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The time difference between today and Hackers is the same as when the film was released and the year 1964. That's the year films like Dr. Strangelove, Goldfinger and A Fistful of D…

Worth mentioning that Oracle has been hosting US TikTok data since 2022.

Oh wow. I did the same thing a couple of weeks ago. The server hadn't been updated since ~2015, running a blog on Ghost from that time with node 0.10 installed. I was a bit rougher…

Italy, Spain, Denmark, The Netherlands, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine, Norway, Portugal. Which have I missed? Even Germany is a d…

The only ones that didn’t are France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Greece. The rest all did. This cohort changed its mind with Libya and Syria not too long after though. > The…

> Lots of odd assumptions there. No assumptions, it's all fact. > I was out on the streets protesting the 2003 GWB Iraq invasion war You mean the war that all the European countrie…

"Foreigners like me care more about global stability" yes so continue to rain bombs on the middle east, accept their poorest as refugees, and continue to support Israeli expansion.…

> Most of the investment is from private capital, not banks It's just banks investing in private equity firms. So it's still banks, just by proxy, due to 2008 regulation.

I wrote my post myself.

The medium and small players are literally just distilling the larger models. It's not the smaller players spending billions on training data.

Competition is bad? Who cares - let the big players subsidize and compete between each other. That's what we want. We want strong models at a low price, and we'll hype up whoever i…

Yes, and also pushed for by the Israeli and US governments. Tech investment is part of the Abraham Accords - i.e this is part of the prerequisites for normalization of ties with Is…

No, batteries do not exist. Just like solar technology wasn't developed to a point where it was barely useful until relatively recently, battery technology is no where near what is…

Ya it’s insulting to provide a single success case.

> The only things that ever comes up in elections about energy is the price. Yeah, because solar and wind are both expensive and unreliable, and fossil fuels are both expensive and…

Ah yes, the sun shines at night and wind comes from trees. If you can name a country using solar and wind that isn't dependent on fossil fuels I'd love to hear about it.

> Renewables, particularly wind and solar, are the path forward You missed the asterisk where endless dependence on coal, gas or oil is a non-optional requirement. Who the hell car…

The icons in the menu bars are rough, the spacing isn’t great and the inconsistent window borders aren’t great. I’m not that opinionated though - I don’t really care that much. But…

Given that the 'tide pod challenge' was before TikTok's time and took place on wholly US-owned platforms like YouTube, we can safely assume it's all in your head. Most of the other…

They're already throwing cloudflare in front of it

At a very high level, think fruit sorting[0] where the conveyor belt doesn't stop rolling and you need to rapidly respond, and all the way through to monitoring for things like def…

It won't. This article misses the almost certain reality that the support of the Gulf states for this conflict (and the others that passed, and those that will follow) came from in…

Iraqis also see themselves as a continuation of Mesopotamian people, that was quite literally what Iraqi Baathist thought was centered around and used as the successful unification…