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by leonidasrup 5d ago
In the end, US doesn't need encryption backdoors because most chat and email protocols are not end-to-end encrypted and the TLS data streams are decrypted in the datacenter owned by US companies.
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by leonidasrup 5d ago
The global fossil electricity generation decreased in 2025 and CO2 emmision still increased in 2025 https://www.iea.org/reports/global-energy-review-2026/co2-em... Fossil fuels are not used only for electricity pr
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by leonidasrup 5d ago
Population of China is 1404 milions, population of France is 66 milion, so per capita France produces more electricity. 95% and 50% show that France has electric grid with much lower carbon emissions per unit of energy then China. France bu
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by leonidasrup 6d ago
The current wars in Europe and the Middle East could paradoxically push the world towards more domestic energy production, be it fossil or non-fossil energy. For example in reaction to 1973 Arab oil embargo Carter boosted energy efficiency
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by leonidasrup 6d ago
China mined more coal in 2025 then ever, but burned less in coal plans. Coal is slowly shifting from electricity production to synthetic oil and chemical production. https://www.mining.com/web/chinas-coal-output-hits-re
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by leonidasrup 6d ago
Last year France produced 94% of electricity from low-carbon sources, that is impressive. https://ourworldindata.org/profile/energy/france#how-much-of... China produced 41% of electricity from low-carbon sources l
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Germany's green developers hit a wall: Insolvencies, tighter credit(briefs.co)
2 points by leonidasrup 6d ago|0 comments
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by leonidasrup 8d ago
Because so few humans hallucinate, many imagine hallucinations like dreams and dreams are mostly harmless.
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by leonidasrup 8d ago
Using the term "Hallucination" makes it sound less problematic, less impactfull for user. They should have used the term "error". For example in statistics, there many kinds of errors, discretization error, prediction er
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by leonidasrup 8d ago
My argument is if AI companies are ignoring copyright law and looking at all training data as commons, then we should look at LLM output as something that is not protected by copyright law. Of course I'm a bit naive here, because we ar
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by leonidasrup 8d ago
LLMs can output near-exact segments of copyrighted code used for training. https://arxiv.org/html/2408.02487v3 I wonder how would Microsoft react if someone would synthesize a code solution based on Windows source code
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by leonidasrup 8d ago
In case of programming. How much do the current LLMs invent solutions for user tasks, how much they just copy and adopt existing open-source solutions from from Github and other code repositories? This not a problem for open-source code und
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by leonidasrup 8d ago
ffmpeg also prioritizes high performance assembly code over higher level languages. Some ffmpeg members have also waste knowledge about optimizing for specific micro-architectures, on a level of Intel or AMD engineers.
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by leonidasrup 8d ago
Or Cryptanalysis. " The National Security Agency is the largest employer of mathematicians in the U.S. " https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mathematicians-an...
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by leonidasrup 9d ago
> I hold the same position for any other initiatives that the German politicians throw money around for outside of its own borders Before the Russian invasion in 2022 Germany imported on average US$25 billions worth of goods from Russia
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by leonidasrup 10d ago
"Is the CLOUD Act only applicable to U.S. cloud service providers?" "No. The CLOUD Act applies to all electronic communication service or remote computing service providers that operate or have a legal presence in the U.S. Fo
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by leonidasrup 10d ago
The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither. - Thomas Jefferson
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The Controversial Linear No-Threshold Model(jnm.snmjournals.org)
2 points by leonidasrup 10d ago|0 comments
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by leonidasrup 10d ago
The article concludes with: Stop using encrypted email. If you want to address all the issues in the article, it should generalized to: Stop using email.
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EU approves sending mountains of trash to Turkey despite environmental fears(politico.eu)
2 points by leonidasrup 10d ago|0 comments
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by leonidasrup 11d ago
Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution protects only U.S. citizens inside U.S. NSA is allowed to collect any information about non-U.S. citizens outside U.S. and there are some limitations to collection of information about U.S. citizens o
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by leonidasrup 11d ago
Tech companies have been monetizing our privacy for a long time. Google's ex-CEO Eric Schmidt in 2009: "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place. If you
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by leonidasrup 11d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio " He was convicted of 19 counts of insider trading in Qwest stock on April 19, 2007 – charges his defense team claimed were U.S. government retaliation for his refusal
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Renewable Data Center Fantasy(energybadboys.substack.com)
1 points by leonidasrup 11d ago|0 comments
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Can Europe build a competitive polysilicon industry?(pv-magazine.com)
2 points by leonidasrup 12d ago|0 comments
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by leonidasrup 12d ago
You are right about about nuclear weapons, every large nuclear civilian reactor produces multiple bombs worth of plutonium every year, spread within the spend nuclear nuclear fuel. This reactor-grade plutonium has miserable properties for b
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by leonidasrup 12d ago
With Capex of $125/kWh for BESS, 8 GWh of battery backup would cost about a bilion USD. https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/how-cheap-is-batter... At this scale there just few projects in the pipeline: https
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by leonidasrup 13d ago
Germany had higher solar production per capita then China, in 2025. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_by_country We will see how the battery costs change over years, currently they are still very expensive for
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by leonidasrup 13d ago
China still produced only 11% of electricity from solar, Germany 18%, so in this metric Germany is better, but import all of it PV panels. And electricity only a part of primary energy consumption in both in China and Germany. https:/
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by leonidasrup 13d ago
Cheap solar, yes you can now buy PV quite cheap. How much of this costs (research, developmemt, building large factories in China) was payed by German EEG money and different subsidies? Also subsidies in form of cheap Chinese coal electrici

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