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I doubt if the ads are working better. I suspect their measurement approaches related to ads effectiveness is wrong. If we are just measuring viewing of an ad as positive, then obnoxious ads will be viewed and thought to be effective. But t
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Unfortunately, many autistic people also get misunderstood to be irresponsible and lazy. They are also unable to understand other person's feelings and are thought to lack empathy, even though it is just that they are unable to recogni
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Swiss e-ID is self sovereign and built on open protocols. https://github.com/swiyu-admin-ch
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Once we start that, we cannot control if it is going to shape the society for the better or worse. Should feminists be prevented from joining a company? How about pro-choice rights activists? And one persons better society would be totally
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The leadership of countries under sanctions rarely change their behavior due to sanctions. However the effect on the population of the countries is that they turn against the countries applying the sanctions. It becomes easier for the leade
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I think it could be most likely to apply pressure on the US-India FTA under discussion. Context: 50% tariff has been applied to India. Chabahar port sanctions are reintroduced. And more to come in next few weeks.
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I think one unintended outcome of this would be that the jobs would be completely outsourced to outside of US. The ones remaining would be government contracts that have provisions against it. The government could add tariffs on services, b
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Not too much different from how cola companies push their products. Though I agree that we should hold pharmaceutical companies to higher standards even in marketing and sales domains.
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I don't think there is any malicious intend when pharma produces those drugs. The drugs are also effective in controlling some symptoms and enable people to go on with their life. We had many centuries without those drugs, I don't
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With moving to Azure and other MS tech, I am seeing companies consolidating their IT to mainly a single vendor. This is going to be a very risky situation, with MS having significant leverage over companies (in some cases ability to bankrup
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I would argue that as soon as it was decided to include JavaScript runtime in the browser, it stopped being a plain document browser. From then on, we were just on the evolutionary path of converting it from a low capability app sandbox to
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> morale boost to Hamas, prolonging the time until surrender. I think this is key. The protest must condemn Hamas while supporting innocent people. Protests that support Hamas as some kind of justified resistance just prolongates everyth
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The problem with corruption at high level is that it forces everything down the chain to be also corrupt even if they don't want to. I think presidential power must be limited, and ways to limit sycophants in government needs to be int
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I am regularly tracking Mojo both in Discord and their forums. It was indeed their goal to support Python as superset. Many discussions were around that. So I would not claim any malice in there.
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Mojo is not a scripting language in the usual sense. It is a system programming language more akin to Rust. Their aim is to have better ergonomics than Rust.
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I don't think it is that harmless. Believe in homeopathy often delays patients from taking timely intervention.
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I guess at present the UK is very tolerant. But no one can predict the future. It can go downhill. Even for developed western countries. Once surveillance is setup, it is hard to restrict its usage. Especially when the society gets used to
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It need not be a single country. Organizations like BRICS could float it's own currency, and with significant size of the economy of the members, it could pull it off. This is why Trump has been explicitly warning against that.
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>> Who is to say that funding cuts in academia won’t have short and long-term benefits for society and also result in a net increase in happiness and productivity Don't we already have evidence of this? Many developing nations do
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"in the iPhone photo, the player is "leaning". His (long) feet are on the left and his head is on the right of the image. In the right image, the image accurately portays his balanced and confident stance. " The subject
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Actually I think with LLM, the average person is more likely to be critical of anything they see now than ever before, as they know that it could be AI generated. In my non IT circle, now even genuine content is being doubted as being AI ge
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War crimes conducted for the "violent resistance" does come under international law. There are rules of engagement all parties need to adhere to.
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It is also the place where world opinion is shaped. West has majority of veto powers which it used to its advantage. West had also condemned other nations in the same forums in the past.
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While UN is not optimal and needs a revamp, it is an organization that has almost all countries of the world as members. There is no guarantee that a new organization is going to be any better. Once US leaves UN, why would any other country
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Modular is trying with Mojo + Max offering. It has taken quite a bit of effort to target NVidia and get parity. They are now focusing on other hardware.
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I think the main concern is about the capacity to handle that many tourists. As the population increases and general prosperity increases, amount of tourists will correspondingly increase. There are not that many tourist spots for a given l
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In the past I was annoyed with Firefox due to sluggishness and propensity to defects. But since 2 years I have been using Firefox daily and I am quite happy with it. They are doing at least somethings right.
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Being unable to easily uninstall is quite annoying. Reminds me of the old Microsoft with their deep integration of Internet Explorer into the OS.
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I have found the parts to be very expensive though.
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> I had a bit of a laugh at this. I thought the rationale was to fuck the counterparties as hard as possible? I think the intend was to convey that there was no economic or market situation in India that makes it a necessity. Probably th

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