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by nomat 1y ago
how much did it cost to rebuild germany? and how many trillions did we flush down the drain attempting to put together a functioning government in iraq and afghanistan? where is DOGE when you actually need them?
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by nomat 1y ago
networking is important for sure, but i think software more than most other industries (say, finance) has a much lower barrier of entry for an individual with no/low resources. a data point for your second paragraph: i play D&D wee
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by nomat 2y ago
well for one they're targeting ukrainian soldiers..
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by nomat 2y ago
the idea that propaganda doesn't work is certainly an interesting one.
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by nomat 2y ago
the authors of this paper[0] were able to use AI to figure out if a block of text was written by AI, so hopefully this becomes a tool available to educators very soon. [0] https://arxiv.org/html/2410.16107v1
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by nomat 2y ago
> It was not part of his economic agenda at all. Then why did he make the IRS reprint COVID relief checks so he could add his name to them? https://www.huffpost.com/entry/inside-the-disaster-trumps-si...
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by nomat 2y ago
Well, it wasn't biden that posted record profits was it? It was the grocery stores. > And the record profits Professor Weber mentions? Groundwork Collaborative recently found that corporate profits accounted for 53% of 2023 inflatio
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by nomat 2y ago
if you aren't considering the fact that your data is what enabled these companies to become such massive giants in the first place, you may be living outside of the EU.
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by nomat 2y ago
> allowing smaller brands to compete to name a few: LISEN, Qifutan, Loncaster, YKYI, Holikme and SXhyf. And who could forget VWMYQ?
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by nomat 2y ago
This is incredibly enlightening. Thank you.
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by nomat 2y ago
have seen this at many house parties. The young people gravitate towards the noise while the older ones clump up around the periphery
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by nomat 2y ago
There are a number of valid criticisms about IBM
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by nomat 2y ago
our current economic model kind of depends on the idea that we can always disrupt the status quo with american free market ingenuity once it begins to stagnate but maybe we have reached the limits of what friedman's system can do or ac
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by nomat 3y ago
this kind of stuff + VR in the next 5 years is going to result in some really interesting stuff.
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by nomat 3y ago
It would be cool to map the relationship between a book getting linked on HN and its checkout rate at the local public library. That's usually the first place I head when I see something I want to read on here.
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by nomat 3y ago
Absolutely not. Even a facebook group of < 100k is too much work for a single person to manage especially if it is discussion based.
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by nomat 3y ago
quantifying technical achievements is a lot easier than qualifying policy changes. X amount of views, X amount of subs, etc. vs Removing problem people.
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by nomat 3y ago
apparently corruption runs rampant throughout all of europe. from the banks that facilitate the laundering of funds, to the port authorities that allow boatloads of cocaine from Colombian cartels, to the criminal states like albania. DW has
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by nomat 3y ago
The concept of living in a society where people contribute to it for the benefit of the society instead of themselves is not a lamentable one. Regardless of whether or not nationalist propaganda is good or bad in your morality system, there
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by nomat 3y ago
because it's quite clear that this is your default attitude towards things and its absolutely toxic. you don't recognize it, and that is the issue. I don't think that everyone or even most people are evil. You're reading
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by nomat 3y ago
You are exactly the person i'm describing. the glee you feel from acting like this is the only time of the day you actually feel like your existence means anything, because you imagine it making someone else feel bad, which makes you f
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by nomat 3y ago
The values system we have is very different compared to the 30s or 40s or even the 60s. The idea of a society where we all contribute and all benefit is dead and gone. The media has given up all pretense of caring and now preaches consumeri
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by nomat 3y ago
I'm talking about the quality of the food here. as for the rest of the post, the application is not limited to consumer products. Imagine the 2016 election season in 2056. or another covid pandemic.
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by nomat 3y ago
Imagine like an LLM trained on everything you've ever done since birth included as part of the data set. and then one of those for each other person in the world. they could slice and dice you into a thousand different groups. at some
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by nomat 3y ago
Free speech should only apply to verified humans. We could use the blockchain to assign keys to babies as they are born. Only half kidding, about both statements. Corporations also have rights. How terrible it will be when we have "com
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by nomat 3y ago
did you use this handle on slashnet?
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by nomat 3y ago
I think this is the future of computers for people. they will open their phone and say "hey siri get this book or computer or car" and the browser will show them a bunch of made up products generated by an AI and they'll get
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by nomat 3y ago
it works for duckduckgo as well.
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by nomat 3y ago
I mean, what are you gonna do about it? Companies have so many customers and so much capital these days that they don't have to pretend anymore.
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by nomat 3y ago
There's this saying: A picture is worth a thousand words. It may apply here.

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