grakasja

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by grakasja 1y ago
Their re-defection in Vienna seems extremely unlikely. The tape doesn't actually say that they were kidnapped from Hong Kong, that's the summary of a Wikipedia editor. Shin later said that if he had been blocked from making films
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by grakasja 1y ago
"Who's that avenger with a flute? He's sticking up for poor people!"
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by grakasja 1y ago
It's actually debated whether the director was "kidnapped". Lots of people in Korea believe he went willingly. His left-wing films had been banned in the South, and Kim Jong-il offered him superstardom, big budgets and creati
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by grakasja 1y ago
There are a few websites that suggest or map areas where you can get a good view e.g. https://www.darkskymap.com/nightSkyBrightness Lots of good spots in the Western US if you're up for a long drive
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by grakasja 1y ago
You were right, it does sound LLM assisted at least. It's well-written but superficial, lacking sources and examples, typical of an LLM summary. Not that it's wrong or that info about ongoing secret operations is publicly availabl
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by grakasja 1y ago
I don't think they ever did.
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by grakasja 1y ago
Isn't an out-of-country rule relatively trivial to get around using a domestic proxy?
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by grakasja 1y ago
Haters will say it's AI.
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by grakasja 1y ago
Protip: Taking Vitamin C or E orally before a scan can significantly reduce the amount of damaged DNA in your system, potentially reducing your cancer risk. There are several studies on Pubmed indicating this.
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by grakasja 1y ago
A grand chick saved me!
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by grakasja 1y ago
Yeah, I was referring to this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Era_of_Stagnation
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by grakasja 1y ago
To be fair, the stagnation is commonly said to have started with Brezhnev. An interesting (but of course unverifiable) hypothesis is that Khrushchev 's trajectory could have been different. Khrushchev supported OGAS (the Soviet would-
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by grakasja 1y ago
The old Marxists would say it's because Russia doesn't have an empire (outside the meager pickings of own immediate periphery) providing a trading network, access to cheap foreign labor and resources etc. as a buffer to its own do
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by grakasja 1y ago
Pretty much every company I've applied to or worked at commits both legal and moral fraud against its employees and applicants, on an industrial scale. They've also created a broken interview process that punishes honesty and forc
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by grakasja 1y ago
I remember seeing a documentary movie or series episode about this years ago on PBS or something. There was one part with a shot of the Cascadian coastline showing how all the trees lower than a certain point were long dead or much younger
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by grakasja 1y ago
Huh, DOGE ought to look into where that 700M went..
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by grakasja 1y ago
It took them a long time to deploy there and required extensive (human) preparatory work. I'm guessing that their algorithm was fine-tuned for SF specifically, possibly being taught to avoid certain roads and areas where possible, thus
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by grakasja 1y ago
This statistic could be misleading, because not all miles are equally dangerous. Google is very careful about selecting where it deploys and tests Waymo, preferring flat, safe, well-designed areas. Routing is also closely monitored and I wo