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by xtian 4y ago
Benchmarks are shown on the project’s homepage
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Statements of fact are now “nihilism”, I guess
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Who would that have benefited?
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https://www.history.com/news/industrial-revolution-spies-eur...
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No, it's not: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli... Even less so on issues like this, where the two privileged parties have the exact same policy despite it not benefiting the Americ
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I didn't claim China was underdeveloped. They're very obviously the premier industrial power in the world. The people demanding ahistorical special privileges are so-called "intellectual property holders". I have zero sy
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"IP" is a fiction invented to justify collecting rent from unproductive assets and ultimately serves to prevent underdeveloped countries from developing industrial capacity. Every industrialized country in the world (including the
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Ok, but the "powerful" in this situation are not looking out for the interests of average working Americans, who would be best served by fair and peaceful relations with other countries. And they're not even looking out for t
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I 100% agree. The US recently added additional sanctions on China for chip making technology simply because China has improved their domestic chip manufacturing capabilities. There is no possible justification for the US getting to decide w
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I’m quite annoyed at the sanctions regime conducted in my name with no democratic mandate or oversight whatsoever.
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People in my family have sacrificed meaningfully for these values as well, but I think it’s important to evaluate objectively whether those sacrifices are honored by the people who wield power or taken for granted. https://www.ca
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How do you know that pointing out the ‘hypocrisy’ is the propaganda rather than the idea that these values as commonly understood have any basis in reality in the first place?
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Zig does stand on its own https://ziglang.org/learn/why_zig_rust_d_cpp/
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Pause for Thought: Money Without Value in a Rapidly Disintegrating World(thephilosophicalsalon.com)
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You don’t think the government and defense industry are engaging in social engineering?
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Jodorowsky has said he’s only taken psychedelics once. There’s also overt criticism of drug use and dependence throughout his body of work, including in Holy Mountain itself, so that seems like a self-limiting conclusion to come to.
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Why should the system for managing source code have anything to do with the architecture of the deployed code? This coupling seems arbitrary to me.
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Based on what?
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MSNBC hasn’t told me anything about that. That’s the neutral projection of reality I trust.
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How puzzling that the notes you need to keep checking don't include the explicit agenda of depopulation and halting economic development that is coming out of Davos.
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I'm most interested in Zig personally, but your broad characterization is extremely inaccurate. Odin is being used for a very sophisticated shipping commercial product (EmberGen), and Jai, while not publicly available, is objectively w
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List of countries by home ownership rate(en.wikipedia.org)
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Nuland-Pyatt Tape Removed from YouTube After 8 Years(consortiumnews.com)
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Tell that to Fred Hampton, Julian Assange, Gary Webb, Darren Seals, et al.
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Yes, you can say all of those things in isolation, where nothing is at stake. In practice, a response is triggered when the “wrong” narratives start to gain momentum.
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What’s more efficient is to always view politics as a manifestation of grand moral or ideological conflicts rather than beginning from an understanding of the concrete economic interests at work.
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Censorship in the US operates on a distributed basis, through outright deplatforming, algorithmic suppression, astroturfing counter narratives and smears, coordinated mass reporting/flagging, etc. You can never point to an explicit dec
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Our "state expenses" in no way reflect the immediate needs of the people or any kind of popular democratic will. The average citizen in the US gets extremely little from the state relative to the taxes they pay, so opposing higher
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypocrisy """ Hypocrisy is the practice of engaging in the same behavior or activity for which one criticizes another or the practice of claiming to have moral standards or
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Great point

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