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Jackpillar

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    Comment #49071872

    Let me guess, you disagree with his views on the utility of Ai (which he's pretty bad about) and you use that as cover and/or to negate his real journalism that is based in facts (…

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    Comment #49004082

    So you agree - it would be stupid to say "pretend like history is in favor of X civilization"

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    Comment #48990120

    "Or pretend like history is in favor of China." What does this even mean?

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    Comment #48990111

    Still scared of China in the big 2026

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    Comment #48307577

    It's snowing right now therefore climate change is fake

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    Comment #48000127

    Sorry brother but the worry around cholesterol - especially in the context of the US - is not stemming from people drinking too much coffee. If you have high cholesterol there are …

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    Comment #47951340

    Theft is quite a slippery slope argument not in your favor in the context of US based LLMs and how/what they were trained on..

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    Comment #47887736

    Democracy is a stretch

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    Comment #47702128

    The CIA has been involved in cyber operations since like the 50's and more offensively post 9/11 and it's only grown since. Google Vault 7, and the Center for Cyber Intelligence (C…

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    Comment #47688297

    It was the CIA and anyone who aren't starry eyed tech dorks has known this forever

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    Comment #47598360

    This reads as a Tom Clancy wet dream of American Machiavellian geopolitical maneuvering and not (what it is) yet another historic military intervention blunder - the likes of which…

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    Comment #47598282

    If you've been paying attention you'd understand that (1) the US military brass has been almost entirely replaced by MAGA stooges who think the rapture is real and (2) Trump and co…

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    Comment #46731991

    This 2027 date is based off a misread from a speech from Xi that he himself has since distanced himself from. 2027 is just used by war mongers and natsec folks to bang the war drum…

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    Comment #46635569

    Yup, they're also like 5-10 years out from their own lithography machines as well. China wanted Taiwan before TSMC was a thing, by the time they take Taiwan back they won't need TS…

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    Comment #46618308

    This is just Hunter Bidens laptop 2.0 equating two non-similar things. The whole point of this post is that the journalist didn't steal anything - Ashley Bidens property was stolen…

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    Comment #46490178

    > It’s contradictory to sit alone in a café. It’s against the reason cafés exist. Fresh out the gate just wrong and confused.

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    Comment #46045223

    Its possible to care about multiple things at the same time and caring but the one doesn't take away from caring about the other. These deflecting comments surrounding a nascent te…

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    Comment #45953630

    Yes and I explained with walls of text of historical, geographical, socioeconomic examples how that is true and your disagreement boils down to "but anything can happen", which is …

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    Comment #45812331

    I truly don't know what to even say. It is futile to relitigate the uncontested reality that there are a wide array of significant advantages to living near cultural, technological…

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    Comment #45812253

    > "You're kinda missing the bigger picture - the fact that Bay Area was not always a tech hub, and became one at some point for various reason - which can happen in any other place…

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    Comment #45775141

    > Places where technological innovation and development happen have existed long before the internet and semiconductors. The industrial revolution didn't originate or center around…

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    Comment #45772220

    Yeah except for it has always been a tech hub because the term "tech hub" didn't exist before the Bay Area? I mean the first message sent over the precursor to the internet was fro…

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    Comment #45771813

    Okay so what you're doing is contradicting the objective advantages/benefits of living near the epicenter of a specific industry with a purely anecdotal example of 10+ years experi…

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    Comment #45758809

    Yeah lets talk about them tax rates at the time of these accomplished generational projects (comment is in support of them)

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    Comment #45758785

    Imperialism? Please do divulge