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by myrmidon 1y ago
> They seem to be playing both sides. They are (arguably) playing for themselves first. Actual EU action in this conflict has been pretty well aligned with citizen/voter interests in my opinion; this is not strictly a good thing,
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by myrmidon 1y ago
Does not pass the smell test, those accusations hardly even qualify as a crime to be honest. If we had a fully democrat-controlled administration at every level (with every judge being a stout democrat), then I would still give you a <
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by myrmidon 1y ago
I'm not a troll. I scrutinise beliefs and assumptions even if they are convenient, and you should, too. I don't believe that Musks main motivation to participate in the 2024 election was to avoid prosecution, because his actions a
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by myrmidon 1y ago
All the context I have for this is that he was grandstanding in front of a rightwing audience (after Trump was shot at, notably) and playing the "surely I would get unjustly prosecuted for my political incorrectness under the democrats
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by myrmidon 1y ago
What would Elon even be in court for? Being a politically incorrect dumbass on ex-twitter is not punishable by law. Sending a bunch of scriptkiddies around and having them cut government funding and gut agencies is not really how you make
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by myrmidon 1y ago
I'm absolutely not a fan of Trump, but this is a highly questionable assumption. The much more likely hypothesis in my view is that he was helping Trump because of personal conviction (only in small parts motivated by naked self-intere
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by myrmidon 1y ago
Seconding that advice to just use prismatic lifepo cells. Those have become really cheap, too: You can order brandnew 1kWh cells for $60ish + shipping even if you only need single digit quantities (those want to be squished a bit for longev
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by myrmidon 1y ago
It should be "run inference on" in my opinion, and would be best shortened IMO to just "prototype, fine-tune, and run". I'argue that "inference" has taken on a somewhat distinct new meaning in an LLM-conte
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by myrmidon 1y ago
This is a systematic problem, the exact same thing happened with leaded gas already (industry sponsored scientists spreading misinformation on toxicity, lawfare against scientists that uncover/publish inconvenient truths) but there wer
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by myrmidon 1y ago
> This seems like a big number, but frankly in context it's actually quite trivial. It's not really helpful that the number is tolerable in terms of national GDP: election spending being so large in terms of median wealth simpl
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by myrmidon 1y ago
For the record: I don't think there was significantly more "election meddling" by the Russians in favor of Trump than what you would typically see, even though he is the preferrable candidate to them by quite a bit. But James
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by myrmidon 1y ago
Maybe, but Trump spent over half a billion on his 2024 campaign. Are you suggesting the outcome would have been unchanged had he spent a "sane" amount like $50M total? Because I don't think so. Furthermore, in a country with
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by myrmidon 1y ago
What does "surprisingly little" mean to you? US election spending in 2024 was almost $2bn (mostly presidential election). If media presence had surprisingly little effect on outcomes, then I would expect candidates to spend surp
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by myrmidon 1y ago
> You just misunderstand its obscure priorities, which are trade, jobs for Ur-Europeans and climate change Are those obscure priorities though? Putting local employment/wellfare/environment first seems justifiable to me, no? I
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by myrmidon 1y ago
The big assumption here is that authoritarianism in Europe would get you better infrastructure. My personal belief is that for good infrastructure you want capable local industry (to build it) AND a population that is not too wealthy (bec
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by myrmidon 1y ago
In my view, the CI system is supposed to run builds and tests in a standardized/reproducible environment (and to store logs/build artifacts). This is useful because you get a single source of truth for "does that commit bre
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by myrmidon 1y ago
> The published data for military submarines is the nominal test depth, not the actual design limit. The operational depth may be much deeper but that will be classified. We know the actual collapse depth for an older sub: 730m for the U
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by myrmidon 1y ago
Yeah, but that does not really matter; everyone else that imported meat (or feed ) now competes for McDonalds suppliers, which means higher prices. You can also expect to pay more for labor itself, because every bit of industry that you br
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by myrmidon 1y ago
Tariffs affect local product prices in a lot of ways. 1) They reduce competitive pressure so local producers can raise prices without losing market share (that is the actual point ) 2) They increase local demand for production capacity and
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by myrmidon 1y ago
> For a profit making company, this means it loses its competitiveness and then falls. For government, this means it gets a bigger budget. I would argue that with companies, the expected outcome is that they accumulate and then stabilize
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by myrmidon 1y ago
> Stopping once Meta stops the censorship would cause people to learn about what’s happening in Gaza, which I’m guessing is more important to the authors than exposing Meta’s censorship machine. This is exactly my point. This framing mak
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by myrmidon 1y ago
One important point I think is that Kodak, at its core, was a huge company specialized in photography related chemistry . Not easy to turn a company around when the knowledge/qualifications/experience of most of your employees be
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by myrmidon 1y ago
> Wouldn't having them already up give a lot less warning in a first strike situation? Improved first strike capability is worthless íf it isn't crippling, and "devastating enough" first strike capability from orbit i
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by myrmidon 1y ago
There are no kinetic NOR nuclear orbital strike capabilities for anyone right now, nor is anyone really working on it either, because it just makes zero sense (primarily because suborbital launches achieve the exact same outcome for a tin
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by myrmidon 1y ago
I do agree with you that there is a lot of overhead and waste in the healthcare industry and government in general. But this insight is, to me, just not really actionable. Almost every large organisation seems to end up with a good amount o
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by myrmidon 1y ago
"The government" is not actually accruing wealth in pretty much any western democracy-- in fact the exact opposite is happening everywhere. To me it seems clear why government budgets have increase so much. Since the emergence
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by myrmidon 1y ago
Snowden himself says that he saw a surveillance state being built and the people responsible lying about it under oat in front of democratic representatives (see James Clapper). In his words, he wanted the American public to know about wh
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by myrmidon 1y ago
Sounds about right. Wiki has a correctly scaled picture with the two biggest known black hole event horizons and the solar system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TON_618 Event horizon radius would be about roughly 1000
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by myrmidon 1y ago
This is harsh, but I agree with most of your points. The "blackmail" remark I find particularly damning: Threatening future leaks until Facebook stops "involvement with the Israeli government" is basically a self-admissi
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by myrmidon 1y ago
Is there any info on the language distribution of the censored content (or was this about english content only)? Are there random (or cherry picked) examples of censored content somewhere? Is anything known about the selection process (just

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