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bjohnson225
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Comment #48514647
For anyone outside the US this is a clear statement that either models are open or they are controlled by an erratic and hostile US government. Being a US ally has become meaningle…
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Comment #48442816
If those running backs played soccer they'd all be asked to slim down. Soccer requires a mix of strength, agility and endurance.
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Comment #48296790
The European Data Centre Assocation is expecting the highest growth rate in Europe to be in Milan and Madrid. "The selection of tier-2 metropolitan areas shows that overall, they a…
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Comment #48081592
> You might as well blame the entire US population for certain problematic actions of the president. The equivalent would be blaming those who chose the current president. Which wo…
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Comment #48061393
Absolutely. The US has shown it is happy to threaten allies and weaponise everything it can in international relations. It would be madness to leave critical payments infrastructur…
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Comment #47932108
At this point it seems EV economics will make the EU government mandates irrelevant. Electric cars will be cheaper to buy and cheaper to run. The only remaining question is how qui…
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Comment #47178416
> whatever AI cost restructuring happening today Is it actually AI-related cost restructuring, or did they simply hire too many people? They will obviously prefer to tell a story a…
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Comment #46947305
Doesn’t that already exist within the Find My app? It’s not perfect, but it’s always worked fine for me.
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Comment #46739569
How is that relevant? The US can reform its healthcare system whenever it decides to do so. For the EU, Visa and Mastercard dependence form a duopoly controlled by a hostile foreig…
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Comment #46422360
You can't just learn a few words and expect to follow a train announcement, particularly when it's not obvious from context (anything other than announcing the next station).
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Comment #42746656
This reads like an attempt to pass the blame to others. Per capita CO₂ emissions in the US are one of the highest in the world, and significantly higher than those in China or SEA.…
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Comment #39121150
Do you have a source for that? Google returns nothing of the kind.
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Comment #39117364
Source? Looking on Google the closest I can find to your claim is the NTSB chair saying it might not be related after she gave out the details of the previous warning lights (as yo…
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Comment #39116721
Not fly the specific aircraft which had three pressurisation warnings in the days prior to incident until they've carried out some checks? They were serious enough that they decide…
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Comment #39116177
"Alaska Airlines placed restrictions on the Boeing plane involved in a dramatic mid-air blowout after pressurisation warnings in the days before Friday's incident, investigators sa…
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Comment #38219351
I’d appreciate it not being at all possible to transfer funds from my bank to a crypto exchange. If my account has any connection with crypto there’s some kind of crime in progress…
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Comment #36613643
> What will people talk about if Instagram is friendly Anything that's not the current American culture wars? The same things most people talk about in their lives when not throthi…
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Comment #36613583
> Trump is also on both Twitter and Threads. As long as he and other Instagram users are on Threads, then the outrage town hall will continue and will be no better than Twitter. I …
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Comment #36613250
I thought the quotes on the BBC article were quite revealing: > Mr Zuckerberg said keeping the platform "friendly... will ultimately be the key to its success". > But Mr Musk respo…
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Comment #36504070
Why wouldn’t it? At least a third of the menu in most pizzeria’s in Italy will be white pizza with no tomato sauce.
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Comment #36329013
Selling content to OpenAI and anyone else building a language model is a potentially large revenue source for them.
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Comment #36201470
This is very different though - it completely covers much of your face and there is no comparable device that is used in public, whereas AirPods are more or less the same design th…
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