jimbohn

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by jimbohn 7mo ago
Yes, totally a leap. Just check out the list of coincidences that Schmerika made in this thread. Epstein could have been a Nigerian spy as much as a Mossad one, am I right?
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by jimbohn 7mo ago
Who said the story doesn't add up? Things seem to add up pretty nicely. Mossad and FSB are the first suspects, given their history. The countries have quite an overlapping background among their elites, and it shows. Regardless, do you
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by jimbohn 7mo ago
As a European, I find it very funny to see how nobody in the US is willing to address the elephant in the room called Mossad. This looks more likely an israeli operation which sourced girls from russia and likely had the FSB as a customer&#
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by jimbohn 8mo ago
Became used in some circles due to russians using the symbol "Z" for their new great patriotic war. It can be seen as an attempt not to lump all russians together, but instead to distinguish the pro-war group (which, if you like l
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by jimbohn 8mo ago
Because most propaganda I see online seems to have a clear direction, and because of some not-so-recent "scandals" where a bunch of American influencers/grifters were discovered to be paid by russia to incite civil war.
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by jimbohn 8mo ago
When it comes to the internet, it seems to me that "the other parties" here carries a lot of weight when it comes to disinfo, polarizing propaganda, etc.
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by jimbohn 8mo ago
Same for me, these things you mentioned either felt like stuff for edge or "convoluted hobby project", with maybe some cv padding along. Perhaps we need to buy into the full ecosystem to understand the value.
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by jimbohn 8mo ago
Ah, I see, I misread the part about rate, my bad.
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by jimbohn 8mo ago
Just to be clear, I think you meant to say it's half the civilian casualty rate in Ukraine. Aside from guns, it seems like the Iranian government also pulled in foreign mercenaries to shoot on their own citizens, geez.
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by jimbohn 8mo ago
The whole European political elite and ruling class feels like a quasi-aristocracy (something the US is slowly moving into as well, with political dynasties and such) that is used to go to some big-name art/humanities place and then sl
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by jimbohn 8mo ago
Yeah, or even just protectionism. Most economists I've heard say that protectionism doesn't work, but I feel like China being quiet and protectionist in the infancy of its key industries was like the move of the century for them.
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by jimbohn 8mo ago
Agree with you on pretty much everything you have said. The background of policymakers in Europe really annoys me. Just to be clear, I wasn't glazing Iran or anything.
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by jimbohn 8mo ago
Kinda envious of them that, due to sanctions, they end up with hyperscalers. Europe will never get hyperscales while being too tight with the US, and any protectionism at the service industry level would make the US go more mental than it a
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by jimbohn 8mo ago
The problem is that programming logic/state is discrete and not continous so you can't assume similar behaviour given "similar state", and that possible states grow exponentially. Selecting the desired state will mean wr
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by jimbohn 8mo ago
Asking for an example is ill-posed, given that democracies are rather young constructs compared to the wider human history. Mind you, I am rooting for Taiwan, but I would expect something like what happened in Hong Kong rather than all-out
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by jimbohn 8mo ago
I 100% agree with what you say, no discussion on that. My argument is that, if/when push comes to shove, Taiwanese leadership will pick the peace option given past US behaviour.
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by jimbohn 8mo ago
That's true, we'll see if China is able to play the long game
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by jimbohn 8mo ago
IMO, China will get back Taiwan without firing a single shot, the US is slowly de-risking itself from it and will eventually make Taiwan redundant. After seeing how the US is "helping" Ukraine, will the Taiwanese think fighting an
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by jimbohn 8mo ago
The democrat establishment doesn't seem interested in change, they are like a softer version of politicians getting bought out by tech. Well-mannered, but ultimately not doing long-term thing in the interest of the wider country.
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by jimbohn 8mo ago
>In all seriousness, it sounds like they're trying to stop another Snowden type leak. I bet it's the recipe for the military-grade copium some people are on
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by jimbohn 9mo ago
That's Israel
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by jimbohn 9mo ago
Yep
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by jimbohn 9mo ago
I'd go mental if I was a SWE having to mop that up later
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by jimbohn 9mo ago
>There is absolutely not a one to one relationship between a job and a job ad. Isn't this a problem? It means companies are wasting individuals' time (hence money), whereas companies are in a better position to hedge the risk.
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by jimbohn 9mo ago
It all starts with regulatory capture, imo
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by jimbohn 10mo ago
MTG is part of the side that has won the social media influence game (via bots/russians/etc.), so of course, she doesn't get as targeted.
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by jimbohn 10mo ago
I'd rather politicians have no privacy as long as they are in office, i.e. all their communications, acquisitions, etc. should be hard-monitored, automatically sent to an anti-corruption office and perhaps public. The loss would be tem
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by jimbohn 10mo ago
I see, interesting, thank you. Yeah, sadly this could be just transparency theater, glad it's there, it's a start.
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by jimbohn 10mo ago
I wonder if the failures to pretrain are the result of our understanding of neural networks being more akin to alchemy rather than chemistry
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by jimbohn 10mo ago
The problem with accepting yet another blackmail (or else trade war, or else NATO doesn't really exist anymore) is just a slippery slope. Not the first request that was made like this, not the last. >lobbying is recorded and publicl

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