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Oil Hits $119. Gas Prices Jump After Escalation(bloomberg.com)
5 points by master_crab 7mo ago|0 comments
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by master_crab 7mo ago
Yes, this has been the gradual evolution of AI context and tooling. Same thing is occurring with some of the use cases of a vector DB and RAG. Once you can have the agent interact with the already existing conventional data store using exis
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by master_crab 7mo ago
They are referring to the current crop of brimstone evangelists that used their pulpit to push their extremism to great political effect. Jerry Falwell was one of the pioneers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_Majori
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by master_crab 7mo ago
In a similar vein if anyone thinks this is an incorrect viewpoint (it’s not): For every combat soldier in the Pacific Theater in WWII there were roughly 4.3 support soldiers. I don’t think anyone questions the fact you needed all those peop
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by master_crab 7mo ago
https://archive.ph/oGeFW
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Oracle Will Fire Thousands Due to AI Cash Crunch(bloomberg.com)
10 points by master_crab 7mo ago|2 comments
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by master_crab 7mo ago
No. I would choose a group that has been suffering from genocide in one area, and ethnic cleansing in many others. Not a hundred years ago. Not 75 years ago. Today, in the here and now. We can go back and forth on this however many times yo
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by master_crab 7mo ago
Correct that there was no Iraq generation because there was no draft and numbers were way smaller. Vietnam had over half a million troops at the height of that war. Iraq had under 170k. But the war was still deeply unpopular. There is a rea
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by master_crab 7mo ago
Staying hands on matters. I think it also matters how you stay hands on. Initially, I was in the weeds quite often with my engineers. Over the years I’ve learned to maintain side projects that directionally follow what my teams are doing. I
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by master_crab 7mo ago
Pretty sure Palestinians would take issue with your opinion on that. And that’s not even considering historical records and precedent of any of those religions. Bashing one monotheistic religion while trying to contort logic around supporti
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by master_crab 8mo ago
Nowhere in the passage is it saying that. Merely that A, B, and C are the same and their difference play less of role in society than we think. Radical Christians are no different from radical Muslims who are no different than radical Jews.
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by master_crab 8mo ago
Most of these arguments on the effect of different religions tend to be a bit silly. Islam is much more related to Christianity and Judaism than either of those two are to each other. Language, cultural history, and geography tend to play a
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by master_crab 8mo ago
You’re conflating good faith and acceding to the US’s new demands based on past behavior.
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by master_crab 8mo ago
That’s not how life works. If someone takes the first underhanded step, it’s not on the victim to make amends. Iran got burned on JCPOA. Whether we like them or not, you have to address that first before moving on to meaningful talks.
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by master_crab 8mo ago
No they weren’t. Trump cancelled the previous treaty and then wanted a new agreement more favorable to the US than JCPOA. I don’t like the mullah’s in Iran anymore than the next person but no reasonable and sane person would take that to me
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by master_crab 8mo ago
Share price of Netflix jumped 10% after the news broke. Pretty sure shareholders will see a lot of upside.
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by master_crab 8mo ago
Well, Netflix did succeed at making the Ellisons pay a large fortune for something that costs a small fortune.
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by master_crab 8mo ago
And it’s still private. So no proper price finding has occurred yet.
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by master_crab 8mo ago
It’s also odd, because usually, as long as you don’t lie on your security form, you’ll get your clearance. The coverup is always worse than the original sin.
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by master_crab 8mo ago
Gotta drive that shareholder value.
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by master_crab 8mo ago
If I recall, the numbers almost always get revised down.
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by master_crab 8mo ago
Put some physical buttons in there and maybe I’ll consider it.
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by master_crab 8mo ago
It’s SMPTE. Not SMTPE
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by master_crab 8mo ago
I actually don’t even think it’s a IaaS company. I mean it is, but Amazon seems to always excel at operations: whether it’s organizing a retail business, operating a logistics company, or managing a hyperscaler, it just seems like its real
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by master_crab 8mo ago
One thing is for sure: if the seal builds and manages hundreds of billions of dollars worth of computer infrastructure across seven continents, it isn’t just a software company.
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by master_crab 8mo ago
Slavery effectively disappeared in most of Christian Europe towards the end of the Middle Ages, because the Church opposed keeping Christian slaves. (Similarly, Islamic Europe had banned Muslim slaves.) As Christianity spread, slaves were
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by master_crab 8mo ago
The BBC article is interesting: With these executions Beijing is sending a message of deterrence to would-be scammers. But the business has now moved to Myanmar's border with Thailand, and to Cambodia and Laos, where China has much le
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by master_crab 8mo ago
Yeah this is the thing that i always think about when discussing buying American. Even the GSA (the Federal government’s “facilities manager”) buys Hyundai cars because they are all made in the states (I believe Alabama in Hyundai’s case).
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by master_crab 9mo ago
Am I???? We’ll see…
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by master_crab 9mo ago
Yeah it’s called opencla— oh wait it changed again.

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