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Comment · 1 month ago
Russian crude made up 35-40% of India's oil imports in 2024. I'm sure it is not much different at present. Although a bill just passed through congress that will allow Trump to put up to a 100% Tariff on Indian imports.
Comment · 1 year ago
Sounds like it was the right decision then.
Comment · 1 year ago
It is not even "if" they should be funding these activities.... it is whether the public would "support" funding these activities, if there was a trail of deaths.
Comment · 1 year ago
Just compare X and Blue Sky. There may be some principled leftists who oppose suppressing speech, but in recent times, it has been the left that has been censoring/blocking peoples speech. Another comparison is what is actually censored. Of course there is a certain amount that would be censored by both sides - criticism of power.
Comment · 1 year ago
Because if you build it, they will come and use it for any purpose they can think of in the end!
Comment · 1 year ago
Actually the major complaint was from last year when Biden was president (I'm not sure about this year). Every month, prior months were adjusted downward, often 100,000's thousands and wiping out the previous months positive figure.
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Comment · 1 year ago
I wonder if embeddings could be created from open source and library code and then used to convert back the code with all the correct variable and function names.
Comment · 1 year ago
I would love to say another answer is "Firefox" (which is my default browser), but Mozilla have gotten fat of Googles money over the years and got distracted by other things.
Comment · 1 year ago
The other idea is that people who go into the field are screwed up themselves... and are trying to work out how to treat/understand themselves.
Comment · 1 year ago
It would be better to create bio-char and use it to improve the soil for farmers to grow food. This would also help them with the changing climate, because bio-char assists with moisture retention.
Comment · 1 year ago
He didn't pay them to vote. He paid them for signing a pledge. He had no way to determine who they voted for.
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Comment · 1 year ago
Probably not. If it suppresses your hunger response, you will likely lose the ability to deal with hunger when you go off it.
Comment · 1 year ago

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