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by keewee7 5y ago
>Lindy effect >The Lindy effect (also known as Lindy's Law) is a theorized phenomenon by which the future life expectancy of some non-perishable things, like a technology or an idea, is proportional to their current age. Thus, th
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by keewee7 5y ago
It's interesting that India has some of the highest fossil fuel taxes in the world despite being a developing 3rd world country.
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>Long time ago there was a trend to outsource to india. It didn't end well from what I remember. This is a narrative that often gets repeated on HN and reddit but IT outsourcing to India has been increasing in the past 20 years. IT
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by keewee7 5y ago
Chinese apps and games dominating the West makes me feel like a Soviet citizen in 1991 watching Coca-Cola and McDonald's ads pop up everywhere. We are truly in China's century.
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Ransomware gangs are working with Russian intelligence services, report says(cbsnews.com)
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The East German authorities called the wall "Anti-Fascist Protection Border". >The Eastern Bloc portrayed the Wall as protecting its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" from
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by keewee7 5y ago
I'm a Danish guy who has never posted anything on r/India but I was banned from both r/worldnews and r/India for calling out the racism against Indians on r/worldnews.
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by keewee7 5y ago
He mentions DoorDash. The service was launched in 2013. Back then I would have assumed that online food delivery already had dominant players and it would be hard for a startup to get significant traction. How did DoorDash overcome that and
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by keewee7 5y ago
>Plus a lot of westerners are already inclined to self-whipping over the colonial guilt narrative, missing what rest of the world has been doing, and in many cases, is still doing. People who think like that are progressives. However man
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by keewee7 5y ago
Why is a sponsored article by Klarna and the Swedish government on the HN frontpage?
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>2021: Gang violence increases in Europe, swing pendulum to mass surveillance. Many Western Europeans on HN and reddit will deny this problem even though it is an actual problem and unfortunately our governments are already using it as a
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by keewee7 5y ago
>Tor is a technology actually developed by "the man" with military purposes, and still funded by the US government. That is not a problem for open source that has been audited. We also know why the US government supports Tor: I
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by keewee7 5y ago
>younger demographic that is digital native and practices better internet hygiene Unfortunately 13-25 year olds are less tech sawy than a decade ago because they were raised on locked down platforms like iOS and Android.
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by keewee7 5y ago
reddit and twitter are the most depressing places on the Internet. So much doomerism and political outrage. It's on TikTok too but the TikTok algorithm quickly learns I'm not interested in political outrage and actually directs me
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by keewee7 5y ago
OpenAI was founded in 2015. In 2015 Google was AI and AI was Google. There was legitimate concern that one American corporation was going to dominate AI. OpenAI was created to challenge that dominance and let "AI benefit all of humanit
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Isn't most of their research and code publicly available?
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They will probably offer Codex as another API for paid customers. They already offer GPT-3 the same way.
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Blaming China and India is the typical Republican talking point about climate change. There is a reason Noam Chomsky has called the Republican party the most dangerous organization in the world because of how they promote Western inaction o
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by keewee7 5y ago
Poverty and hunger is killing more people in India and Africa than extreme weather.
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by keewee7 5y ago
The natural gas industry in Russia emits a lot of CO2 by itself. Generally the fossil fuel industry is one of the largest emitters if CO2 by itself. That is why countries like Russia and Saudi Arabia are among the top CO2 emitters in the wo
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by keewee7 5y ago
Chinese rise in emissions is because of Western manufacturing. Russian rise in emissions is because of Western European need for heating. If we stop outsourcing manufacturing to China and stop buying gas from Russia their emissions will als
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by keewee7 5y ago
There is "Clean coal" - a political lie that coal from US swing states is more "clean" than coal from China. However this article describes CO2 capturing and storage technology. Something that could definitely help us in
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by keewee7 5y ago
Yes only America and Europe should be wealthy.
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by keewee7 5y ago
How is the world preparing for millions of climate refugees? According to the latest estimates Southern India will not be inhabitable for humans by 2050. 250 million people live in Southern India.
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by keewee7 5y ago
>Then came 9/11 The rising pessimism and negativity since 2008/09 is a global phenomenon. I think it's wrong and very US-centric to attribute that to 9/11. The 2008 financial crisis and the rise of social media has pr
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by keewee7 5y ago
Spain is a NATO country involved in many American wars in the past 30 years. If you oppose US wars and hegemony you should have followed Edward Snowden and moved to a country that actually oppose American influence in the world.
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by keewee7 5y ago
Why do homeless people in the US concentrate in a few big cities with good weather? In Denmark there are fewer of them and they are more spread out and you can also find them in rural areas.
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by keewee7 5y ago
China is quickly becoming an entity that cannot be criticized. Here in Denmark the authorities confiscated Tibetan flags among peaceful protesters because someone in the Chinese embassy was offended. The Danish police has had a few problema
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by keewee7 5y ago
The solution is immigration but with high barrier to entry. I live in Denmark, a country portrayed as anti-immigrant by American and British media. However there is no opposition to educated professional immigrants from India, China, Iran a
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by keewee7 5y ago
Opinions on Israel-Palestine seem to depend on generation. Boomer journalists are pro-Israel and millennial journalists seem to be pro-Palestinian. In the recent conflict NYT and WaPost were pro-Palestinian unlike the conflict in 2014 when

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