itsyonas

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by itsyonas 8mo ago
All right, but perhaps they should also list the grand promises they made and failed to deliver on. They said they would have fully self-driving cars by 2016. They said they would land on Mars in 2018, yet almost a decade has passed since t
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by itsyonas 9mo ago
> I sometimes have the image that Americans think that if the all Chinese got to read Western produced pamphlet detailing the particulars of what happened in Tiananmen square, they would march en-masse on the CCP HQ, and by the next week
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by itsyonas 9mo ago
I disagree. Elections do not offer systemic change. They offer a rotation of administrators. While rhetoric varies, the institutions, strategic priorities, and coercive capacities persist, and every viable candidate ends up defending them.
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by itsyonas 9mo ago
This suggests that the Chinese government recognises that its legitimacy is conditional and potentially unstable. Consequently, the state treats uncontrolled public discourse as a direct threat. By contrast, countries such as the United Sta
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by itsyonas 9mo ago
"Whataboutism" is being overused to the point of meaninglessness. It describes deflecting criticism by raising an unrelated issue. I did not do that. I did not avoid a question or dodge the criticism. I just pointed out an irony.
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by itsyonas 9mo ago
> I am a huge fan of SpaceX and I think that establishing a multi-planetary civilization is the most important thing to do, and, I’ll say bluntly, will save lives. How can we credibly talk about saving lives on other planets when we are
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by itsyonas 9mo ago
Surely I don't need to point out the irony of complaining to the US government about another country wanting to impose extraterritorial laws?
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by itsyonas 9mo ago
The livestock industry is an ecological disaster of unimaginable proportions. 50% of all habitable land is used for agriculture. Of that land, 83% is used for livestock, despite the fact that it only provides 18% of the calories consumed wo
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by itsyonas 9mo ago
> Either you need a really anti corrupt body which can do their work and fight against such issues If changing the system is off the table, then this is what any solution would inevitably look like. I do not think the problem is a flaw i
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by itsyonas 9mo ago
I do think that this is at the heart of the problem. The issue is not an overall lack of wealth, but how it is distributed. This is not going to change, no matter how many data centres or factories are built in the US. Ultimately, all the w
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by itsyonas 9mo ago
It would work in many cases, though not all. You would not hash everything together. Instead, you hash normalized identifiers independently, such as email address, phone number, or physical address. An incoming dataset would only need to ma
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by itsyonas 9mo ago
> I would assume so. It's sort of a catch 22 because if they delete your data, they have no way of knowing about you when they buy another batch of data. To have some sort of no track list, they have to keep your data. They could st
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by itsyonas 9mo ago
> Continental USA: 8 million square kilometer. > Germany: 0.35 million square kilometer. This does not matter much, since most people do not travel across states, countries, continents, etc on a daily basis. Most people probably trave