Argonaut998

Just a grift. Incredible timing. No different from a new Bible translation that comes out every year.

Europe’s own fault for not protecting their borders.

Until when? At what point? Where exactly? The Astra Zeneca (Oxford) vaccine is relevant because it was taken off the market almost immediately after the effects were found. The technology behind it is utterly irrelevant to the point that I am making.

How am I a conspiracy theorist when I literally pointed out what the study said. Is it not a fact that the Oxford vaccine was taken off the market almost immediately after effects were concretely found.

I agree. I say this as a eurosceptic myself. HN and Twitter make it seem like the EU is borderline third world that is moments away from collapse.

Germany is the third largest economy in the world. The EU as a bloc is the second largest economy in the world.

While lagging considerably behind the US and China in services, it still is among the leaders in energy and manufacturing.

It’s in decline, but it’s really not anything that can’t be fixed.

Certainly not anywhere HN/Twitter like to make it out to be.

The EU is facing a two-front information war. A strong EU doesn’t benefit the US, Russia or China. Having said that, a lot of US criticisms that are propagandised against the EU are mostly fair criticisms, the EU makes it easy for its adversaries to propagandise low hanging fruit (such as the bureaucracy on display here)

This is definitely going on in the background. Mercosur and another EU trade deal with India. Canada and China (which was struck down but I imagine it will be rekindled with this). Just wait for some EU + Canada deal soon enough.

>In men younger than 40 years old, the number of excess myocarditis events per million people was higher after a second dose of mRNA-1273 than after a positive SARS-CoV-2 test (97 [95% CI, 91–99] versus 16 [95% CI, 12–18]).

From your own study you linked. The first comment I ever posted on HN was regarding a similar study where there was no control group whatsoever for unvaccinated people.

I can’t get over the sunk cost reaction to this vaccine. No one who was not immunocompromised should have ever taken it. Period.

And this is just regarding your study.

Remember how the AstraZeneca vaccine (it was called the “Oxford vaccine” before that bad PR) was taken off the market instantly after reports of blood clots.

One can go on endlessly.

Thanks, I was looking for something like that

Because if you believe this fetus to be a human life then it follows believing that if it is terminated, it is akin to murder/infanticide.

I don't know why people are being so (deliberatively?) reductive ITT.

Mine is still going strong, it can run Gemma 4 26b. It can still play all the games I care about at near max settings at 1440p at 60 FPS (like Elden Ring).#

My PC did coincidentally die today (not GPU related) so I think it's time for an upgrade, what do you recommend?

I wonder when the Anthropic and OpenAI bailouts will be? Maybe they’ll successfully lobby the US to enable drastic protectionist policies against foreign models.

Anthropic have a lot to answer for. Not even Altman was that bold.

They’ll just criminalise private encryption for communication afterwards.

The problem with the EU is that there are many levels of abstraction, and the more links in a chain the more susceptible to corruption it is.

This becomes immediately obvious when you vote for a party who fails to fulfill, or even go against their policies. Then for the EU there’s an additional level of abstraction for the commission. At this level, the voter is far removed from their initial vote and are completely powerless.

There is nothing redeemable about this union anymore.

That’s not true at all. While not as good as proprietary models they are still very good and can do A LOT, certainly more than their cost would make it seem.

It’s only a matter of time before companies start to acknowledge the huge cost of tokens and look for a cheaper alternative with basic cost-benefit analysis.

My F500 company is getting local infrastructure going to host open models and I’m sure many will just switch to bedrock + the best open models.

It’s foolish for companies to let three companies dictate the price of tokens, I just don’t think they are aware of this now by and large.

By your logic any book in existence can be banned at any point in time. It's a meaningless designation.

This is massively humiliating for Trump (and the US). None of the US' objectives were accomplished aside from "Iran never having a nuclear weapon" which was already established through the JCPOA, which Trump tore down and never ceased to remind everyone how terrible it was and how Obama was an abysmal negotiator.

Which begs the question, why didn't Trump just try to recreate the JCPOA without going to war? Pride?

On paper

Vindictive in preventing trade agreements. Vindictive like France doing nothing to stop the immigrants going through the channel

The entire human population can fit within Los Angelas. It’s not a good metric in general. Pressure on public services, resources and housing is far more useful

You are assuming there won’t be free trade agreements. People need to stop saying what happened with Brexit will happen with Switzerland. Two completely different countries governed in two completely different ways.

The Swiss ruling class don’t have as much disdain for their populace. It will only end up that way if the Swiss people will it.

A lot of the UK’s problems were a result of the EU being vindictive as well. The EU won’t act vindictively because they aren’t in the EU.

10 years too late.

I had an appointment with an ENT recently. He said that weight and age affects snoring mostly unless it’s some actual condition. The weight affects it because of some compression on the neck or something like that.

I went because I had a deviated septum and thought that was the cause of the snoring but he said that’s unlikely if the snoring only started recently.

I swear the industry is being Garry Tanned.

Senior management let go our localisation staff. Now they want us to use AI to translate. They still want manual review.

We use Github Copilot at work, we get a measly 300 requests with the budget to go over if necessary. Opus 4.7 or GPT 5.5 would eat all of those up in a day. Are we supposed to be using more than the allotted amount, do management see that as a good thing. Or is it best to stick within the allocated amount. Who knows? Management are playing games everywhere it seems.

Their TV shows are definitely better than the movies by far but even then I can’t think of one that I watched that didn’t decline in quality as time went on. Even the last season of Stranger Things was pretty poor

I struggle to remember hardly anything memorable from Netflix, especially their movies, despite that amount of investment.

K-Pop Demon Hunters, what else? The rest is mostly if not all slop. Even looking now at their top 10 most popular movies we have a generic Rock movie in second place

Already done https://www.linkedin.com/posts/andyeung_i-just-met-a-founder...

Interestingly this is not something native to Tibetan Buddhists. Neoplatonists had something similar, and even Orthodox Christian monks speak about literally "praying ceaselessly" which inludes prayer during sleep, it's definitely all lucid dreaming

Doing this ensures:

- No more soft power

- Massively reduced capability to strike the Middle East

- Europe dumping US bonds

- Europe reducing dependence on the USD

- No ability to restrain Europe from arming

- No one would trust the US again - remember, the USA has had security guarantees with Ukraine long before this mess.

There is a lot to be said about this attitude of "we are doing Europe a favour" idiocy, it's reminiscent of the Bush era jingoism that I have noticed a resurgence of since Trump's second term, especially since the war with Iran.

The USA would be doing the USA a favour if they keep doing what they have been doing in Europe since the end of WWII. It's NOT bad for the USA. Europe is under the USA's thumb as a result of NATO.

Europe is in for a lot of short term pain as a result of the Ukraine and blockade of the Strait.

I also firmly believe (controversial I am aware) a desperate Europe will 100% throw Ukraine to the wolves and make peace with Russia for their energy, and what then?

They can't wait forever, especially at this level of investment