ta20240528

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by ta20240528 15d ago
Nothing quite as important in life as picking your parents well.
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by ta20240528 18d ago
"Even if Canada and Australia don't join the EU as full members" The European project is bigger than the EU - that's just the central core. There's also the EFTA, EEA, CEFTA, CU, Eurozone, Shengen, CoE, and Swiss-st
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by ta20240528 18d ago
Chemist here, what bioweapon do you know of that can wipe out 8 billion people before anyone can do something about it? Never mind one release by a single person. It's really not 'trivial' to slaughter millions of people.
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by ta20240528 19d ago
"So it's either they truly think AI is going to kill us all" Exactly how does a CPU kill 8 odd billion people? Even if they got hold of the weapons to wipe out a few billion, surely the remain billions would just turn off the
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by ta20240528 19d ago
Yes, asking a first-year physics student why they are studying a spring, and why its called Hooke's Law leads down a rabbit hole that ends with the entire British Empire.
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by ta20240528 25d ago
The wording of the CLOUD act prevents any American company from competing, but yes, other European-only companies could offer the same.
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by ta20240528 25d ago
"What does Mistral own?" Independence from the USA's CLOUD Act, secret FISA courts, and ICC-style disabling of important services.* *…and the Chinese equivalents.
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by ta20240528 1mo ago
Given that some will freak out about GHB, is there any information on whether beta-hydroxybutyrate (BHB) would help? BHB is quite similar to GHB, but is a naturally produced ketone. (I did try google)
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by ta20240528 2mo ago
Tell me comrades, are China and India doing this?
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by ta20240528 2mo ago
Here's how you can stop it: no national licences to distribute power, telecommunications, medicine, fuel, etc. Even some software. Then you will have to have regional duplicates of each. Stuff will cost more though.
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by ta20240528 2mo ago
"you can’t stop talking about yourself, but from an earnest yearning to share authentically". Well, that killed it for me. Talking? Honestly? Dear lord, no.
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by ta20240528 2mo ago
"also much worse …" Why is convicting and sentencing criminals a bad thing?
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by ta20240528 2mo ago
"The amount of water used is somewhat less important than what the source of the water is." Where I live, the golf courses are the largest and often only consumers of recycled water — in a water stressed city. This directly subsid
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by ta20240528 2mo ago
The Europeans didn't think it was a bluff. But more generally, when the foundation of your country's morality is "all men are created equal" you really have given up the space to object to others doing what you do. If ho
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by ta20240528 3mo ago
Huh, a lot on the 737 Max situation was due to standardisation. Boeing didn't want the time, expense, and hassle of certifying (= standardising) a new narrow-body aeroplane, so they continued to reuse the FAA type certificate (= standa
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by ta20240528 4mo ago
"climate doomerism" Just a reminder that actual adult scientists at the ACS (American Chemical Society) have calculated (for all to see) that the excess heat being trapped just over the continental USA since 1750 is about 28 500 H
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by ta20240528 4mo ago
"they also send thousands of sex-spies" Could they send one (or two) my way?
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by ta20240528 5mo ago
And when you here unsubstantiated rumours* that say Anthropic has been sending exchanges to say Alibaba's Qwen, will you als oconclude the same about the entire US AI industry? I doubt it. * publish the logs.
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by ta20240528 5mo ago
"Especially outside of US market." A euphemism in polite company for: we'll ban them on national security grounds like we did with cars and phones.
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by ta20240528 5mo ago
… for which (if you think women are equal) they should receive the Nobel Peace Prize. (Husband and father of daughters).
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by ta20240528 5mo ago
"A company incorporated in the EU, even if it is owned by an entity in the US, is not subject to US jurisdiction and so that does not apply." Incorrect, this is EXACTLY the scenario that the Cloud Act was introduced to to handle.
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by ta20240528 5mo ago
You are incorrect: 1. the 2018 CLOUD Act mandates US companies — and their subsidiaries — to provide information to the US government on demand, regardless of where the data is stored 2. FISA secret courts prevent companies from even saying
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by ta20240528 6mo ago
"The purpose of software is to provide value to the customer." Partially correct. The purpose of your software to its owners is also to provide future value to customers competitively. What we have learnt is that software needs to
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by ta20240528 7mo ago
For active soldiers, yes - kill them, any time, anywhere. That's what "at war" means. Its not a policing operation.
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by ta20240528 7mo ago
Oh stop being so self-loathing: Israel was created by a mandate from the League of Nations. So, most of the planet (1) (1) Well, excluding Ethiopia because they still thought it was cool to have slaves.
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by ta20240528 7mo ago
China. If they wanted to.
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by ta20240528 7mo ago
Come now American people, The UK and France have long had a project 'on the shelf' to substitute the missiles with the French M51 ballistic missiles. They don't want to do it, they'll do it if they have to.
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by ta20240528 7mo ago
"The concern about a new dependency on China is real," The dependency is latent, is only become a problem when you (USA) does something to dick with China's dependency on you. If you don't do that, no problems. The rest
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by ta20240528 7mo ago
You are mistaking the battle for the war: Denmark / EU would no doubt lose the BATTLE for Greenland. Within hours. But the sun would rise the next day and the USA won't like the 'non-kinetic' consequences. Too many to en
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by ta20240528 7mo ago
You clearly don't know British understatement. Firing on one British officer would be as bad a firing on 10000. It's about lines.

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