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25,150karma·9,209submissions·June 21, 2020
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I guess the difference is who pays and who has the economic power to pay. In most western countries the corruption is mostly between entities with legal income, in poorer countries at least one side h…
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I guess stable only really matters for companies because it makes the market more predictable. Crime organizations are often companies too, so they also benefit from stability. What makes crimes less …
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China is bad and Xi looks like Winnie the Pooh
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And the US has the lower life expectancy.
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Countries invent nothing, people do. And I bet those who invented transistors and the internet had plenty of days off. BTW if work would be a privilege, you would have to pay to do it
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It’s not a natural outcome it’s a decision
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And new builds take a lot of time and a lot of money. And then you habe the whole Russian drone war thing, where concentrating so much energy production on one point maybe be a bad idea
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So every script kiddie gets its Mythos to hack sides and scammers don’t need AI services anymore. That time won’t be as much fun as you think
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Practical effects still beat CGI most of the time. AI doesn’t help with that. AI may replace classic CGI
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Then Mats Hummels looks non-German too
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Doesn’t mean they look Turkish to the common racist
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Luckily we are all rats just living in different stables
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> I also like this kind of examples because no one in their right mind would ever spend the time to write something this custom There are people in their right mind who would do that and their are …
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_consent_in_the_United_S...
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You can ban smoking but you also have to fine the tobacco companies and smoking will drastically reduce. You can’t ban something without severe consequences for the producers and just hope the consume…
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Yet, I couldn’t afford a PC to run the original Crysis when it came out, now the hardware isn’t an issue anymore
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An open source Mac OS is still open source even if I can’t afford a Mac.
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For LLMs the training data is the source of their weights. You can‘t reproduce the LLM without the same data
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Are you confusing some apps with the internet?
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So banning CFCs didn’t work? What about the FDA‘s bans on food ingredients? They don’t work, companies just become more secretive?
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Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49121196
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Many of the reasons are either a Google service removed providing RSS or Google killed a program/extension consuming RSS. Seems RSS was on Google‘s life support all the time. For instance the Goo…
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Nowadays you either create something with or for AI. Like you created you own framework for wen apps before. "For the AI era" is the necessary buzzword
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It’s only a financial disaster he you don’t have the power to force FIFA for a fair share. And that would become worse with investors. Not only for host nations but for the players and fans too
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Because it became literally a show. Hydration breaks in air-conditioned stadiums? A half-time show? Football is more than just the world cup or the Championship league. It’s also about the local leagu…
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More teams means only big nations can be the host venue.
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It sounds like scam
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The seize the domain of a foreign country after US court order.
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> which would have wild consequences if that line of thought was applied. Yeah, like third party sanctions. Oh wait…
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How do you think you can work from home with a VPN for access of the companies network? Edit: missed the second paragraph
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