Internet disrupted in Pakistan amid arrest of former PM Imran Khan

Post by mlyle » Wed, May 10, 2023, 10:37 PM UTC

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> It seems like an edge case either already served by existing tech except for some very, very small set of situations where most won’t consider it practical or useful anyway Yes, it's all about the edge cases that don't affect the commercial value of the network much. It's about dealing with natural disaster, intermittent and very low quality network connections by modern standards, people in remote areas, or censor…

I think to answer your underlying question of ‘why’ a bit. You say ‘robust’ for societies as if it’s a given positive, but there is an implied statement hidden there. Robust against what? Robust against censorship is rarely desired by the majority (and certainly not openly), because the censorship is with the consent (and often at the request of!) the majority. Just look at the CSAM/Kiddie Porn discussion in the US.…

Post by [deleted] » Thu, May 11, 2023, 3:14 AM UTC

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Storage is effectively free. I can fit the entire Vicuna LLM on a $5 (US retail) SD card right now, and in a decade that’ll be less than $.50. LLMs will also presumably get more efficient at storing fact data outside of the network parameters. People can download Wikipedia pages but weirdly they don’t . They prefer the interactive web to big downloads of static encyclopedia data, even though the latter is better and…

And how do you actually use it? zgrep? :)

Post by yipbub » Thu, May 11, 2023, 5:02 AM UTC

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> None of this is corruption Even if that were true(which it's not), that's not a good defense of Modi. "Corruption is a form of dishonesty or a criminal offense which is undertaken by a person or an organization which is entrusted in a position of authority, in order to acquire illicit benefits or abuse power for one's personal gain."

> that's not a good defense of Modi It’s not meant to be. > in order to acquire illicit benefits or abuse power for one's personal gain You’re quoting Wikipedia [1]; see the “definition and scales” section. Personal gain in this context is contrasted with political gain. Using state power to openly reward boosters is not corruption, though it might be an abuse of power. Using state power to illegally use violence as…

Post by kalimanzaro » Thu, May 11, 2023, 6:33 AM UTC

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Bangladesh and Indonesia, two countries in similar parts of the world, with a majority Muslim population, are much more stable, with strong, growing economies. Maybe there's something positive to be said about religion here as well I guess? Reaching for a simple answer for a complex problem is plainly intellectually dishonest.

I'm ethnically Bangladeshi. Bangladesh is officially a secular country (at least in theory - religion is still a big part of day-to-day life) that has a significant Hindu minority whereas Pakistan is an "Islamic Republic". Your average Bangladeshi is less religious than the average Pakistani.

Post by powerapple » Thu, May 11, 2023, 11:43 AM UTC

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Afaik it was not "planned" unlike Stalin and Beria's NKVD - Mao ordered crows killed to increase crop yields not thinking about the consequences of remove a predator from an ecosystem because the smart folks were either ignorant or afraid of going to a re-education camp. Mass starvation.

Under Mao's rule, millions of people were overtly executed. It wasn't just Mao's incompetence that got people killed accidentally. He ordered millions of people to be murdered.