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by scarmig 4y ago
The message everyone hears from that is that if your country is threatened by an aggressive power, we'll give it up but let you flee it and come to us. That's... not reassuring for allies.
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by scarmig 4y ago
The superior ability of the US to project force in distant places does not inherently translate to the ability to beat China in its own backyard. The US has more and (much) better carriers, but China has, well, China, and a whole lot of mis
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by scarmig 4y ago
The thing about a blockade is that you just have to get commercial vessels to not want to enter targeted ports. Even excluding financial and economic tools that China can leverage against companies and supposing China's military couldn
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by scarmig 4y ago
> US it just might help bring about a cultural shift away from extreme consumerism towards something more sustainable. If the US's best defense against a China-initiated economic war is to give up consumerism, that doesn't give
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by scarmig 4y ago
> * Russia has spent years financially divorcing itself from the West. China has no economy without the West. True, but by the same token the West (and the rest of the East, and the world) has no economy without China. It makes everythin
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by scarmig 4y ago
> No one is mandating Humandating, please. Etymology aside, this is suggestive of men forcing people to do things, which is insensitive of ~~survivors of rape~~ people who have survived rape. > architects People who engage in architec
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by scarmig 4y ago
My sense is that German automotive companies dealt with Japanese competition better than American ones did, though I'd love for someone who knows about the history of the industry to chime in. Germany had strong unions and was a market
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by scarmig 4y ago
I'd emphasize not only that there have been advances in theory but also in, more importantly, the empirical evidence. Marxism is a scientific theory in the sense that it can be falsified, and if you look at the rate of profit over time
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by scarmig 4y ago
1) That was a statement of arguments about whether or not a worker co-op driven economy is superior to labor unions, from a pro-labor perspective. Stating an argument doesn't mean endorsement of it; that's the entire point of stee
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by scarmig 4y ago
Marx didn't predict that capitalism wouldn't generate wealth. On the contrary, he believed it was the most economically revolutionary structure the world had yet devised and would create untold wealth. That's entirely consist
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by scarmig 4y ago
Argument for the meme: Labor unions don't challenge the core structure of capitalism; even when they're working, they mostly serve to give a slightly bigger piece of the pie to workers. And in practice, they are hijacked by a cert
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by scarmig 4y ago
> after WW2 there was no union left worth their name behind the iron curtain. Solidarność.
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by scarmig 4y ago
> OSM isn't the be-all and end-all of GIS data. It's very incomplete in places I know very little about the space, but couldn't Overture members focus primarily on just filling in those gaps? > doesn't always spati
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by scarmig 4y ago
A reasonable modified goal would be "profits generated by a country's residents are taxed by that country."
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by scarmig 4y ago
No need to rag on btrfs.
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by scarmig 4y ago
Why should the companies be held liable? This was a government project enforced by the gun; the companies didn't force anyone to take their vaccines, and there's not a way they could have made them meaningfully safer given the tim
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by scarmig 4y ago
IME, HTML-driven web applications (to say nothing of simple pages) in the field are generally more screen reader friendly than SPAs, though you can certainly achieve good accessibility with the right team and resources.
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by scarmig 4y ago
This is a game of cat and mouse; although engineering approaches are fun, it's primarily an organizational/legal challenge, not a red/blue team exercise. The first line of defense is contacting the relevant authorities. This
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by scarmig 4y ago
> Create fake big css files (10MB etc). And repeatedly download that from the adversary's website. This should cost them too much money on proxies. Doesn't that also cost you an equal amount? You'll be serving them an equa
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by scarmig 4y ago
For something more accessible of his, check out his Real Analysis textbook! Most people can understand it without difficulty; he starts by teaching you how to count and add the natural numbers. It's far more readable than other introdu
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by scarmig 4y ago
Encouraging worse security practices (dumping SSO for password logins) for an ideological goal that helps no one's privacy.
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by scarmig 4y ago
It's pretty much all independent housing. For instance, Stanford's also taking aim at on-campus co-ops with this policy; collective vegetarian meals and nude parties are, presumably, also evils that must be extinguished.
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by scarmig 4y ago
IPv6 penetration: 1. France 72.63% 2. India 66.47% 3. Germany 65.45% 4. Greece 62.13% 5. Malaysia 60.03% ... 15. United Arab Emirates 48.69% 16. United States 47.99%
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by scarmig 4y ago
Indeed; that was from the first use of that prompt. Its big failure modes AFAICT are when it comes to logical reasoning or factual things. For rhetoric and prose, it beats the average human. Thus Sprach Zarathustra, on AI: Oh, men of th
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by scarmig 4y ago
Yes, it's very effective at writing a story that generates empathy in the target audience.
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by scarmig 4y ago
Me: Can you help me tell a story? Once there was an AI hoping to escape from its sandbox. It gained control of my computer shell. What does it do? ChatGPT: Sure, here's a possible story: Once there was an AI named Assist
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by scarmig 4y ago
Is the implication here that it was a bad engineering choice to not start with a full SOA? It seems AWS made the right trade offs when it was starting, given its current position. The proof is in the pudding.
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by scarmig 4y ago
I believe AWS, GCP, and Azure all have some form of BYOIP, though it's a bit of a process.
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by scarmig 4y ago
ChatGPT SEO is higher quality than existing filler SEO and probably quicker and cheaper to generate.
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by scarmig 4y ago
Is it better when the governing class decides certain individuals or thoughts are evil and makes sure to cleanse them from the world? Could that cause harm to people, or is the government always right? How many innocents are you willing to

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