elbci

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by elbci 8mo ago
maybe it's not too late to find out that US was always like this and the fairy tale our parents listened on CIA's RadioFreeEurope was just - a fairy tale for gullible grown-ups ;)
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by elbci 8mo ago
ha ha fair enough - but he does mention there's a culture of isolation and cu-throat competition at the school so, maybe it's just a reaction to that
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by elbci 8mo ago
rare here: well written and insightful, I would take this course. I'm curious about why he penalized chatbot mistakes more, at first glance sounds like just discouraging their use but the hole setup indicates genuine desire to let it b
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by elbci 8mo ago
LOL if little green AIlens come and get blamed for the financial crisis, I'm sold 100% on Capricorn One (1978)
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by elbci 8mo ago
... urgently needed now ;)
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by elbci 8mo ago
Take a look at that sea of kids taking the GaoKao to get into Beijing univ and you know the software stack is lost already, it's now only about the fabs (hence the Greenland?).
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by elbci 8mo ago
you are behind the guy with $1M and ahead of the homeless bum with 10 stolen bucks. The elephant in the room is that all three of you are indistinguishably close to each-other when compared to Bezos/Musk/Koch etc ;)
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by elbci 8mo ago
"I'm increasingly of the opinion that we need to reimagine the operating system itself..." yeap!
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by elbci 8mo ago
and the average $1.4M is now worth a not yet fully paid mortgage and 2 cars on operational leasing..
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by elbci 8mo ago
"boredom lab researcher"? Well... I remember as it was yesterday, many years ago I saw on National Geographic a NGO lady flown thousands of miles to Africa to sit on a boulder and explain (I imagine - the Tv was on mute) the intri
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by elbci 8mo ago
separation of concerns -> division of labor (hint: there's always a power imbalance even if it's hidden under reification)
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by elbci 8mo ago
Ha ha Thanks! Now I'll just get back to "[redacted] movies" since it still doesn't make much sense to me, unfortunately humanity's future is doomed regardless of what you place under [redacted] - it's not a que
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by elbci 8mo ago
peak anticlimax title ;)
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by elbci 8mo ago
50000 published - 500 retracted = 45000 slop noise to bury the 2 lonely actually novel ideas
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by elbci 8mo ago
Given my search history I'm guaranteed to get porn if I search for "[redacted]" so, a little help here pls, what is redacted supposed to mean?
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by elbci 8mo ago
> "Or take this depiction of a workshop, by a French painter, 1888. The room is clean and well-lit, the machines are human-scale. The master and the apprentice are intent on their work; one can imagine a paternal affection between t
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by elbci 8mo ago
"Alterantives" - LOL!!
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by elbci 8mo ago
Again: some people buy a Rolex from the factory, like Kissinger and Obama, others buy it from ebay - it is still a yellow overpriced trinket.
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by elbci 8mo ago
The "Oohhh...I get it now... F_ck!" will be epic. At some point they will rediscover that insight from 1917 explaining that money are not backed by gold or oil or even leaving your computer overnight - money are backed by guns! Wh
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by elbci 8mo ago
greatest f_ck up in the XX century by far, maybe of all times since the techno-feudalism - regardless if it's Trump or woke flavored - might prove impossible to overthrow.
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by elbci 8mo ago
> "Your phone will not just be a tool for consumption; it will be a weapon for truth. It will run its own blockchain node. It will prove ZK-statements in milliseconds. It will run state-of-the-art multi billion/trillion paramet
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by elbci 8mo ago
maybe they finally discovered George Carling ;))
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by elbci 8mo ago
agree! Social-media contributions as files on your system: owned by you, served to the app. Like .svg specifications allows editing in inkscape or illustrator a post on my computer would be portable on mastodon or bluesky or a fully distrib
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by elbci 8mo ago
there's a wikipedia link above (showing indeed Czechia amongst the least "nostalgic" - only 25% in 2021). As for elections results, how many ppl don't bother to vote (31% absenteeism vs 36% best electoral score, ANO)? ho
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by elbci 8mo ago
Just a few days ago EU replaced SUA infrastructure with its own sovereign imaginary infrastructure. Replacing now those 5G Huawei chips in the new imaginary infrastructure with imaginary 800G chips... yeah, sure...
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by elbci 8mo ago
Those 50-60-70+% of people in former communist states don't "romanticize", they just remember being better. Utopia - no, but better than capitalism. Without an example of a communist state shielded from constant attacks, sabo
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by elbci 8mo ago
My phone never feels lonely - it is in constant contact with it's mothership reporting all my moves, moods and murmurs
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by elbci 8mo ago
There's a school shooting every other day here but no worries, look, Russians have them too
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by elbci 8mo ago
- What capitalists did in 6 months that communists didn't manage in 50 years? - Make communism look good. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_nostalgia
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by elbci 8mo ago
20 or so yrs ago I read a 300 page "EU Start-up Grants Guide" - small print legalese or Kant is children prose in comparison. I managed to reduce to 5 criteria to get 100 points needed to qualify: 20 pts - parrot EU buzzwords prof

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