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by thesumofall 10mo ago
No American, but the War Powers Resolution seems to allow for these kind of actions? That doesn’t make them any better but I was wondering the same thing
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by thesumofall 10mo ago
> Most crucially, democracy relies on an educated electorate, but access to really excellent education is minimal globally. This exposes democracies to disinformation and populism Not so sure about that. Some of today’s autocratic leader
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by thesumofall 10mo ago
My best reads this year: Non-fiction: - The Power Broker by Robert Caro Fantasy: - The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson Sci-fi: - Sun Eater series by Christopher Ruocchio - A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr - Ra by qntm - Jean
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by thesumofall 10mo ago
That wasn’t quite the point I was trying to make. Almost certainly we have not been visited in a shape or form that would resemble anything like the typical UFO sightings. It just doesn’t make a lot of sense. However, we might have been vis
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by thesumofall 10mo ago
> No, they have not been here I think it is difficult to make an argument in either direction. But almost certainly they’ve not been flying weirdly shaped disks
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by thesumofall 10mo ago
Probably for the same reasons
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by thesumofall 10mo ago
While obvious, it’s still interesting that its morals and values seem to derive from the texts it has ingested. Does that mean modern LLMs cannot challenge us beyond mere facts? Or does it just mean that this small model is not smart enough
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by thesumofall 11mo ago
They show two different surveys that are supposed to show the same underlying truth but differ by a factor of 3x? For the Ramp survey: why the sudden jump from 30% to 50% in March? For the Census one: How could it possibly be that only 12%
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by thesumofall 11mo ago
If we talk about the same „innovation“ offshoot, it happened right after I left the company. I think the cultural change that the top leadership at that time wanted to push was just too much to not cause a backlash. A new CTO who was percei
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by thesumofall 11mo ago
Yes. Also the way how internal collaboration works. A lot of focus on relationship building and pre-alignments vs a content-first approach („people will accept it if it’s just correct enough“). In any real-world situation that matters it wi
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by thesumofall 11mo ago
Super sorry that these have been your experiences. Working for a very different company now, I again ended up in a highly international setting and - with good leadership - it can be incredibly enriching (the company is the result of severa
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by thesumofall 11mo ago
I worked for Airbus a long time ago, and obviously I have some rose-tinted glasses, but what stands out in my memories: - While the French and Germans love to hate each other, they culturally complement each other very well. I don’t think A
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by thesumofall 11mo ago
I found it really difficult to figure out if it is safe to turn on web search in a corporate (or privacy critical) environment. The AI companies generally seem to claim it’s safe but looking at this + the general ability of Google Search Co
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by thesumofall 11mo ago
Isn’t that what Google Search Console is for? https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/13682862?hl=en&c...
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by thesumofall 1y ago
While I fully agree that there are a lot of complicated rules for edge cases, for simple (non self employed) cases it is very straightforward. In fact, you don’t have to do anything at all in many cases and still won’t be screwed over as th
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by thesumofall 1y ago
That depends if one measures productivity in LOCs or business impact. As always, it’s not black or white, but my experience is that higher proximity is a net benefit
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by thesumofall 1y ago
As with many things in economics the effect of a measure often depends on the timeframe one considers. Honestly, anything could be true if one just chooses the appropriate timeframe. However, the tariffs clearly introduce an inefficiency wh
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by thesumofall 1y ago
Worked in a 2nd-tier city in France for a while. And, yes, salaries are low in comparison but I found it a very livable place. The French just emphasize different things. Good quality restaurants are very affordable, I had 45 days of paid v
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by thesumofall 1y ago
To be honest, my Garmin watches always felt like engineering marvels to me. Rugged, very long battery lives, small form factors, and for many years at the forefront of what was thought possible. Progress slowed down somewhat, but I still ge
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by thesumofall 1y ago
Agree. If one is on the happy path, it’s perfect. Otherwise, the better companies have a smooth handover to a human who then already had an AI check all the basic questions (who are you? What do you want? Have you tried switching it off and
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by thesumofall 2y ago
Maybe, but the opposite might also be true. There is value in aggregating sources and filtering signal from noise. The value of such should increase with the growth of social media. Maybe you won’t reach everyone with such a business (see t
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by thesumofall 2y ago
Unfortunately, in today‘s world facts are interpreted as ideology. Take climate change: with the given scientific consensus you don’t need to „present all sides.“ A factually correct report will present the consensus. And still, some people
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by thesumofall 2y ago
First, nuclear power has been discussed intensively in Germany since the 1970s. While political moods shifted somewhat over the decades, in practical terms there was less and less willingness to maintain or even expand nuclear power: mainte
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by thesumofall 2y ago
Yes, some of the consequences could have been seen at that time, but I cannot remember that they were really part of the wider discussion. It was mostly nuclear safety vs nuclear‘s low CO2 emissions and alleged low costs. My memory might fa
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by thesumofall 2y ago
If European leadership does this right, Europe will emerge out of this much stronger than they went into it. It has already strengthened the collaboration across the EU‘s nations, has led to higher defense spending, will lead to even higher
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by thesumofall 2y ago
Europe still produces more than 20% of its electric power from nuclear plants. In hindsight, it was premature by Germany to shut down theirs so early, but looking at the rise of renewables it’s just a matter of time until nuclear will just
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by thesumofall 2y ago
In case of a state actor just imagine the weapons that could be bought with this kind of money and the potential lives lost due to this mess
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by thesumofall 2y ago
I feel it’s very rare that people openly and consciously reflect about what they do or do not know. And even then I find it questionable if we are really capable of identifying the difference reliably. However, most of the time I feel we ju
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by thesumofall 2y ago
I‘m not sure we know what the difference between these two is
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by thesumofall 2y ago
This is made worse by the fact that they created a really bad UX for their cars in the name of data protection (at least in Germany). Example: you have to accept the T&C of the online services with every(!) start of the vehicle. If you

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