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by spupe 5y ago
Boeing is the ultimate "too big to fail" company, judging by this and other scandals.
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by spupe 5y ago
I would be very surprised if their military operated with a just-in-time inventory instead of a stockpile system for crucial components. But several surprising things have happened recently.
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by spupe 5y ago
The article is incredibly biased, and incorrect. Temperatures were high in several detection points, not just in models. Here is an excerpt [1]: "The Concordia research base at Dome C of the Antarctic, which is at an altitude of 3,000
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by spupe 5y ago
> Nothing he references in the MSM reporting was actually incorrect. You clearly have not read my linked article, as most of your points are covered there. Here is a short collection of paragraphs that might interest other readers of thi
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by spupe 5y ago
Too bad, because he has a great account of how the Russiagate scandal was overblown by the media: https://taibbi.substack.com/p/russiagate-is-wmd-times-a-mill... You could choose to look at it critically and decide for
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by spupe 5y ago
Let's go with the false equivalence first. The MSM has not only been wrong about many things in the past, they have actively supported egregious crimes from the US administration. It's not only Judith Miller, they were all complet
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by spupe 5y ago
A hit piece by the Huffington Post on a thread about cancel culture. Focused on Matt Taibbi's words from 23 years ago, for which he apologized several times. This is part of the problem, and I hope you can realize that. Every single pe
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by spupe 5y ago
I'm very sorry to hear that. You need to consult with a lawyer to decide the way to go from here. He/she can tell you what your odds of winning are, and what the best strategy is. As someone not emotionally involved with the case,
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by spupe 5y ago
The article is biased and very light on evidence. The biggest accusation I could find is that "The @ChalecosAmarill account often “posted disturbing videos that strengthen its digital influence and activism. (...) Although several of t
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by spupe 5y ago
Spooky. Is there any existing tool that can do anything close to this at the moment? Would have liked for the author to discuss a bit more the time spent optimizing the input, and his success rate.
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by spupe 5y ago
That's a good way to look at it, I think. It is fair to the article's intent. But there are two counterpoints to this line of thought: 1. Even if everything now is mostly engineering rather than science, the difficulty in such fea
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by spupe 5y ago
No one has to apply for a license to use machine learning models. They are merely communicating the fact that it's so trivially easy to do something like this, that pretty much anyone with an interest will be able to do so. The questio
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by spupe 5y ago
Honestly, it sounded too over-dramatic and did not offer meaningful actionable consequences. The actual data is thin and not surprising at all, and it's also unclear how difficult it would be to design such harmful compounds without AI
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by spupe 5y ago
Interesting. Pretty bad quality as far as deepfakes go, as you say. But I can imagine this fooling some people nevertheless.
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by spupe 5y ago
Great write-up about some of the practical problems of Bitcoin adoption in such a scale. This government-controlled wallet is looking for trouble. And so far the bet has not paid off at all, as 6 months ago the price of Bitcoin was at its p
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by spupe 5y ago
Agree, I hope at least it gives the sport a big shake-up which it definitely needs.
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by spupe 5y ago
When big aerodynamic changes like this occur, sometimes one team figures out an advantage that the others didn't, setting everyone else hopelessly behind for at least half a season [1]. Let's hope it can be as exciting as this guy
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by spupe 5y ago
As usual, they give us a press release and two or three examples, but no real data or systematic analysis about its consistency, which is the real problem with any of these models. I'm excited about the potential of things like this, I
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by spupe 5y ago
Hey this is cool guys, congrats. Lots of potential for new tools to produce better VR content.
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by spupe 5y ago
Out of your shortlist, I would recommend Lisbon. It's not as big but punches above its weight in most of your other criteria. The Brazilian cities you described do not have good public transport or bikes, and almost no foreigners. The
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by spupe 5y ago
Russia also assassinated a person in Berlin a few years ago [1]. I remember being baffled at the time at the absolute lack of consequences emerging from that episode. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelimkhan_Khangosh
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by spupe 5y ago
Ironically, this person is making a lot of weird assumptions and predictions based on very little data, like tweets.
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by spupe 5y ago
All the articles predicting the end of the chip shortages may have been too optimistic.
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by spupe 5y ago
This is absolutely bonkers. We urgently have to regulate these companies. They cannot act as curators just when they decide to.
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by spupe 5y ago
If we are about to enter a period of sustained inflation, contracts may start including automatic monthly/quarterly raises to offset it.
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by spupe 5y ago
This is excellent, really beautiful.
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by spupe 5y ago
Thanks for your comment, I think it's insightful. Serious question: why do you write years with five digits?
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by spupe 5y ago
Yeah, I like Greenwald, but this is just bullshit. Of course Ukraine had some labs containing cholera, anthrax and other pathogens, every country with biology research labs would have them. To jump from that to say it's military resear
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by spupe 5y ago
Not all his citizens are. And his soldiers are following orders. Are you in favor of giving US citizens punishment for the crimes of some of its citizens in Afghanistan and Iraq?
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by spupe 5y ago
Is it Russians, or their government? This distinction matters, most of us who live in the US or Europe would also personal responsibility for war crimes by this standard.

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