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Angela Merkel has made two crucial mistakes in foreign policy/defense spending that have now become clear. The first was the assumption we could appease Russia by offering it a carrot, namely gas pipelines and mutual investments. We no
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Participation in this war could lead to nuclear annihilation. We have no treaties or commitments to be involved in it, and so we won't. This investment is to make sure Russia doesn't get any wrong ideas about invading any NATO or
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Germany has money for all of that, it doesn't have to neglect healthcare to afford a working military. Merkel has starved the Bundeswehr of resources relying on assumptions that have revealed themselves to be false. Historical alliance
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It's absolutely baffling that after so many scandals, sometimes with consequences so severe that the whole global economy was destabilized(subprime crisis), we still have not found a better way to do audits than to use the same corrupt
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There is a good article on The Guardian about it: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/feb/24/what-is-s... Essentially the CIPS as already mentioned would be most likely alternative, which is part
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Biden was essentially appointed by party elites, Obama and a few other leaders decided it would be him, the party immediately followed. I don't think that Biden or Hillary Clinton had millions of people clamoring for them to run. Meanw
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I can tell you that having a small kid in Germany is a pain, as kindergartens can be hard to get into. Also, the country is stuck in the 80s when it comes to bureaucracy and digitalization. Depending on where you live, you may find it diffi
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Pure stats work in circumstances that are repeatable, easily quantifiable and where you have a huge dataset to learn from past experience. That's why baseball is such a perfect example. It's just not so easy to measure how good so
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I agree that we should regulate these services for the externalities they cause (high activity in residential areas, accidents, etc.). But to put an arbitrary cap on what you can advertise just sounds really stupid.
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Looks like someone needs the government's help to sort out their private, "decentralized" mess.
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They can seize the gold only if they know where it is. And to convert crypto back into Canadian dollars, you will need to go through the "legacy" banking system at any substantial amount, where it can be flagged with standard tool
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This is nonsense. Canada is starting to classify cryptos as assets [1], and they already are looking into some accounts related to the protests [2]. It's true that you could hide it well, but you could also do so by having gold bars in
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Very good article, I agree with most of the author's viewpoints. I find the urge to censor someone like him much more dangerous than his own dumb show, and worryingly some very influential people disagree with that.
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Intel has a clear strategy of becoming a big player in the semiconductor industry in the next decade. I honestly think it will work. Many people have observed that it is a cash-intensive industry with tiny margins, but once these huge inves
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I went and checked, it turns out for this version Eleuther-AI has in fact included math problems [1]. So my earlier comment is partly incorrect. [1] http://eaidata.bmk.sh/data/GPT_NeoX_20B.pdf
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Thank you for this. Technically it's not GPT-3, but GPT-NeoX-20B, although they are based on a similar architecture. The poor performance is most likely due to not having a large database of math problems to draw from. Github, for exam
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What is the cost for being flagged getting fed up with a company policing casual speech, or being flagged as uncivil incorrectly?
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These numbers are exceptionally high on aggregate. From the article: "out of every 1,000 people studied, there were around 4 more people in the COVID-19 group than in the control group who experienced stroke." This means that for
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Every generation changes the meanings of words and thus degrades it to the eyes of the older ones (ie "literally", etc.). I think with the internet this process accelerated, and now some important words such as "trauma"
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> Every first principle is a foundational proposition that stands alone (like an atom) and is pure. We cannot deduce it from any other proposition or assumption. > When first principles form the foundations, the solution is sturdy. El
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Sorry, but this is just a bunch of bunk. Some of the claims here are verifiably wrong. Take a look at this linked Substack post from that thread [1], which claims "The real world data has shown that the death rate among the vaccinated,
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This builds upon some solid research in rodents and humans, which had showed very promising results. It is very likely to become a therapeutic option within the next 10 years, in my opinion.
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It is hyperbolic to try to place her in either end of the spectrum. Of course she did not destroy Europe, neither did she save it. My own personal criticism of her is that she mostly followed, rather than lead. She had no greater vision for
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That's pretty crazy. I think Google is currently losing vs these SEO exploiters, at least for some domains such as programming. The fact things switched within a week suggests they are trying to finetune their algorithm to make it less
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And what percentage of those have abandoned or switched off from Facebook upon learning about their practices? I doubt a majority of Facebook users would agree with it being prevented from operating in European Union due to their servers be
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> Many non-tech people already have a telegram account for example but don't move out of whatsapp because they are all on it already. Nobody wants to be that guys asking anyone else to abandon the group and move to somewhere else ju
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> I can't see a significant cohort that would be unhappy that their governments stood the ground on their data not being sent to the US. There are >400 million monthly active Facebook users in Europe today [1]. It is pretty absur
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This review was rather short and uninformative. There is a slightly longer one here: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2022-...
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What is the advantage of your implementation versus Twint, which is free?
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> The experience or feeling of having consciousness is real, that's true. But the fact that humans experience consciousness doesn't make it a real physical phenomenon. Unless you believe in supranatural explanations for it, yes

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