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by dtquad 2y ago
Is there any proof that the screenshot is real? Sam Altman would definitely release a $200/month plan if he could get away with it but the features in the screenshot are underwhelming.
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by dtquad 2y ago
Both X and Bluesky are surprisingly pleasant places if you mute/block political keywords and accounts.
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by dtquad 2y ago
Each country has their own misleading way of calculating PPP. Some probably include the iPhone price. PPP is useless misleading nonsense.
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The bad news: the US is 100% reliant on imported gallium, primarily from China(twitter.com)
10 points by dtquad 2y ago|2 comments
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by dtquad 2y ago
Plenty of talented developers in Eastern Europe who are $25k or cheaper.
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by dtquad 2y ago
I think it looks cool. Of course there should be a reader/accessibility mode but otherwise we need more creativity on the web.
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by dtquad 2y ago
1. Very low trust in politicians after it was revealed former president Park Geun-hye was secretly a crypto-Christian cult member despite claiming to be atheist. 2. South Korea has a bizarre large-scale "gender war" going on that
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Ask HN: Why is China subsidizing every step of manufacturing?
5 points by dtquad 2y ago|7 comments
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by dtquad 2y ago
"Highway of Death" is a rather generic phrase and people from many conflict zones around the world can probably point at some local bloody "Highway of Death" event.
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by dtquad 2y ago
The US hasn't even been able to ban Chinese apps that send data back to servers in China. Unlikely they will ban Chinese LLMs.
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"When v0.dev first came out we were paranoid about protecting the prompt"(twitter.com)
1 points by dtquad 2y ago|0 comments
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"A major blocker to free and open source multimedia is isostandards"(twitter.com)
6 points by dtquad 2y ago|5 comments
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by dtquad 2y ago
Google/Chrome and Firefox also deserve credit for making a free and open CA viable.
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Today, DHH is joining Shopify's board(twitter.com)
3 points by dtquad 2y ago|1 comments
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>monopolies are _very_ bad for consumers Why? "Big companies bad" are one of those fundamental truthiness we are all supposed to believe for some reason but as a European I wish we had more US/Chinese-style megacorps who h
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by dtquad 2y ago
A significant percentage of the population will always gravitate towards the type of content produced by Alex Jones and Infowars. Russia solved this by making "controlled" media outlets (and in recent years Telegram channels) for
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by dtquad 2y ago
Football ultras saying very nasty things and beating up eachother is usual in Europe. Local Arabs joining in when the opposing team is from Israel shouldn't come as surprise. But on social media one group of Americans started talking a
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by dtquad 2y ago
Why should the West intentionally sabotage itself like that? China, Russia, and Iran are already experimenting with AI in their drones and missiles.
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by dtquad 2y ago
China can train 70B and 400B LLM models using pre-sanction Nvidia GPUs. The only reason they are loudly announcing "Hey our military is using YOUR open source models" is to trigger fearmongering and overzealous regulation in the W
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by dtquad 2y ago
US AI companies have had plans to pivot to both Safety™ and to Accelerationism™ depending on who would win the US election. The election results are in: Accelerationism™ won. Jokes aside; All frontier model AI companies were closely associa
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Someone is attacking Tor and has been for a few weeks(twitter.com)
5 points by dtquad 2y ago|2 comments
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by dtquad 2y ago
The Baltics joined NATO in 2004 when the Russian economy was less than 1/4th the size of what it is now and Russia had just come out of the economic chaos of the 1990s. Their armed forces were also deeply dysfunctional and underfunded
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by dtquad 2y ago
>Politics shouldn’t be right vs left, it should be rich vs middle class vs poor, as economics is the single most impactful aspect on most people’s lives. I agree but ironically this kind of rhetoric is actually how the American left (not
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by dtquad 2y ago
There are American right-wing commentators who are praising "de-dollarization" and the rise of BRICS. It's a combination of having half your lifesavings in crypto and letting anti-LGBT/immigrant identity politics overrid
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by dtquad 2y ago
>Since then the Republican party has largely embraced the working class while the Democratic party continues to favor more and more towards the rich voters and massive corporations, finishing off the full party flip. Insane to say this w
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by dtquad 2y ago
Number of parties don't determine ideological span. For example the 14 political parties in the Danish parliament all support Ukraine.
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In emissions there is just China and then the US as a somewhat distant second. But to be honest the whole world is using China as their factory. Europe and India are the regions that are actually surprisingly negligible. Africa and the rest
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Ironically a lot of the American Right was actually radicalized by the 2015/2016 Syrian refugee crisis in Europe. Tim Pool went from being an #OccupyWallStreet Berniebro to one of the biggest US conservative commentators after he saw b
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JD Vance said he supports the anti-US-big-tech campaign of Lina Khan and that he thinks she has a place in the new admin. They will most likely break up Google and Meta for "pushing the woke agenda" but are smart enough to hide be
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by dtquad 2y ago
How are the repubs not pro-war? They are pro-Israel and anti-Palestine. They are pro-Russia and anti-Ukraine.

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