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by astar1 1y ago
hmm, this Economist article from earlier this month shows just how bad things are in India: https://archive.is/bttaV The last thing india needs is more bureaucracy and regulations and restrictions on personal freedoms (not
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by astar1 1y ago
>To put it in perspective, it will have a generating capacity far greater than that of the Three Gorges dams in China and Itaipu in Brazil. With a projected capacity to produce 40.000 megawatts of power, the Grand Inga Dam is more than j
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by astar1 1y ago
almost as well as o3? kind of like gemini 2.5? I dug deeper and surprise surprise: https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/03/deepseek-may-have-used-goo... I am not at all surprised, the CCP views AI race as absolutel
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by astar1 1y ago
This, my guess is OpenAI wised up after r1 and put safeguards in place for o3 that it didn't have for o1, hence the delay.
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by astar1 1y ago
lol!
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by astar1 1y ago
it's a Mass Relay
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by astar1 1y ago
oh i forgot to add, the internet penetration rate is around 50% in India, so 50% of the population can't even access youtube on demand.
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by astar1 1y ago
> they do not suffer any setbacks hmm: https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/10/13/india-arrests-raids-targ... > Second point the Indian leader arrested was involved in huge scams in liquor and policy. unp
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by astar1 1y ago
it's still no where near the same. Adani, india's richest man, has close connections to Modi and is under indictment by the US for bribery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indictment_against_Gautam_Adan... . He
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by astar1 1y ago
It's becoming an illiberal democracy like Turkey. Which is still a lot different than the US imo. e.g.: -After a decade of Modi rule, India now ranked 161 out of 180 in the world press freedom index: https://www.cnn.com&#x2F
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by astar1 1y ago
too little too late for Forever 21 and it's 350 locations which once employed 43,000 people at it's peak: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/17/forever-21-files-for-second-... The temu/shein loophole
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by astar1 2y ago
These 2 failures could have been easily avoidable both times. I really wish there was a push in the US government to create and stockpile plutonium-238 and ensure it's readily available, subsidized, and offered for all US probes/r
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by astar1 2y ago
This is so damn true. I wish people would stop taking companies in China at face value about any of their claims if the CCP has a vested interest in for geopolitical and economic reasons. Bytedance is another example. It's telling tha
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by astar1 2y ago
> Java found the problem
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by astar1 2y ago
I respect this man for calling out the Ambani family (you may have remembered them from the extremely lavish wedding of one their sons earlier this year) for owning one of the most expensive homes ever (a luxury condo just for the family)