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by vrganj 4mo ago
No. But capitalism requires them. I'm down to end capitalism, but maybe we should figure that out before we destroy the thing that kinda-sorta made it work?
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by vrganj 4mo ago
Whatever happened to stripping criminal immigrants of their US citizenship and putting them in a torture cell in El Salvador? Not a policy I'd usually support, but I think a certain South African has really done enough damage to justif
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by vrganj 4mo ago
Anyone who uses quotation marks around far right has clearly stated their allegiance. It is no wonder then that such a person would do their best to poo-poo the worlds most successful peace project and the bastion of rule of law.
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by vrganj 4mo ago
There's Curve Pay in Europe. In the US, I'm not sure.
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by vrganj 4mo ago
An LLM is an encoding of a culture, a way of viewing the world. They are not neutral technology, they are a direct representation of the training set that has been chosen and how they are aligned. In many ways, they are ideology made code.
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by vrganj 4mo ago
So is hate speech in Europe. More like free speech relativist then, huh?
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by vrganj 4mo ago
So much for the "free speech absolutist"...
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Musk to sue German broadcaster ZDF over 'hunt for migrants'(dw.com)
8 points by vrganj 4mo ago|5 comments
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by vrganj 4mo ago
Here's a fun video that goes through the details of a related project, libertarian sea pods: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V_FM0mLC0c Theres a long history of these things being poorly thought out ideological projec
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Tesla presented misleading 'Full Self-Driving' safety data to European regulator(reuters.com)
31 points by vrganj 5mo ago|8 comments
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by vrganj 5mo ago
Well that one self-identified as German tbf.
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by vrganj 5mo ago
They don't mind Austrians tho. Germans are kind of disliked in the rest of DACH.
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by vrganj 5mo ago
If you start with a mere two million and get really lucky, you, too, can be a billionaire! Now, if that isn't inspiring, I don't know what is! Some of my rich buddies got to be super rich following my advice! I really don't k
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by vrganj 5mo ago
Yikes. There is no ethical way to become a billionaire. It always involves exploitation and cheating, including in the very examples named by Graham. Airbnb got rich by creating a housing crises all over the world and skirting hotel laws.
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U.K. forces intercept a Russian shadow fleet oil tanker in English Channel(nbcnews.com)
5 points by vrganj 5mo ago|0 comments
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by vrganj 5mo ago
Regulation is what enables production by setting clear ground rules. The alternative is executive caprice and we're all seeing that play out right now.
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by vrganj 5mo ago
Mistral's doing fine?
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by vrganj 5mo ago
It's a far right propaganda site masquerading as internet advocacy.
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by vrganj 5mo ago
It was a protest as much as the Beer Hall Putsch was.
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by vrganj 5mo ago
Its not Fable 5 that overstepped in the eyes of the US government. It's Anthropic. This is transparent revenge for them daring to try and push back a little on enabling war crimes.
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by vrganj 5mo ago
It's all a spectrum. Considering the alternative...
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by vrganj 5mo ago
For American AI models better than Opus 4.8. The much-decried EU AI Act provides a safe, predictable regulatory framework to base ones AI development on. It provides legal stability compared to unpredictable arbitrary decisions by the US
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by vrganj 5mo ago
It also was a European move the US tried to undo in Trump-Putin negotiations before they realized they had no say in it. SWIFT is Belgian.
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by vrganj 5mo ago
Not voting is a vote for the status quo. Not being politically active is a political choice itself.
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by vrganj 5mo ago
The Star Trek future is back on track. Star Trek is cyber socialism, with the means of production owned by the Federation. China is the only player working towards this.
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by vrganj 5mo ago
And as a corollary, no country should consider the US its ally. I'm glad Europe is finally waking up to this reality.
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by vrganj 5mo ago
The Renault 5 is selling like crazy. Makes sense why, reasonable price, good design, made in Europe EV. It's what a lot of people have been waiting for.
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by vrganj 5mo ago
Their teenage kids might.
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by vrganj 5mo ago
This was also an entire lifetime ago.
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by vrganj 5mo ago
This isn't about trade efficiency though, it's about bypassing an inefficient bureaucracy by allowing for approval by a more efficient one as an option. We have no intention of dropping our standards to US ones, but they are welco

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