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by graemep 5mo ago
It agree that global power and the wellbeing of most people are not correlated. I think the common people of the UK were better off without and empire than with one. Many small countries with no global power have high standards of living. H
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by graemep 5mo ago
its been true for decades: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?end=2024... https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?end=2024... > if that gamble pays of the US is sti
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by graemep 5mo ago
You can sue them if they have operations in a country you choose to sue in, or supply people in that country, or you can sue their importers and distributors. Maybe even marketplace sites if they sell through those.
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by graemep 5mo ago
It is a general western problem to some extent, but the US has a a faster growing economy than any of the big European economies. It is still a super-power.
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by graemep 5mo ago
Europeans (and not just the EU) think they still have the influence on the world they had in the 1980s when their economies were a much larger proportion of the global economy. Europeans have no idea what the world looks like from Asia whic
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by graemep 5mo ago
If I look at the logs of sites that Anthropic crawls (and in some cases references in answers) and there are no requests for llms.txt
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by graemep 5mo ago
It looks to me that it is shown: there are three red dots along South west coast of India?
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by graemep 5mo ago
Also because the region was conquered by Muslims so it did not last. It was the majority religion of the Asian parts of the Byzantine Empire. North Africa played a very important part in the development of Christianity. Augustine, Tertulli
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by graemep 5mo ago
> I've seen Elon be an active piece of shit, white nationalist, conspiracy promoter, etc, for years. I don't root for Sam Altman. I root against Elon. A stopped clock is right twice a day Even Elon is sometimes right.
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by graemep 5mo ago
Does it work though? The big LLM crawlers do not read llms.txt so will they read and follow the same instructions as HTML?
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by graemep 5mo ago
A view that is not shared always by LLM cheerleaders. Part of Sam Altman's defence of the environmental impact of AI is that it is less than that of a human life. "He said it was unreasonable to focus on "how much energy it t
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by graemep 5mo ago
They are trying to distribute information, not get traffic. The hope is probably that the LLM's will download properly rather than DDOSing them.
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by graemep 5mo ago
Stuff that has lasted two generation will be antique-ish (if not actually antique) and usually nice. It will have the quality it should, rather than the quality most furniture has. All my grandparents' furniture is properly jointed and
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by graemep 5mo ago
Billy bookshelves seem pretty good even though they are veneered board of some kind. I have several and they have lasted many years (eve ones bought second hand) and moves. Not the best, but not terrible and great value for money. The cubic
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by graemep 5mo ago
If you look at the development of copyright law it started to protect the profits of businesses (the Statute of Queen Ann was, at leat in part, intended to compensate members of the Stationers' Company for loss of their monopoly), then
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by graemep 5mo ago
I think you are part right. I do not really see the worship of the past, and am often concerned about failures to preserve the past. I think the problem with things like satellites and technology in general is more to do with the ruling cla
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by graemep 5mo ago
I just looked it up and according to Wikipedia distributing child porn is a crime in both, possession is a crime in China. Blackmail is a crime in both too. So even if they do not extradite the blackmailers they are likely to face jail unde
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by graemep 5mo ago
We have one where I live. You have reminded me I have another batch of books to take down to it.
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by graemep 5mo ago
That sounds as though the successful traders are informally acting as market makers and are rewarded for doing that.
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by graemep 5mo ago
High usage seems to change the economics. The author of the article had a payback period of about 14 months which is excellent by any standards and an order of magnitude better than rent vs buy for a house in most places.
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by graemep 5mo ago
> People saying they'd only date someone above x height or below y weight? What about height and weight affecting career prospects?
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by graemep 5mo ago
The very cheapest are on thin margins, so that seems to be as expected, but there are a lot of providers between the very cheapest and the high prices charged by the hyperscalers. Pricing somewhere in between and offering some actual custom
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by graemep 5mo ago
> The trick is that it doesn't "feel like" a co-op, for most customers it's just a normal shop with an unusual ownership structure. People know what it is, and there are other similar cooperatives too. They have over
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by graemep 5mo ago
> Here in the US, it's generally assumed that the countries "across the pond" are less religious. Historically there were not less religious, and they were mostly very religious during the period when they developed democr
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by graemep 5mo ago
> Do you feel the same about homophobia, height discrimination, fat discrimination and other discriminatory behaviours? The first is covered by current UK law, the other are not. > I think I disagree with you on this, but I think what
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by graemep 5mo ago
The law does provide a definition of hate speech that does not apply to mean words in general. You assume we both know what is meant by "racist words" which implies it is a category that can be defined. Hate speech laws apply to m
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by graemep 6mo ago
A BEAM process per user would have similar advantages, is pretty memory efficient, and does not need a lot of extra work.
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by graemep 6mo ago
> I thought Google would be proper and thus not be infested with these kind of problems that cheaper providers are known for. These sorts of things have happened before with Google and the other expensive providers. Are cheaper providers
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by graemep 6mo ago
Similar in the UK, and there has been along history of the police misusing things such as "causing an obstruction" here
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by graemep 6mo ago
The second one was for specifically racist messages - i.e. breaching hate speech laws - not just being mean. I am opposed to criminalising hate speech, BUT I think its important to be clear its not just "saying mean things".

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