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by orwin 2mo ago
It wasn't a win for the US military. They spent 20 years in south Vietnam, trying to keep it independent, and ultimately failed. Their stated goal was south Vietnam independence and stopping the spread of communism. Both were failed go
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by orwin 2mo ago
No, not really, it's two orders of magnitude smaller overall. Drugs, gold (from illegal mines in the Amazon) and weapons (from US lost military stock/police seizure mostly) drive cartels economy (in that order last time I checked,
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by orwin 2mo ago
https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/u-s-lif... Think about it.
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by orwin 2mo ago
Bac Ho took back the country he liberated from the french, renamed the capital city, instituted a communist regime that held its own against china.
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by orwin 2mo ago
US health insurance margins are thinner than European private insurance. Their administrative cost however are 9-10%, when in Europe (or really, France and Germany, I haven't looked elsewhere) they are 5-8%. The difference is probably
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by orwin 2mo ago
Yes. Oil peak production in North Africa is early 2010, peak gas in the north sea is 2004, peak oil 2008. The US recovery started as they started to exploit non-conventional gas, then oil, and Canada who exploited non-conventional felt it e
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by orwin 2mo ago
The two last hire we got a year ago still don't have any ownership of anything. Even the project they coded 'themselve' where we involved them in the design and let them cook almost on their own, we are the one chasing bugs a
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by orwin 2mo ago
It works very well in rich countries, but it is expensive, especially if the volume of exchanged currency is low. This is one of the reason behind the Euro, countries realised it would be way less expensive to defend the currency if they ba
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by orwin 2mo ago
Chinese cars built in Europe are not taxed/sanctioned. I think the base golf is around 30k. (Renault, fiat and Citroen are better priced than German cars if you don't mind staying in the low-end. You still have park assist, Google
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by orwin 2mo ago
I was thinking about Opus 4.5 when i talked about 10 month ago, but maybe i'm confusing the date, it might have been 9 month. Opus 4.5 vs Fable 5? i think the output difference will be negligible, and the opportunity cost of paying an
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by orwin 2mo ago
What caused the second recession in Europe was a decrease in energy supply. Country that depended the most on the North sea or North Africa oil and gas exports suffered the most. We still live under the constraints of our world, and energy
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by orwin 2mo ago
But who needs SOTA models, really? It was necessary 10 months ago, but now?
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by orwin 2mo ago
> - deny is the default: one button to deny everything but one accept button for every partner Yes, that's in the law. I you do not click on consent, the default is deny everything, and a button to refuse everything should be easy t
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by orwin 3mo ago
It impacted the north of Bordeaux too. from Thursday to saturday, a lot of small fields/forest in Charente/Charente maritime started to catch fire because of the embers. The smoke was also so dense it completly modified the local
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by orwin 3mo ago
If you go to a LLM without harness, GP original point in completely right. LLMS by themselves are still shit at math, they still confuse weird correlation to causation every time (and sometimes in ways even a 9 year old would say "no,
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by orwin 3mo ago
To whom it may concern: codeberg is explicitly _not_ for private repo and your ai game pet project. It's aim is to host FOSS tools and libraries. To me, this is a good decision. I already got burned by an Asdf 'clone' that wa
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by orwin 3mo ago
The only reason we knew about it is that it was one of our network output 'node', but I don't think I've read anything about it in generalist medias
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by orwin 3mo ago
That's highly unlikely that this is done flawlessly. This morning I found a bug in our error handling, I asked Sol to fix it. He rewrote the way the specific component that failed called the exception. I asked it to retry and go deeper
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by orwin 3mo ago
Yes. Institut Pasteur discovered a lot of the molecules currently used in general medecine, created more new vaccines than any other institute and currently is at the very edge of gene therapy. Not that is has anything to do with efficiency
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by orwin 3mo ago
Insurance is the perfect industry because in no other industry you can calculate efficiency this easily: if I give you 100, how much is used to reimburse other insuree. It turns out for public insurance, often more than 90, even in more cor
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by orwin 3mo ago
Originally, money is a IOU and basically a tool to trade between communities. The individualization of capital (capitalism basically) made place for private loan and artificial middlemen like i wrote in the previous comment. And yes, you ca
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by orwin 3mo ago
> too many people view male teachers as inherently predatory. I absolutely hate this. It's the same in every field in contact with kids. When I was a youth camp counsellor, a director told me after stuff happened with other counsell
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by orwin 3mo ago
People you tend to for months or years dying on you gets old really fast though. In my family, the 5 doctors are still working (or kept working until retirement), of the 8 PT, only one isn't working as a PT, but of the 4 nurses only on
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by orwin 3mo ago
I borrow you 10 money i use to buy my chair-making tools. I make the chair, sell it 20 money, then pay you 12 money back for the service rendered. Basically money is supposed to be a tool that help us creating capital by exchanging goods.
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by orwin 3mo ago
Yeah, happened a few months ago to my friend (who is leaving in August)(that's why I sort of knew the prices and living conditions). She waited a bit more of a month. It isn't often an issue from my understanding, but it is extrem
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by orwin 3mo ago
That why i usually keep to the insurance example, i agree that comparing municipality power to private companies owning a monopoly is unfair. Administrative costs for insurance are very easy to verify, and the facts stay consistent across c
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by orwin 3mo ago
For psychological care it isn't that bad. Probably because people will first get on anxiousness/depression pills, and convince themselve they are ok.
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by orwin 3mo ago
> I also understand the hesitancy to pay for two months at a “retreat-like inpatient psychiatric facility.” > In publicly funded system, it’s likely facilities like this would not exist or would be strictly private pay. In France, 80%
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by orwin 3mo ago
I'm pretty sure it isn't assumed. My main example has been the same since COVID, as insurance is probably the business you can compare 1-1 the most. Public health insurance in my country, in the last 20 years used 6-9% (depending
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by orwin 3mo ago
I need to find it but i have read a few years ago a sociological paper about how criminal organization consolidating and increasing in strength will lead to harder drugs being pushed, more human trafficking and an increase in unauthorized i

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