blackeyeblitzar

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by blackeyeblitzar 1y ago
Did they really break the law? I’m not a fan of Apple and their aggressive walled gardens and general hostility. But I feel like the tax optimization with Ireland is well known to everyone and wasn’t an issue until now. It seems dishonest t
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by blackeyeblitzar 1y ago
I think big tech deserves anti trust regulation and action because it is good for a competitive market that actually puts customers first. They’re too big and powerful and abuse their power to hurt fair competition. But I think the type of
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by blackeyeblitzar 1y ago
Thanks for sharing. That’s a much longer list than I expected. It certainly looks like they have lots of manufacturing capabilities. I do wonder if they’re the right company for software and AI, however that figures into defense.
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by blackeyeblitzar 1y ago
Boeing still makes really good planes in general. The 737 Max is very popular still, with 300 orders even after the Alaska door incident. Sure the Airbus equivalent got twice the orders in that time, but my point is Boeing is still highly r
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by blackeyeblitzar 1y ago
It’s not unsafe for anyone to visit the US either. Unless you’re violating the law in some way, like presenting false documents or overstaying a visa - in which case there would be consequences like in any other country. Sure mistakes can h
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by blackeyeblitzar 1y ago
> What is happening now: people being critical of Trump are being rejected, legal visa holders are being detained because of the scale of the abuse. The agencies don’t reveal reasons why someone was denied or detained, so there is no evi
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by blackeyeblitzar 1y ago
Yes absolutely. It’s odd to see people here suggesting Mexico as an alternative based on safety of travelers. It’s a giveaway that they’re simply being opportunistic in attacking America due to their opposition to the administration, rather
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by blackeyeblitzar 1y ago
Left on all sides is far left. It’s as left as their categorization goes. Unless you also agree that breitbart is not far right just because it is classified as right.
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by blackeyeblitzar 1y ago
This is just misinformation. Requiring factually accurate sex information to be submitted is not the same as discriminating against some group. It’s just common sense. EDIT - response to defrost’s comment below: The Australian passport does
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by blackeyeblitzar 1y ago
> Except the link you're responding to is literally linking to reports of threats to safety. Typically when you break laws in a country, for example violating the terms of a visa, you face consequences. For everyone else, there’s no
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by blackeyeblitzar 1y ago
This index unironically puts countries that practice government censorship in the category of full democracies. Sorry but this isn't a democracy index - it's just a progressive index.
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by blackeyeblitzar 1y ago
Or maybe these democracy index things are entirely arbitrary
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by blackeyeblitzar 1y ago
Some quick math… Jet fuel is about 7 pounds a gallon. So we’re talking about something like 4000 gallons. A bus is something 40 feet by 10 feet by 10 feet, which is like 20000 gallons. So it’s about a fifth of a school bus. Still a lot, tho
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by blackeyeblitzar 1y ago
> The US is clearly demonstrating it is an unreliable partner in defence. This feels like exaggeration to me. How is the US an ‘unreliable partner’? Has any country had parts for their existing defense purchases restricted? This type of
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by blackeyeblitzar 1y ago
> lawfully acquired guns are routinelly used in crimes. They are literally almost never used in crime. So “routinely” is false. In fact, I would guess that 99.9% of lawfully acquired guns in America are only ever used in lawful ways. &gt
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by blackeyeblitzar 1y ago
> Culturally "left" wing and especially socially liberal policies are incredibly popular in Canada I can see that being true for certain policies and topics. But what about at a more basic level? What do you think of Canada’s s
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by blackeyeblitzar 1y ago
For me LLMs have basically removed any need to visit search engines. I was already not using Google due to how bad its interface had become, but I feel like LLMs at least are more efficient as an interface even if they’re still looking at t
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by blackeyeblitzar 1y ago
> The US is the only country that has ever invaded us. Who is “us”? Surely we need to acknowledge that Europeans invaded Canada in the first place? The “us” that can make claims about having been invaded likely is just the indigenous peo
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by blackeyeblitzar 1y ago
There are lots of Canadians who have felt under attack from within their own country. The ruling regimes of Canada have over time implemented certain policies and ideological values that are a deviation from what was in place before. Not ev
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by blackeyeblitzar 1y ago
If the EU applies the regulations as the group mentioned in the article alleges, it would mean no LLM based tools can be legal in the EU. And then the EU will wonder why they’re lacking entrepreneurs or whatever, without connecting the dots
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by blackeyeblitzar 1y ago
Regardless of whether the content is offensive or not, I find the idea of a government agency policing this to be unacceptable. Violating free speech principles for content that might be objectifying is just weird moral policing.
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by blackeyeblitzar 1y ago
Some of what Trump cut is problematic - like research relating to climate or certain medical research. But other research like those relating to DEI or gender were ideological and wasteful. Europe may end up attracting a lot of researchers
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by blackeyeblitzar 1y ago
If they have this fear, it is because they have been exploiting the same thing from plants for US and European companies that operate in China
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by blackeyeblitzar 1y ago
Speaking of which, what happened to the United Health / Change Healthcare breach last year? They claimed it affected 100 million people ( https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/24/unitedhealth-change-health... ) b
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by blackeyeblitzar 1y ago
For the Americans, daylight savings time also changes the perception of how the days are getting longer.
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by blackeyeblitzar 1y ago
Interestingly, on the front page right now is a discussion titled "The Origin of the Pork Taboo" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43410885
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by blackeyeblitzar 1y ago
This looks like a bad faith lawsuit to extract money. Given all the discrimination in corporate DEI programs, especially at big tech companies, what actually happened is almost certainly the opposite - white and asian employees were discr
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by blackeyeblitzar 1y ago
It’s nice that the EU has given them direction on how to comply. I’m not a fan of many kinds of regulations in the EU - for example rules that require censorship of speech in social media or the extreme bureaucracy of certain countries. But
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by blackeyeblitzar 1y ago
> The locals have just as vehemently rejected being part of the USA. My comment did not mention the US. The key point is that Greenlanders don’t want to be slaves to Denmark. It’s a euphemism because your comment - and Danes and the EU i
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by blackeyeblitzar 1y ago
From the article: > It shocked him to realize that he now perceives the United States as a greater threat than Iran. Weird how Europeans / Canadians / extremist Americans don’t seem to reflect on these types of sentiments, of p

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