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Europe Lifts Sanctions on Yandex Founder – So He Can Build Again(wired.com)
2 points by xpl 3y ago|1 comments
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by xpl 3y ago
Has always been, even pre-AI. Just replace "AI" with "the media". People live in their own information bubbles. Extreme society polarization, QAnon stuff, it all happens because of that. And it will only get worse, of co
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by xpl 3y ago
Yes, that is a plausible explanation. On the other hand, I have witnessed how the Putin's rhetoric made a U-turn over those dozens of years — from "Fukuyama-level" liberal and pro-Western (early Putin), to "geopolitical
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by xpl 3y ago
As much as I am for the free market, TikTok is a scary thing. Probably it would need to be banned even if it was a domestic product.
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by xpl 3y ago
And just recently Putin said that Belgium "owes its existence to Russia": https://meduza.io/en/feature/2024/03/07/in-his-latest-pseudo... Rewriting history is pretty much real — there is a
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by xpl 3y ago
Watch the recent Tucker Carlson's interview with Putin. There is a literally 2 hours long historical lecture from Putin, explaining in great detail why (to his opinion) Ukraine doesn't and shouldn't exist as a sovereign state
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by xpl 3y ago
Russia had in fact expressed desire to join NATO in Putin's early days as a president. Apparently he wanted to fast-track, so it might have hurt his ego somehow, when he was told that Russia is no special. https://web.archiv
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by xpl 3y ago
Is this still quadratic to prompt size? Could somebody explain? Because paying like $100 for a 2M query wouldn't be cool for most of us, so the applications would be very limited.
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by xpl 3y ago
> Who exactly are copilots for if not beginners? The thing is: in software engineering, you're very often "a beginner" when using new technology or operating outside your familiar domain. In fact, you need to learn const
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by xpl 3y ago
Pretty much everyone in Russia dreams to live in Moscow. Owning an apartment in Moscow is the equivalent of "American Dream" in Russia. Other cities are livable of course in a literal sense, and there are nice places to visit. But
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by xpl 3y ago
I've moved to the U.S. exactly because Russia isn't a nice place to live. But putting politics aside, Moscow itself is actually a gem — at least, it was before the war (now when many bright people have fled the country, I guess it
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by xpl 3y ago
Piracy isn't difficult to compete against. You just need to provide a service at least as usable as piracy. I won't mind paying a couple of bucks, I just need a usable service which: 1. Doesn't restrict what content I can wat
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by xpl 3y ago
But also you can't buy them without a prescription from a doctor, which itself costs money (for a visit) — and usually even with insurance, because of some "copay" bullshit. In other countries you can just buy it.
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by xpl 3y ago
Name one U.S. medical thing that is not many times higher in price than in other countries?
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by xpl 3y ago
This must be big news? Aren't those now-rolled-back rules threatened to make R&D in USA unviable?
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by xpl 3y ago
Why it "has to show something"? Isn't it enough to present a more elegant mathematical formalism for describing the same reality? Like you take an "ugly" and self-inconsistent set of existing theories and "refa
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by xpl 3y ago
> if you think simulation theory only applies to YOU Is there any reason to think otherwise (if one believes in simulation in the first place)? Why simulate the whole universe, when it is sufficient to simulate just one's internal
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by xpl 3y ago
Not only the U.S., it is now all the major Western donors: > Britain, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Finland joined the United States, Australia and Canada in pausing funding ... https://www.theguardian.com
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by xpl 3y ago
Not "most" but certainly many. I love remote dev (via Remote Containers in VSCode) for large C++ codebases (which could not even compile on my Macbook because of different architecture). Running `clangd` LSP on my local machine wo
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by xpl 3y ago
Can a foreigner get a permanent residency permit in Japan? I mean, even if one purchases an abandoned property, can they live in it without legal restriction?
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by xpl 3y ago
> it seems strange to me that they don't have full citizenship They don't because now what we call Palestine is a separate state, like Mexico to the U.S. We don't give Mexicans citizenship automatically just because they
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by xpl 3y ago
Sure, but there is difference between "racist things happen" and truly systemic oppression at the state-level like it was in the U.S. when Black people didn't have equal rights, or during South African Apartheid. Israel just
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by xpl 3y ago
I had lived in Israel for a while and never seen "apartheid" many are talking about here in the U.S. There actually were lots of Arab/Muslim people who were citizens and they were not oppressed in any way. I believe more than
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by xpl 3y ago
In developed capitalist economies children become liability, and not an asset. This is why fertility rates all over the world get rapidly decreased, even in homophobic societies. I don't think the global fertility rate is in any way im
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by xpl 3y ago
I actually never understood why it has to be immutable (in the context of civil rights). IMO, it's a red herring. Because if it was about free will, then people would still need the right to choose what they want to be — and that needs
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by xpl 3y ago
Too much nesting usually signals that you should decompose it to smaller components. Same as with regular code and functions — overly deep nesting screams bad code. Honestly, JSX is just a verbose way of calling functions / constructin
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by xpl 3y ago
I didn't mean to get into actually comparing "who had more reasons", I was simply pointing out that whatever reasons one had in their mind (good or bad, it doesn't matter), those reasons cannot be an excuse for such acti
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Mojo: A meta-programmable Python over LLVM/MLIR for CUDA-level performance(youtube.com)
1 points by xpl 3y ago|0 comments
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by xpl 3y ago
I think it's because the expansion of the universe is happening faster than the speed of light. So the light from the far regions can never reach us. The universe could well be infinite, but the Hubble volume is pretty much finite... I
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by xpl 3y ago
And Putin is actually peace-loving — he'd love to grab land peacefully, without any resistance! It's just bad Ukraine who doesn't get that...

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