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by nyokodo 2y ago
> Coming from the county with the highest incarceration rate, that's rich. No it isn’t. The US has serious problems but if I had to choose between being in the most vulnerable group in the worst part of the USA or a Uyghur in Xinjia
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by nyokodo 2y ago
> What is ironic about this? It could be considered situational irony for a company reporting on industry data breaches to expect readers to disclose personal information as one would expect them to display sensitivity to unnecessary cap
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by nyokodo 2y ago
> the bigger problem of language still remains > the true power of the US is that it operates in the global lingua franca It is true that language is a problem but I suspect not as much as you say. ~51% of the EU population speaks eng
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by nyokodo 2y ago
> "not having tech giants" is seen as a weakness It’s a second order weakness. The first order weakness is the relative lack of capital availability vs the United States which made it less likely to spawn EU native tech giants.
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> But I guess it took me multiple minutes to find these problems I’m no video editor but I noticed straight away that The characters’ eyes and hair tend to change, sometimes dramatically as they turn their head. Also, the head movement t
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by nyokodo 2y ago
> There are things we still don't understand about it, but we understand some, and it's not magic. > What's difficult to comprehend is the immense vastness of the universe. We know a whole lot about ways life changes on
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by nyokodo 2y ago
> it cannot be that nowhere else but here on Earth did this happen. > I don't know if this is statistics. It surely is gut feeling. It's possible that life emerging is so unlikely that it has never happened before anywhere e
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by nyokodo 2y ago
> Of course there are other lifeforms out there, it's statistically implausible for it to be otherwise. I'll grant you that once we have found a single other planet with life. Until then we're doing statistics on a single
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by nyokodo 2y ago
> The fact that the dataset can be distributed at all typically implies that the task is parallel. It depends, big data tasks aren’t necessarily CPU bound but IO bound so you won’t see any speed up throwing GPUs at the problem but you wi
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by nyokodo 2y ago
> You having an illusion of choice doesn't prove anything. It's not reasonable to assume one's experience is an illusion without sufficient evidence which is a bar you haven't crossed. Therefore your argument begs the
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by nyokodo 2y ago
> The US government is a far greater danger to the average American than the Chinese government is The US government could, if it wanted to, slaughter the entire civilian population of the US right now and no one could stop them. I don’t
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by nyokodo 2y ago
> How do you know you experience it beyond a reasonable doubt? I have no reason to doubt my common sense experience. > we don’t determine how we feel, we are simply served it. No definition of free will that I have encountered conside
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by nyokodo 2y ago
> Free will hasn’t been proven. Free will is something that we experience which provides extremely compelling evidence that it is true. Things don't have to be empirically proven in order to be true, if that were the case then empir
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by nyokodo 2y ago
> Veto it on the grounds that it would cost Biden the election No it won’t. Firstly because the hammer won’t fall until months after the election, and secondly it’d be hard for China-hawk Trump who attempted the same thing during his pre
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by nyokodo 3y ago
> Parasites do the same thing Only analogously. The reality is that what we call computer viruses are merely instructions running on a computer and are not substantially distinct from the computer in the same way that parasites or physic
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by nyokodo 3y ago
> Copyright is intended to promote technological progress What is your reasoning here? Copyright law doesn’t seem to do that at all. Are you thinking of Patent law?
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by nyokodo 3y ago
> Australia is a major consumer market Australia is more than nothing, but a country with 26 million people and about 1.2 million new car sales annually isn’t tipping the scales of the global market too much. They’re also geopolitically
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by nyokodo 3y ago
> stopping BYD from opening a factory in Hungary Opening a factory is a different matter. If the factory contains significant capital (ie isn’t just glorified assembly) then much of the manufacturing capacity is domestic as is the labor
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by nyokodo 3y ago
> I don't think Europe is nearly as dead set on the adversarial relationship with China Market protectionism is sufficient to provide pushback on Chinese product dumping in Europe in the medium term. However, as the global order det
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by nyokodo 3y ago
> Most countries don’t have enough domestic auto production to care Countries without domestic production are also not major consumer markets, and when aggregated into major trading blocks like the EU their most influential member states
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by nyokodo 3y ago
> Cheaper chinese EVs are coming out in two of the biggest 3 markets I expect this to be ephemeral due to geopolitics and the local politics. Chinese domestic consumption is lackluster compared to their production and they are “product d
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by nyokodo 3y ago
> crackpots talking about a uniparty, deep state vs the people, etc It’s not controversial to suggest that the interests of the political class, the special interests that fund their campaigns, and Washington bureaucrats differ from the
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by nyokodo 3y ago
> her own aides would choose a more positive phrasing if they believed she was doing good work Because it’s not a quote in context the phrasing belongs to the journalist not the aides.
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by nyokodo 3y ago
> I was … expecting it to be mostly black magic, but … the meat of the project is a bunch of … regexes Wait, regexes are the epitome of black magic. What do you consider as black magic?
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by nyokodo 3y ago
We had the dot com bubble but it didn’t end the tech sector which is bigger than it ever was during that bubble. The same is likely with AI. If the reality doesn’t match the hype then the bubble may burst but the technology will eventually
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by nyokodo 3y ago
> To support modern AGIs, we designed Taichi—large-scale photonic chiplets “Modern AGIs” because we had classic AGIs? Last I checked AGI remains in the realm of science fiction and prank tweets. I hope this is a translation snafu as it r
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by nyokodo 3y ago
> questionable legalities "Questionable" is an interesting euphemism for massive IP theft over many years.
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by nyokodo 3y ago
> How about we instead simply make the giants liable for what gets posted on their platforms? Because social media is a tool for global social influence and global intelligence that the powers that be do not want to give up. Because thos
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by nyokodo 3y ago
> We don't need to go to the ocean for metals. There are new technologies that can recover metals much less destructively from "unconventional resources" I look forward to hearing how your new technology multiplies current
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by nyokodo 3y ago
> I was talking about the political and cultural environment that fostered Apple's and other's attitude Neoliberalism certainly has had an effect, but can you point out the anarchocapitalist political and cultural elements that

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