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kshri24
7d ago
> but i doubt you would be friends with a corporate entity claiming the ip of them. They can't claim. That's the point. They are an invaluable resource precisely because they cannot be OWNED by anyone. They are not FREE. Hence
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kshri24
7d ago
> I was talking about humans vs. cars as an analogy to you comparing GPUs and cars. I was talking about cars vs horses. HP is Horse-power not human-power. > Nobody is taxing humans the way cars are taxed Cars are not free to roam the
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kshri24
8d ago
I would not classify sunshine and air as "free". Sunshine requires the Sun to undergo continuous fusion. It is invaluable as opposed to "free". Air is invaluable asset too. Without both we would be dead. The price of bot
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kshri24
8d ago
> It was a marketing thing at the time to make steam engines look good. Except it is actually taxed based on HP in various countries. Austria, Belgium, Spain, Italy use engine horsepower to levy annual car taxes. > In france, cars are
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8d ago
> Do you not think that stealing requires the original owner to lose access? No. > If I sneak into your home, take apart the coffee machine, measure everything, put it back together and go home and build a copy to have my own, did I s
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kshri24
8d ago
> That does not follow in any reasonable way. "United States copyright law protects only works of human creation". That means the source of creation of any work has to be from a human being for it to be copyrightable. Machine-g
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kshri24
8d ago
> News to me. That would be incredibly xenophobic of them if they did, and deserves to be called out. What do you mean? Xenophobia does not mean what you think it means, especially so in this context. Also, every creator/producer of
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8d ago
Library paid the authors. > Didn't pay a cent. Taxpayers did pay on your behalf by funding the Library via the Government (if Library is public). Nothing is free. Except ofcourse stealing, which is free.
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8d ago
> That’s an implementation detail inside the GPU and doesn’t let you compare how much they learn. The same applies to "horse-power". Yet we have no issue making the comparison anyways and HP has become an industry standard. I d
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8d ago
> Nobody would say a human reading a book and learning from it is stealing. I'm not saying that a machine doing the same is equivalent, but the only think I am sure of is that I am not sure we can call it "stealing". It is
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kshri24
17d ago
There is a term for it. It's called "sect". > some interpretation of the Vedic texts, which doesn't actually entail all that much If you studied the Vedas you would know why this issue exists in the first place. The V
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kshri24
17d ago
> but this sort of syncretism definitely has been attempted and found its converts That's exactly the point of why he even attempted to have this conversation with you. It was to convert you to Hinduism. I explain it here: https:&#
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kshri24
17d ago
Sufis were meant to propagate that Islam is syncretic to get people to convert wherever they went. Once Islam got a critical mass of converts (15-20%), Islamic invaders would have the necessary internal support to invade and destabilize the
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kshri24
18d ago
> Just throw in a new avatar of Vishnu to legitimize it and carry on. Except for it's never done. No Hindu believes Allah or Jesus is an Avatar of Vishnu. It can't be. Vishnu literally means the "All-Pervading One". A
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kshri24
18d ago
What do you mean by "there there"? What do you mean by "local religion"?
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kshri24
24d ago
> Why do you let someone you seem dislike so much have that much power over you? I don't dislike her. I am talking about her antics doing a disservice to something as serious as climate change. To the point where there is at least 5
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kshri24
24d ago
I would partly agree with you in so far as Twitter not collapsing and working well. I'll go so far as to say it was the right move by Elon to downsize the company as you really don't need so many people to run a social media site.
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24d ago
> Also also, lots and lots of scientists have been telling the world about climate change, just as scientists did regarding ozone. It's just that the media or politicians or the industry or whoever decided their reports were inconve
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24d ago
Still a failure because it is propped up by an inflated US dollar. Those trillions would mean nothing when the US economy collapses due to a cumulative effect of massive national debt, unending wars and inflation. At least if you have the p
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24d ago
Cannot take profits of these companies seriously when they have been laying off employees by the droves the past couple of years. Obviously profits will increase when workforce expenses have reduced. I'll only take it seriously after a
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27d ago
> why is it that for the ozone layer we got together and undid the damage but for climate change we don't? If you want the honest, brutal take it is because I remember, at least in my country, that for the ozone stuff there was a lo
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28d ago
I prefer compio over tokio. So would not want libs to depend on a library that is essentially a runtime. Runtimes should be swappable.
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kshri24
1mo ago
> You say that like you want it to happen. It has already started [1]. It has increased 100% since 2015. Just in the past decade alone. This is only reported hate crimes. > If you want a better America first you have to envision it in
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1mo ago
> The UK is still around and their empire fell a long time ago. America is not an Empire. When America collapses it will definitely lead to societal collapse. The racial tensions are kept under control only because of the mirage of prosp
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1mo ago
> I don't think America can lose It has already lost. America lost in Vietnam. Lost in Afghanistan. Turned Middle East into a humongous mess. Now losing badly in Iran. The only "wins" it had were against Countries where od
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kshri24
1mo ago
I don't like China for how it is behaving with my country but it is rich to talk about "invasions" when all the invading in the past half a century has been done by a Sole Democratic Superpower and its lackeys. Cannot believe
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1mo ago
> But there's also so much you can do for this target audience. The point is not asking one to do something for the target audience beyond showing a bit of compassion. If the passenger is lost/confused and is being yelled at it
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1mo ago
> b) hardly speaks English > c) is in a foreign country So you don't want tourists to your Country? You do realize 95% of the World lives outside the US? and at least 80% lives in non-English speaking Countries? Creating a horrid
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2mo ago
> The desperation to remain relevant now that Bun’s gone Huh? Zig was never dependent on Bun for being relevant. Tigerbeetle, for example, is written in Zig.
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kshri24
3mo ago
Remove the #m at end of the link. That's causing the redirect. Here is a cleaner link: https://xcancel.com/haider1/status/2073695124220006575
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