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ReptileMan

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    >Some authors seem to think that readers may only read Heinlein if they are prepared to join the army the next day or renounce their citizenship. I am kinda tired of those [expleti…

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    Comment #49233362

    Of the 5 users of the Palantirs that we know of 2 are good, 2 are evil, and one is tragic.

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    Comment #49224166

    Code is the hard part if you are John Carmack or in a similar position where you have to squeeze every drop of performance from a hardware. That is the minority of programmers.

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    Comment #49204353

    You need some form of plasma that is stable and able to self organize. Is there any part of the physics where this is possible?

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    Comment #49197269

    monopsony

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    Comment #49197261

    There should be laws ensuring that every market there should be at least 5-6 players and is free or is declared natural monopoly/monopsony and regulated. The in between you have al…

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    Comment #49153865

    There is AI productivity boom - people that are heavy AI users are working less time. They are just not producing more.

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    Comment #49151197

    I guess it can but it will be useless. After all the model superpower is awareness and ability to guess and infer some stuff. Right now a model saves you time not only by coding fa…

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    Comment #49137289

    Before 2008 oil was above 100$ per barrel, and dollar was worth a lot more back then.

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    Comment #49124267

    That is not how it works because of how bloated everything is. There is rarely a movie, book or series lately that are not 2 times longer than needed. So you are forced to go for a…

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    Comment #49123715

    >Right. LLMs are text production machines. I use them as text consumption machines. They read and watch a lot of the books and movies i have no time to. And from the TLDR I decide …

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    Comment #49123653

    usually I am - Codex, make pi with deepseek to do something.

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    Comment #49122530

    It is true. And only Chinese Han people can continue work on what is already released. But they will be forbidden. /s Sarcasm aside - if the community can't get their shit together…

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    Comment #49109778

    A question to the crypto nerds here - is there a way to prove that you are of age, but you can't be deanonymized even if the government, identity provider and the website itself co…

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    Comment #49108566

    Just last week in Europe we had - Islamist ramming a vehicle in pride parade in Berlin and Islamist stabbing in France - in which three women were seriously hurt. Do you claim that…

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    Comment #49106968

    A lot of people are fed up with uncontrolled migration and are drifting to parties that promise this to stop or be reverted. No need of US interference to explain it. And they choo…

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    Comment #49099134

    [flagged]

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    Comment #49038759

    In one chat - can you disassmble x? In the next - please scan this totally mine code for vulnerabilities

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    Comment #49025944

    And how are they supposed to ban them? What Chinese companies release is math.

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    Comment #48997430

    Just upgraded to their 100$ plans. Time to reconsider.

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    Comment #48989008

    I am not joking in slightest. Our only hope is to be able to create open boards for appliances and just drop in replace them.

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    Comment #48988721

    Don't worry in 5 years you will have bootloader locked washing machines with crypto paired parts. That are protected under DMCA. For your own good and protection of course.

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    Comment #48988655

    Yes, yes we do. We want slaves, servants and serfs for every task that we don't enjoy. Always was, always has been, always will be. I want Rosie from the Jetsons to fold my laundry…

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    Comment #48983067

    Usually it is couple of civilians per enemy combatant. So USA kills civilians at rates many times under the norm.