I'm not being unable to separate crime from policy, you're the one trying to dilute both as showing a signal to policy change. If this was just a political action to take down just another corrupt official enabled by…
Well it isn't much contortionism when you look at the big picture you'll find that corruption is an institution in some countries. For example, you're making an effort to try legitimize the regime by framing a factual…
There's been a lot of pressure to break the EU for quite some time, and now even the US is also aiming for this. It's a lot of misinformation and funding from too many countries, for a long time. What's impressive is…
One thing that stood out to me some years ago and I found interesting is that depending on the language I'm using my thought patterns kind of change. Putting in another term, I think differently in different languages.
For some time a lot of people though these guys were going to be the "cool" elites that can influence the government positively, and people were willing to vote for this administration because it would be "their turn at…
Not at all, just that tech companies should take action on this matter
With the massive bot networks shoving misinformation and propaganda, it's also a new infrastructure that will destabilize a lot of countries unfortunately.
The problem was mainly the income not following inflation.
Yes my phrasing was deliberately like that because I think that's the general sentiment. I don't think Valve has high margins with this when you factor in assembly and distribution costs, and I don't think Valve has the…
I don't think the problem is that there aren't people in the market for it, but more that increasingly products that used to be meant for the average middle class are now perks for wealthier individuals - to the point…
I think just accepting that is more than enough, the US, and Western countries have been target of foreign propaganda and internal self flagellation for old and new imperialism, to the point where some former colonies…
How does this comment contribute to the discussion?
Eh, at this point that means nothing, let's see: If it's Russia, the biggest colonialist country in the world, using Neo Nazi "PMC", or trying to annex neighboring countries, it's not colonialism, it's "liberation from…
Which internships are better? Explaining things to the US leadership? Or to the Chinese leadership?
The longer time passes the more it looks like Snowden was just a foreign asset doing someone else's bidding.
If it's just going to mean cheaper hardware, cheaper access to models and cheaper energy prices, it's going to be all right I think! I very much doubt the general public will accept a any sort of government bailout -…
One question that I ask is if Google Search is still a search engine, and if it should be considered as one. If people are going on Google to search and end up in a chat with an LLM, isn't that defrauding the user? Of…
Have at least some conversations with people you trust, that's the bare minimum. Saying you're uneducated in local politics is just an excuse you're making to justify your actions. Local politics isn't filled with much…
Due to ad transparency you can access ad libraries of brands advertising on several platforms, and depending on the platform and country you can also see some targeting details. I'm not 100% sure but I think ad…
Russia at this point has no functioning democratic institutions, and even political institutions - for example at this point no document inherited or signed by the regime is worth anything. That's why they're considered…
Well it could be worse because in the end it's still a democracy, for how long that's yet to be seen. Look at Russia, they jumped off a cliff to protect a regime from democracy, and people are checked out - they take no…
Why are you stating China competitiveness isn't related to labor, and then pivot to US labor? Before you go there, you should answer: what has the Chinese government done for the Chinese lately? Is everything well in…
I'd buy that if you're talking about developing new products/new production lines, it's cheaper to have suppliers and know how hand - and it's great for margin optimization, because they have other production lines. But…
Because Western rivals are mainly retailers first, and marketplaces second. So their goal is to try to squeeze as much from the end customer as possible, sometimes even with absurd price differences in physical…
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I'm not being unable to separate crime from policy, you're the one trying to dilute both as showing a signal to policy change. If this was just a political action to take down just another corrupt official enabled by…
Well it isn't much contortionism when you look at the big picture you'll find that corruption is an institution in some countries. For example, you're making an effort to try legitimize the regime by framing a factual…
There's been a lot of pressure to break the EU for quite some time, and now even the US is also aiming for this. It's a lot of misinformation and funding from too many countries, for a long time. What's impressive is…
One thing that stood out to me some years ago and I found interesting is that depending on the language I'm using my thought patterns kind of change. Putting in another term, I think differently in different languages.
For some time a lot of people though these guys were going to be the "cool" elites that can influence the government positively, and people were willing to vote for this administration because it would be "their turn at…
Not at all, just that tech companies should take action on this matter
With the massive bot networks shoving misinformation and propaganda, it's also a new infrastructure that will destabilize a lot of countries unfortunately.
The problem was mainly the income not following inflation.
Yes my phrasing was deliberately like that because I think that's the general sentiment. I don't think Valve has high margins with this when you factor in assembly and distribution costs, and I don't think Valve has the…
I don't think the problem is that there aren't people in the market for it, but more that increasingly products that used to be meant for the average middle class are now perks for wealthier individuals - to the point…
I think just accepting that is more than enough, the US, and Western countries have been target of foreign propaganda and internal self flagellation for old and new imperialism, to the point where some former colonies…
How does this comment contribute to the discussion?
Eh, at this point that means nothing, let's see: If it's Russia, the biggest colonialist country in the world, using Neo Nazi "PMC", or trying to annex neighboring countries, it's not colonialism, it's "liberation from…
Which internships are better? Explaining things to the US leadership? Or to the Chinese leadership?
The longer time passes the more it looks like Snowden was just a foreign asset doing someone else's bidding.
If it's just going to mean cheaper hardware, cheaper access to models and cheaper energy prices, it's going to be all right I think! I very much doubt the general public will accept a any sort of government bailout -…
One question that I ask is if Google Search is still a search engine, and if it should be considered as one. If people are going on Google to search and end up in a chat with an LLM, isn't that defrauding the user? Of…
Have at least some conversations with people you trust, that's the bare minimum. Saying you're uneducated in local politics is just an excuse you're making to justify your actions. Local politics isn't filled with much…
Due to ad transparency you can access ad libraries of brands advertising on several platforms, and depending on the platform and country you can also see some targeting details. I'm not 100% sure but I think ad…
Russia at this point has no functioning democratic institutions, and even political institutions - for example at this point no document inherited or signed by the regime is worth anything. That's why they're considered…
Well it could be worse because in the end it's still a democracy, for how long that's yet to be seen. Look at Russia, they jumped off a cliff to protect a regime from democracy, and people are checked out - they take no…
Why are you stating China competitiveness isn't related to labor, and then pivot to US labor? Before you go there, you should answer: what has the Chinese government done for the Chinese lately? Is everything well in…
I'd buy that if you're talking about developing new products/new production lines, it's cheaper to have suppliers and know how hand - and it's great for margin optimization, because they have other production lines. But…
Because Western rivals are mainly retailers first, and marketplaces second. So their goal is to try to squeeze as much from the end customer as possible, sometimes even with absurd price differences in physical…
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