Sabinus

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by Sabinus 4d ago
The way you've talked about the average Asian it seems like you're describing a cultural predisposition but representing it as a racial one. And it's easy to see why HK citizens would have cultural preferences towards indepen
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by Sabinus 4d ago
What makes you characterise Hong Kong independence movements as naive economic nostalgia and not a desire for political freedom or independent legal systems? Do you think individuals experienced more freedom under the British monarch and Pa
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by Sabinus 4d ago
Reputation and past statements are useful tools in analysing people's beliefs and arguments and the reasons they make them. Fully anonymous commenting creates certain incentives and you can see those at work on 4chan. There are good p
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by Sabinus 4d ago
Neither link you posted showed anything to me other than you need a negligible of karma to unlock comment downvoting. Do you want to quote the sections you feel detail how "high karma posting" is treated?
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by Sabinus 5d ago
The consequences of electing a wealthy grifter with obvious personality defects and a contempt for professional politics.
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by Sabinus 6d ago
I struggle to understand why this article is interesting or upvoted.
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by Sabinus 6d ago
The ex-President's son cashing in on the family fame is an utter nothingburger compared to Trump's children actively participating in government and diplomacy and taking bribes for themselves and the most openly corrupt President
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by Sabinus 7d ago
And? You're suggesting she was assassinated for voting for Trump supported legislation, by a Trump supporter?
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by Sabinus 8d ago
Hunter Biden is accused of doing 10% of what Kushner is doing in the open. It's very different. And there isn't hundreds of billions "funneled through" Ukraine.
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by Sabinus 10d ago
A country who drugged their citizens into mindless robots would be shunned, sanctioned and perhaps attacked. Their economy would be isolated and not pose a threat from competition. It's an obvious attack on our collective humanity and
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by Sabinus 11d ago
How is this any different to the invention of the cotton mill? You don't get to pick and choose what productive technologies to adopt. You either adopt them, or you'll be paying the countries that do and you'll still lose you
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by Sabinus 12d ago
>At the 2025 market, vendors and Christmas Village staff had temporary ramps that they could place out to accommodate shoppers who used wheelchairs or walkers. >"Well, it was a great approach, but a very small group of people do
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by Sabinus 12d ago
Or you could just not spend any more and increase taxes.
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by Sabinus 13d ago
I understand the sentiment, and would expect that grace be given to American citizens, but the USA has millions of people applying for visas and citizenship that don't have fraud convictions. And it's not the cold war any more, co
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by Sabinus 14d ago
But the American public is petrified of systems like that because of the leftovers of frontier settler culture and fear of communism. They're apparently far more comfortable with the similar but worse systems being set up by corporatio
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by Sabinus 15d ago
The article could have benefited from a mention of why Anthropic is like this now. The reason this happened to you is Anthropic's systems presumably think your work looks like (Chinese) distillation and subscription-to-token-reseller
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by Sabinus 16d ago
AKA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_the_zone "The strategy came to public light after [former Trump chief political strategist] Bannon told Michael Lewis in 2018 that "The Democrats don't matter... T
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by Sabinus 16d ago
How are the Democrats 'just letting it happen' in your opinion? Are the DSA 'just letting it happen' too?
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by Sabinus 16d ago
It's all the 1900s 'proper English' that's in the training material. There are indeed people who talk like that. https://marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-i-dont-write-li...
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by Sabinus 16d ago
>Was Obama allowed to prosecute foreign influence operations or was he prevented from interfering in elections? He launched https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossfire_Hurricane_(FBI_inves... , "but the evidence ava
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by Sabinus 17d ago
The Trump charging and convicting didn't happen fast enough during Biden and now Trump's immune and has pardoned his co-conspirators.
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by Sabinus 17d ago
>Can a Democrat President just rename everything in every red state to random strings? A Democrat president must do this to teach the Republican strategists, representatives and voters consequences of actions. Then they will be ready
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by Sabinus 18d ago
Idk about "foreign born movements", but the more nonsensical and extreme the group's demands the more likely it is they've been signal boosted by foreign actors. Political gridlock and endless polarising rethoric is the
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by Sabinus 21d ago
You know you can configure your browser to hide Twitter links posted here.
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by Sabinus 21d ago
Do you have to do the "USA and democracies and the West are evil actually" thing here? At least get an aged account.
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by Sabinus 22d ago
For some weird reason HN really likes to talk about US celebrities after they die. Hulk Hogan got a big discussion thread too. Also idk why your polite question has been downvoted.
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by Sabinus 22d ago
How are the Israeli and US governments a threat to the entire planet and (arguably) worse than a authoritarian fundamentalist religious regime? If Iran gets a nuke are they more or less likely to use it than the Israelis? Does Israel heav
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by Sabinus 22d ago
Dang, if you're reading this, the bot situation is getting very interesting.
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by Sabinus 23d ago
As well as the humorous implication that the West would be doing all the same nasty assassinations as the Russians, if it weren't for the brave and mighty Russian intelligence services getting in their way.
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by Sabinus 23d ago
By being trained on text containing "I am X" in the model response section.

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