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It's very hard to take his position seriously when he repeatedly refers to the Chinese Communist Party and specific Chinese ministries specifically, like some two bit China-watchin…

Fireworks isn't serving Kimi K3 yet. Presumably, they ran this benchmark against the Moonshot API. All of the Western providers with sufficient capacity will be able to make it ava…

All you need to fix that is 3:2 pulldown, which all modern TVs should be able to do. Unfortunately this is another basic feature that tends to be "branded" on TVs. On my Sony Bravi…

It's most accurate to say that China is still run by folks who are committed communists. These planners, by virtue of their decades of experience, understand the social value of ma…

"diversity" is an overbroad concept that covers many disparate social practices, a lot of which have nothing to do with technological progress. I guess that the more focused questi…

Seconding/thirding the request for diarization! I would use this as my main transcription app if it had that.

For what it's worth, he was able to roll back. https://x.com/jasonlk/status/1946240562736365809

I have to admit that the objective and historical parts of your analysis are completely correct and well researched, even though I totally disagree with you about the subjective me…

I'm really glad you posted this, it's good to know that I didn't mess up the calibration of my (much humbler) 3.1 system.

US unipolar hegemony has averted an all-out war, but it has also been very bloody, or at least immiserating, for people at its periphery. Multipolarity doesn't imply we go back to …

>Even if the US and China were at parity in AI systems, it seems likely that China could direct more talent, capital, and focus to military applications of the technology. Combined…

You're not wrong, but what you're describing is referred to as "seller-side inflation" or "excuseflation." Article from a year ago: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-…

The author failed to cite hard numbers, but they can be found elsewhere: https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/dollar-d... "In a Monday note, strategists Joana Freire…

Both were great

The World Uyghur Congress is not some politically neutral group made up of concerned immigrants and activists. It has US state backing and intelligence connections. https://thegray…

Clubhouse seems to attract the extraverted and narcissistic, those who live to self-promote and "hustle." So for white people, that's VCs, and then there's the analogous types of B…

I understand that's the claim, but on the other hand, the biggest Muslim ethnic group (Hui) aren't repressed. Which makes you ask, what's the difference between Uyghurs and other M…

But the question is, _why?_ What's their incentive to apply more cruel population control on one ethnic group over others? We're talking about a repressive government, but not a ra…

But this is kind of the opposite of Chernobyl, right? As you laid out, Chernobyl revealed the weakness of the Soviet Union and played some part in its collapse. COVID19 has laid ba…

Sold for 3.5 million in 2013. Undoubtedly worth more much now. https://streeteasy.com/building/75-and-a-half-bedford-street...

Because part of the contract you mention involves adhering to employment law, which generally says that companies cannot fire people for union activity.

It's totally possible to allow a counter terrorism program to run rampant with abuses while also having strong affirmative action programs. The US definitely does it...

There are still Chinese people today who remember the pain of the Cultural Revolution. This is a history that isn't denied & only lightly censored if at all. Yet, they don't begrud…