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how much did it cost to rebuild germany? and how many trillions did we flush down the drain attempting to put together a functioning government in iraq and afghanistan? where is DO…

networking is important for sure, but i think software more than most other industries (say, finance) has a much lower barrier of entry for an individual with no/low resources. a d…

well for one they're targeting ukrainian soldiers..

the idea that propaganda doesn't work is certainly an interesting one.

the authors of this paper[0] were able to use AI to figure out if a block of text was written by AI, so hopefully this becomes a tool available to educators very soon. [0] https://…

> It was not part of his economic agenda at all. Then why did he make the IRS reprint COVID relief checks so he could add his name to them? https://www.huffpost.com/entry/inside-th…

Well, it wasn't biden that posted record profits was it? It was the grocery stores. > And the record profits Professor Weber mentions? Groundwork Collaborative recently found that …

if you aren't considering the fact that your data is what enabled these companies to become such massive giants in the first place, you may be living outside of the EU.

> allowing smaller brands to compete to name a few: LISEN, Qifutan, Loncaster, YKYI, Holikme and SXhyf. And who could forget VWMYQ?

This is incredibly enlightening. Thank you.

have seen this at many house parties. The young people gravitate towards the noise while the older ones clump up around the periphery

There are a number of valid criticisms about IBM

our current economic model kind of depends on the idea that we can always disrupt the status quo with american free market ingenuity once it begins to stagnate but maybe we have re…

this kind of stuff + VR in the next 5 years is going to result in some really interesting stuff.

It would be cool to map the relationship between a book getting linked on HN and its checkout rate at the local public library. That's usually the first place I head when I see som…

Absolutely not. Even a facebook group of < 100k is too much work for a single person to manage especially if it is discussion based.

quantifying technical achievements is a lot easier than qualifying policy changes. X amount of views, X amount of subs, etc. vs Removing problem people.

apparently corruption runs rampant throughout all of europe. from the banks that facilitate the laundering of funds, to the port authorities that allow boatloads of cocaine from Co…

The concept of living in a society where people contribute to it for the benefit of the society instead of themselves is not a lamentable one. Regardless of whether or not national…

because it's quite clear that this is your default attitude towards things and its absolutely toxic. you don't recognize it, and that is the issue. I don't think that everyone or e…

You are exactly the person i'm describing. the glee you feel from acting like this is the only time of the day you actually feel like your existence means anything, because you ima…

The values system we have is very different compared to the 30s or 40s or even the 60s. The idea of a society where we all contribute and all benefit is dead and gone. The media ha…

I'm talking about the quality of the food here. as for the rest of the post, the application is not limited to consumer products. Imagine the 2016 election season in 2056. or anoth…

Imagine like an LLM trained on everything you've ever done since birth included as part of the data set. and then one of those for each other person in the world. they could slice …