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by maeil 2y ago
> Some people don't like protectionism because in the long term it's worse for both countries. I keep seeing these statements on here and they're utterly misleading. Protectionism is a spectrum. It is practiced by every si
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It's the same as tourists complaining about tourists, hilarious irony. Does your Chinese friend at least realize that he's the one causing it? Even on HN I see the sentiment very often, people going on 5 holidays per year and comp
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For what it's worth, as always 99% benchmarks are very unreliable and per-task performance still greatly differs per model, with plenty of cases where results are wildly different. I have a task I use in my work where Gemini 1.5-Pro i
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A lot of talk about how much cheaper it is than all other models. It remains to be seen what the pricing will be when run by non-Deepseek providers. They might be loss leading. The comparison for cheap models should also be Gemini 2.0 Flash
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> IMHO llama 3.1 405B does not fit the definition, and the actual model quality is far from the benchmarks Very true. Meta has been disappointing so far, and it takes away from the blog that it starts with a graph of a completely misrepr
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Depends, in certain locales pirate IPTV is very popular, arguably even easier than Kazaa ever was! Stick a USB in your TV, done.
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Your profile has made me curious. May I ask you if it was the MBA itself that made you come to this insight? It's so uncommon to see an MBA holder with such views.
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Good read! > Postgres' support for extensions and plugins is impressive. One of the original design goals of Postgres from the 1980s was to be extensible. The intention was to easily support new access methods and new data types and
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I just find it very unlikely that you really have two candidates who appear equal after 10 minutes of talking to them. I guess it depends on how much freedom an HM has. Where I've worked, the answer has been "more than enough&quot
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> Voluntary trade benefits both parties by definition. It absolutely does not [1]. This kind of blanket statement is on the level of "market intervention is *always bad, the free market solves everything". Wishful Raegan-era th
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It isn't at all, and having lived in countries on both sides of the coin, I can tell you that people are getting a worse product in return, without the local job creation. I've written more about it here [1]. A trivial example
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Korea is one of the 4 countries that I know of where a non-Google firm holds significant market share in search. One of only 2 democracies, the other being Japan. And Japan is ambiguous as their local player (Yahoo Japan) has been using Goo
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If I turn up with a bulldozer and destroy your house, is that violence? How about if I flood your entire state/region permanently, both destroying your living, as well as that of your friends and families, as well as forcing you to rel
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I'm sure locale matters. If you're in NYC, there's bound to be authoritive websites with the content you're looking for about almost anything you could possibly want. But the further away you get from the US, the less th
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>Yes, but neither Apple (at least for non-MDMed devices) nor Google (for synchronized credentials) provide attestation, so any relying party enforcing attestation implicitly excludes the two largest implementations, making it a non-start
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> 1P will support it in a standards-compliant way soon: https://blog.1password.com/fido-alliance-import-export-passk ... See then believe, in the current environment saying "soon" based on 1password submitting a
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Thanks for taking the time to create this list up, will be linking this when passkeys are brought up.
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When possible, sure, but this is often not viable. Just to give an example, looking for information on a local performance or exhibition. I can go and dubquote the name of it, but that still gives me 20 "authoritive" websites with
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by maeil 2y ago
> For example, no prostitutions Maybe I'm misreading, what do you mean by this? China has plenty of prostitution in case that's what you meant. > the government doesn't control women's bodies. Peng Shuai might have
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by maeil 2y ago
I think it's very reasonable to take "Sabotaging any infrastructure harms people. Transitioning to clean energy can be (and is being) sped up by actual peaceful actions." as arguing for the sole usage of peaceful actions. If
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What is the point of this experiment? Is it OK to propose for Ukrainians to sabotage the lives of Russian generals? I'm trying to apply good faith, in which case I'm going to assume you're not arguing that there has never ex
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by maeil 2y ago
Bit of a tangent, but.. Google has been going down hill for many years but since the December update a few weeks ago it has genuinely become atrocious. In their quest to combat AI slop (good idea), they've gone and made domain authorit
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If everyone had abided by rules and laws, the US would still have hard segregation laws, etc.
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> Sabotaging any infrastracture harms people. Transitioning to clean energy can be (and is being) sped up by actual peaceful actions. It's entirely arbitrary to propose that only "peaceful" (an inherently relative term dep
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You've probably realized, but this can be said the exact same way for both sides of the equation (see: location of worst victims of global warming).
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> the Apple Magickeyboard b/c it's exactly like a laptop and clicky I'm being super pedantic, but it's not, the switches and especially keycaps are different from what they use in e.g. a Macbook Air (and not just in s
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I'll believe it when I see it. With the way the EU has been going, good chance it will get shelved before it goes into effect.
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> That's true, but it's also true that the inconvenience of paying $50-$100 and not having your phone for a day Not sure about the US or Apple, but over here if you go to Samsung a battery replacement generally takes less than
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Every euro/yen/.. spent by German/Japanese/.. residents on US tech is one that goes to big tech. Every minute spent consuming US tech (Meta et al) is one spent not consuming something that benefits local society. Enorm
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As I've explained here [1], when it comes to this topic (software), this take is on the level of "trickle-down economics". A good dose of protectionism means most people benefit, a very clear net positive for society as a who

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