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by wrzuteczka 5mo ago
The term "fake news" has been overused, but... we initially heard about hundreds of thousands of visas sold for bribes, now we know about maybe a couple hundred of visas issued with some - let's say - irregularities. No bribe
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by wrzuteczka 5mo ago
It’s still nothing compared to the other things I mentioned.
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by wrzuteczka 5mo ago
I think you got it backwards. Over the last 20 years, the SLD govt used to literally sell new legislation for bribes, PO (currently in charge of Poland) literally has right now a guy in their ranks who has likely stolen 100s of millions P
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by wrzuteczka 5mo ago
Didn't expect that stuff to reach HN... anyway: > packing the Polish Constitutional Court This didn’t start with PiS. PO, just before losing power, tried to elect five Tribunal judges at once, including two seats that weren’t theirs
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by wrzuteczka 9mo ago
Russia has been literally selling Venezuela all kinds of military equipment for decades. If they hadn’t helped Venezuela militarily this time, it’s probably because they are a little busy losing thousands of troops per week in Ukraine.
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by wrzuteczka 2y ago
These 8 laboratories shared the same sample collected from a corner of the shroud. The priests handling the shroud would always hold it by its corners. So the explanation is not as weak as it may sound.
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by wrzuteczka 2y ago
Weird twist: Slavic languages use words very similar to "domus" for "house", for example, "dom" in Polish or "дом" in Ukrainian.
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by wrzuteczka 2y ago
How are we supposed to know, being outside of Google?
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by wrzuteczka 3y ago
My Bose QC 35 headphones are like that. I just replace the ear pads every few years and they are like new.
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by wrzuteczka 3y ago
With the AI "revolution," I began to appreciate the simplicity of models we create when doing programming (and physics, biology, and so on as well). I used to think about these things differently: I felt that because our models of
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by wrzuteczka 3y ago
Discovering how a large system works can be fun. Even if a codebase is old, but the design is good, it can be gratifying.
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by wrzuteczka 4y ago
We don't have that here either, but I'm satisfied with the Apple premium reseller network.
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by wrzuteczka 4y ago
Still better than Apple! I pay the full price for Apple One but Apple thinks I shouldn't have access to Fitness+. Or Siri, which still doesn't support my language (Polish, 40M speakers) and has problems recognizing my English acce
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by wrzuteczka 4y ago
Ukrainians were given full employment rights in Poland after the Russian invasion, so they can just move to Poland (at least the female ones, as males aren’t allowed to leave Ukraine for now).
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by wrzuteczka 4y ago
OK, so it sounds like it’s possible in France too, you just need to employ yourself (and then pay employment-related contributions). In Poland, this is a little simplified, as there’s a company structure called “single-person company” (I’m
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by wrzuteczka 4y ago
The "employee" creates a single-person company in Poland (or any other EU country, I guess) and sends invoices monthly. Honestly, it's trivial to set up. I'd say it's even easier than the standard employment process
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by wrzuteczka 4y ago
The smaller one turned out to be hardly useful, the larger one isn’t available. Warmates seem to be more effective in Ukraine, and Ukraine bought/received more of those.
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by wrzuteczka 4y ago
It seems to me that calling facts you don't like a "salad" or "yoghurt" is a mental equivalent of covering your ears.
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by wrzuteczka 4y ago
Exactly, that’s one of the most overlooked parts of the Earth, but if you consider the GDP growth rate over the last 30 years, Poland is second only to China.
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by wrzuteczka 4y ago
It's not word salad, this is the logical conclusion of the Church-Turing thesis. If you think it's false, you should present some arguments against it.
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by wrzuteczka 4y ago
This seems irreverent to me. If you created an evolutionary algorithm, where these very complex statistical models competed for survival, I don’t see how that would help one of them become conscious.
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by wrzuteczka 4y ago
Do you mean that because of its complexity, we are not able to define it due to practical reasons (i.e. no powerful enough computer exists)? If so, that’s something completely different. Consciousness cannot be defined with math or logic ev
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by wrzuteczka 4y ago
So how being embodied helps consciousness emerge? If it’s just the statistical model that underpins the consciousness, then it doesn’t matter if it’s embodied or not. It doesn’t matter to the algorithm what hardware it runs on.
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by wrzuteczka 4y ago
I wouldn’t call it science-based, it’s just materialism. There’s no science in believing that something that can be completely described by a set of logical rules, or mathematical formulae, or something similar, suddenly gains new features
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by wrzuteczka 4y ago
You mean “talk” as in be receiving answers in real time? Because I think all Christians believe that you can “talk” to God in some way.
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by wrzuteczka 4y ago
Is there any proof that the AI is anything else than a complex statistical model and actually has consciousness?
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by wrzuteczka 4y ago
All pickup trucks in Poland have been sent to Ukraine and are now used by the Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces
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by wrzuteczka 4y ago
The better your military equipment is, the lesser the chance that you will need to use it.
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by wrzuteczka 5y ago
Whose understanding of Christianity? Modern day American tech workers? Because that is the traditional understanding. It sure was how Christianity was understood by st. Augustine, st. Thomas Aquinas and st. Anzelm. And how Christian philoso
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by wrzuteczka 5y ago
There’s a Soviet version of that joke that is way harsher.

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