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by grunder_advice 9mo ago
It's the same ridiculous situation as with the Greenland saga. The transatlanticists don't want to let go of the past, but America isn't looking back.
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by grunder_advice 9mo ago
It was a populist move because a big chunk of the electorate is German moms and German grandmas who are absolutely terrified of radiation post Chernobyl.
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by grunder_advice 9mo ago
At that point it becomes an exercise in marketing more than anything else, because the whole business model depends on finding rich customers that are willing to pay a suitable markup to make the extra effort feasabile. And then you have to
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by grunder_advice 10mo ago
What if you have a community but it's boring and uninspiring? It's always the same shit, STEM nerds, who can only talk shop, tech, video games, sports and bitcoin/crypto/libertarianism/ancap stuff. I mean, I've
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by grunder_advice 10mo ago
>hn is a social media site Social media typically implies a website where users are sharing self-created content. If a website with comments counts a social media, than all web2.0 is social media and there's practically no distincti
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by grunder_advice 10mo ago
I personally detest the way we sanctify some sole individuals while forgetting the bulk of the community. I don't care who published the first patent for the transistor. He or She certainly cannot be credited for all the work that has
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by grunder_advice 10mo ago
Could be a lot of things and probably a bit of everything. You might have social anxiety, even if you don't feel particularly shy. If you're too clammed up, people recognize that and keep a certain distance. It could also be that
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by grunder_advice 10mo ago
I wonder what Ed Witten would have accomplished if he had gone into another field instead of choosing to dedicate his life to mathematical physics.
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by grunder_advice 10mo ago
> There was no 'regime', there was a democracy with corruption problems OK. > but that was still functional Clearly not, because Chavez was elected despite having attempted a coup d'etat previously. Clearly not, because
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by grunder_advice 10mo ago
Long term, it would be good for the EU if tech market access was restricted. The reason there aren't EU tech giants is because the US and EU are basically one market, so naturally, all tech giants end up being American. So it's no
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by grunder_advice 10mo ago
The EU has consistently been anti-Chavez and anti-Maduro, probably because the corrupt Venezuelan elites who escaped with their stolen millions after Chavez was elected, have been whispering in their ears ever since.
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by grunder_advice 10mo ago
From what I understand the root cause is racism and classism. Venezuela was in a deep economic crisis for a very long time before Chavez was elected. The then ruling elite were pretty happy living in a bubble, extracting oil, selling to the
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by grunder_advice 1y ago
Europe never abandoned the elitist mindset of a ruling elite lording it over the masses.
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by grunder_advice 1y ago
If nobody hires juniors, then where are the seniors supposed to come from?
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by grunder_advice 1y ago
Mormons and Amish have above replacement fertility rates. Millionaires in western countries also have above replacement fertility rates. To me it seems rather obvious: you need both the will and the means to raise 3+ children.
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by grunder_advice 1y ago
Getting immigrants who work is a non-issue. I never heard of immigrants from India, China, Africa or Latin America who don't work so long as they entered the country legally. The issue you are alluding to has to do with genuine refugee
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by grunder_advice 1y ago
In AI/ML job ads it is quite typical for the requirements to include, "must have published at top AI conferences include but not limited to NeuroIPS, ICML, ICLR, ...etc", which I find completely crazy, because it just incenti
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by grunder_advice 1y ago
No. You need a research lab, compute time and talent to train LLMs.
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by grunder_advice 1y ago
Whenever these kind of articles pop up, I always think how sad it is that PyTorch, Llama and many widely used opens source projects are tied to Meta.
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by grunder_advice 1y ago
I am already acquainted with them but to be honest, I am no longer in the field so I am not able to comment on latest developments. However, as of two years ago, the consistent result was that you could get models that reproduce really good
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by grunder_advice 1y ago
Is this a recruiting attempt by Los Alamos? AI/ML for science as this broad field used to be known is interesting. Some five years ago there as a real craze where every STEM lab at my university was doing some form of ML project. I thi
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by grunder_advice 1y ago
You are not wrong, but that situation won't change if you moved to another taxation scheme. The poor are too poor to have much to take from them. So they go after those who are a rung or two above to tax. The dynamic does not change ir
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by grunder_advice 2y ago
I am not against immigration, neither as a stop-gap measure nor in general. I believe limited immigration can even be beneficial, even with regards to cultural aspects. I also do not believe that cultures are static but rather living and ev
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by grunder_advice 2y ago
I picked Germany and Australia as the example, because they are two countries with a similiar standard of living, both considered western, and culturally Christian, and yet, to anyone who is acquainted with both, they are quite culturally d
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by grunder_advice 2y ago
Dude, I am not talking about patriotism, nationalism, ethnowhatthefuckism or any such notions. I am simply talking about cultures. Are you going to tell that you have no preference with regards to living in Germany, France, Poland, Argentin
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by grunder_advice 2y ago
No, I did not. My point holds just as well for any ethnicity. If I choose to live in Germany it is because I like being around Germans. Australia is not Germany. They behave and think very differently.
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by grunder_advice 2y ago
We are glamorizing everything else except having kids and raising a family, to the point where a DING couple with a garage full of Porsches and three yearly vacations is considered more successful than the working couple with four kids, whi
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by grunder_advice 2y ago
To people callously saying that immigration is the solution, I want to ask: don't you care at all if within a few generations your home country loses its culture and becomes inhabited by other people of a different ethnicity? To me, wh
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Ask HN: Is investing in non-tech stocks sensible at this point?
1 points by grunder_advice 2y ago|3 comments
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by grunder_advice 2y ago
We have neither. Look at what happened to Yanis Varoufakis.

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