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France's top general expects 'shock' with Russia in 3-4 years(politico.eu)
7 points by nabla9 1y ago|0 comments
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by nabla9 1y ago
What "AI" means for most people is the software product they see, but only a part of it is the underlying machine learning model. Each foundation model receives additional training from thousands of humans, often very lowly paid,
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by nabla9 1y ago
He gets nothing. Tranche size is $500 billion. The first tranche milestone is $2 trillion, and the last tranche milestone is $8.5 trillion (total 12 tranches) Each tranche, other than the last two, requires an additional $500 billion incre
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by nabla9 1y ago
They pay is conditional. It will fully vest only if Tesla reaches market cap milestones up to $8.5 trillion and operational targets, including delivery of 20 million vehicles, 1 million humanoid robots, 1 million robotaxis, 10 million activ
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by nabla9 1y ago
I'm sure spies also operate on platforms like OnlyFans and can extract secrets even without physical interaction. The number of lonely male tech workers who engage in parasocial relationships online is not insignificant. Twenty years a
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by nabla9 1y ago
> An increase in populism is a direct result of higher inequality. Generally considered false by most social scientists, definitely oversimplification. Inequality is a contributing factor to the rise of populism, but it is not a direct
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Fast Slicer for Batch-CVP: Making Lattice Hybrid Attacks Practical(eprint.iacr.org)
1 points by nabla9 1y ago|0 comments
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by nabla9 1y ago
> What's the counter-argument to it? Don't bring elites into every discussion. Inequality causes problems, it's not directly relevant to every thing, like this discussion. Populism is the insanity of the masses.
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by nabla9 1y ago
>‘Tesla Dilemma’: Elon Musk is destroying Tesla’s profitable car business, but at the current valuation, his lies about self-driving and robots is what is keeping the stock alive. It's crazy and nuts but it makes sense. The choice i
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by nabla9 1y ago
It seems that you make a populist argument. Populism: the idea of the "common people" in opposition to a perceived elite. Frequently associated with anti-establishment and anti-political sentiment.
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The Future of AI Isn't Just Slop(wired.com)
3 points by nabla9 1y ago|0 comments
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by nabla9 1y ago
As many of the owners are billionaires or close to it, it's no surprise that it's mostly empty. Most of them don't live in NYC; they just don't want to live in a five star hotel while visiting. Chinese, Russian, and Gulf
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by nabla9 1y ago
This is embarrassing. It's not fraud or bad paper. AI just faked the citations when real papers exist and 30+ authors was not enough to spot it. We can't trust AI to to do valuable and simple manage menial work like keeping track
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Apple Said to Cut iPhone Air Production Amid Underwhelming Sales(macrumors.com)
9 points by nabla9 1y ago|4 comments
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by nabla9 1y ago
Similarly Samsung has canceled its thin smartphone (Galaxy S26 Edge) https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-galaxy-s26-edge-can... You don't get any benefit from a thin phone if it's not thin all the way. Both t
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by nabla9 1y ago
Doing good job is rewarded. Apple's Hardware Chief, John Ternus, seems to be next in line for succession to Tim Cook's position.
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by nabla9 1y ago
> About 20% of Irish homes are bought by investment funds, It does not matter who owns them. If there is enough housing, investments funds will lower rents to match the demand. Investment funds can do excessive rent seeking only if the s
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by nabla9 1y ago
Money goes in circle, your counterargument should include multiple steps. The net effect will not be UBI on top of wages. For the economy as whole nothing is added. The money just flows different route that gives people more power.
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by nabla9 1y ago
If you think this is relevant, then solution is obvious: Increase taxes on small wages until people can't effort rent and rents will decrease. Hint: it's not relevant. Housing benefits must be spent on housing. People can use UBI
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by nabla9 1y ago
The context in this discussion is FSF initiated projects. Those who are in the wider use have been started and kept people like RMS. There are hundreds of them in dustbin or with minimal use.
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by nabla9 1y ago
Good start, but it should expand to everyone without conditions. Imagine how easy it would be to start businesses, startups non-profit projects if you had UBI. Bunch of guys come together and everyone knows $1,500 per month each "fundi
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by nabla9 1y ago
Librephone is reverse engineering project that attempts to remove remaining proprietary binary modules, not a competing project. > Triaging existing packages and device compatibility to find a phone with the fewest, most fixable freedom
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by nabla9 1y ago
Librephone is reverse engineering project that attempts to remove remaining proprietary binary modules, not a competing project. > Librephone will serve existing developers and projects who aim to build a fully functioning and free (as i
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by nabla9 1y ago
In free software those who write code decide what is done and nobody else matters in the end.
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by nabla9 1y ago
You must read well to write well. Writes and Writes not (October 2024) https://www.paulgraham.com/writes.html >I'm usually reluctant to make predictions about technology, but I feel fairly confident about this one:
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by nabla9 1y ago
The US is a Paradox The United States is both modern and poor. Its vast interstate highways stretch from gleaming coastal metropolises, traversing westward across thousands of miles, cutting through rugged mountains and vast deserts before
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Kasparov: "Putin is testing Europe: before the end of the year, he will invade(mundoamerica.com)
4 points by nabla9 1y ago|7 comments
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"I am convinced that the next step in escalation will be a small-scale provocation against a Baltic country before the end of the year. He will do it. He just needs to show that Article 5 does not work. His goal is to prove that NATO i
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by nabla9 1y ago
HN discussions are predictable: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45566804
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Documentary Investigating how crypto is making the Trumps millions [video](youtube.com)
3 points by nabla9 1y ago|0 comments

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