have shady ties to both Russia and Qatar.
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by dtquad 2y ago
That Vivek dude was kicked out of DOGE solely because literal Nazis on Xitter didn't like him.
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by dtquad 2y ago
Definitely. Although Go is the simplest language with sane/good concurrency support so it's a good fit for Node.js/TS and Python shops that have run into a use case where they feel limited by their main language or runtime an
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Lucia: Why Not a Library?(lucia-auth.com)
1 points by dtquad 2y ago|0 comments
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by dtquad 2y ago
In Denmark it is not uncommon for people to cherish TV ads from the 1990s and 2000s as our common cultural heritage. But we have always had laws against misleading or overly distracting TV ads (down to rules about the sound levels not being
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by dtquad 2y ago
We need the EV revolution to save the climate but we were also promised that EVs would have less defects and be more maintainable than traditional ICE cars. But it turns out Teslas and Chinese EVs are among the worst performing in the manda
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by dtquad 2y ago
I find the browser to be a distracting work environment so glad that this exists.

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