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by wasfgwp 3d ago
Well they can be betting that Republicans will lose in a couple of months and the congress will have the guts to stop him from constantly imposing entirely illegal tariffs on random countries for no reason.
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by wasfgwp 3d ago
Canada also had a deal they signed with Trump. Then he changed his mind and pretended (or not) he’s to demented to remember it he and not Biden agreed to deal. Then he made other proposals then randomly changed his mind again and again. The
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by wasfgwp 3d ago
No, they had a standard bank license, no different than any other bank operating in the country. Of course it was only valid in the EU not Britain. https://www.lb.lt/en/news/banking-licence-granted-to-revolut... e
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by wasfgwp 3d ago
> been a fully licensed bank for ~6 months They had an EU license in Lithuania for years.
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by wasfgwp 9d ago
French Guiana is in the EU though. While Norway is not.
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by wasfgwp 9d ago
Of course the cost structure for space companies is very different than for AI and electronics but Chinese companies have proven that they can achieve ~90% of what the bloated US companies are doing on a tiny fraction of their budget. Of co
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by wasfgwp 9d ago
> What has France been doing since WWII? If they have the know how, shouldn’t they be at the same level as US now A lot? I mean they were on the same level or above in the early 2000s. Ariane was sort of the SpaceX of the 80s by commerci
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by wasfgwp 9d ago
Good thing is that that Trump will never manage to figure out where French Guyana is on a map. Or worst case there is a 50% chance he’ll invade (non French) Guyana.
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by wasfgwp 22d ago
I guess it’s hard to provide data that you don’t have the rights to distribute and claim it’s open source.
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by wasfgwp 23d ago
Western Europe has been mostly stagnant or declining while real incomes for most workers have actually grown in the same period (and for a significant proportion of the population to a very large degree).
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by wasfgwp 23d ago
The median person and especially those in the top 10th percentile are fairly well off and respectively extremely well off in relative terms compared to people in other developed countries. To bottom deciles are of course not in the best sit
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by wasfgwp 23d ago
> Meanwhile, people in the EU get guaranteed healthcare They had that 20 years ago? Since then the rich asset owners have been accumulating a bigger share of the pie in the EU as well, it’s just marginally less pronounced because there i
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by wasfgwp 23d ago
“West Taiwan”? Why not just say ROC instead of inventing nonsense names..
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by wasfgwp 23d ago
> adopts Ukrainian drone technology cannot effectively be invaded currently The tactical situation in Taiwan is very different though. I think it would come down more to what’s happening in the air since the stalemate in Ukraine is in la
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by wasfgwp 23d ago
> against conventional military, Last time used faced a conventional military that could actually challenge it was in Korea. It won’t have complete areal superiority or entire division surrendering after running into contact with US forc
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by wasfgwp 23d ago
> US waged war for 20+ years in Afghanistan That was an occupation and a low intensity “pacification” mission. Waging a prolonged war against a military peer on the other side of the continent is a bit more problematic (considering that
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by wasfgwp 23d ago
Nemotron Super is sort of open source in the sense that Nvidia provides almost everything you need to replicate it from scratch. Of course it’s performance is not exactly stellar but it could be a good starting point for other research team
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by wasfgwp 23d ago
I don’t think anyone said anything about either being less evil? Just having more consumer oriented products..
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by wasfgwp 23d ago
It’s not as bad as dot.com of course since all purely AI companies are private and the ones on the market have pretty decent cash flow outside of AI. But the stock market pattern is not that dissimilar, the largest increases are usually jus
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by wasfgwp 24d ago
> But how and why is Apple to be blamed for that? It’s not about blame, the point of anti trust and competition laws is just that, maximize competition and consumer surplus. Yes that inherently penalizes the most successful companies we
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by wasfgwp 27d ago
> with having access to billions of Android customers The average Android user is almost worthless economically compared to the average iPhone user. If you calculate the market share based on revenue and not total users Apple has a much
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by wasfgwp 28d ago
You are forced to purchase one of them, yes. > which unfair market conditions made it impossible Bank applications depending on various os or device level security features? Good luck getting developers to build applications for your pla
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by wasfgwp 29d ago
> Who was forced to buy an iPhone? You are effectively forced to buy either and Android or an iOS phone to participate in society. Since the market for phone operating systems is not even remotely competitive regulation is necessary just
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by wasfgwp 29d ago
A much more accurate nonsensical analogy would be getting take out but only being allowed to eat it with Apple branded utensils because otherwise your food would catch fire. > Users are free to choose a different manufacturer It’s an oli
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by wasfgwp 1mo ago
In reality it’s closer to 0.5-1% in Europe since banks apply their own fees on top of the regulated interchange rate.
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by wasfgwp 1mo ago
The government being able to monitor and control how every individual spends money is a double-edged sword though
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by wasfgwp 1mo ago
Governments having absolute control on who can pay who and being able to easily restrict certain groups from participating in the economy is not ideal, though (of course currently tourists being the only group this applies to is not a big d
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by wasfgwp 1mo ago
But that’s not what actually happened.
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by wasfgwp 1mo ago
As funny as Mechahitler was it was more of a Microsoft Tay moment with the chatbot parroting what Twitter’s users were telling him without guardrails or a safe system prompt. It had nothing to do with grok’s or Musks pro nazi views (or lack
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by wasfgwp 1mo ago
But they did deliver the internal notes, just told you to not look at them. Also the analogy doesn’t make a lot of sense to me since humans (or companies paying them) own the content they produce. Based on current precedent Anthropic doesn’

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