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by ericmay 3mo ago
I’ve always thought that was a decent idea but Americans can’t even stomach higher gas prices because of the Iran war. How are they going to handle $7-$8 per gallon or more?
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by ericmay 3mo ago
Ok... but now we're damaging ecosystems by installing hydroelectric power stations and dams and such in these areas. Besides, not every country can effectively utilize hydroelectric power. Germany, like other countries, should be inves
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by ericmay 3mo ago
Sounds good. I hope you have a nice rest of your day
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by ericmay 3mo ago
I really have no idea what you’re talking about. I don’t really hate anyone or anything except murderers and child molesters and such, those airplanes that fly around with big advertisements trailing behind.
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by ericmay 3mo ago
No, people do need to be reminded. When all you do is talk about alleged bad actions by the West folks forget about the bad actions that precipitated this conflict and others. > You have the right to believe what you like, in my opinion
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by ericmay 3mo ago
Yes you’re out of the loop. No, that’s not what is being said. Hope that helps.
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by ericmay 3mo ago
Sure, I think he should be in jail for January 6th and his claims about election fraud are stupid and incorrect. (Anti-democracy propaganda) But the full quote from me included anti-western propaganda. I am not that interested in whatever D
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by ericmay 3mo ago
Sure. Drug and human traffickers don't operate military boats? If another country wants to use its navy and sail to South America and spend money intercepting these folks to stop criminal behavior, that would be great. Less of my tax d
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by ericmay 3mo ago
Sure, except the OP was not condemning each active warcrime as being independently abhorrent, they were only condemning Israeli warcrimes as being abhorrent. I was just independently reminding folks that Iran is also committing abhorrent wa
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by ericmay 3mo ago
I'm not following your point here. Americans are subject to propaganda? Yes so are every other country and people on the planet. And no, the election wasn't stolen.
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by ericmay 3mo ago
I acknowledge it but too often it's the primary topic and I think it's of less importance. What are the facts and what policies and such are we pursuing? That's what is important. What are your biases? What international news
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by ericmay 3mo ago
When I mentioned Iran in my mind I was including all of their terrorist proxies (Hamas/Palestine, Hezbollah, Yemen, &c.). I didn't intend to rank order here. I should have been more clear - my fault. > America is destroyin
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by ericmay 3mo ago
I used to believe that too but with more revelations coming out about partnerships with Russia and China, work to support and prop up Venezuela’s dictatorship and the negative effects caused by that (mass migration, economic catastrophe, &a
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by ericmay 3mo ago
Always fun to say, always dangerous to live through the actual repercussions of what may "come after" - though this article wasn't really talking about a post-America. As "bad" as America is (and it's not at al
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by ericmay 3mo ago
> Banking application will force you to update even if it isn't security related. This is fine. Not sure how that’s related to the rest of your post. But for the rest of your post I agree with what you wrote. If a website is even va
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by ericmay 3mo ago
> We can see the same situation play out with manufacturing capability. I don't think manufacturing is a great analogy and we should be careful to try and compare these two very closely. But the closest comparison would be iPhone ve
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by ericmay 3mo ago
Sorry, I’m not following your point. Could you explain?
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by ericmay 3mo ago
> The only reason the USA doesn't flatten Iran with nukes is that the USA fears Russia will view it as an "all bets are off!" action and will do the same to Ukraine et al. Which is probably true right now. That is not the
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by ericmay 3mo ago
> and their government has no qualms with committing war crimes. Safe reminder both Israel and Iran, and arguably Iran more so, commit “war crimes”.
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by ericmay 3mo ago
If it’s a question for me I’m not sure. I guess I’d like to ask what prompted this question?
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by ericmay 3mo ago
Spot-on and really well written post highlighting the challenges here. Really it just comes down to the US and surrounding sycophants and China. There just isn't any other game in town. For the US to just, well, give up on AI developme
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by ericmay 3mo ago
Yep. We'll steal China's IP as well so all of this really is just no big deal. Everyone is a robber in some way. Though one must ask, why are American models banned in China? Hmmm. > It's not that China won't come up
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by ericmay 3mo ago
Spot-on and you're asking the right questions. And the other problem in these comments is that folks seem to think if China pulls ahead we can't just distill their models, provided that distillation is a key part of "this&quo
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by ericmay 3mo ago
That's fair, I don't really take a large issue with anything you wrote here. My general point was to shake loose some dogmatic apples hanging on to their naive and unsubstantiated beliefs that open-source must be some moral good a
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by ericmay 3mo ago
Sure, but at the end of the day, Apple makes a lot more money not just on device sales but app sales too even though Android phones are allegedly more versatile and inexpensive. You can talk about open-source and cheap Chinese models all yo
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by ericmay 3mo ago
> androids and iphones are approximately the same thing Yet... Android holds 70.6% of global active devices to iOS at 28.7%, but iOS captures 64.2% of consumer app spend. [1] > and the training is set up democratically and thro
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by ericmay 3mo ago
This argument boils down to X is good, therefore more of X is good. But you can see how that breaks down with even trivial examples. Not a great argument. The second piece of this "a moral good is based on doing good outside of your ow
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by ericmay 3mo ago
Sure and to complete your analogy here, the rich schools realize that the curriculum they develop and put a lot of time and money into creating is just used by the cheap schools, so they stop developing it because nobody loses money for lon
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by ericmay 3mo ago
That's just like, your opinion.... man....
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by ericmay 3mo ago
It depends on how it is applied. You can release open source software that advances knowledge and freedom that results in economic destruction or the loss of life, for example.

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