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Tell me in which country Linux was first developed? Which part of the world is that? Do the countries there have something special which they are well known for, and which might make unpaid passion projects more attainable than, say, 2020s
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Italy is not an AI hub to my knowledge. I would be very surprised if high profile AI figures and companies started making ties with them. What are you getting at?
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You’ve never been snaked in a corporation before?
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Because the current AI boom started around 2010-2016, and the time period to which you are referring ended about 800 years earlier.
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G42 is Emirati, but KAUST is Saudi as you mentioned. Not sure what the PR on the UAE is like.
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Money is one thing, geopolitical risk is another much more turbulent force than the markets.
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> Not sure what sense of "openness" is relevant It is in the name OpenAI… not that I think the Swiss are especially transparent, but neither are the USA.
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He is not the only AI related entity doing business in the Middle East. Look at G42’s and King Abdullah University’s partnership with Cerebras Systems. I was not aware that the Arab states were such a Mecca (pun very much intended) for AI,
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Has the US ever stated or followed a policy of neutrality and openness? OpenAI positioned itself like that, much the same way Switzerland does in global politics.
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>so they have to develop management strategies where they ignore the noise I believe this is called “please use the template when submitting an issue” and we all know how that goes. I’ve honestly found myself laughing like a madman at Gi
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I’ve had insomnia for about 3 weeks and I bought some this week to try and break through. I had a couple restful nights and a couple nights where my wakefulness window was pushed back by 4h (instead of 11-3, 3:30-alarm) From what I understa
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I’ve been intrigued by Fedora Silverblue but never got round to trying it out, though I’m tired of potentially fighting with NVIDIA drivers whenever I update my kernel (linus_torvalds.mp4) Have you looked into it all? I think it uses flatpa
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>they incentivize participants to distort the market in order to make their prediction come true (and thus receive a payout) Isn’t that true of any goal directed activity, or desire?
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Onlyfans (For bug bounties!)
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I tried using Wayland, but I forgot to write down the 7 esoteric GPU related options I had to pass to vscode to make it usable without visual glitches and eventually just gave up and went back to X11
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I was neither praising nor deriding Canada’s approach, I was providing context for the parent. The logic of ‘conquest->hegemony’ does not quite work in parts of North America because the ‘conquest’ was not a traditional one, but rather b
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In the case of Canada, the ‘war’ was won/avoided by giving them concessions and treaties, that were reneged on and violated by the colonial government. The current government tend towards ‘truth and reconciliation’ is an attempt (or at
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Slavs have been discriminated against quite terribly over history. ‘White’ is just a category invented by Anglos and other Germanics (including Scandis, Franks, excluding Slavs and Jews) to lump together the ‘good sort’ of light skinned peo
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>These free speech alternatives will never have a wholesome membership list Indeed, I’ve noticed with ‘rights’, that the very people fighting for them are invariably going to be on the side of some repugnant individuals. After all, the b
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Not injection related, but I cleaned a barbell last week (pull from the floor, jump and catch it on your shoulders) and walked it over to the rack on my shoulders, and I felt like I was about to faint after I’d taken 5 steps. Vision started
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I was in an East Asian style grocery once and picked up some Tsingtao 0.0 and it’s the closest tasting nonalcoholic beer I have found to the regular version
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Lots of books too. I couldn’t finish Atlas Shrugged (page 1000/1200 before I abandoned it) for multiple reasons, but the god awful sex scenes were probably at the top. Or otherwise good novels with a solitary graphic sex scene, where t
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Flowdan - Welcome to London They got Oysters, they’re not just seafood So the boy-dem can follow and see you
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Ok but I remember a few occasions where people have got off easy for being ignorant of the law. I don’t want to be partisan but the most striking example I remember was when Comey weighed in on Secretary Clinton’s email server saying “there
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We have had politicians using radio. We have had politicians using television. We have had politicians using Twitter. Politicians using large language and diffusion models was only a matter of time.
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And sour soups like żurek (soured rye) and the dill pickle based рассольник (rassolnik) and zupa ogórkowa.
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Are you sure there is a causative relation between bringing it up and getting eviscerated? Perhaps a third process correlates them.
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Yes, I do the secondary fermentation which involves decanting it into a mason jar when it starts to separate, with some fruit pieces and letting it go for another 2-3h before refrigeration. This takes off the tartness and makes it a little
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The cool kids brew/drink kefir now. If you don’t have middle eastern or Slavic tastes you’ll probably think it tastes gross tho.
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Oh that might be what affected me in Canada. I was using Mint connected to my RBC account and loved it, but it stopped working forever about 2 years ago. Now I just do it all on spreadsheets which isn’t as bad as I thought, but Mint was sti

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