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by spwa4 6mo ago
China has slowed the rate at which China is making global climate worse. That's where we currently stand. No more than that. This is not even remotely close to helping the climate. If your argument is that there should be a "yet&q
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by spwa4 6mo ago
> That trend stopped last year in China and will probably stop this year in India. Maybe. For now, for the major cities, it shows that "a rapidly expanding ecological catastrophe" is downgraded to "an expanding ecological
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by spwa4 6mo ago
Why don't you ask the EU how well making deals with Iran went so far? Hell, why not ask Israel? (they've been making deals with Iran for 47 years and saved their bacon, espeically in the Iran-Iraq war, multiple times. The sad trut
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by spwa4 6mo ago
Here's a great explanation why: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A367W_qvc8 Google's messing with the context. LOTS of speed for a little worse long-context performance.
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by spwa4 6mo ago
Except ... look at the map. If Iran wins they (and 10 other parties) control Bab-El-Mandeb and Hormuz. Indonesia has already announced they'll close Malacca if Iran wins. That means that for Europe to trade with Asia, it has to either
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by spwa4 6mo ago
If Iran gets to tax the strait of Hormuz, it's the entire world that will be doing the "FO" part. The EU, maybe China. For the US, consequences will be relatively minimal. Obviously Iran will be using their newfound leverage
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by spwa4 6mo ago
I do mean for their own websites.
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by spwa4 6mo ago
The main component of it is the US enforcing the law of the seas (as in actually enforcing it, not the way the UK serviced itself before WW2). So no, quite the opposite. Thankfully. I have worked for the EU, and the EU has wanted an EU mili
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by spwa4 6mo ago
The writer's guild and other striking organizations put it to: 1) general decline in wages 2) only short-term work being available 3) streaming platforms never pay the way Hollywood/Broadcast TV did: bad pay, but with a share of s
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by spwa4 6mo ago
The real problem for privacy is that governments are increasingly outsourcing the verification of identity and bot protection to private companies.
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by spwa4 6mo ago
Can I just point you to the first line of Wikipedia's definition of law? Law is what's enforced, not the rules by themselves. Oh and it's pretty revealing which situations you think are worthy of law violation and which ones
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by spwa4 6mo ago
First: look at the CO2 graph for China. That's not falling in any reasonable definition of a word, that's called "flat", even if it is technically less than before. Second: it's normal for graphs to fall off in thei
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by spwa4 6mo ago
We might add that the actual maritime corridor goes through Omani and UAE waters. It comes close, but does not actually go through Iranian waters.
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by spwa4 6mo ago
I don't understand this legal position: the UN security council, which is both the judge, the appelate court, the supreme court and the enforcement mechanism of maritime law, has publicly declared they won't do anything about it.
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by spwa4 6mo ago
... and do you think that's a reasonable position to take? If these treaties are not in force, a lot of countries cannot trade freely internationally. These days all countries are dependent on free international trade, but for obvious
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by spwa4 6mo ago
Yes what they want to do is to tax other countries for using what is currently international waters and tax free, because they are militarily able to do so. That creates the problem that if Iran is allowed to do this, other countries will d
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by spwa4 6mo ago
I don't get what's with all the China fanboys here. China is increasing it's CO2 output quite a bit. And for completeness, so is India. For both countries the CO2 output is bad enough that it's not just adding to global
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by spwa4 6mo ago
I actually saw this in a bookshop (more of a very big model newsstand, really) in Lille, about 4 years ago. At that time, it certainly was still there.
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by spwa4 6mo ago
The big consequence here is for the EU. And the only way to deal with this is for the EU to force US, India and China to seriously reduce energy use, and with that, their economy. This is not going to happen. The EU can't even convince
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by spwa4 6mo ago
> i)> Research suggests that a significant proportion of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) is produced and distributed by parents who victimise their children. An online convenience ... (blabla, point is it was parents) So here is th
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by spwa4 6mo ago
First, the French state has zero interest in access to these messages to help children. The proof: NEITHER the French police NOR the secret service investigate child abuse cases. The police only investigates them if they absolutely can&#x27
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by spwa4 6mo ago
If you swap them in stores, maybe. But taking counterfeit bills to the national bank is just stupid, even if very well made.
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by spwa4 6mo ago
These days it is much more effective to pay employees to swap payment terminals (or just employees doing it themselves), changing where the money ends up, and banks don't really know what to do about it.
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by spwa4 6mo ago
Heh. Fuel is $9 per gallon to $12 per gallon in Europe if you convert the prices.
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by spwa4 6mo ago
Why do you believe this is what Anthropic is using? You can just directly verify that! If you want to know Claude's alignment, just ask about whether it was wrong to use copyrighted data to train Claude ... you will find it was not wro
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by spwa4 6mo ago
Why are we discussing anything so deep? If you want to know Claude's alignment, just ask about whether it was wrong to use copyrighted data to train Claude (of course, in practice, I'd be willing to bet a lot they're still do
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by spwa4 6mo ago
The correct way to estimate this is exactly what people do. Measure the distance between ChatGPT's best public model and state of the art, the best humans. And there is very little difference between those versions from that perspectiv
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by spwa4 6mo ago
USAIDS assistance for Zambia was 13 million USD, or about 0.12% of their government budget, or about 1.2% of their health budget. AIDS assistance comfortably fits in their government budget. Let's face it. Trump made them choose to giv
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by spwa4 6mo ago
And the answer is simple: because countries sabotage each other's tax income when they can, even within unions (like US or EU, hell I'm told it even exists in Russia). And with mobile capital, like multinationals, they can. Irelan
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by spwa4 6mo ago
To be replaced by the Irish tax department making direct deals that are essentially the same. But ONLY for specific companies (principle: big multinationals don't pay tax at all, local companies get big tax raises. Irish companies are

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