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by mustafa_pasi 3y ago
Interesting. Computational mathematics has really very little to do with traditional CS topics.
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by mustafa_pasi 3y ago
Socialist is really not the word I would use. "Less egalitarian", "more classist" are better descriptors. Access to capital is more restricted in countries like Germany compared to the US. This is both due to more conser
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by mustafa_pasi 3y ago
It is a common argument fielded by people of questionable morals, typically by fake nationalists like the AfD and the Dutch counterpart (which the author of the article praised in an earlier blog post). I have heard it being used in various
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by mustafa_pasi 3y ago
Somehow, I get the feeling that the author couldn't care less about any of these conflicts and tragedies, and is only using them to lament the fact that his community cares about other conflicts and tragedies and he would be perfectly
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by mustafa_pasi 3y ago
Culture might be a link between risk taking venture capitalists and less publicly financed social security. However I do not think there is an economic lock that forces a society to be either or. I can easily imagine a society that provides
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by mustafa_pasi 3y ago
What I see is that the underclass in Europe is better taken care off than the underclass in the US. But the working and middle classes in America are richer and have more opportunities than their counterparts in Europe. All of this, is comp
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by mustafa_pasi 3y ago
I grew up in (western, to be clear) Europe and never received adequate dental care either.
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by mustafa_pasi 3y ago
But that is a good! Contrast that with other countries where the financial landscape is super conservative when it comes to investment and innovation, like in many EU countries. Economic growth is lower, jobs are fewer, and salaries are lo
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by mustafa_pasi 3y ago
Could GPT-4V be used for robotic applications? I am a bit confused here. It produces a text from an image, but how much actual understanding does it have? Can the output somehow be used to do image segmentation and object detection and trac
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by mustafa_pasi 3y ago
Definitely. It is why I like to say that when it comes to the upper two quarters of income/wealth, there is way way way more upwards economic mobility in the US than in Europe. Here in Germany it is very easy to go from broke to middle
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by mustafa_pasi 3y ago
Oh, it's definitely one of the most distinctive difference between US and Europe. Of course it is not all the same. Germans are on the more conservative side, while the Dutch are known to be more entrepreneurial. But overall none is on
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by mustafa_pasi 3y ago
Definitely, but it is not our only problem. We don't get those lucrative internships and neither do we get the boatloads of startup capital. It's all caused by the same risk averse mentality, though.
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by mustafa_pasi 3y ago
They all have crazy CVs. If you're really talented in the US you can get very far on talent alone. If he was in Germany he's be a Ph.d or Postdoc toiling in some outdated research field that nobody cares about. The CTO has an even
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by mustafa_pasi 3y ago
That's if they are not ambitious. Might also be trying to become the new Google, or at least put the O in MANFANGO.
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by mustafa_pasi 3y ago
Of all the big tech companies Apple is the most innocuous. There have no monopoly in any of their sectors and you can just ignore them if you wish, as I do, without any consequences.
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by mustafa_pasi 3y ago
I don't deny the decades long anti-climate change lobbying and propaganda. However, being honest with myself, if you asked me right now about my willingness to incur a cost to fund the green transition, I would be hesitant, because I c
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by mustafa_pasi 3y ago
Germany sees itself as a leader in the green transition even if this is not factually correct.
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by mustafa_pasi 3y ago
People see Germany as a foolish naive nation which is currently hurting itself economically and making a clown of itself. It is having the opposite of the desired effect. Other countries will be more hesitant to transition to green technolo
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by mustafa_pasi 3y ago
This is a question of perceived cost and benefit. I do not actually think that the US would be undermining itself if it nudged the world's economy to transition to green technologies. I think it would protect itself and even benefit ec
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by mustafa_pasi 3y ago
That is however one of the the two unknowns in the equation: Unknown one: how expensive is the green transition. Unknown two: how expensive is climate change. The issue is further complicated by the fact that both of these cost
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by mustafa_pasi 3y ago
We posted almost the same comment. I do disagree with one point. The US is the country with the most global power and is instrumental in driving global change so I really disagree that they do not hold a huge responsibility. I mean, Germany
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by mustafa_pasi 3y ago
The political climate is just an obfuscation. The electorate perceives the change to be too costly* and the climate risks to be too remote to justify this cost. The problem with reports such as these is that they always give you the big pic
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by mustafa_pasi 3y ago
I love watching cooking videos. It's my number one go to, when I want to turn off my brain completely. But I never try to replicate recipes. I just pick up ideas. I never ever cook from a recipe, either. Cooking is very much like progr
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by mustafa_pasi 3y ago
Are there any highly developed cultures with a high birth rate? US Mormons and US Christians maybe?
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by mustafa_pasi 3y ago
But unions are not all the same. And I was not trying to make a point about union membership at all. I was rather lamenting economic policy. Some economists and some industrialists believe in keeping wages low to remain competitive. This th
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by mustafa_pasi 3y ago
Low wages result in economic stagnation. Just compare California to Germany for an example. Here in Germany, we have unions that put job security above all else including wages. And employers that offer job security as a perk rather than of
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by mustafa_pasi 3y ago
Does it impinge on your personal freedom, if the government decides to put up special privacy protections for groups it deems too vulnerable?
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by mustafa_pasi 3y ago
The problem is not really in having children but in raising them. I think it would be a good solution if couples were to have children in their early 20s, and have those children raised primarily by their grandparents who at this point woul
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by mustafa_pasi 3y ago
What I find particular interesting is they claim the goal is 1 million metric tons per annum. Current CO2 concentrations are at 421 ppm compared to the per-industrial level of 280 ppm which is approximately 1e12 metric tons of CO2.[0] So wi
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Biden administration announces $1.2B for DAC plants in Texas and Louisiana(energy.gov)
3 points by mustafa_pasi 3y ago|4 comments

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