ericmay

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by ericmay 4mo ago
That's not correct lol
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by ericmay 4mo ago
Well, truthfully I don't really care all that much about it any more than I do any other problems that people generally experience. It's even more tragic that someone has an H1B means other folks don't - aren't their liv
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by ericmay 4mo ago
Hard to say how directly they can compare, and it probably depends on the individual situation and of course their line of work and other such items. In the woe-is-me olympics they both seem pretty awful and, one might even say, competitive
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by ericmay 4mo ago
Well they can compete with that. Being fired means you lose healthcare and much needed benefits and of course a paycheck and all of that stuff, right? If you're going to take this wildly cynical approach you should at least do a more
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by ericmay 4mo ago
Directly, no, but it's very relevant to our discussion about secessionist movements that sprung up. Don't you find it interesting? I would think you would support it, or do you not? Strategically the government of Canada should do
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by ericmay 5mo ago
> The UK government represents the UK. Everything doesn’t need to be a referendum. > Irrelevant. They allowed it. Respectfully I just don't agree with your framing here. Another wrinkle could be Northern Ireland if we want to go
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by ericmay 5mo ago
> what the Swiss are trying to do here is very uncommon, in fact it's so uncommon literally nobody has ever done it before. No country in history has imposed a numerical population cap on its population, and in addition, freedom of
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by ericmay 5mo ago
The UK government let Scotland vote, it didn't allow the entire nation of the United Kingdom to vote on it. And they allowed it because they know it will fail and the smart thing to do if your aim is to keep the UK together (much to Ru
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by ericmay 5mo ago
This is pointlessly argumentative, but I'm just going to continue having a conversation using the terminology brought up by the OP and what I interpreted them to mean. It seems to be working just fine for us.
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by ericmay 5mo ago
> That’s how self determination works. Right, like when the UK left the EU. > You’re muddling wildly different situations with wildly different levels of sympathy. I'm not sure they're really that different at a high level.
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by ericmay 5mo ago
> This is a strange framing that itself usually comes from a standpoint of moral superiority. When you sign agreements with a governing body, like the EU on freedom of movement, and you break that agreement then there's consequences
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by ericmay 5mo ago
This was the OP: > It wouldn’t be full Chexit. Just renegotiating and then rejecting the Schengen chapter. It would then be up to the EU to execute its Guillotine clause. My terminology was matching what was used here.
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by ericmay 5mo ago
I don't think it would be - you're focusing on the actions of the territory (for lack of a better term) and ignoring the parent organization. It's a bit of a stretch to be upset at Switzerland who would be serving in a role s
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by ericmay 5mo ago
Because those would be breaking up the unions of those countries. It's no different morally or philosophically from Switzerland leaving the EU.
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by ericmay 5mo ago
> It would then be up to the EU to execute its Guillotine clause. These kinds of morally-superior, we'll show them, type of attitudes and suggestions are precisely why so many folks have come to be anti-EU. Nevermind the actual oth
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by ericmay 5mo ago
> data centers can be built basically anywhere, and that's why a lot of them are moving to rural red states where they welcome the construction. There’s no such thing as a red state or blue state, these are fictions created to gener
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by ericmay 5mo ago
> I'm not feeling like digging around for the origin and exact meaning of this phrase, which is definitely not common English. Just to start here, the term is very common in America. > Declaring that this phenomenon is "at t
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by ericmay 5mo ago
i think you re over-indexing on Trump and not recognizing that this has been a problem for Europe for much longer than Trump has been a serious political figure. Europe has and to some extent is still very much asleep and holding on to a wo
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by ericmay 5mo ago
I’m not sure why Europeans always bring Trump in here when it comes to this topic, except perhaps he, successfully it appears, woke many of them up from the slumber of dependency on global supply chains, of course, that Americans have been
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by ericmay 5mo ago
> But why would the Europeans want to copy the US "cloud" model of micro-compartmentalizing services… Maybe it’s the best approach? Maybe it’s more profitable and European companies want to grow their business?
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by ericmay 5mo ago
Yes but does China also restrict Chinese citizens from using these models?
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by ericmay 5mo ago
> Then everyone of these would need to spend $400 per month on tokens. That's not that much money in the grand scheme of things, especially for software engineers - and you also have to include folks who pay for Claude or other AI t
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by ericmay 5mo ago
Why would they need to sell €200 of illegal products to be fined that same amount?
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by ericmay 5mo ago
Americans get the government they deserve. Changing how it works doesn't change the fundamental problem there - we'd just make changes and then those wouldn't work too. I would be incredibly against any action to remove the C
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by ericmay 5mo ago
Understood, I was just curious if the CCP blocks Chinese citizens even if they were permitted by the US. It looks quite a bit like the general economic policy of China - block foreign companies and artificially drive pricing down for your p
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by ericmay 5mo ago
> States aren't sovereign entities -- they can't make agreements with foreign countries that isn't granted by Congress. This is incorrect. They can't make "agreements" with foreign countries but that's
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by ericmay 5mo ago
No I understood your point, but you seem to be ignoring mine. The Senate wasn't just a bulwark against populism, it serves as a way to express the sovereignty of individual states in a way to balance states with very high populations f
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by ericmay 5mo ago
Ok now switch the team colors and then drop the bomb on Miami or something. Besides, this is temporary, and even now Republican senators have publicly pushed back on various things. A recent example is the $1.8 bn slush fund.
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by ericmay 5mo ago
I see - I was just curious. Does China permit citizens from accessing American AI models if they were permitted by the American companies?
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by ericmay 5mo ago
Blocks Chinese users or blocks VPNs? Are they the only one?

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