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by maeil 3y ago
The worst in Europe, and since much longer than any other country in Europe. It's common for Dutch universities to only accept international students on the condition that they (i.e. the student) manage to find housing themselves, beca
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by maeil 3y ago
I wish we had less people like him and less AGI boomer cultists. Your verbiage isn't in the spirit of HN.
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by maeil 3y ago
The first time I've seen this broadly supported level of censorship across so many institutions was during Covid regarding the possible role of the Wuhan Institute of Virology. It seems like this has now become normalized and we'r
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by maeil 3y ago
It seems quite possible that the change you've seen in these last two months is because some have started using these models. More likely than a sudden huge shift in either the country of origin or English skills of the scammers.
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by maeil 3y ago
A bit surprised by this pseudo ad hominem, but just for one data point I have (now ex-)coworkers in the same role as me who've recently moved to OpenAI. I'm not suggesting I'm more competent than them, but I don't think
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by maeil 3y ago
On the contrary - I will now be actively looking for opportunities to join OpenAI, while I wasn't particularly interested beforehand.
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> and nobody is going to want to work there or partner with them Before this I wasn't interested in joining OpenAI despite having seen colleagues jump ship to them, but I now very much am. It works both ways.
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> You turn them away and China or the EU would gladly take them. Firstly, there's a good reason the people in question want to go the US instead of China or the EU. EU salaries are much lower and the local language is always a barri
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by maeil 3y ago
This existed before, just only for the wealthy. If Bob had that money in a Swiss private bank or distributed over a sprawling network of shell companies in the Carribean, it would be just as tough to get to. Or for the less wealthy; Bob cou
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by maeil 3y ago
What symptoms did you have?
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by maeil 3y ago
> Most African countries got independence in the 1940 - 1970s. Israel was established in 1948, while Singapore became independent in 1967. While most African states busied themselves with denouncing colonialism, playing around with the S
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by maeil 3y ago
> I would love to tell Windows to go take a flying leap but I can't because I need to use Dragon. What does Dragon do you for that Talon can't?
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by maeil 3y ago
> My point is that the WEI proposal is trying to solve a genuine and increasingly important issue for providers on the web. There is no issue. In general the companies who encounter this "issue" the most are already making plen
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by maeil 3y ago
South Korea is the same. I knew Brazil were our only brothers in arms when it came to this hellscape but I was under the impression that unlike here, in Brazil over the last 5 years or so this had become a thing of the past and you don&#x27
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by maeil 3y ago
Incredibly delayed, giving at least decades to figure things out.
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by maeil 3y ago
The sum of all hardware produced, sure. But the amount of hardware a single player currently posseses? Doubtful.
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by maeil 3y ago
I'm not suggesting to do that, I'm just showing that it's incredibly possible. You could also go with "Tomorrow a massive storm strikes the Netherlands and huge earthquakes striking Taiwan and the US Westcoast", if
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by maeil 3y ago
If tomorrow TSMC, NVIDIA and ASML get destroyed in the next 9/11, it's "stopped". It's completely possible.
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By the standards of modern "meatlovers" they might as well have been, given just how rarely they had meat.
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by maeil 3y ago
> Seoul is also clean with good subway coverage, but Itaewon is too hilly if you like cycling and it takes forever to commute if you live on the other side of the city but still want the food in Itaewon. To be fair - There's electri
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by maeil 3y ago
> There is a common view of cultural norms as at worst tyrannical or at best random and arbitrary, rather than the sophisticated and curated product of billions of human lives. > Social iconoclasts dismiss organized religion, marriage
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by maeil 3y ago
This would mean they're ready to all but abandon the consumer market and become a pure business OS.
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by maeil 3y ago
One, it seems reasonable to assume that an entity willing to pay $1+ million for a zero-day will generally want to buy another one not too far in the future. The recourse would be no longer selling to them. Two, there wouldn't be much
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by maeil 3y ago
> And you’d be wrong on almost all counts. The NHS runs on the N3 network, and runs its own email servers. Emailing outside of the organization about patients is a sackable offence. In that case I'd assume Palantir's software t
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by maeil 3y ago
This argument can be made about any US digital tool that stores data. I'm sure >99.9% of NHS employees use Apple and Google Android phones, which likely have access to their emails. Office365? Is there even a reasonable UK office su
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by maeil 3y ago
> As much as I like "free speech" to be the answer, this is a pretty chilling downstream result of a platform not being able to do heavy human moderation. A net income of $23 billion in 2022. Meta is willingly not doing heavy h
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by maeil 3y ago
Sounds very similar to Palantir, except for the part about telling others that they're a consulting company.
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South Korea too.
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Interestingly they listed up the foremost five Western Anglo countries, which are bound to be extremely overrepresented on HN. Or maybe not so interestingly.
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Misleading title; the study is very specifically about carbon offsetting by slowing deforestation . There are other incredibly common methods of carbon offsetting, e.g. renewable energy projects in developing countries. This study does not

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