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by leereeves 5mo ago
Judging from their behavior against their own people and their Islamic neighbors, it seems like the IRGC's hatred isn't limited to the West.
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by leereeves 5mo ago
I can't find much info about that (especially with their website down). Is Canonical's work with the DOD more like Raytheon or Pizza Hut? Raytheon: providing products specifically for the DOD Pizza Hut: selling their usual product
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by leereeves 5mo ago
You could say the same thing about Silicon Valley.
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by leereeves 5mo ago
In what way did America lose? America actually profits from the high oil prices as a net exporter.
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by leereeves 5mo ago
Fortunately I don't care whether you're convinced. I doubt our discussion here will change policy in any way.
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by leereeves 5mo ago
You're taking the metaphor much too seriously. It was only an example to illustrate that human rights don't automatically apply to machines. Let's not read too much into it.
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by leereeves 5mo ago
> Is there any line past which it becomes unreasonable? That's exactly the question we should be asking about AI and fair use.
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by leereeves 5mo ago
It's legal and perfectly reasonable for a human being to combine organic fuels with oxygen from the air to create energy and CO2. Any law restricting that would be the worst form of tyranny. It would not be reasonable to allow machines
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by leereeves 6mo ago
Rather than being distracted by whether primogeniture specifically is/was discriminatory, we should remember that "what was valued" in the societies Animats discussed very much included being male.
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by leereeves 6mo ago
I have no information about that, and of course no one currently in Iran would dare say anything bad about the regime right now. However, I find it hard to imagine anyone thinking: "I didn't like the Islamic Republic, and I was pi
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by leereeves 6mo ago
In 2024, a survey by GAMAAN estimated that "A significant majority of Iranians (around 70%) oppose the continuation of the Islamic Republic." Then the government of Iran murdered thousands to crush protests and retain power. Why w
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by leereeves 6mo ago
Or alternatively, men prefer careers because they pay more, regardless of other criteria, so they choose high paying fields more often.
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by leereeves 6mo ago
> And so the paradox is, the LLMs are only useful† if you're Schwartz Was the LLM even useful for Schwartz, if it produced false output?
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by leereeves 6mo ago
> The unraveling of the PetroDollar is happening. Suppose that is true. Would it matter? Oil is rarely traded in Euros but the Euro is still a strong currency.
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by leereeves 6mo ago
A stalemate with China. Not a stalemate with North Korea, who were pushed all the way back to the Chinese border, until the Chinese army joined the fight. Even then, it only became a stalemate because US politicians were unwilling to risk f
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by leereeves 6mo ago
> All cleared citizens are subject to warrantless search at any time by the FBI, some for the remainder of their life. That claim deserves a source.
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by leereeves 6mo ago
Why would Iran need a base in Qatar? It's right next door. Iran and Qatar do (did?) have military cooperation agreements, not only economic. [1] That's not a NATO style treaty but Qatar doesn't have a NATO style treaty with t
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by leereeves 7mo ago
The scenario you're proposing is more like "They broke into our silo and launched a nuke, then they shot it down themselves." A successful blackmailer doesn't want the security breach exposed or investigated, they want t
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by leereeves 7mo ago
No point in going round and round with personal opinions and general speculation. The debate is easily settled: just point to some actual harm done by this hack.
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by leereeves 7mo ago
There's so much speculation about how this hack could conceivably be damaging, but so little evidence that it actually contained anything damaging.
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by leereeves 7mo ago
I'd rather he worry about securing government secrets, not spend one second worrying about "personal photographs of Patel sniffing and smoking cigars, riding in an antique convertible, and making a face while taking a picture of h
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by leereeves 7mo ago
It's also been an ally of Iran. Qatar is not neutral in that it stays distant from both sides, it is neutral in that it attempts to maintain good relations with both sides. Iran has attacked the US base in Qatar before. When they did s
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by leereeves 7mo ago
Pressure from most of the world isn't enough, why would additional pressure from the US (who Iran already regarded as an enemy) have made the difference?
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by leereeves 7mo ago
It's also possible that he maintained security by not putting anything worth hacking on gmail.
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by leereeves 7mo ago
Were any of the people fired responsible for security on personal gmail accounts?
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by leereeves 7mo ago
> If the US thought an Iranian retaliation from an Israeli strike would be to attack US assets A reasonable belief, because Iran in fact responded to the US+Israeli strikes by attacking US allies and even neutral nations like Qatar. And
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by leereeves 7mo ago
Does the law protecting discussion of working conditions (in this case the handling of layoffs) really vanish if those discussions are humorous?
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by leereeves 7mo ago
It might not affect their bottom line or even how customers feel about them, but I think it will affect current and future employees.
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by leereeves 7mo ago
I was thinking of Mint Mobile. I guess there are many examples, not even counting the cases where the CEO becomes a celebrity (like Steve Jobs).
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by leereeves 7mo ago
Mueller's report said: "the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities." Perhaps you're talking about o

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