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Comment · 3 months ago
> We just need to find the social structures to provide people with basic needs and reserve "work" for things that are vital to society or truly inspired.

just?

Comment · 1 year ago
> If that's the case, then you should be able to provide tons of evidence. It's difficult to "hide" or "manipulate" data in a country the size of china that is tied to the global trading system.

not very tied, actually, precisely because of heavy government interventions

> "Democratic countries". Like russia? Or venezuela? Oh, let me guess, democratic countries you don't like are not "democratic countries". Right.

I think that we can agree that democratic countries are countries where there is a choice and you see changes of government caused by free elections. That's not the case for Russia or Venezuela but it is (still) the case for most of the Western world

> You are just repeating the standard anti-china propaganda. It's the same of nonsense over and over again. > "None of china's data can be trusted. They are lying and they are about to collapse". Followed by, "Oh my god china is an existential threat. They are going to overtake us. Deep seek, rare earth minerals blah blah blah". > Make up your mind.

Who said that? Only you

Comment · 1 year ago
> I've always had the feeling that AI researchers want to build their own human without having to change diapers being part of the process. Just skip to adulthood please, and learn to drive a car without having experience in bumping into things and hurting yourself.

I partially agree, but the idea about AI is that you need to bump into things and hurt yourself only once. Then you have a good driver you can replicate at will

Comment · 1 year ago
China is decades behind the West in EUV technology. The attempt to create an independent supply chain is also a forced choice since all the EUV supply chain and knowledge pool are heavily protected by the West and are so complex and big that China cannot sidestep it even with a lot of resources.

Those numbers are realistic. EUV is the most complex machine ever built by humans

Comment · 2 years ago
the statistics would be different. Check out Rabi oscillations (classical EM) vs Jaynes-Cummings model (quantized EM) and phenomena like quantum antibunching (only possible for quantized EM)
Comment · 2 years ago
Why does it need an internet connection?
Comment · 2 years ago
Still the question remains, are they dangerous?

I guess some materials in the body have some response to magnetic fields

Comment · 2 years ago
With typical usage they contain more sensitive data and people are less aware of what happens in them than PCs.

And mobile phones are perfect spying devices too. So the security question is more delicate

Comment · 2 years ago
Honestly what you describe seems to be an attempt by Apple PR to save face.

They fear the spotlight on the fact that even on alternate stores only accounts controlled by Apple can publish apps, which might become the focus of new regulations

Comment · 2 years ago
Southern Gaza, Israel considers a part of Southern Gaza an humanitarian zone and dropped fliers explaining that.
Comment · 2 years ago
So what do you think would happen if terrorists took over the MIT campus, students sympathized with them, rockets were launched from it, and the US police had no presence there and very sparse intelligence?
Comment · 2 years ago
Even accepting that, you can ask what is the limit after which you can say that the occupied does morally reprehensible things
Comment · 2 years ago
No. It will be slow as hell

But something like El Capitan will be somehow acceptable and Lion will be actually usable

Comment · 3 years ago
The more elaborate books of the Bible, like Isaiah/Yeshayahu and Psalms/Tehillim, make use of this kind of structure a lot in the original. You can easily find "triple chiasms" with structure ABCCBA. I don't know why this isn't emphasised usually.

Catullus of course is one of the masters. There is also the "da mi basia mille deinde centum..." that has the structure of an abacus

Comment · 3 years ago
China is now the biggest car exporter, thanks to the electric car boom.

Are there state security issues with Chinese cars too?

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