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by kergonath 4mo ago
> It's very obvious he pieced together interesting ideas from others to pass them as his own. And it worked very well, he has radio shows and TV shows and whatnot. And he still has a lot of supporters! Also, being able to get ideas,
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by kergonath 4mo ago
> I often write about stuff on my blog and I know a lot of what I’m writing or thinking about are ideas someone else has come up with These tools compare words, not idea. They would not detect someone copying concepts but coming up with
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by kergonath 4mo ago
> Did this physicist / media star recently say something controversial? Not really. This is the consequence of an investigation by some journalists about a decade ago, and an audit that lasted for almost 2 years. > I mean why did
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by kergonath 4mo ago
You need more than that. No university is going to revoke anything without very good reasons, they have too much to lose. Their first action is always to try to bury the case.
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by kergonath 4mo ago
> I don't know about this case, but a lot of these kinds of cases truly are witch-hunts. There have been a lot of plagiarism accusation in his books already. In this case there was an audit and the conclusions are clear. Whole parag
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by kergonath 4mo ago
> He gives virtually no interviews and will not talk about himself Case in point, from the linked interview: > Could you say a couple of words about yourself? > I would rather not talk about myself, except that I created other proj
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by kergonath 4mo ago
What does it have to do with compensation? Creativity for creativity’s sake is also important. Not everyone spends their life chasing dollars.
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by kergonath 4mo ago
Personally I am fine with the SOTA from last year if I can run it on my hardware and who gets access to my data and history. I don’t really care that it could be marginally better using a model I cannot control on someone else’s server.
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by kergonath 4mo ago
> Free trade didn't stop Russia from invading Ukraine and it didn't convert China into a democracy. We do not need China to be a democracy. That’s a matter for the Chinese people. Imposing a form of government from outside rare
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by kergonath 4mo ago
Sorry, when was Ed Milliband in power again?
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by kergonath 4mo ago
Wine works fine on macOS, there is no need for a Linux layer.
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by kergonath 4mo ago
> Back in my day you to to download a couple GB worth of cygwin You still can, and it still works exactly the same way.
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by kergonath 4mo ago
> And as a consumer, I am somewhat happy that a company says "well, then not" if it cannot comply with the law. As a citizen, I find it both fascinating and disturbing that this is even a thing. Of course companies have to foll
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by kergonath 4mo ago
> It is not the state's place to tell people what they should or should not be allowed to buy. You will always find people willing to spend money on anything. The whole point of politics is that we have to draw a line between what p
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by kergonath 4mo ago
It’s just as direct as national parliaments. Citizens vote for MEPs.
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by kergonath 4mo ago
Apple and Google have been dealing with each other for quite a long time. My guess is that they want to replicate the relationship they have with Safari, where Apple provides the users and Google provides the search engine (and money). Last
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by kergonath 5mo ago
> Forget US casualties. The US is concerned with minimizing Iranian casualties. I can’t help but notice how closely this mirrors Russian talking points. According to them, the war is not finished only because the Russian military fights
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by kergonath 5mo ago
> I guess "Jewish has nothing to do with support for the Jewish state" would have sounded too silly It is not silly and it is true. In the same way as many Muslims don’t want to live in a theocracy and many Christians are not f
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by kergonath 5mo ago
This quote is terribly misunderstood. "Steal" here means "make it your own", as in, improve it, not "copy slavishly". What it means is that to be great you have to find good ideas and then execute.
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by kergonath 5mo ago
At least until a better codec has widespread enough hardware support, I think.
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by kergonath 5mo ago
No need for that. It’s England, preferential treatment depends more on your social class than who you know, in such cases. Knowing powerful people definitely can help in some contexts, but the judiciary is well insulated in that respect.
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by kergonath 5mo ago
You might find Quarto ( https://quarto.org/ ) interesting. It sounds like it does what you want.
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by kergonath 5mo ago
This has zero advantage over drones or ICBMs. It’s a joke, a Cold War fever dream.
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by kergonath 5mo ago
> Destroying what remains of their missiles and drones and forcibly reopening the straits is absolutely possible. They don’t need missiles to keep the Gulf pretty much closed, they just need drones. They have what, 1000 km of coast line
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by kergonath 5mo ago
The US are incapable of finishing the job. That's what they tried to do in Iraq and look how it turned out. Iran is much more organised, has a competent secret police, is huge and better armed than Iraq was. It's physically imposs
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by kergonath 5mo ago
I think FAANG developers would be better equipped than taxi driver to manage this. And besides, I don't think I am really against some kind of professional certification like actual engineers do. Right now SWE do not manage any of the
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by kergonath 5mo ago
This is an update of Rerum Novarum , which has nothing to do with Vatican II. Besides, so far you are on the wrong side of History.
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by kergonath 5mo ago
What do you think is wrong with it? I can see how both conservatives and progressives could have reasons to be unhappy with it, but dropping this in like that is not very productive. There are many, many texts in the Vatican archives that a
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by kergonath 5mo ago
> if you strip those out it sounds like any Democrat podcast The fact that the bloody Pope sounds like what appears to be a left-wing party in the US' Overton window should be a big kick in the arse. In most of the rest of the west,
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by kergonath 5mo ago
> Doesn't it strike you that if licenses for a banal service like taxi are that expensive, that this likely indicates political corruption? Not necessarily. It indicates a profession that can be very easily abused to harm the genera

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