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by screye 2mo ago
B1 German is about 1 year of intensive studying from zero. With immersion and part-time commitment, I'd say ~3 years is a comfortable timeline to learn B1 German. I am basing this off my personal experience of going from A1 -> A2 -&
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by screye 3mo ago
Ah yes, the nation's most influential sex-trafficker/pimp was a Mossad asset and the $100b budget CIA knew anything about it. They set up the world's most advanced domestic spying system, and the NSA did not flag anything. Yo
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by screye 3mo ago
It's hilarious listening to CIA insiders talk about spying. John Kiriakou [1] will spend 3 hours talking about the CIA's torture program (illegal) and NSA spying on Americans (illegal). In the same conversation, he will insist tha
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by screye 3mo ago
How can a vassal state with 1/60th your GDP 'influence' your nation into a war ? It's a rhetorical question. It can't. Makes the MAGA military look incompetent. The US has a history of botched wars around the globe,
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by screye 4mo ago
Nations do not apply a standard of 'total freedom' for most other vices. It is known that grown consenting adults can't compete against an algorithmic assault on their self-control systems. Nations have established middle gro
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by screye 4mo ago
Aren't we ignoring the elephant in the room ? Garry Tan has been the primary crusader for AI driven decision making. I'm sure his position is more nuanced, but his twitter driven communication makes him appear like a caricature of
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by screye 5mo ago
Google makes money on ads, because its products span the entire internet. Youtube, Gmail, Search, Maps, Android, Devices, Photos and Drive are how they get the data to make money on ads. Cloud, Android & Youtube would be a 2 trillion do
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by screye 5mo ago
Meta has 4 identical products, most of which have reached feature complete. They do few things, and make absurd amounts of money from it. Google, MSFT and Apple do a lot more and most of their products have large feature backlogs. Different
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by screye 5mo ago
If AI winning means that data center companies win out, then the wins for Azure will more than make up for the death of Office. I am surprised that Microsoft's own copilot product is so far behind though.
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by screye 6mo ago
I can only describe it being overcome with a sense of love and harmony. I was giggling ear-to-ear the whole time I was there. Great works of art are meant to be religious experiences. At Falling water, every part of the house & estate f
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by screye 6mo ago
TBPN, OpenClaw and Astral - that's 3 high profile acquisitions in a month. I smell a PR push to be seen as the 'good guys'. I don't buy it. The leaked emails and actions of OpenAI's leadership point to a cynical gro
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by screye 6mo ago
UV is arguably this decade's most important addition to the python ecosystem. They are a small, but they are important.
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by screye 6mo ago
What core capabilities of a car need to be improved anyway ?
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by screye 7mo ago
It's the reverse. Every Waymo on the road saves more lives. The average driver is a bufoon
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by screye 7mo ago
> The narrative/life of the artist becomes a lot more important We are 50 years into post-modernism. Can't imagine it can get any more important. I predict emergent design will be the next big thing. Czinger[1] is a great examp
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by screye 7mo ago
Yep. Especially when one of the brands is Tesla. Once Elon put himself at the epicenter of American political life, Tesla stopped being treated as a brand, and more a placeholder for Elon himself. Waymo has excellent branding and first to m
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by screye 7mo ago
Surprised Canadians would pick the US as a tourist destination to begin with. Europe is cheaper and more fun. America's one advantage: nature, is matched and at times exceeded by Canada. Flights to warm places like Miami and SD take ju
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by screye 7mo ago
2 reasons Electronics and code ruined replaced pure mechanics. Components aren't physically maintainable or hot-swappable, because they aren't just physically connected. Second is that maintenance is how dealerships make money, so
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by screye 7mo ago
NYC's city budget is larger than every state apart from California, Texas, NY. At $115B, it equals Florida. By numbers alone, he's very influential. Now NYC is a over-regulated mess that faces gridlock from both unions and the sta
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by screye 8mo ago
It's important in these cases to preserve the lineage of where they came from. There's a tendency to start calling them 'western medicine' and crediting it to the person who formalized it in the west rather than the sour
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by screye 8mo ago
It's been a bizarre watch. The automotive industry (and nations that rely on it) has sabotaged itself for a good decade. Unsurprisingly, China has caught up. Classic case of 'we've tried nothing and we're all out of idea
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by screye 8mo ago
This is out of date by about 15 years. Top engineering grads are excellent and are being paid high wages. Work culture is cut-throat, but talent is comparable to the US. India's target universities (IITs, IIITs & NITs) produce ~40k
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by screye 8mo ago
Not quite. Chinese rivers are fed by the eastern tibetan plateau while South Asia is fed by the western glaciers by the tallest mountains. Bangladesh would be at risk because the Bramhaphtra sees upstream fresh water use by China. But China
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by screye 8mo ago
The world will become unevenly greener. Population density and recent population rise is inversely correlated with places that will get greener. Polar and Continental regions will get greener at the expense of the tropical and equatorial re
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by screye 9mo ago
Not sure if 'aware' is the right word. More like anxious. Kidnappings and murders are exceedingly rare, even more so by strangers. Abuse primarily occurs at home, with acquaintances and at places of education. Moving a child from
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by screye 9mo ago
Can you quote 1 other example of a disgruntled investor that has killed an American academic over the last 50 years ?
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by screye 9mo ago
Unlikely. He was killed in the foyer [1] of his building in an exceedingly safe city (Brookline, MA). In a neighborhood with mixed SFHs and condos, it makes little sense to target a condo. Makes even less sense for someone to break in, but
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by screye 9mo ago
There are no material conditions that would convince me to live in a cold, dark and culturally introverted place. Anecdotally, my tropical peers agree with this opinion. Seasonal affective disorder plays an outsized role in my ability to li
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by screye 10mo ago
> This means that they should never be used in medicine, for evaluation in school or college, for law enforcement, for tax assessment, or a myriad of other similar cases. If AI models can deliver measurably better accuracy than doctors,
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by screye 10mo ago
Much like the Hyperloop before it, the core assumption of the Boring company is ill-conceived. Tunnel boring isn't a bottleneck. The costs of surveys, hvac, seismic research and maintenance required to keep a deep-underground tunnel go

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