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    Comment #44640872

    hmm, this Economist article from earlier this month shows just how bad things are in India: https://archive.is/bttaV The last thing india needs is more bureaucracy and regulations …

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    Comment #44640457

    >To put it in perspective, it will have a generating capacity far greater than that of the Three Gorges dams in China and Itaipu in Brazil. With a projected capacity to produce 40.…

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    Comment #44403672

    almost as well as o3? kind of like gemini 2.5? I dug deeper and surprise surprise: https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/03/deepseek-may-have-used-goo... I am not at all surprised, the CC…

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    Comment #44403265

    This, my guess is OpenAI wised up after r1 and put safeguards in place for o3 that it didn't have for o1, hence the delay.

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    Comment #43891906

    it's a Mass Relay

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    Comment #43865077

    oh i forgot to add, the internet penetration rate is around 50% in India, so 50% of the population can't even access youtube on demand.

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    Comment #43863392

    > they do not suffer any setbacks hmm: https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/10/13/india-arrests-raids-targ... > Second point the Indian leader arrested was involved in huge scams in liquo…

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    Comment #43863228

    it's still no where near the same. Adani, india's richest man, has close connections to Modi and is under indictment by the US for bribery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indictment…

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    Comment #43841101

    It's becoming an illiberal democracy like Turkey. Which is still a lot different than the US imo. e.g.: -After a decade of Modi rule, India now ranked 161 out of 180 in the world p…

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    Comment #43687694

    too little too late for Forever 21 and it's 350 locations which once employed 43,000 people at it's peak: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/17/forever-21-files-for-second-... The temu/s…

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    Comment #43298422

    These 2 failures could have been easily avoidable both times. I really wish there was a push in the US government to create and stockpile plutonium-238 and ensure it's readily avai…

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    Comment #43136004

    This is so damn true. I wish people would stop taking companies in China at face value about any of their claims if the CCP has a vested interest in for geopolitical and economic r…

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    Comment #43056032

    > Java found the problem

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    Comment #41795330

    I respect this man for calling out the Ambani family (you may have remembered them from the extremely lavish wedding of one their sons earlier this year) for owning one of the most…