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by vrganj 4mo ago
The DSA doesn't stop access to any part of the web. This is precisely the misinformation I mentioned earlier.
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by vrganj 4mo ago
So is the US president (Electoral College), the UK PM (Parliament) etc etc, yet you never hear complaints here from the same types. Their opposition is ideological, democracy is just an excuse because their true views would be too unsavory
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by vrganj 4mo ago
Call it what it is: Propaganda designed to stir anti-EU sentiment from groups that would benefit from being able to divide and conquer Europe.
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by vrganj 4mo ago
But thanks to the brave activists in piracy groups, I get to decide whether I want to feed or starve the machine.
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by vrganj 4mo ago
Everything is subjective - including which metrics we focus on and how we interpret them - since humans are inherently subjective beings. I'd invite you to sit out at a cafe in Florence, or on a terrace in Amsterdam, watching the boa
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by vrganj 4mo ago
Most shockingly, Kaja Kallas, EU Foreign Representative.
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by vrganj 4mo ago
I think this, too, is a case of cultural differences. This ranking [0] seems much more meaningful to me than the one you linked. [0] https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/best-countries-fo...
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by vrganj 4mo ago
> the more degrees of freedom the seller has the more likely they are to do something to make the whole process cheaper for customers. I think this is the crux of our disagreement. In my experience, the more degrees of freedom the seller
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by vrganj 4mo ago
I'm not an American at all. And all of these are definitely worse than just making the vendor behave properly...
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by vrganj 4mo ago
All of them? No. Some of them? Yes. Some examples: * ARL / Automatic Renewal Law: If a company allows you to sign up for a subscription online, they also must provide an immediate, straightforward way to cancel it online. * SB 478: N
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by vrganj 4mo ago
As somebody who moved to the US and then back to Europe again, you may get more money there, but you'll pay for it with a much worse environment and lifestyle. Life's not all about the number on your bank account. Once you're
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by vrganj 4mo ago
You sure he wasn't also a wearing his clogs while biking to his tulip farm before going home to make stroopwafels while eating Gouda?
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by vrganj 4mo ago
I think part of it is that unlike in the US, access to education wasn't paywalled. Higher education in the US, with the exception of scholarships here and there, requires you to come from a wealthy background to afford the best schools
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by vrganj 4mo ago
I don't need to accept anyone's word, I've traveled both the US and China extensively. I'm noticing you're trying really hard to deflect though.
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by vrganj 4mo ago
And on the other side you have people dying because they are denied food, shelter and healthcare as a policy choice. It's not that they can't be taken care of. It's just that it'd cost money and eat profit margins. It&#x
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by vrganj 4mo ago
And your reply makes it clear to me who the bad guys are as well, thank you for showing us.
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by vrganj 4mo ago
I noticed you haven't addressed my main point at all. What are the millions dying of poverty every few years in the US (in a country with like a quarter of the population!), a death toll that still hasn't been stopped ? Is there
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by vrganj 4mo ago
The Great Leap Forward wasn't "killing" people, which implies intent. It was just good old economic mismanagement. On a related note, around 300k people die in the US every year due to causes directly attributable to poverty.
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by vrganj 4mo ago
Have you at tried asking society how they feel about you acting "for their good"? Because popular sentiment seems pretty opposed to AI.
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by vrganj 4mo ago
When did the CCP kill millions of its own citizens to stay in power?
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by vrganj 4mo ago
The Soviet Union, for all it's faults, had a fair bunch of scientific and technological breakthroughs without relying on IP. Sure, one person gets rewarded more with the IP system. But at the same time, that breakthrough then can'
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by vrganj 4mo ago
Anthropic clearly doesn't respect other people's IP, it's real rich that they now insist on theirs being worthy of protection. Fwiw, I think the concept of IP in general is counter to human progress.
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by vrganj 4mo ago
Did Anthropic perform "distillation attacks" when they hoovered up the entire internet?
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by vrganj 4mo ago
Anthropic stole the entire internet. Excuse my language, but they can fuck right off.
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by vrganj 4mo ago
The prompt they used might've been in Albanian for all we know.
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Poll: Europeans are torn between America and China(politico.eu)
2 points by vrganj 4mo ago|3 comments
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by vrganj 4mo ago
The Spanish public overwhelmingly trusts China over the US, so from their perspective, this is not necessarily a bad move. Obviously, the best move would be to keep the data in Europe instead.
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by vrganj 4mo ago
I think the immigration is what keeps Spain from turning into another Japan or Germany - a stagnant, overly old place stuck in time.
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by vrganj 4mo ago
I think that is a worse indictment of the American right than I would've been able to write myself. It also utterly proves my point above.
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by vrganj 4mo ago
I don't disagree on the second part. It's just that we disagree who the bad guys are, that's the problem, isn't it?

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