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by fakedang 4mo ago
They not only encourage innovation but also cross-pollination too. So say you discovered some minor technology, they'll even help you connect with other folks who work in the space, potentially combine the innovations together to creat
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Counterpoint on China - they will import special talent and help them immigrate. And of course, there are people who'll value the lifestyle of Shenzhen over San Francisco, or Shanghai over New York. One example that comes to mind is Dr
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by fakedang 4mo ago
Please don't give credit for current Ukrainian advances to the Trumpenreich. The US intelligence apparatus was apparently even sharing NATO intelligence and information with Russia on Ukrainian positions. Once the EU excluded the US co
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The entire Shia sect is basically an apocalyptic religious movement. Has been since the start when Ali, the first Imam and fourth Caliph for the Sunnis, was assassinated, his sons following him, only for the assassination mastermind to usur
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by fakedang 4mo ago
Don't forget the part where the Lebanon ceasefire was announced, Israel decided to continue its bombing and occupation campaign and broke the ceasefire, then Trump immediately announced the blockade stays in that TS rant.
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> sitting in a chair More like sleeping in the chair
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This is what I ask everyone who thinks October 7 was an attack launched by Hamas of its own volition. Anyone who's been to and seen the Gaza border knows how impossible it is to cross - unless of course there was some inside permittanc
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The issue with that idea is very simple - creating those inlets into the desert would risk soil erosion - in the desert. If your objective was to desalinate water, you're much better off using conventional desalination (there's st
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And the same UK taxpayer money is now being spent to ferociously defend Ukraine, and in turn European interests. That same UK taxpayer money is spent to promote freedom of the seas for global trade, whether it be the Hormuz, the Malacca Str
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by fakedang 4mo ago
Lol, classic American exceptionalism. Iran didn't attack the desalination plants because that would amount to actual warcrimes - and they care about their public perception in the broader community of nations. Unlike, of course, Israel
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> Like really, think about it. These weights were very precise. And they had to be, because "weight" was basically equivalent to "money." So there had to be a standard, and that standard had to be enforced when the we
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Reminds me of Medvedev and Putin.
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> I pay YouTube Premium and get no ads there. It's totally worth it for me. You pay for YouTube and don't get ads there, but you also just put a big red target on your back for Google to show you ads in all of their other produ
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Middle class in Europe means unable to buy a family apartment in a Tier 1 city.
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by fakedang 5mo ago
And the Anthropic logo is a subtle reminder to stuff that ejected out of OpenAI.
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Reminds me of Mike Prince in Billions. God that guy was insufferable, just like the rest of today's broligarchy.
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Someone formerly in intelligence told me that the plan in Iran seemingly was to coordinate the protests with strikes on vital government and military installations as a "humanitarian intervention", but the timing went off badly be
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by fakedang 5mo ago
Siblings can also be bullies. Canadian and American racism is documented in specific events, unlike in other countries. I'd be hard pressed to find specific racism-driven events in Poland or Czechia, even though they top the racist cha
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That's changing with this administration though. Reduced reporting cycles reduce transparency.
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I like this analogy - sparring with each other like toddlers do, before realizing that they have a lot in common as they age, like the English language, industrialization, the systemic abuse of natives, Big Oil, the World Wars and racism. N
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> humans are good consequence predictors, have built up reputations they are not willing to trash, can say no to things and in general don't want to go jail. The irony is that professions where these things don't matter are als
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You missed the point of the article, which is that DACH places more importance on Compliance, Security and Stability. Those are the first questions first and foremost, and because they are expensive questions, you have to charge more than &
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by fakedang 5mo ago
> can we at that point consider humans the ones being trained, especially new humans, such that next gen human generated content clearly is heavily influenced by slop? Already happened, most of the internet pre-AI was just human-generate
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Honestly not so much in my experience. It was busy, but mostly because of Emirates longhauls. Dubai to NYC and back is extremely busy though.
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Farmers don't see your retail cost in their gains either. That's captured by huge middlemen corporations. Unless of course the farmers are themselves working for a huge vertically-integrated corpo.
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> And farms are failing. Climate change will accelerate that, so there will be food shortages within a few years. This is the key one to watch out for. Prior food-based conflicts have sparked revolutions and civil wars. People can tolera
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India + Africa + South East Asia + China & Japan + Middle East (ex-Iran) + Russia = More than 60% of the global population.
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Classic whataboutism. Maybe we can take turns and go back and forth with an atrocity committed by either nation? Let's start with the systemic suppression of Black Americans, starting with slavery, then Jim Crow and segregation, then t
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The bombing of the Iranian school is fact, not propaganda.
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A truck might be more efficient for carrying a lot of things but I don't need a truck to take me to the grocery store downtown.

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