vlian2088

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by vlian2088 3mo ago
do you contemplate Xi Jinping's public statements before you buy something made in China?
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by vlian2088 3mo ago
people didn't argue against types, people argued against putting lipstick on a pig.
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by vlian2088 3mo ago
...is as ass-backward as framing camera phones as 'pervert phones' would've been back in 2003, when all these 'concerns' >Using technology to secretly record someone else isn't new, but bringing this audio-
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by vlian2088 3mo ago
>which I don't think you can really blame Anthropic for. on the contrary, you can, and you should. their greasy effective altruist had always been by far the loudest proponent of the `safety` theater.
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by vlian2088 3mo ago
to me it seems that IT people overwhelmingly prefer Apple laptops now.
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by vlian2088 3mo ago
>It's entirely possible that politicians just want to do something about CSAM except that honest-to-God child rapists get extremely lenient sentences in Western Europe and rarely (if ever) get deported afterwards.
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by vlian2088 3mo ago
for what it's worth, it's fairly popular among my non-technical coworkers here in Russia. we have unlimited access to all models so it's not about the cost, and they still prefer Gemini over Claude and GPT. I never bothered t
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by vlian2088 3mo ago
Americans are 4% of the world's population, and even among those 4% at least half don't give a shit. the rest of us give even less of a shit, we don't have the luxury to be principled.
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by vlian2088 3mo ago
it doesn't matter whether you call them "German" or "people whose ancestors hail from the region of modern Germany". they are unique people, ethnically and culturally different even from their neighbors, let alone f
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by vlian2088 3mo ago
>Let's stop the blut and soil BS >Who are those people who are "disallowing" you from calling your land your land ?
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by vlian2088 3mo ago
>she can't identify as a German because nobody made her feel like one well, because she isn't one. had she moved to China, she wouldn't magically become Chinese.
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by vlian2088 3mo ago
I'm just noticing that only European people seem to be disallowed from calling their land "their land" and outsiders "outsiders". it's "blut and soil", as if the men who fought Nazis fought Nazis for
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by vlian2088 3mo ago
more like an increasingly authoritative and retarded HoA.
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by vlian2088 3mo ago
>Let's stop the blut and soil BS do you feel the same way when Africans speak of Africa?
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by vlian2088 3mo ago
it's 2026.07 and 128 GB of VRAM costs a firstborn.
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by vlian2088 3mo ago
"a bit skewed" is a bit of an understatement. all nu-media appears to be populated almost exclusively by nu-people.
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by vlian2088 3mo ago
huh, I've been reading HN on and off for >10 years and this is the very first time I see a poll like this.
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by vlian2088 3mo ago
governments can (and will) shut down or fine the detractors.
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by vlian2088 3mo ago
you didn't scroll far enough
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by vlian2088 3mo ago
you have numbers? I asked a chatbot and the numbers I got were underwhelming.
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by vlian2088 3mo ago
>2) There is little chance you can make changes to the way villages are organized. India's best bet is to industrialize rapidly and encourage younger population to migrate to towns and cities. and then <50 years later TFR irrever
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by vlian2088 3mo ago
'turning the entirety of the American public against data centers' is a blatant public opinion campaign ran by people and entities who didn't give a damn about data centers up until 3 years ago.
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by vlian2088 3mo ago
yes, but Soviet communism was the "he who does not work, neither shall he eat" kind, not Cultural Marxism beloved by the Western academia. I'm sure even the people who studied hard sciences had to endure a few hours of commie
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by vlian2088 3mo ago
I assure you that Soviets did not have the kind of ```science``` that is temporarily defunded in the US.
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by vlian2088 3mo ago
mostly because people had no option to leave the country. also the salaries of scientists and engineers were notoriously shitty, so only those with passion for the subject studied it.
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by vlian2088 4mo ago
the music may stop in the future, but right now it isn't even slowing down. Xi did not interfere when Chinese labs released GPT-4, o1, o3, etc level models. why draw the line at current SOTA that will be old news in a year?
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by vlian2088 4mo ago
because everything you take for granted is one `think of the children` campaign away from being taken from you.
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by vlian2088 4mo ago
no computer for you, then.
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by vlian2088 4mo ago
>And the damn robot can also spit me harry Potter verbatim so I don't know how it would also not be distribution? if you prompt it to, yes. just like your browser dutifully navigates to any copyright-infringing resource and GETs and
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by vlian2088 4mo ago
your phone, your browser, and the Internet itself are orphan crushing machines too, then.

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