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NLPlatypus··on South Dakota first to ban TikTok on state-owned devices
You’re right. It’s very racist and bad to not support the government enslaving, neutering, force aborting, and imprisoning Muslims, supporting a government currently invading your allies, one that said it wants to make a new world order without you, take taiwan by force if needed, heavily censors content, etc…

It can’t be any of that! No! It must be sinophobia!

> Chinese human rights activists do not think banning TikTok strengthens human rights in China.

Source?

NLPlatypus··on South Dakota first to ban TikTok on state-owned devices
You realize the CCP forces companies to accept CCP members into their board and leadership, right? It’s even affecting foreign companies operating in China. It’s not “sinophobia”, it’s just facts.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-21/hsbc-form...

NLPlatypus··on Huawei phones automatically deleting videos of the protests?
That’s $100k for ads. I remember seeing one of the anti-Clinton image memes in one of the Senate reports on the SandersForPresident forum. Makes me sick that Russian manipulators were there, too.
NLPlatypus··on Reusing yesterday’s coffee grounds for another cup of coffee
Probably the leeching and your health
NLPlatypus··on The AI War and How to Win It
>I don't see how a state actor is going to make some major AI advance that it is also able to conceal from other states.

The defense budget is hundreds of billions of dollars

Reinforcement learning models are already crushing humans at strategy games from StarCraft to Diplomacy

NLPlatypus··on FCC Bans Authorizations for Devices That Pose National Security Threat
You’re talking about the China who recently put trade sanctions on Korea for installing missile defenses (who has a now-nuclear neighbor) and Australia for dare mentioning that COVID originated in China?

>If Beijing keeps breaking free-trade rules to make its foreign-policy points against rival nations, it will hurt domestic markets and lose international stature

https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/2083166/opini...

> Beijing’s attempt to bully Canberra has been a spectacular failure.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/11/09/australia-china-decoupl...

NLPlatypus··on The stick shift might survive the electric revolution
What is this myth? Double clutching saves your synchros and takes the load off of them. Try it with any manual and you can feel much less effort shifting.
NLPlatypus··on Myocarditis after Covid vaccination: Research on possible long-term risks begins
And Ben Carson is a neurosurgeon. So what?

>Ladapo claims his analysis was based on a Florida Department of Health study showing an 84 percent increase in cardiac related deaths among men aged 18 to 39 years old within 28 days of becoming vaccinated through mRNA vaccines. Yet the medical community rejected the analysis Ladapo promoted.

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> “I just cannot fathom a group of epidemiologists who would perform an investigation, looking at the risks of vaccination, and not also have performed an analysis that looked at the risks associated with the infection itself,” Salemi said.

https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2022/10/11/medical-experts...

NLPlatypus··on Bloated college administration is making education unaffordable
Perhaps it was revenue from the tens of millions of Americans now getting healthcare?

This analysis shows the majority of health insurers becoming less profitable after Obamacare?

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2...

NLPlatypus··on Rental Arbitrage Is TikTok’s Latest Get-Rich-Quick Scheme
Is Facebook lying about providing mass amounts of data to a hostile government?
NLPlatypus··on SiriSpy – iOS bug allowed apps to eavesdrop on your conversations with Siri
Try to turn off your iPhone. It says right on the screen it will be broadcasting its location even when it’s off.
NLPlatypus··on Adding Heat to Electric Vehicle Batteries Helps Them Charge in Just 10 Minutes
Teslas heat themselves on the way to superchargers
NLPlatypus··on California Poised to Overtake Germany as World’s No. 4 Economy
But that money may have been spent elsewhere?
NLPlatypus··on Tuna use sharks as back scratchers despite risk of being eaten
Ok but that’s far away. What’s next, not carrying all the groceries in one trip?
NLPlatypus··on Eight RTX 4090s Can Break Passwords in Under an Hour
There’s multiple inputs that can get the same hash. Say if your hashed password was 7, and that came from 2+5. Someone bruteforcing can input 6+1 and get 7, also. They don’t need to know what your input was, they just need to find an input that hashes to match the hash of yours.
NLPlatypus··on Microsoft's AR Headset Was a Complete Disaster During a Military Test
We let them take parts of Georgia in 2008 and some of Ukraine in 2014. Now they tried to take the entire Ukraine and take more Baltic states afterwards.
NLPlatypus··on Students using AI to write papers
Copilot does more than that. Have you tried it yet?
NLPlatypus··on America Has Lost Its Oil Buffer
It’s a global oil market. If China wants to overpay, so be it.
NLPlatypus··on Ask HN: How to cancel Adobe CC subscription without paying a “cancellation fee”?
But he received a discount on his monthly rate when he agreed to subscribe for a year at a time.
NLPlatypus··on Infinite Scrolling: When to Use It, When to Avoid It
Just have JS track where the user is?
NLPlatypus··on Android 13 requires devices to have more than 2GB RAM and 16GB storage
Does uBlock Origin do a better job than the Ad Blocker extension on iPhone’s Safari? I use uBlock Origin on my desktop and Ad Blocker on my iPhone. Honestly, I can’t tell any difference. They both seem to block everything.
NLPlatypus··on Ask HN: What country is easiest to go from USA and have insurance without job?
I just checked Accutane’s price using GoodRx which compares many US pharmacies side-by-side and gives a free discount. It looks like a six month supply of generic Accutane is about $492-$610. The upper range includes shipping, otherwise you have to drive to the pharmacy. No quote on name-brand Accutane, though.
NLPlatypus··on Stable Diffusion PR optimizes VRAM, generate 576x1280 images with 6 GB VRAM
That proverb isn’t true and stems from a generation that didn’t understand mental health
NLPlatypus··on Falsehoods programmers believe about email
You could sign them up using many + emails
NLPlatypus··on US Government Bans Export of Nvidia A100 and H100 GPUs to China and Russia
Ok, but Russia invaded Ukraine. Unless the US controls Russia now, too.
NLPlatypus··on US Government Bans Export of Nvidia A100 and H100 GPUs to China and Russia
The A100 isn’t a miner. It trains machine learning models. It’s being replaced by the H100 shortly, which is part of the ban, too.
NLPlatypus··on SMIC reaches 7nm without access to western equipment and technologies
China is capable. But, this would be SMIC’s third time being caught stealing from TSMC.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-smic-lawsuit/california-j...

NLPlatypus··on Intel expands Oregon Fab building; 18A Node now 2024
I’m not so sure about Europe siding with China. Values come into play.

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2022-07-30/swiss-...

NLPlatypus··on If You Can’t Buy It Twice, Don’t Buy It
The iPhone has saved me insane amounts of time over the years by simply being a fast device. It also has been kept up to date in terms of software for years. On Android, I upgraded every second year.
NLPlatypus··on 20B-parameter Alexa model sets new marks in few-shot learning
But you can apparently tell it “remember I put my keys upstairs”, and when you ask where your keys are, it tells you upstairs.

There is storage going on already

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