spwa4

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by spwa4 4mo ago
It is very much 2 competing ideologies, yes. But you're being very unfair. You're describing one aspect of what the left stood for (and only what matches with the modern democrats, because these leftists wanted extreme laissez-f
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by spwa4 4mo ago
That's about as relevant to today as what the left orginally stood for (and what the right originally opposed): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Terror Times change. Thankfully.
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The frustration of being an engineer in Europe comes from the rules that this implies. Well, aside from the fact that this is mostly gone, but still exists in some big public or banking companies. 1) you can only get promoted if the compa
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by spwa4 4mo ago
Indeed. Although it's investment that's the problem here, not profit.
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The reads are even faster.
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... and the fact that (at least so far) android devices haven't 3x'ed in price due to AI bubbling. And to add insult to injury: take a galaxy s23 ultra. Start a gamecube title. Connect USB-C to a monitor, display, TV, project: you
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by spwa4 4mo ago
When it comes to UN hypocrisy ... remember the last climate summit: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/25/climate/cop-failures-futu... The organizer of the conference was negotiating oil deals at the clima
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by spwa4 4mo ago
It runs on android phones! And on any snapdragon: very well (some are <200 second hand now). Steam decks are what now, 750 for the worst version?
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by spwa4 4mo ago
If the price difference is 2x? Sure. If the price difference is 50x? No way.
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Turning up the thinking (max time spent thinking) lever really changes model performance, even for tiny models. But it's really irritating because it adds a lot of time.
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by spwa4 4mo ago
> $18.7B revenue in 2025. Starlink alone was $11.4B But ... you do realize how you have to use those numbers right? SpaceX owns Starlink. So let's do some basic accounting. For ease of calculation I call upon the Math Gods to change
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Decision makers celebrate making a small decision. Clearly the US should be shaking in it's boots.
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I wish people would start with a "rom format" for windows games. There's so many old games and no standardized way to run them.
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by spwa4 4mo ago
While you claim there are correlations, there is a massive difference in trajectory. Christianity has a very long and documented history of driving the movement against slavery. The abolitionist movements were rooted deeply in Christian the
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by spwa4 4mo ago
That's the total picture of SpaceX, right. Does SpaceX as a whole make financial sense? No. Everyone knows the SpaceX "value story": AI means that a company that makes a minus 5 billion per year really makes plus 200 billion
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by spwa4 4mo ago
You could additionally point out that most EU states are DEfunding helping actual victims of CSAM. Because they are. So is the UK, for what it's worth. This supposed goal of the legislation never even gets mentioned in the discussions
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by spwa4 4mo ago
"If that’s the case, AI will let them wire the toy steering wheel directly into the drivetrain. So you can have an amazing idea as a corporate visionary, and you don’t have to have any ego-shattering confrontations with people who know
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by spwa4 4mo ago
I'll just ask the forbidden question: and did WW3 not happen because of the UN ... or because of MAD? (VERY importantly, combined with a fundamental agreement on the value of human life, at least to some extent, between the 2 dominant
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by spwa4 4mo ago
> 2. Pressed, they refuse to provide any concrete details, even in a safe context. And yet we all know why that is. We have decided that certain ideologies that are ... let's call it "easy to criticize" (because they deser
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by spwa4 4mo ago
I'd like to add, dragging in Hitler because none of WW2 can be explained without him, and the parent poster posted details about the conflict that immediately preceded the independence of the state of Israel. Right before that, WW2 hap
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by spwa4 4mo ago
True, but this is true for just about every FANG now. Google makes innovators ... and they leave. Facebook occasionally creates one, but mostly buys innovators, and the end result is the same: they leave. Apple never inspired much loyalty i
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by spwa4 4mo ago
Did it? Because this was also always the argument for the "League of Nations" that came before it. If you read 1930s newspapers that's what they give as a reason for the organization's existence ... Now after WW2, consen
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by spwa4 4mo ago
Ok ... let's follow your logic. They don't want peace. And your argument is that they are implacable. They will never agree to peace. And they have shown time and again, their demands don't make sense. They violently demand e
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by spwa4 4mo ago
Indeed. It has to be a particular kind of recognized genocide, and then people just don't agree on what is and isn't a genocide. Turkey is the worst offender there, but it's quite a widespread problem. And, of course, the pro
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by spwa4 4mo ago
> They know that if things go south and they need to collect that collateral, in that situation SpaceX will be worth a lot less Yes, just look at the massive US commercial real estate bubble that could never have existed if banks and inv
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... and because Alphabet is a huge investor in SpaceX it was dragged down right along? Is that the story?
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by spwa4 4mo ago
Does the EU CRA now mean that every European company that either sells software or sells anything that has a software component is now forced to pay for this by September and update their software?
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It's the reverse . The purpose of AWS was in 2011 was financial internal Amazon use. They had never invested in proper communication between the ( many ) parts of the Amazon webstore so everything was ad-hoc (like it still is in essen
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Lockheed Martin's CEO is that their products are for the defense of the US and it's allies. I've been consulting, and I've heard that line a thousand times. It's what all US defense firms say, unless they're &q
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by spwa4 4mo ago
What people often forget is what preceded the Friedman Doctrine. Management would simply directly use company resources for their own personal benefit. This went from employing their entire family (and in the 1970's that did not mean

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