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by nyokodo 2y ago
> they fail to even register the bigger cults now called religions “They” don’t need to because there’s always some atheist in the comment section to make bigoted generalizations and make wild claims that are demonstrably nonsense, such
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> cannabis (ab)use triggered psychotic episodes in two of my close family members, they had to be hospitalized multiple times (psych ward is no joke) There are additional risks for those experiencing psychotic episodes over and above the
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> whatever america wants, it gets from countries subject to the monroe doctrine The Monroe Doctrine has to do with preventing powers outside the western hemisphere interfering in Latin America, not the US imposing legal jurisdiction over
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> I'm not clear on how this works if the transport over which the kill command is issued is degraded or interrupted. Perhaps if the system doesn’t receive a signal after a period of time it will disable itself or there are agents su
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> This is a very popular stance to take for every millionare out there. Also, many non-millionaires who are older and have the perspective common to the old like Wozniak too probably. Their kids are grown if they had any, they’re probabl
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> This is where China will win. They can out-produce the United States and withhold the components the US needs to build the swarms. The US and allies can cut off or seriously curtail most of the raw materials required to run Chinese fac
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Yes I did, edited, thank you.
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> the young can change things It depends on who you’re calling young and which country you’re talking about. Millennials in the US will be the largest eligible voting block for the next 30 years at least, and maybe longer if they don’t h
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> Incentives seem lower than we all think? The income for most criminals is a pittance. [1] 1. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-apr-24-oe-dubne...
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> should take a fair shot at serving the low end market instead of hiding behind tariffs, no? That begs the question. They're only "hiding behind" tariffs if the price of Chinese manufacturing were fair in the first place
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> Aren’t electric cars in America subsidized by at least a 7500 dollar tax credit Yes, which is bad in my opinion, however subsidies in the form of US tax breaks stimulate US consumption it doesn't distort foreign consumption si
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> when another nation state does it, that is worse? When the industry in question is crucial to retaining domestic industrial capacity to counter that foreign nation’s hostile geopolitical agenda, yes it is worse!
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> but not creating artificial barriers If a product is artificially cheap then making it more expensive is removing an artificiality, not adding one.
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> Hey if China wants to spend their money giving me a cheaper car I care more about ensuring America has sufficient industrial capacity than I do short term cheaper EVs.
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> As a consumer, isn’t that a good thing? A foreign nation dumping massive volumes of their heavily subsidized production onto your local market and putting your domestic producers out of business is not a good thing for any nation. If
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> Wait a few generations ... and hope society doesn't crumble We don't have a few generations until we are beyond the point where we can mathematically recover unless we develop economic mass adult-cloning technology and develo
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> And who's to say the advertising industry-blessed training material is not the highest standard of truth? :) Anyone who understands what perverse incentives are, that’s who. Or are you just playing the relativism card?
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> A llm is biased by design Everything is biased. The problem is when that bias is hidden and likely to be material to your use case. These leaked deals definitely qualify as both hidden and likely to be material to most use cases wherea
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> Why would they, until forced? Because they were trying for years and failing? It’s not at all clear that the 7nm chips they produced recently have high yield and low cost compared to their competitors which is crucial so it’s not clear
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> Owning… derisks housing both from an expense and sourcing perspective Except if property taxes increase beyond affordability as they have for many folks in some states recently.
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> The factory investment charts speak for themselves. Except it doesn't. Factory building isn't the only metric for progress of reshoring manufacturing and graphs do not interpret themselves. In that chart the overall trend of
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> Elon Musk… rolled the dice and won. But only barely. > He was one launch failure away from bankruptcy at one point. That was the Dragon 1 back in 2008, years before Commercial Crew and during the company’s scrappy startup phase. Spa
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> the [Boeing] spokesperson said. "A fixed price contract offers little flexibility for solving hard problems that are common in new product and capability development." Who is convinced by this argument given SpaceX’s successf
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> this current administration has done something (reshore manufacturing) the previous administration couldn’t Except, they could. Reshoring manufacturing was already accelerating before the Chips Act etc with some seasonal back and forth
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> They might not even use blackmail, they might just "help out" If the target knows or suspects what you’re asking them to do is nefarious then you still run the same risks that they talk before your operation is complete. It’s
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> “I am so and so of the Egyptian intelligence service and would like to blackmail you” No, but practically by definition the target has to know they’re being forced to “help” and therefore know someone is targeting the project. Some per
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> consider the route of getting "kompromat" on a developer to make them "help" them I suppose that’s an option, but it also introduces an additional risk of exposure for your operation as it doesn’t always work and ma
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> there are too many differences for me to believe they have similar cultures There are significant differences between anglo countries but they also all have similar moral philosophy, Britain-derived legal and political systems, they’re
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> Australia was also under British rule until the 1980s Not really. The Australia Act 1986 just closed a technical loophole but Australia was for all intents and purposes fully sovereign since ratifying the Statute of Westminster in 1942
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> in the USA there's a visible cohort of people being marginalised and sent into a life of despair This is important but not in this context. When the global stakes are cultural oblivion, genocide, and the destruction of entire nati

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