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by flexie 22d ago
We are asked to allow hundreds of cookies, not just a few, to play the game.
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by flexie 5mo ago
Do anyone here know if OpenAI plans on introducing a Word add-in, like Claude for Word?
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by flexie 7mo ago
I am Danish, working with IT in the private sector, but with regular contact to the public sector. I can assure you that there is plenty of other agencies, ministries, municipalities, private companies etc. in both Denmark and other Europea
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by flexie 8mo ago
But Trump explained to us yesterday, how wind and solar is for losers. Surely, we should be looking in to how we can transition back to fossils.
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by flexie 9mo ago
The Substack post takes a rather childish approach by confusing happiness with smiling and laughter. Personal safety, good health, financial stability, access to education, job security, low stress, and strong family and social ties do not
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by flexie 1y ago
Google will need a far better LLM than OpenAI to throw them decisively off the AI throne, just like another company would need a far better search engine than Google to throw them off the search throne. ChatGPT is now the 7th highest rankin
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by flexie 1y ago
Almost all automobile manufacturers are valued with P/Es around 4-15. This is true for GM, Ford, Stellantis, VW, BMW, Toyota, Hyundai, SAIC, Nissan, Honda, Suzuki, etc. Why? Because no-one expect them to grow much. Right now, after los
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by flexie 2y ago
Top 10 percent of who? According to this source, 40 percent of US stock is owned by foreigners: https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/who-owns-us-stock-foreign...
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by flexie 2y ago
Ukraine has the right to defend itself against the Russian invasion. That's not nationalist. It is basic survival. Ukraine cannot be asked to refrain from defending itself in order to secure that Germany has cheap energy import and an
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by flexie 2y ago
By now, most schools in Denmark are banning phones during school hours. My kids' school did it two years ago. I have no idea if it has improved my kids' "cognitive skills", and frankly I don't care that much about t
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by flexie 2y ago
The American numbers are still incredibly high. The EU (with a much higher population), has around 6-7,000 drug related deaths per year: https://www.euda.europa.eu/publications/european-drug-report... Drug use is usual
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EU Court: Apple received EUR 13B illegal tax subsidy [pdf](curia.europa.eu)
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by flexie 2y ago
It's not a clone. What is ethically murky about it? You want Brad Pitt for your movie. He says no. You hire Benicio Del Toro because of the physical resemblence. Big deal. Having seen "Her" and many other Scarlet Johansson mo
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by flexie 2y ago
As someone who actually uses the API for real products, I don't think the OP understands what the reduced latency and reduced cost means: Everything related to building a more advanced RAG, for example building agentic features into it
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by flexie 2y ago
The court just ruled and it did indeed find that Switzerland had failed to comply with its duties concerning climate change: https://www.echr.coe.int/w/grand-chamber-rulings-in-the-clim... "The Court found that Ar
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by flexie 3y ago
For some of these it also applies the other way, doesn't it: Richer societies can afford to heat their homes with more sustainable solutions. More educated societies are more likely to introduce nuclear power or build windmill parks. W
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by flexie 3y ago
Not sure this kind of rhetoric ever worked. As far back as I have followed the news - so perhaps for 35 years - it was about to be too late. We were at the brink of a catastrophe. Humankind had to do something now. Tomorrow, it would be too
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by flexie 3y ago
It's a unique form of American subsidies: You don't have to directly pay your businesses to get a competitive edge. You just don't require companies and individuals to pay any way near enough tax to keep basic government func
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by flexie 3y ago
Yes, technologically, this is amazing. But I honestly think it's sickening that a company controlled by one man is allowed to send 30,000 pieces of junk into space. The fact that the one man who controls it is a billionaire demagogue (
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by flexie 3y ago
12.6 EUR
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by flexie 3y ago
This is the paper the post is based on: https://earth4all.life/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/E4A_People...
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by flexie 3y ago
Here in Denmark, all universities are state owned and with no tuition. In fact, you get paid to attend one (around 900 euro monthly). But I can assure you that Danes place a lot of value on the free universities. Some universities are consi
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by flexie 3y ago
What is so interesting is that back then, you needed to live on Manhattan or very near Manhattan if you worked there. Subways, trains, new suburbs, bridges and tunnels, and cars, enabled people employed by Manhattan businesses to live furth
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by flexie 3y ago
It's astonishing to think of the fact that NYC's total population is down from 8.8 million in 2020 to 8.3 million. That's a steep drop. With merely 48 percent of office space occupied, and desks in the so-called occupied offi
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by flexie 3y ago
The HN crowd largely consists of people who make a living creating or working for businesses that create material which is protected as intellectual property rights. Source code to computer programs is protected under copyright law (and in
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by flexie 3y ago
Before anyone makes the argument that the EU should have no jurisdiction over an American entity, please remember that Google sells its services in Europe. It's well within the jurisdiction of the EU to regulate how anyone does busines
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by flexie 3y ago
Apart from 1) measuring activity that doesn't contribute much to society in any meaningful way (war), and from 2) failing to measure activity that actually contributes to society (like the grey economy), 3) GDP also fails to measure ol
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by flexie 3y ago
Yes, thank you :-)
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by flexie 3y ago
Yes, it does have an element of bragging, but Northern Europe, and particularly the Nordics, do very well and there is no purpose in trying to hide that. What is interesting to me is that much of what the Nordics do is widely known and free
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by flexie 3y ago
What I find fascinating is that it took so long for this to become reality: Originally, office space was needed for secretaries, typewriters, meeting rooms, desk telephones that were hooked up to a central company number. Eventually office

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