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by lisasays 3y ago
Ukraine isn't even close to "winning" anything. Currently things are stalled. But the overall trajectory is that they utterly destroyed Russia's initial attempt at immediate conquest (of at least Kyiv, Kharkhiv, Odesa
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by lisasays 3y ago
You're right, I was skimming. So the closer countries are to Russia - the less likely they are to indulge in the moral luxury of signing the CCM. And Greece and Türkiye have each opted out because, well, the other has, so they must al
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Lyft driver who worked as US interpreter in Afghanistan shot dead in Washington(theguardian.com)
2 points by lisasays 3y ago|0 comments
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by lisasays 3y ago
Hmm... let's pick one of these guys at random. Okay, Malone. Let's pull up his file (from WP): Starting in mid-2021, Malone received criticism for propagating COVID-19 misinformation and conspiracy theories, including making &q
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by lisasays 3y ago
[dupe] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36625649
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by lisasays 3y ago
[flagged] For a whole bunch of reasons. For one, the exaggeration of the CO2 impact -- which reverts back to "between 2 and 8 percent" when we dial back to the stuff it links to, which in turn refer sources which are difficult to
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by lisasays 3y ago
Using cluster munitions is not a war crime. Technically true, but just barely, and only because neither US nor Russia is not a signatory to the CCM. But (as mentioned just now in a sibling post), in moral terms the issue is a bit more com
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by lisasays 3y ago
We get the point. But at the end of the day, it's not much one. For one thing - the spokesperson was speaking off the cuff, and obviously not informed about the ins and outs of existing treaties regarding cluster munitions. Or the ex
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Future of deep-sea mining hangs in balance as opposition grows(theguardian.com)
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by lisasays 3y ago
Of course Joel was wildly hyperbolizing, to the point of absurdity. Code gets re-written from scratch all the time, for perfectly legitimate reasons. As even Joel Spolsky knows. He just meant that you should be aware of the trade-off, a
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by lisasays 3y ago
‘Russian victory’ worse than civilian cluster bomb deaths. I think we let the Ukrainians make that call. They're the ones already getting killed and maimed in far greater numbers (and far away from the front lines) than are to be fea
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by lisasays 3y ago
for the simple reason that many sites' robots.txt file is wrong. Which is of course not the real reason. The reason Google doesn't follow the robots.txt protocol is (1) they don't want to (2) they can get away with it.
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by lisasays 3y ago
https://archive.ph/qaWZo Anyone from Egypt able to comment?
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Lessons for the Next Arab Spring(foreignpolicy.com)
2 points by lisasays 3y ago|1 comments
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by lisasays 3y ago
Qin Gang 秦刚 @AmbQinGang I would like to thank @elonmusk for his call for peace across the Taiwan Strait and his idea about establishing a special administrative zone for Taiwan. Actually, Peaceful reunification and One Countr
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by lisasays 3y ago
Russian colonists Given that nearly every place in Europe is currently being sat on by people who kicked some other group out of there, way back when -- even Riga itself was part of territory inhabited by Finno-Ugric peoples before becomi
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by lisasays 3y ago
Thanks, and you can believe what you want as well. That said, let's note please that these are all associational, rather than cause-and-effect findings. The matter should definitely be explored further - but in my book I would need si
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by lisasays 3y ago
Embrace (in your head, in preparation) the reasons you had to leave as though they were your own. Interesting and very well put. What people who advocate the "fuck it, just lie" approach is that lying (about things one doesn&#x2
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by lisasays 3y ago
You mean those naive, brainwashed fools in Western countries might learn ... We know all about the topic. However, it's clear from the overall tone of how you communicate here (and your endless evasions when cornered on simple factu
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by lisasays 3y ago
That isn't what the article says. It isn't even evaluation of other people's research, let alone novel research in itself. It's a "perspective" article commenting on human behavior. Meanwhile researchers who
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by lisasays 3y ago
By contrast, the generation that grew up in the USSR remembers what it’s like to have the “brotherhood of nations”, Oh sure. The older generation in Ukraine knows all about the "brotherhood of nations", and how great things wer
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by lisasays 3y ago
The same Michael Colborne this commenter is citing has also written that he "wouldn't call [the Azov Movement] explicitly a neo-Nazi movement", and told Haaretz in 2022: "After the first few years of its formation, only
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by lisasays 3y ago
I was at their wedding in Chernivtsi when they got married years ago. Of all places. As if you'd be able to find even a single person in that city right now who even remotely agrees with anything you've been posting in this thr
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by lisasays 3y ago
This idea that LLMs will get progressively dumber because of a training feedback loop is silly. It's also a straw man. The concern isn't so much that that theses systems will move backwards, but rather that they will start satu
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by lisasays 3y ago
You missed the key statement in the commenter's post: "If that's a requirement just say so" Clearly the roles they're applying for are not concerned with the ab initio design of large-scale systems. Which is why
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While US celebrates its independence, Hawaiians still wait for theirs(sfgate.com)
8 points by lisasays 3y ago|3 comments
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by lisasays 3y ago
Data from GitHub reveals that "41% of all code right now is AI generated," Mostaque remarked. Yup, you heard him - "all code" in the whole dang universe, he said. Apparently this canard derives from a recent quote from
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by lisasays 3y ago
The article clearly identifies stress (and potential power/trust issues between the pilots), not sexism per se as a potential causative factor. As per other comments in this thread, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/i
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by lisasays 3y ago
If you want to make a business, you must make what the market wants. Making your own stuff and trying to make money from it is possible, but it's no longer a business. Right, we get it - but it's not binary, and in turns out the
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by lisasays 3y ago
OK, so you're dodging the question, then. "What to do if they ask question X?" "Just lie, like everyone else does." "Except you know that won't work if in fact they do ask you question X, right?" &quo

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