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by seec 10mo ago
I strongly disagree. I don't know whether he would identify himself as a communist politically, but it doesn't matter. Furthermore, I am entitled to analyze his ideas and classify them as I please. And as far as I'm concerned
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by seec 10mo ago
I mean, they are generally excellent motorcycles. Their monocylinders are super smooth with great handling. But often you have to deal with those weird engineering decisions that make repairs annoying. My local garage is a BMW car specialis
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by seec 10mo ago
I'm not against meta-analysis, but if those analyses rely on studies that have flawed methodologies, it is just an exercise in statistical hacking. With enough massaging, you will find something eventually. I don't have time to ch
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by seec 10mo ago
To me it is you who is clearly confused. The vitamin parallel is very relevant; at the concentration used in the studies, vitamins would be toxic as well. The poison is the dose. Using dosages far above what could realistically be ingeste
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by seec 10mo ago
Well, he buys them for the same reason people buy Apple products: very performant, look good, and carry a lot of social status. Otherwise, they make some very questionable engineering decisions for sure. On their motorbikes, you often have
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by seec 10mo ago
I do understand, and I mostly agree with your perspective. But narrowing the problem to money isn't really helpful. Sure, Apple will be able to make a shitton of money regardless. For consumers, it would be more beneficial if Apple co
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by seec 10mo ago
What is the probability that Monsanto has managed to pay everyone to say it safe. Proving everyone else wrong is quite the incentive for a researcher. To me it's sound unlikely that no one else would jump on the opportunity of fame for
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by seec 10mo ago
I quickly checked the first study linked and it's a meta analysis. It relies on studies in rodent that get exposed to amounts of glyphosate that are absurdly high. Equivalent human absorption would be in the gram range, to the point wh
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by seec 10mo ago
But we eat very little wheat as is. Most of the wheat is eaten in transformed products made with wheat flour. How much glyphosate realistically end up in those products. It can't be a very large amount considering how refined/proc
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by seec 10mo ago
Yep that's pretty much it. And in France (I believe most of rich Europe as well), there are mandatory "social contribution" on capital gains which are collected directly by the banks. So if you don't have much money &quo
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by seec 10mo ago
Yeah but this is what I mean. They are unable to produce a decent AI solution so they have to outsource. And if it was just about being limited by on device processing power, they could just switch to using their cloud infrastructure. To me
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by seec 10mo ago
The Vision Pro release is a complete joke. If Meta can't make it work for under 1K it's definitely not going to work if you only offer a slighter better product for 3,5K. I believe that they are so arrogant that they think Meta ju
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by seec 10mo ago
Yep, Chromebook are basically a sufficient information appliance for most people. I think this is why Apple is going to try a cheaper MacBook. The MacBook Air is nice but it still too expensive for most people that only want to browser the
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by seec 10mo ago
As someone who bought and used various MP3 players before getting an iPod I disagree. They were not technically first at creating a portable music player that relied on digital compressed format and digital storage, that's true. Howeve
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by seec 10mo ago
Just think that they marketed Photos as a worthwhile replacement for Aperture as well. I remember advising many photographs friends on using Aperture for photo library management. Now I feel so bad for ever recommending that. I mean Lightro
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by seec 10mo ago
Well that's largely theoretical and Siri needs largely more input than is worth the trouble. It lacks context and because of Apple focus on privacy/security is largely unable to learn who you are to be able to do stuff depending o
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by seec 10mo ago
Yes that's because Apple marketing is always wildly overhyping the capacities of what they are selling. In this case the lie was that Siri could understand you just like a real human but it really can't. AI chat bots have some sim
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by seec 10mo ago
But don't forget, "the hype is real". Apple fanboys are something else. At this point it's not even clear that the LLMs will have much use outside of chatbots spitting questionable reality faking but it's pretty cle
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by seec 10mo ago
Nonsense. Universities are just part of culture, it's tiny and most people do not participate and only receive the "products" coming out of universities. Culture is a broad concept and very region specific, it is not tied to
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by seec 10mo ago
You are arguing about form and semantics. Yes the bureaucrats have added a indirection level to shield themselves from consequences and fill the pockets of their friends. This is basically the definition of corrupt communism. Where politica
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by seec 10mo ago
Well the common theme of leftist is that they are in complete denial of reality. This is how you get some dude that will argue with a straight face that EU problems absolutely come from neoliberalism when many of the biggest members are clo
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by seec 10mo ago
> It selects for the ability and intrinsic motivation to learn. You are confusing obedience and willingness to jump through hoops with the motivation to learn. People largely don't need school to learn most things. I would argue tha
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by seec 10mo ago
Ah yes, the neoliberal boogeyman. Here is what Wikipedia has to say on the matter. > Neoliberalism is often associated with a set of economic liberalization policies, including privatization, deregulation, depoliticisation, consumer choi
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by seec 10mo ago
The problem is that they are not cost competitive at the time of sales and the type of people who buy those are not exactly the smartest when it comes to total cost of ownership calculation. Over time an electric version would be much cheap
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by seec 10mo ago
That's not exactly true. Funnily enough, you are extremely dependent on your sociological background. If you come from a poor family and do very well, you'll get a full ride for sure. But if you do well but come from a well-off fa
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by seec 10mo ago
This can only be true if the society gets richer over timer from this process. Considering that EU has actually become poorer and the gap is becoming larger every year passing, your theory of benefits from a well-educated populace is not we
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by seec 10mo ago
All of this is because academia and educational institutions have a tremendous amount of power this way. They can select for ideological compliance instead of actual competence. And this is a desirable property for the rulers because they c
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by seec 10mo ago
> I think it's more accurate to say that more socially adept people have infiltrated the tech scene due to the loot. Yep, it's all about status, money and power chasing. Nothing taught me this more than getting an iPhone before
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by seec 10mo ago
Hard disagree. Most useful skill and knowledge is still learned on the job. The "education" is just a selection process. And not only it is a pretty bad one, it is extremely costly.
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by seec 10mo ago
That's because they are "elite" in their credentials, not actually elite in their competences/qualities. By definition you cannot have an elite that is comprised of a large part of the population. The problem is that edu

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