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China will work to firmly advance 'reunification' with Taiwan, premier says(reuters.com)
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The relevance to me is that markov chains are a remarkable way to explain why LLMs are both useful and very unreliable. You train on piece of text and then the output 'sounds' like that text it was trained despite being pure gibbe
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Can you confirm if that was the case at Mozilla? They actively discriminated against hiring gay people? From what I've heard that's not true at all. I think a closer analogy is no boss or CEO will likely have political views that
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Eich faced those consequences that you would have wanted -- so he wasn't tolerated -- and was forced to step down. Now we're faced with a Web were all Browsers come from large companies and people are wondering why his successors
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I see you're one of those people where 'compromise' is a dirty word. The key is tolerance. Eich's views while distasteful and probably wrong could be tolerated.
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Getting rid of Brendan Eich was a bad idea in hindsight. Yes he supported Prop 8 and people didn't like his political views but given the current US climate that seems all very tame in comparison and I'm not sure exactly how that
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What do you think the trade off here with syntax is and what jq was designed for? A bash script might need to execute it and you want something without lots of funny characters or whitespace as it's going straight in to the terminal. T
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Why does Apple allow Expo apps on the App Store when they effectively bypass App Review? Doesn't this go against their own policies? I say that as someone who uses Expo precisely for this reason.
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The whole lead poisoning scandals are really great examples of how capitalism/free markets have serious limits to what they can achieve. They should should be seen as a useful tool to help make certain markets more efficient and not as
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>No; from what I understand, Then it's your understanding that needs adjustment. Advanced chips nearly all come from Taiwan. You can't have a laptop without a CPU. Sourcing as much as they can from the US is admirable but the r
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The demand side. Less laptops will be bought even if profit per laptop goes up overall profits will go down. Money is finite and these are durable goods. People will now look at other options like the second hand market.
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Tools empower those with knowledge further than those without knowledge. The fact that people were concerned layman were simply going to be able to take on experienced programmers at their day jobs was farcical.
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Not Ireland -- Ireland so far has been immune to any global veering to the right. There are efforts though -- just not successful.
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>Who is going to replace US? There doesn't have to be a replacement. Just like nobody replaced the USSR after the Cold War ended leaving the US as the worlds lone super power. A world can exist with no super powers and with multiple
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I'm not dying on any hill. I will sign back up for a €20 euro a month niche search engine when either the war ends or Kagi remove Yandex from their funding list.
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I will sign back up for a paid service when funding Russian search engine Yandex is dropped. Many like to forget there is a war.
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They don't e.g. Parler and Gab
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Currently on the internet people skip the article and go straight to the comments. Soon people will skip the comments and go striaght to an AI summary reading neither the original article nor the comments.
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The Chesterton's Fence of body parts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton
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Shooting people is not illegal in the US -- I'm not sure this is the best analogy or there will be huge limitations when discussing decompilation efforts. Plenty of people are shot or killed lawfully with firearms.
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AI is a tool like any other. Autocomplete on steroids -- markov chains taken to the extreme. We already put natural language between us and the bytes. Hence why most keywords and variable names (a hard part of computer science) are in simpl
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I agree however it's the 'Paul Graham' definition. i.e. a trade off must be maintained between the bottom line and growth and a startup is a business that prioritises growth over basic financial sustainability. I've seen
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At least someone is setting limits, Biden noted in his farewell address how America is being shaped by oligarchs which has echos of Eisenhower's farewell address warning of the forming of a 'military-industrial complex'.
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I do this as well i.e delete the name of a bookmark using only it's favicon to identify it. When you login to Firefox. Just right click your bookmarks and hit open all in new tabs. It will open all 500+ tabs. Leave it for a few minutes
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>The US hasn't even had a period of high taxes intended to impoverish the rich, as the UK did after WWII. Effective US Corporation tax was as high as 50% post WWII. Effective income taxes were between 70% and 90%.
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This is an insane figure. With Trump threatening a trade war with the EU I wonder if these Ozempic/Wegovi drugs will be targetted in retaliation -- they seem to be the only weapons to counter this epidemic.
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Time you enjoyed 'wasting' -- was not wasted.
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There is only so much you can play whack a mole -- virtually nobody 'cheats' the taxman. There are plenty of legal loopholes etc. if you are smart enough to use them. If you aren't -- you'll find the enforcement end of t
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Your information is outdated -- Double Irish is no longer applicable according to your own source since 2010.
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I'd imagine you'd get done for not being tax compliant. At least in Ireland you have to able to show all tax accounting for the last four years on request by Revenue. If you can't produce this and all the files 'have gon

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