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umeshunni

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    Comment #49263571

    But in this case, that's essentially what's happened. No one gets legitimate telemarketing calls anymore. They're all scam calls from some slave compound in Cambodia.

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    Comment #49245545

    The other challenge I assume is that many boat owners are retired and presumably have little or no taxable income

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    Comment #49204815

    Why would they need multi TB frontier models?

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    Comment #49192114

    > Twitter used to be profitable. Twitter posted a profit in only two of its eight full fiscal years (turning profitable in 2018 and 2019) In its last year (2021), Twitter reported …

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    Comment #49189357

    1. The employer is providing it to them to do their day to day work, like they provide a laptop and internet connection 2. This is from a 2027 fictional scenario, not current state…

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    Comment #49119310

    > But not real for only car outside of California. Tell that to the millions of people in EU and China who have EVs as their only car. I swear Americans live in the 50s in 2026.

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    Comment #49119294

    BYD is selling millions of cars and will be #5 globally this year. They're doing fine whether or not racist westerners take them seriously. At the same time, western manufacturers …

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    Comment #49106054

    and Google Translate: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.09849

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    Comment #48981085

    > the winner will be whoever burns their models to ASICs fastest. I don't understand how this works when the models are evolving so fast that your burned ASIC is outdated (or at le…

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    Comment #48840753

    You would be surprised how many enterprises are allowed to use only Copilot for all tasks due to Microsoft deals.

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    Comment #48764970

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    Comment #48761496

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    Comment #48761427

    Considered that there are organizations like the Taliban and Boko Haram that rule entire countries and regions and have anti-education as a principle, yes it's those cultures that …

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    Comment #48761194

    Internalized self loathing is a thing

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    Comment #48761124

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    Comment #48723292

    There's a reason most of the western world isn't capable of building anything these days.

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    Comment #48723278

    Not Above My Back Yard - NAMBY?

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    Comment #48610152

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    Comment #48464283

    Pelicans hate biking in the rain (as do I).

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    Comment #48414986

    no - they blame it on AI

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    Comment #48289393

    > In the data I've seen, the US and European countries have a more negative view of AI than China and developing countries. I think that's more a sign of the relative state of thes…

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    Comment #48289196

    There's a class of people who'll run with it - the same people who were protesting 5G towers 5 years ago.

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    Comment #48289173

    Very similar to the pro-illegal immigration crowd

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    Comment #48165054

    This has probably been true only in the last 300? 500? years. Before that, things were the same for 1000+ years for most of civilization, barring any large invasions from neighbori…