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by ecocentrik 1y ago
If the argument was for protecting Intel, then the US government should be placing huge orders with Intel for solutions that will fund R&D and allow the company to regain its position as a foundry. They should be tapping into the defens
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I agree. He should take control of Tesla, OpenAI, Palantir and Facebook next. Then privatize some of the leading quantum computing companies. Why do we even need venture capital if we can just build out an Office of Strategic Investment and
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by ecocentrik 1y ago
When you're really familiar with extortion, everything looks like an opportunity for extortion.
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In the rare conditions where this has been necessary in the past, US companies have been given clear terms for regaining control of those shares. I'm not seeing any buyback provisions.
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For sex toys, Ozempic and ED medication.
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Wrong take. The social or political positions that advertisers take are all strategically calculated to maximize sales and they take those position regardless of the advertising platform. Correct take: Monetization pressure creates engageme
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How many false hypotheses today will seem like equally ridiculous superstitions to people in the future? I'm sure we can all think of a few popular beliefs that already fail under modest scrutiny.
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Claims of privacy and user control are mostly "trust" based. A car that can be controlled and surveilled remotely, will be controlled and surveilled remotely. To dissuade potential customers of that notion they require faith in in
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You're assuming that fragmentation will occur under the same conditions that affected Latin or French, where there was limited educational infrastructure, no formal institutions to guide the development of language, no global economic
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My point was that English has been changing and in some instances those changes might have occurred to remove anomalous characteristics but English does have more old warts than most popular languages and I expect many of those will be remo
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Dr Dre is a professional poet and a very successful one by any standard. His whole stock-in-trade was American urban colloquialisms most of which can be traced back to English rural and working class and predate the colonization of the Amer
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If MPC develops as an open standard and this "loophole" gains enough popularity, then companies can only really limit access to their services. This seems like a generally good thing that will enhance automation. In some cases it
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Or not trust them because there is not way to verify this claim.
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Kids dress in drag when exploring comedy, theater, themselves... You might have a kid that's really into drag for any number of reasons and you might love them enough to want them to be the best version of themselves without imposing p
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As for stock price, it's not reflective of their core strategy, it's reflective of an explosion in demand that is apparently starting to soften.
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It's adult entertainment but there's no nudity or explicit imagery. Some parents feel comfortable taking their kids, other's don't in the same way that some parents feel comfortable taking their kids to concerts or R rat
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FL has had excellent drag shows for 30-40 years and nobody gave a shit until a few party poopers pulled their heads out of their asses and decided to do some event searches. It's non-explicit adult entertainment usually for a mixed cro
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by ecocentrik 1y ago
I have personal experience with companies that consistently violate environmental regulations with very little understanding of the regulations they are violating beyond their effect on profit margins. They pay the fines or pay environmenta
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Not all regulation is a symptom of greed. Regulation can be written and passed with the intention of protecting the public good, promoting public health, preserving fair competition... That it sometimes works counter to those goals is a fun
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The whole line of thought is just a waste of cycles. /Screams "tabs", sticks fingers in ears and walks away.
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I've always understood this as less of a hard wall and more of a gradient where: - the % of shared experience/context with a mammal is > than % shared experience with a mollusk - the gradient starts in communicating with other
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That was a philosophical position on the difficulty of understanding alien concepts and language, not a hard technological limit.
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People can be easily overwhelmed by simple challenges. At some point everyone experiences this and we learn to overcome bigger challenges through life. Another point that might apply is that OP probably has a high center of gravity which ca
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by ecocentrik 1y ago
Stephenson's pre-cyberpunk first novel, Zodiac, is about an eco-warrior uncovering a chemical company pollution scheme. In Diamond Age, he talks about an air pollution crisis caused by dead nanobot swarms. From what I remember, most of
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by ecocentrik 1y ago
I'm not seeing anyone mention of Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis, released a decade after Neuromancer and Akira. It's a significant contribution to the cyberpunk canon told from the perspective of an investigative gonzo journali
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Eh, that is a take but hetero normative sex still sells lots of porn subscriptions today and depictions of queer sex in media only feel novel because it was so heavily disallowed in the past. Whereas hetero normative sex hardly appears in m
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I think what you're trying to say was that "cyberpunk" appealed to a subculture of computer enthusiasts emersed in Asian cultural artifacts like manga, empowered by the 80's mantra that sex and violence sells and driven
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Of all the cyberpunk authors, Gibson, while one of the first, is probably the least interesting. Stephenson and Sterling are better writers and explore more complex ideas. Gibson has the occasional shadow of an idea that he explores with a
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It's already very misleading that they have used "Answering a question" as a the most trivial task to anchor their trend line. In the middle of their trend line they have humans taking 8 minutes to "find a fact on the we
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Summarize this article as a prompt that can be fed back to Claude to generate similar content. https://claude.ai/share/5e348270-2eb8-40c3-ac32-ba9066a6fcee I understand the frustration people have with technology but i

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