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by nostromo 2y ago
There’s plenty of evidence now that all of big tech was working with the Biden administration to censor their political opponents. We need a law or a court decision that says that the government isn’t allowed to restrict citizens speech by
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by nostromo 2y ago
Here's my actually local response from DeepSeek-R1:70B run on a M2 Ultra Mac Studio (I removed the "thinking" content for brevity): prompt: can you tell me about the Tiananmen Square Massacre > The Tiananmen Square Massacr
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by nostromo 2y ago
DeepSeek can be run locally and is uncensored, unlike ChatGPT.
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by nostromo 2y ago
I think the attacks on some of these black and gray markets has increased violent crime in the real world. I wish the federal government would stop shutting them down and instead use them as tools to build cases against people breaking the
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by nostromo 2y ago
The goal was always to get TikTok divested of Chinese ownership, not to ban it. The ban was the stick and selling it for a lot of money was the carrot. ByteDance surprised almost everyone in choosing the stick.
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by nostromo 2y ago
Agreed on most sales calls being unnecessary. But no internal calls? That's crazy. No, I don't love calls, but I also don't love spending days on email threads when we could have a 30-minute conversation with all the stakeho
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by nostromo 2y ago
I hope you’re right. It’s very difficult to address culture in the US without being accused of victim blaming or bias. But the uncomfortable truth is that some cultural practices simply do produce better neighbors and coworkers and compatri
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by nostromo 2y ago
The US does spend tens of billions fighting homelessness though. The US is very generous in this regard. The problem is it’s not solvable by building homes. It’s about addiction and mental illness. And because of the US constitution, it’
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by nostromo 2y ago
It's funny how every westerner visits Japan and comes home thinking we can "solve crime" or "solve homelessness" or "have clean subway stations." Japan's culture is why those things are the way they a
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by nostromo 2y ago
Fun fact: Her was set in the year 2025.
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by nostromo 2y ago
The median wages for Toronto and Montgomery are actually quite similar: Toronto: $84k CAD ($58k USD) Montgomery: $55k The person living in Montgomery can easily afford a house and a middle-class life. Can the person in Toronto? Would I rat
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by nostromo 2y ago
Most of Canada is pretty poor now. From the Economist: https://archive.is/UdixF/ec46ebf7fe812cd5e9432f45f68bd142e6c... Their housing is more expensive than the US, but taxes are higher and wages are lower. If Canada’s
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by nostromo 2y ago
That's no longer the case as the US no longer sends plastics to Asia under the guise of recycling. None of this would be an issue if we put our no-longer-usable plastics in landfills where they should be.
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by nostromo 2y ago
The problem isn’t collection. It’s what happens after collection.
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by nostromo 2y ago
North America consumer plastics do not end up in the ocean in large numbers. Plastics in the ocean generally come from waste from the fishing industry and from South East Asia.
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by nostromo 2y ago
Plastics are incredibly cheap if you put them in a landfill at the end of life. I agree that we should try and reduce our use of plastics. But their environmental impact is very small when they are disposed of properly.
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by nostromo 2y ago
Because his story barely passes the sniff test. He just up and joined a bunch of radical militias that he strongly disagrees with? I mean... maybe. But you'd of course be very suspicious of everything he says and his motives for comi
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by nostromo 2y ago
Canada is getting poor fast (compared to the US). This is from the Economist recently: https://archive.is/UdixF/ec46ebf7fe812cd5e9432f45f68bd142e6c... BC's GDP per capita is lower than Idahos. Ontario and Quebec
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by nostromo 2y ago
Yes, Google has adopted lots of dark patterns. I use YouTube via browser (Safari or Brave) on mobile and it's clear they don't care about the mobile web experience at all - to the point it seems like they are deliberately trying t
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by nostromo 2y ago
This isn't a new phenomenon though. Gen-X felt the same way. The entire youth culture at the time was based around the vibe that the culture sucked and there wasn't a future worth having for younger people. Apathy was the youth
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by nostromo 2y ago
You could use a solar sail to project a satellite towards the sun.
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by nostromo 2y ago
I’d be curious what jurisdiction that is true. In my jurisdiction in the US it doesn’t matter if someone purchased the stolen goods or not, the goods still belong to the owner. This is sometimes called the "nemo dat" rule: https
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by nostromo 2y ago
If it’s left anywhere in the open at anytime, you can repossess it legally as well. This happens with auto repossessions all the time. You don’t owe anyone an explanation as it’s yours - just take it if you can do so safely.
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by nostromo 2y ago
Well, the founders already won, according to the article: > Google does not own Character.AI, but it reportedly invested nearly $3 billion to re-hire Character.AI's founders, former Google researchers Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Frei
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by nostromo 2y ago
The irony is that users want more freedom and fewer safeguards. But these companies are rightfully worried about regulators and legislatures, often led by a pearl-clutching journalists, so we can't have nice things.
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by nostromo 2y ago
Your partner is the one with the biased view, not the general public. Only sick people go to urgent care, so your partner saw a very biased sample. The rest of us saw something much closer to reality.
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by nostromo 2y ago
Yes, you could grow and bury trees to reverse the carbon cycle. Even just leaving the trees standing is a pretty good carbon sink. Housing is also a great carbon sink as the wood used in construction is protected from rotting.
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by nostromo 2y ago
You can make it into a carbon-neutral heating fuel. You can make paper products including things like cardboard and packaging. You can put livestock on it and produce meat. Or if you just want to sequester carbon, you can harvest it and bur
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by nostromo 2y ago
It must be difficult to be one of the few fiscally responsible developed nations. It’s a bit like how if everyone on your block was racking up massive amounts of debt to buy lavish goods and throw parties. By comparison you’d feel poor, ev
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by nostromo 2y ago
Bonds are not doing well. Far from it.

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