scilro

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by scilro 2mo ago
It's very hard to take his position seriously when he repeatedly refers to the Chinese Communist Party and specific Chinese ministries specifically, like some two bit China-watching cold warrior, instead of addressing China as a sovere
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by scilro 2mo ago
Fireworks isn't serving Kimi K3 yet. Presumably, they ran this benchmark against the Moonshot API. All of the Western providers with sufficient capacity will be able to make it available when the weights are released Monday.
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by scilro 9mo ago
All you need to fix that is 3:2 pulldown, which all modern TVs should be able to do. Unfortunately this is another basic feature that tends to be "branded" on TVs. On my Sony Bravia it's split into a combination of features c
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by scilro 9mo ago
It's most accurate to say that China is still run by folks who are committed communists. These planners, by virtue of their decades of experience, understand the social value of markets and broad based technological growth, and want to
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by scilro 9mo ago
"diversity" is an overbroad concept that covers many disparate social practices, a lot of which have nothing to do with technological progress. I guess that the more focused question is whether China needs to import some amount of
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by scilro 11mo ago
Seconding/thirding the request for diarization! I would use this as my main transcription app if it had that.
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by scilro 1y ago
For what it's worth, he was able to roll back. https://x.com/jasonlk/status/1946240562736365809
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by scilro 1y ago
I have to admit that the objective and historical parts of your analysis are completely correct and well researched, even though I totally disagree with you about the subjective merits and morality of the whole thing. Kudos.
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by scilro 1y ago
I'm really glad you posted this, it's good to know that I didn't mess up the calibration of my (much humbler) 3.1 system.
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by scilro 2y ago
US unipolar hegemony has averted an all-out war, but it has also been very bloody, or at least immiserating, for people at its periphery. Multipolarity doesn't imply we go back to the 1910s. The idea would be to strengthen multilateral
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by scilro 2y ago
>Even if the US and China were at parity in AI systems, it seems likely that China could direct more talent, capital, and focus to military applications of the technology. Combined with its large industrial base and military-strategic ad
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by scilro 2y ago
You're not wrong, but what you're describing is referred to as "seller-side inflation" or "excuseflation." Article from a year ago: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-09&#
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by scilro 3y ago
The author failed to cite hard numbers, but they can be found elsewhere: https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/dollar-d... "In a Monday note, strategists Joana Freire and Stephen Jen calculated
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'Rip and Replace': The Tech Cold War Is Upending Wireless Carriers(nytimes.com)
2 points by scilro 3y ago|0 comments
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by scilro 4y ago
Both were great
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by scilro 5y ago
The World Uyghur Congress is not some politically neutral group made up of concerned immigrants and activists. It has US state backing and intelligence connections. https://thegrayzone.com/2020/03/05/world-uyg
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by scilro 6y ago
Clubhouse seems to attract the extraverted and narcissistic, those who live to self-promote and "hustle." So for white people, that's VCs, and then there's the analogous types of Black people. As far as politics it doesn
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by scilro 6y ago
I understand that's the claim, but on the other hand, the biggest Muslim ethnic group (Hui) aren't repressed. Which makes you ask, what's the difference between Uyghurs and other Muslim minority groups like the Hui? Well, the
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by scilro 6y ago
But the question is, _why?_ What's their incentive to apply more cruel population control on one ethnic group over others? We're talking about a repressive government, but not a race-based regime like Nazi Germany was. Indeed from
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Provinces and cities in China are experimenting with a 4.5-day work week(global.chinadaily.com.cn)
5 points by scilro 6y ago|1 comments
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by scilro 7y ago
But this is kind of the opposite of Chernobyl, right? As you laid out, Chernobyl revealed the weakness of the Soviet Union and played some part in its collapse. COVID19 has laid bare the superiority of the Chinese model in terms of quick ma
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by scilro 7y ago
Sold for 3.5 million in 2013. Undoubtedly worth more much now. https://streeteasy.com/building/75-and-a-half-bedford-street...
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by scilro 7y ago
Because part of the contract you mention involves adhering to employment law, which generally says that companies cannot fire people for union activity.
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by scilro 7y ago
It's totally possible to allow a counter terrorism program to run rampant with abuses while also having strong affirmative action programs. The US definitely does it...
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by scilro 7y ago
There are still Chinese people today who remember the pain of the Cultural Revolution. This is a history that isn't denied & only lightly censored if at all. Yet, they don't begrudge Mao for it. Probably because they realize t
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by scilro 7y ago
>You think China is going to do better? Well... why wouldn't they? China since the time of Deng has been acutely aware of the risk of becoming an imperialist power[1]. Even if they have arguably crossed that line at some points (the
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by scilro 7y ago
The abuses in Xinjiang are real, but we do the Muslims there a disservice if we share actual fake news. The organ harvesting story was made up. https://thegrayzone.com/2019/09/30/reports-china-organ-harve...
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by scilro 7y ago
Ridicule of the government is quite common on Chinese social media. But then a lot of Chinese folks who cross over to Western social media find the anti-CCP sentiment to overreach (no doubt bc of the geopolitical considerations involved), a
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by scilro 7y ago
>Now she is thinking of giving up the citizenship she worked so hard to get, and moving back to an authoritarian China where guns and drugs are strictly forbidden – at least her son would be safe. To quote a friend, "all 'autho
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by scilro 7y ago
You're getting downvoted but I think it should be uncontroversial to say that mainland youth and HK youth have VASTLY different relationships to the CCP, and this particular propaganda doesn't seem to account for that. That's

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