jackb4040

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by jackb4040 5d ago
A lot of American liberals just want to turn the clock back 20 years, when they were still doing military interventions everywhere in the world but at least the political class would get on TV and pretend to feel bad for it. In a world wher
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by jackb4040 5d ago
They really fucked up when they started wearing Maga hats and making signs asking Donald Trump to save them. Personal feelings aside, it was a strategic mistake and completely turned China and probably a majority of HK itself against them.
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by jackb4040 8d ago
I read the article but I don't understand the two "rules" you're referring to? Can you state them?
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by jackb4040 10d ago
Again, I don't think you can chalk up this much of the global capitalist project being won over for this long to "the wool being pulled over their eyes". It doesn't mean they're right, but they have sophisticated st
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by jackb4040 10d ago
I feel BAD for all the money Sam Altman is cosmically predestined to make, but there's no use trying to fight the inevitable. If I said I felt good about it, you might think I'm greedy and even question my objectivity. But since I
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by jackb4040 10d ago
"Nobody" if you're democratically-minded and think in terms of number of people. But the handful of tech billionaires at the helm of the world economy absolutely do believe it. Or at least pretend to believe it. Or maybe they
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by jackb4040 11d ago
You mean to tell me the army of school shooters deporting millions of manual laborers didn't pay for itself?
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by jackb4040 11d ago
So they could get access to US dollars? To participate in the oil economy of the 80's, the dotcom bubble of the 90's, etc. etc.
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by jackb4040 11d ago
It's one thing for the Democrats to convince themselves Trump was a fluke ten years and 2 elections later. But it's not gonna convince other nations who aren't getting paid to tell the party establishment what they want to he
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by jackb4040 11d ago
This feels a little bit outdated. When he was elected for the first time a decade ago it was a "current administration" problem. When he came back it became clear it was not a fluke, America failed to generate any compelling alter
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by jackb4040 11d ago
What are you referring to?
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by jackb4040 11d ago
China has the opposite monetary policy to the US. They do not want to export their currency as a global reserve, they have intense currency controls.
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by jackb4040 13d ago
Yep. In fact, eliminating that risk on OpenAI's behalf was probably a small factor in the acquisition
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by jackb4040 14d ago
Seems fringe and out of touch with my reality and everyone I know. Does anyone have any info on who the author is and what sorta school of though he's involved with?
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by jackb4040 17d ago
Has nothing to do with what I said. I'm aware Twitter got better for right-wingers under Musk. It would've gotten better for right-wingers under Trump nationalization anyways. The difference is if it were nationalized they might s
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by jackb4040 17d ago
It would cut home values in half because there's a 24/7 drone as loud as a freight train in their back yards. It is intolerable, you would not be able to capitalize because you too would have to leave.
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by jackb4040 20d ago
Idk how they pick the one they use in the video, but it looks like they reserve all casings: nyc.gov/RentalRipoff nyc.gov/rental-ripoff
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by jackb4040 21d ago
And the culture of hacker news will follow suit, woke 3.0
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by jackb4040 21d ago
I do not think programming is dead, but because I don't think LLMs can really do the job unassisted. I agree with you that the printing press is a dumb argument, basically tantamount to saying programming is dead except for bespoke art
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by jackb4040 21d ago
Such an elitist thing that people do trying to separate "ideology" from reality. That Joe the plumber hates how the data center built by big tech cut his home value in half, but he couldn't possibly develop an "ideologic
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by jackb4040 22d ago
If we reflect on the debate from years ago about whether to nationalize Twitter, all the downsides we were warned about have come true. They censor / promote whoever the state wants anyways, the CEOs was literally in the cabinet for a
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by jackb4040 22d ago
The other day someone on here gave me a useful framing. Non-publicly accessible sites are the dark web. If a project told you they were moving all their docs and support to the dark web they would sound crazy, but if they say they're m
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by jackb4040 22d ago
> if you did something different you couldn't get state funding RTFA. This is literally what the CIA did, to soft-blacklist marxists and prevent them from becoming successful artists
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by jackb4040 23d ago
People can just disagree with you, it's not always "bad faith". This is a commonly held opinion that's made it to the opinion sections of many mainstream outlets, sorry you don't like it.
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by jackb4040 23d ago
I'm sure he meant removing the profit incentives from the pharmaceutical and housing industries, disentangling cartels like the Sacklers from the politicians they own, in general tolerating the Epstein class
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by jackb4040 23d ago
https://xcancel.com/lemire/status/2091894299289874926
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by jackb4040 25d ago
> It’s no more state media than the BBC is 100% is not a low bar lol > it is not an outlet for political or strategic criticism of US foreign policy and never has been Yes, this is exactly what I'm saying. Don't expect them
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by jackb4040 25d ago
I'm aware it's unlikely . All social ruptures that have ever happened we're unlikely. Most people follow the rules most of the time. This is a thread about unfolding defiance within the chain of command, in the context of th
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by jackb4040 25d ago
Did Stars and Stripes cover any of those stories anyways? I feel like what I've seen has come through Snapchat or individual sources straight to liberal MSM outlets. Forgive me for saying so, but it's basically state media. It&#x2
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by jackb4040 25d ago
The legal system is one of the three branches of the government. The military voluntarily subordinates itself to civilian courts during peacetime outside of a constitutional crisis. A fact that becomes increasingly irrelevant with every new

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