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by epups 4y ago
The big confusion here is that this particular development effort is the one creating this technology, rather than diffusing it. If somehow we could get the United Nations to agree to ban deepfake development worldwide, then surely we shoul
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by epups 4y ago
Germany pays about half of what the US pays for IT workers, and there are a ton of hurdles to hire people from the US as well. It might be a possibility for massive companies, but as far as I know the big German automakers have in-house dev
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by epups 4y ago
I'm not sure I understand your point here. All those things you mentioned are not at all a product of the people of Bangladesh alone, they are a collective effort. You live in a system of government invented in Europe, your infrastruct
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by epups 4y ago
If that's the case, why involve money in it? About a third of people who are arrested cannot afford bail, while if you are rich (maybe through crime), you can pay it. Of course bail is a mechanism for differential treatment between ric
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by epups 4y ago
Japan is not a a lone entity as well. It exists in a concert of nations. It buys and sells products from elsewhere. If you showed how modern Tokyo looks like to a Japanese from only 100 years ago, they would have a breakdown. Meanwhile, to
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by epups 4y ago
Yes and then maybe expats will go contribute their skills elsewhere, in a clear loss to the arrogant locals who think speaking language X is more important than living peacefully and contributing to the social welfare that depends on a youn
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by epups 4y ago
If I live in the country for 10 years, then it is my country too. Perhaps it is in my interest to learn the language, and perhaps it isn't. There are plenty of countries in the world where people get by perfectly fine without even havi
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by epups 4y ago
> a terribly dystopian idea in my opinion, as only the rich would then have access to actual lawyers The rich don't go to jail already. The crypto scammer paid a huge bail and got out on his private jet. That, to me, is far more dys
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by epups 4y ago
I think the stakes are not that high in this particular application. I see it as something akin to Turbotax, it helps you navigate a difficult environment but you should also exercise judgement to not screw everything up.
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by epups 4y ago
> It’s a lose-lose situation for everyone involved, really. The German speaker is limited in what she or he can express, the German audience is limited in what they can understand, the English audience doesn’t progress in learning the la
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by epups 4y ago
Prior generations of Europeans were also xenophobic as hell, to the point of going to war with each other. I really don't understand which idyllic past you refer to here.
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by epups 4y ago
It could save future lives to know what happened, though.
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by epups 4y ago
> Adhering to our current ideal of beauty — specifically in Western culture, specifically at this time in history — means being as divorced from your humanity as possible It's rare to completely disagree with an article in its first
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by epups 4y ago
In theory, Google has an even better spin-off for AI (Deepmind). I think slowly Google is becoming more and more like IBM, a slow-moving giant that doesn't like risks.
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by epups 4y ago
> You shouldn't concern yourself with how high you rank in this hierarchy. I find that many people commonly believe themselves to be a >1x programmer who is simply misunderstood, which is damaging. This leads to them thinking the
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by epups 4y ago
I'm not sure people who are 10x more productive than me exist, but certainly there are people earning 1000x more than me.
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by epups 4y ago
I think the Substack article is a better venue for the audience here: https://davidrozado.substack.com/p/political-bias-chatgpt I appreciate the work done here. We definitely need to understand more about the bias in s
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by epups 4y ago
The Trump movement is a far-right movement by any definition of the word. Most of the users are Trump supporters. Saying unions are far left is not at all equivalent, considering unions do not represent a political movement that wants to ov
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by epups 4y ago
Trump tried to coerce several officials, including his vice president, to use illegal means and declare him winner of an election he lost. These people supported that, clearly. You can install a dictator without a single shot, your gatekeep
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by epups 4y ago
No, I am observing that what Canada is doing here is fulfilling its obligations to NATO and, more specifically, the US. The comment I was replying to, and others here, seemed to assume that they bought these jets because they actually neede
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by epups 4y ago
Sure, the US strategic goal is to dominate the world militarily. It could achieve that with half its military spending, arguably even a third. And yes, lobbying can heavily skew what ends up being prioritized, to the point of inefficiency.
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by epups 4y ago
That's only true if you are talking about Vietnam/Cold War era. In the past 20 years or so, defense spending as a percentage of US GPD has actually increased: https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/uni
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by epups 4y ago
An unspoken part of NATO is that the US is the primary military supplier of its allies. The comment that this purchase is partly political/diplomatic is spot on. In fact, why does Canada even need a state-of-the-art Air Force in the fi
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by epups 4y ago
I think you and many others here are picking on the "easy" part of that reply. Of course we need to keep investing in any field if we want it to improve. Surely there are diminishing returns though. When you overspend your competi
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by epups 4y ago
One thing I noticed is that you have to watch out for the protein content in vegetarian "meat", it is sometimes quite low. It varies a lot depending on which type though.
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by epups 4y ago
I'm sorry, but I think your narrative is misguided. When you were 20,which was 30 years ago, it might have been less likely that you would get a stranger to change your tire. But it was much more likely you, rather than a woman, would
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by epups 4y ago
I'm not sure whether you're willingly obtuse or just obtuse, but I also don't think it matters.
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by epups 4y ago
If you work at a bakery and earn minimum wage but somehow save enough to open your own shop, the fact you may now earn less than median wage is not relevant. Do you understand now or would you like me to draw you a picture?
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by epups 4y ago
The question is not whether they make more than median wage actually, if you want to nitpick. It's whether they make more than they would as an employee. Yes you need capital and that's part of the risk. Also reducing the argument
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by epups 4y ago
The article was not about only tech, and the parent mentioned many other fields as well. I also don't think your imagined career path reflects the reality of even 0.1% of tech workers in the world today.

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