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by rl3 2y ago
Thank you, and well put. > ... and I dare say that others here on HN would have downvoted for that alone regardless of which side of any specific debate you chose to argue. That's fair. In fact, I used to be that person. I will say
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by rl3 2y ago
Just a few million extra deaths in the world as a direct result of some tech egomaniac acting on a petty grudge, no big deal. Fortunately, this submission is off-topic for Fascist News and has been flagged accordingly.
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by rl3 2y ago
This comment went from +5 to 0 almost 24 hours later. Racists win! Perhaps the bots have hate in their hearts.
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by rl3 2y ago
> 3) temporary, while they rewrite materials from “Secretary Powell, a Black man” style that emphasizes immutable characteristics What? Did it ever occur to you that the fact some of these veterans are minorities is historically relevan
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by rl3 2y ago
> It's much easier to send an NSL to Google to read your email than to try to intercept it over the wire. The latter capability would be reserved for high-value targets unreachable by the US legal system, not mass surveillance. ht
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by rl3 2y ago
Setting aside the fact that the leaks you're referring to are over a decade old at this point, they also established that GCHQ buffered the entirety of the UK's internet traffic for 72 hours, bit for bit. If you think there's
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by rl3 2y ago
> Elon Musk is not being paid by the government, as I understand. https://www.inc.com/bruce-crumley/why-elon-musks-faa-contrac... https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/us/politics&#
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by rl3 2y ago
Nice job, with a really cool result. Looks like that craft almost went beyond the infinite.
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Later when some proxy for Russia conveniently steals it all, they'll go "aw, shucks."
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Deterrence is in and of itself a strategic goal.
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Take that, Canada. /s
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> What do you think about AI replacing human outsourcing? You mean AI replacing humans. I have to say the timing of this post is impeccable, given what was was just discussed and posted to HN a mere 14 hours ago. [0] [0] https:/&#
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by rl3 2y ago
> It doesn't mean anything. It certainly means something in context, seeing as virtually everyone in the civil service has been painted with this same brush regardless of whether the term's use is correct or not.
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Seems to mostly just be extinguish in this case, unfortunately.
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Yeah, I think the fact its "mind" so to speak was more fragmented and unpredictable was almost a boon for that purpose.
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> The ensuring unhinged magic is unparalleled. Oops: ensuing*
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by rl3 2y ago
Maybe it's rose-colored glasses, but 3.5 was really the golden era for LLM comedy. More modern LLMs can't touch it. Just ask it to write you a film screenplay involving some hard-ass 80s/90s action star and someone totally un
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by rl3 2y ago
> 1. It is very very slow, ... below took 7s to generate with 4o, but 46s with GPT4.5 This is positively luxurious by o1-pro standards which I'd say average 5 minutes. That said I totally agree even ~45s isn't viable for rea
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by rl3 2y ago
This project looks realy neet. Glad to see it's useing Tree Siter, too!
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I've got bad news for you: radiotrophic fungi is already a thing. https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/life-in-the-extreme-radia... https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/News-Stories/Article&
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by rl3 2y ago
> If they can't keep the effort alive organically, they should get help from donations. Harsh words for people documenting genocide. > Not sure what's your point on the Politico article. It was a supporting citation for th
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by rl3 2y ago
Keep believing those baseless conspiracy theories. [0] > "U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, ..." > "Nichols noted that despite Trump’s claim of massive “corruption and fraud” in the agency, governmen
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by rl3 2y ago
The comparison was NHS vs Medicaid, not Medicare.
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by rl3 2y ago
> Is USAID corrupt? I think so, ... Yeah wow, so corrupt. /s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Agency_for_Inter... https://abcnews.go.com/US/former-usaid-official-calls-closur...
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by rl3 2y ago
Australia or Switzerland? Can't argue with that. I wish I was optimistic as you. Only problem is, I highly doubt any savings realized from spending cuts will materialize in the form of better healthcare. Regulatory capture is rampant,
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> Just to put things in perspective, Medicaid is hardly an actual healthcare program as it applies to less than 20% of our population. That's still a cool 70 million people. > However it somehow(?) costs more than 4x as much as
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by rl3 2y ago
Blame the victims much? Except in this case the victims happened to be essential to maintaining the security of the United States' nuclear weapons stockpile. Surely their evil, bureaucratic bosses just did it for show to score politica
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by rl3 2y ago
> It's easy to just go online and say "this is wrong these people are idiots" but what is your alternative solution? For starters, these people are in fact idiots. They randomly fired people at NNSA with virtually no warn
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by rl3 2y ago
Thanks. Admittedly "Probably something to do with Starlink" would've been more accurate. https://web.archive.org/web/20250101100055/https://www.usaid... That's now removed from the li
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> What's Elon's beef with USAID? They were investigating Starlink: https://oig.usaid.gov/node/6814

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