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4mo ago
Because loan forgiveness makes no sense at all until the underlying system is fixed. It’s just absurd. Cap fees and interest rates and the think about partial income based forgiveness. The English system seems like a very reasonable comprom
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5mo ago
Or.. they might have enjoyed their time at the office and want the new generation to have that experience as well: D
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5mo ago
Isn’t the Neo almost identical to the 12”? It’s only ~1cm wider
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5mo ago
The R&D is of course subsidized but a lot/most(?) of these inference providers are not Chinese
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5mo ago
> subsidizing use to build market share the same way To an extent maybe, but that market is almost entirely commoditized already. Besides Cerebras and maybe Groq (which already charge a slight premium) all the other providers are more l
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5mo ago
Based on what I said. If e.g. Sonnet (assuming it’s significantly smaller than Opus) is unprofitable why are there a bunch of inference providers on OpenRouter serving very large models way cheaper? They don’t have a pile of money to burn f
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5mo ago
Compared to the inference prices for open models it’s highly unlikely OpenAI/Anthropic are not making decent amounts of money from inference. How many times bigger could Opus be than GLM or Kimi, it’s certainly not proportional to the
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5mo ago
There are plenty of various providers on OpenRouter serving very large Chinese models like GLM for a fraction of what OpenAI/Anthropic. Presumably they are making a profit. It’s unlikely that Claude is proportionally that bigger and mo
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5mo ago
Except mechanical watches were very high-tech at the time and were very practical devices. By the time they became mainly an accessory/status symbol sumptuary laws weren’t a thing.
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5mo ago
It’s only acceptable to make fun of countries like France or Britain etc. rather than developmentally challenged ones like Russia..
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5mo ago
There is a huge difference between supporting the regulation of algorithmic feeds and other dark patterns and a direct attack on personal privacy.
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5mo ago
> Apple solved this issue some 20+ years ago All the i7/i9 Macbook pros that I used back in the day were obnoxiously load. Even when not under particularly heavy load.
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5mo ago
> Eastern Europe immigration It’s hard to believe those type of people actually wanted to replace it with non European immigration, though (which is what happened). Of course cause and effect is a complex concept to wrap ones head around
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5mo ago
I think Zurich is in a slightly different league than London or Amsterdam in that regard but especially if you go down to the median and below (low taxes are helpful as well)
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5mo ago
To be fair the gap has been tightening for quite a while and it’s likely that adjusted by living expenses it’s not that hard for those engineers to find higher paying jobs in Poland compared to the UK.
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5mo ago
Per capita Slovakia and Hungary are getting way more than Poland so its the other way around if anything (of course the Baltics are a good counterpoint)
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5mo ago
As noted in the other comment Poland is not even getting that much money per capita, it’s just a fairly large country. They are still getting half of what Belgium is getting and unlike the overwhelming majority of bureaucrats in Brussels Po
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5mo ago
That’s what they claim, though. On its own its just words which might or might not reflect reality. The phrasing strongly indicates its the latter, however
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5mo ago
> HW4 as 99% of the way to true FSD If we describe current LLMs 99% of the way to AGI and full sentience then https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA was probably 90% of the way.
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6mo ago
> The projects that deliberately sabotage the use of LLMs They don’t though. They add a mild inconvenience for users of a specific restrictive AI provider which has bizarrely glitchy checks. In a way they are doing you a service if you a
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6mo ago
> evidence that they did not result in significant expulsions I don’t quite get how you come to this conclusion? Ireland for instance continued having rebellion despite and after significant expulsions starting hundreds of years prior to
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6mo ago
> economic role that they chose to assume The only choice they had which would have allowed them assume any other role was conversion to Islam. > no evidence that this ever happened There is obviously evidence and there several major
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6mo ago
They were second class citizens with limited rights (quite a bit like the people in the occupied West Bank for that matter..)
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6mo ago
> Palestinians are not indigenous What does that even mean? Just because they converted (or were forced) to another religion? Even the Hebrew recognizes there were plenty of other people living in territory of what is now modern Israel a
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6mo ago
That’s still eugenics, though. Except this time it’s not pseudoscience.
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6mo ago
So does Israel, it’s not even a war with Lebanon it’s just happening there but the Lebanese government and armed are not participating in it
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6mo ago
To avoid apple inevitably fucking up and breaking things like in this case. The risk to benefit ratio for allowing this is just very poor
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6mo ago
Well yeah and Apple wouldn’t be able to abuse its pseudo-monopolistic market position. That would be so sad…
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6mo ago
> endorsed by Snowden. Who is endorsed by the Russian government
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6mo ago
Yes but the article implies that they somehow made 15B in profit by selling the gold in US and buying an equivalent amount which can’t be the case.
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