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by sofixa 7mo ago
> destroying The same Iran that just launched missiles at Diego Garcia, a critical American base? The same one that severely damaged Qatari LNG infrastructure two days ago? The same one that continues sending missile and drone attacks at
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> Iran will be better as a whole if the IRGC is all dead Which is an impossibility. We're talking about a military force of more than a million religiously fervent men that have martyrdom as a core tenet of their religion. They are
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> Iran's missiles are used as a terror weapon against civilian population They've also sucessfuly been used against energy and military infrastructure.
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> Well, not necessarily; lots of things keep markets alive, including making it easier for people to start companies If those companies then got smothered or acquired by big oligo/mono polies, that only gets you so far. > it&#x27
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https://www.edpb.europa.eu/news/national-news/2023/personali...
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> Proof: Most big EU companies use Claude or Gemini or OpenAI, not Mistral. That choice was made recently. IS a statement with no supporting facts considered "proof"? Just the public list of Mistral customers ( https:/&#x2
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Not entirely, but putting more eggs in that basket would certainly be considered lack of planning. Why increase your risk even further when everyone has seen how volatile things can get quickly?
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This flat out isn't true. Police forces / investigative authorities have been collaborating with one another since 1923: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpol . We have tons of examples of this working for t
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> I think golf course marketing works well in the EU context when decisions are being made not purely on tech reasons. It's not like b2b sales is more technical merit based, individual contributor led, elsewhere. It's always th
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Every company would get fined for anticompetitive behaviour, regardless of where are based.
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It depends. If there's a share id (?igsh=xxc) in the link usually no, but if you remove it usually yes. Opening more than a few posts/stories will result in a popup to sign in, but at least the core page and introduction should
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Providers like Netlify, Firebase Hosting, CloudFlare are much better value for money for features for maintenance. Static hosting means you don't need to update the server because there isn't one, and there are even free tiers bel
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> The Ukraine war is being fought with a bunch of cheap toy style drones dropping grenades everywhere This hasn't been true for 3-4 years now, most of the combat drones being used now are purpose built kamikaze drones. Notably the R
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Oh, that's true, even allows you to play without an account. I can swear that at some point it flat out refused any use unless you're logged in with an account that has YT Music (I remember having to go to regular YouTube to get t
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Sounds like tech debt as a service. If the code review is automated, how can you be sure the code isn't full of security or maintanability issues?
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Even without the bash escape risk (which can be mitigated with the various ways of only allowing yt-dlp to be executed), YT Music is a paid service gated behind a Google account, with associated payment method. Even just stealing the auth c
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What's there to get? People, overwhemingly men, pay for adult content from performers, majority women. It often involves a supposedly personal touch (like chatting with (someone pretending to be) them, or being able to pay for custom
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But in this case its not OnlyFans doing the (potential?) fraud, it's the individual performers and potentially their agencies. OnlyFans just provide the platform and turn a blind eye.
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> The way I'm used to this sort of thing happening is some company brings in a new proprietary standard, makes bank, then all the competition bands together to form an open standard to try and stop them. There is a bit of a tick-toc
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> Nuclear weapons are a MAD red line that will result in total annihilation of the attacker. They are only useful in a defensive capacity. Also in a "if I'm going down, everyone else is going down with me", which is Ian&#x
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> No data falling into wrong hands, no left behind rootkits, no ransome threats etc You won't necessarily be able to know that the data hasn't already been exfiltrated and that the backups aren't post-compromise. Or that
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> Russia (well its oligarchs and rulers) has increasingly benefited from perpetual war No it has not. It has a ballooning debt crisis (at different levels - regions, military contractors, banks) which will pop at some point; the budget i
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Depends on the language, it's pretty trivial with Go.
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> But already unable to defend itself from Russia, EU countries I'm sorry, but this is just crazy talk. Russia cannot enforce its will on Ukraine, one of the poorest and most corrupt countries in Europe, with a (at time of invasion)
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> Europe in general has been tightening up their rules / taxes / laws around startups / companies especially tech and remote. Like? Care to provide any specific examples? "Europe" is a continent composed of vario
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> The good Netflix movies are small diamonds in a swamp of garbage. Most of the content is the equivalent of fast food for movies with a political agenda. What political agenda? Are gays existing in movies political for you or what do yo
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No, a zero sum game would require for the "winners" to take it from the "losers", and there is a limited amount to go around. If there is a majority of "winners" by expanding, some neutral, some negative, that
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> So I wonder if you just think you will be one of the few who benefit at the expense of others It's not a zero sum game, IMO. It will benefit some, be neutral for others, negative for others. For instance, improved productivity cou
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If he's right (that LLMs cannot achieve AGI, but what he's working on can, and does), this would be huge for AI and humanity at large. Hope it puts to bed the "Europe can't innovate" crowd too.
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Alternative free to read article: https://sifted.eu/articles/yann-lecun-ami-labs-meta-funding-...

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