dreambuffer

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by dreambuffer 23d ago
The CIA hires "actual" artists, all the time and in great numbers. They have a creative writing division.
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by dreambuffer 27d ago
The logistics required to win intercontinental wars against a reasonably large and well-defended country are simply beyond human organisational capabilities and it's only getting harder as defence gets better and easier, and the world
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by dreambuffer 2mo ago
She's not wrong at all about her rhetorical implication (being, some information requires more than simple systems can provide), but she has concluded incorrectly that a car which does not know how to avoid a busy route is useless tech
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by dreambuffer 2mo ago
Well, yes, because the US government has staked the future of the country's GDP on AI. They're even divesting from science as a whole and putting it into data centers.
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by dreambuffer 2mo ago
There's a cognitive dissonance on this site where everyone claims to hate this attempt at regulatory capture, yet they would do it too if it was their tech company and call it a "moat", and many are actively working towards t
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by dreambuffer 2mo ago
You don't have to be self-employed to have skin in the game, that's ridiculous. How many op ed writers have tried to have skin in the game at all? How many of them produce writing which is actually high quality and not just concer
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by dreambuffer 2mo ago
Taleb made a lot of money trading, his firm failed but running a successful business is not trivial and his ideas ended up working when he took up an advisory role rather than an executive role. Unlike other financial "influencers&quot
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by dreambuffer 2mo ago
I will do this work for substantially less money, $200 per week. Contact me agngel@proton.me
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by dreambuffer 2mo ago
Porkbun is an interesting case study for this support model. They reply to everything personally, and for me the important thing is not that I'm talking to a human, but that I'm not hearing corporatespeak. I would even be happy to
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by dreambuffer 2mo ago
You know Palantir is not an LLM company, right? Their core product is just data integration systems.
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by dreambuffer 2mo ago
There likely isn't a Canadian Alex Karp. Karp is a unique byproduct of American culture. The specific brand of arrogance, hunger for war, and callous disregard for human life, all in service of a right wing ideological project, is simp
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by dreambuffer 2mo ago
We barely have a space industry, how are we meant to compete with starlink? We need foreign investment. We also need protections against foreign investment. We also need to uplift south africans left behind by apartheid. That is the purpose
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by dreambuffer 2mo ago
Although your claim is literally untrue as the grid has been upgraded, the answer is: mostly the apartheid government. They left the ANC with a grid that served only 10% of the population, which makes it very difficult to upgrade, especiall
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by dreambuffer 2mo ago
You can easily look up the lies he has made about white genocide, which even white south africans have debunked. You accuse me of deception for arguing that, in a democracy, the law must be written by averages and not by a few individuals w
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by dreambuffer 2mo ago
You are at this point purposefully trying to misunderstand me so you can let out your anger. Conversation is over, sorry.
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by dreambuffer 2mo ago
No you misunderstand severely, some risks are unavoidable and unknowable. You need a telecommunications industry, you can't just eliminate all risks associated with it. So instead you make them pay a kind of insurance to operate in it,
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by dreambuffer 2mo ago
Black people decide every few years by voting for representatives who uphold these policies. There has never been a motion supported by the majority of black south africans to get rid of B-BBEE, only foreign people like you seem to have a p
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by dreambuffer 2mo ago
Again, I never said it was zero sum, but thanks for being condescending. I said it was close to zero sum. Black south africans may get some jobs, maybe some internet, but the profit entirely goes to foreign entities and white south africans
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by dreambuffer 2mo ago
Economic opportunity for black south africans is close to zero sum when all the profit goes to a foreign entity and white south africans. Separately, kneecapping starlink does a lot for our country by preventing a man who hates us from abus
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by dreambuffer 2mo ago
It hedges national security risk by having 30% of the profits stay within South Africa, so that if the foreign company decides to use their company to, say, spy on South Africans, they at least have to fund our key industries to do so. That
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by dreambuffer 2mo ago
Why don't you guys ever acknowledge that the law is an attempt to correct the racism of the apartheid government by distributing economic opportunities to those who never had them?
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by dreambuffer 2mo ago
No, that had nothing to do with B-BBEE abuse.
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by dreambuffer 3mo ago
It is easy to export electricity when you only need to serve 10% of the population.
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by dreambuffer 3mo ago
Starlink is allowed to choose who they partner with. They will go through a lengthy process to pick partners that align with their business, including value propositions.
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by dreambuffer 3mo ago
The goal is to hedge national security risk by giving ownership of key industries to native South Africans and especially those who have historically been denied economic opportunities by the apartheid government.
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by dreambuffer 3mo ago
Yes, all the time, because it is a private arrangement between the foreign company and the local company. Private companies are in no meaningful sense "cronies" of the government, even if they were accredited by the formal regulat
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by dreambuffer 3mo ago
Problem of course is that a lot of this information is junk even at scale, which is how you get people "deciding" to pollute, destroy their own health, start wars, etc.
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by dreambuffer 3mo ago
B-BEEE exists as a kind of "national security risk insurance", that is why it is only applied to sectors like Telecomms and Mining. So my statement is not incorrect.
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by dreambuffer 3mo ago
This is misleading, Starlink does not need to provide "30% to the state", they only have to give 30% ownership to a local company with historically disenfranchised owners providing real economic value to South Africa. This can be
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by dreambuffer 3mo ago
Starlink is a massive national security risk, and that is one of the primary reasons it has not been allowed in South Africa. It's also why Starlink has pushed so aggressively to establish itself in South Africa, going as far as to hol

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