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by throwaway5752 6d ago
The reality would be the same. They probably used prior session history between the research and Astra to train the internal model, and used it to front run-the researcher. This is the biggest self-own in the history of software. If you can
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by throwaway5752 17d ago
It's popular right now because the impacts are visibly getting worse. This weather event in Europe is far from normal, and the trend is accelerating. If we fail to control it, what will happen is that we'll be reduced in populatio
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by throwaway5752 17d ago
"we are never returning to pre industrial times" We are, one way or the other. It is just a question of the choices we make on the way and how pre-industrial we end up. There is no a position of leverage, the climate is behaving a
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by throwaway5752 1mo ago
Happy to realize this did not say ultraviolent. A small but confusing Clockwork Orange reading mistake.
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by throwaway5752 1mo ago
Stephen, we haven't met, but this was a beautiful, heartbreaking tribute. Your wife was clearly an extraordinary person. My deepest condolences to you and your family. Should everyone have someone who loves them so much to remember the
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by throwaway5752 2mo ago
This is a false dichotomy. The modern style is a reaction against a distinct and different design aesthetic from what the parent described. Neoclassical, Gothic Revival, and Rococo are more ornamental, but they not cozy or comfortable in th
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by throwaway5752 3mo ago
This was very uncommon. It was also unrelated to mRNA vaccines, it was the AstroZeneca vaccine vaxzevria, and it was based on an adenovirus.
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by throwaway5752 3mo ago
Respectfully, I tend to think of tier 1 data centers as someone I'm paying for colocation services and the value they provide is power infrastructure and redundancy, network infrastructure and redundancy, cooling, and physical security
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by throwaway5752 3mo ago
There is a shortage, they are short lived assets. It's a blip and unrelated to their long term profitability and valuation. They can't make a long lived business of building and renting out compute at those margins. It was definit
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by throwaway5752 3mo ago
xAI is more than half of SpaceX revenue with the Google sublease. SpaceX is looking like a datacenter REIT. Moreover they're leasing compute - the actual infra around it is much less important - and how long does anyone expect heavil
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by throwaway5752 3mo ago
"Major banana producer suggests shifting more ice cream store menus to banana splits, and increasing the amount of bananas per serving"
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by throwaway5752 4mo ago
The Earth's climate.
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by throwaway5752 4mo ago
It is smartphones and social media. The decline is across demographics, across geographies, and correlated with an increase young mental health issues. The answer is staring us in the face, quite literally, as we type this. We put a cheatin
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by throwaway5752 4mo ago
It's funnier because it's old, failed policy that they are recycling without being aware of it because they are ignorant. All old things really do become new again.
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by throwaway5752 4mo ago
The people working on this aren't idiots. There are people who see massive business opportunities for enriching themselves in privatizing the education system. Some of there points are reasonable, and sometimes they are frauds. Either
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by throwaway5752 4mo ago
I do not think they could. It is not just a matter of seizing something as much as holding it, as everyone has plainly seen in Ukraine, or post-occupation Iraq or Afghanistan. Neither of those latter countries had a large shared land border
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by throwaway5752 4mo ago
Do you know how much hard power credibility the US has lost from the Iran War failure? The US couldn't defend our bases in the area or our newly less enthusiastic regional allies. It couldn't keep the Hormuz open. The US wasted ye
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by throwaway5752 4mo ago
The oil industry is dying and we are destroying the planet and a delicate ecosystem to harvest non-renewable energy. It should stay in the ground and be saved for future generations for an emergency, not to just power grossly oversized vehi
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by throwaway5752 4mo ago
This is history in the making. We're living in an evil time - bad people are stealing from humanity, using conflict to distract, and acquiring personal power out of greed. This will be one of the greatest moments in the papacy, and I e
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by throwaway5752 4mo ago
More than 80% of people applying for US Green Cards are not white.
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by throwaway5752 4mo ago
Since you asked, I do. There's a matter of debate as to what populism is. And on both ends of that debate are Trump and Sanders. Sanders is the archetype of an ideological populist, related to socialism, and he believes in governing fo
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by throwaway5752 4mo ago
You're finding somethere where nothing exists on the basis of semantics. Donald Trump is not a populist and he stated economic policy is simply "stated". Society just has become so trusting that someone can go about bald-face
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by throwaway5752 4mo ago
Absolutely. Run for the HOA board, run for the school board, run for the town council. Write a letter. Show up to a town hall meeting. Everything makes a difference and people here are more than sufficiently qualified. We have lots of softw
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by throwaway5752 4mo ago
Realistically there’s not a ton that can be done at the level of a mayor or even state senator I wish people wouldn't say that, it's not the case. First, pushback requires equivalent effort. If 10,000 towns are uncooperative bec
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by throwaway5752 4mo ago
I'd disagree on nuance. Xenophobia is anti-foreigner. This targets people of color. They target people of color who are US citizens, too. It is gutter racism. edit: I wish I could be surprised by the downvotes, but it's gutter rac
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by throwaway5752 4mo ago
Every developer, and particularly every developer at Meta or who is thinking about working at or with Meta, should read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Careless_People It is useful, because instead of being surprised and
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by throwaway5752 4mo ago
Unless the PRC is a gringo now, you should not limit your concern to the US. The easiest propaganda technique - and trivially easy to accomplish with basic agents and existing social platforms - is divide and conquer. Get people fighting ab
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by throwaway5752 4mo ago
Pinochet was a garden variety kleptocrat and villain, not an ideologue. Where Milei falls remains to be determined. edit: also no reason to make this thread deeper, but you seem to be missing the idea that I am insulting Pinochet. He didn
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by throwaway5752 4mo ago
"I didn't create the epidemic, I just fired all the doctors and dissolved the medical schools" Security doesn't happen by magic. It is enforced by process, maintained by people and systems built and run by people. Furth
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by throwaway5752 4mo ago
the newly elected president criticized foundational research saying it doesn't "turn into jobs" and instead "ends up in an expensive book abandoned in a library". That isn't the Dutch Disease, it's anti-

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