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potatototoo99··on US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize
When your opponent is making a mistake - don't interrupt them!
potatototoo99··on US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize
Yes, the world's leading experts on what constitutes genocide have agreed with the use. Please google it before saying things behind a new account.
potatototoo99··on ICC judge on what U.S. sanctions mean for her and global courts
Foreign nations choose to sign the Rome Statute. Should the rest of the world be prohibited from thinking Netanyahu is a war criminal because it might offend non-signatory countries?
potatototoo99··on ICC judge on what U.S. sanctions mean for her and global courts
Of course there is alternative, you just have to want it. My company also had a very big dependency on Russian software and Russian employees themselves, and the invasion of Ukraine cut that Gordian knot. The incetives just have to be there and be big enough.
potatototoo99··on ICC judge on what U.S. sanctions mean for her and global courts
That's a sacrifice Trump and his inner circle are willing to make (to get richer).
potatototoo99··on Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah
Rafah was no village, with 250,000 to 280,000 people.
potatototoo99··on Oracle cites 'force majeure' to shield itself on controversial data center
Will be interesting to see what excuses these companies will come up with to justify stopping investment in AI without spelling it out. The first one was already announced: it's going to kill everyone so we need to proceed more slowly.
potatototoo99··on The darker side of being a doctor
Everyone gets paid what they can demand and everyone pays as little as they can get away with, it's nothing specific to doctors or private equity.
potatototoo99··on Starbase, LA
Is your cognitive dissonance that strong that you don't see that if all major countries follow that line of thought all have to have their own golden domes and invite WW3?
potatototoo99··on Starbase, LA
See? Great marketing, he is not an engineer.
potatototoo99··on Kids who own phones have poorer reading comprehension scores VS those who don't
Controlled for confounding variables right? Right??
potatototoo99··on America pays workers just 27% of what its wealth allows – the worst in the OECD
You are misinformed. A lot of people in Europe and Canada also have private insurance, sometimes paid by the employer as well, and with that the wait times are usually very short. Going through the public healthcare system you may indeed wait months for non urgent matters.
potatototoo99··on SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth
He is not a trillionaire anymore, though.
potatototoo99··on NSA and IETF: Fairness
If a US three letter agency recommends it, I don't want it.
potatototoo99··on Bryan Johnson: I have an autoimmune disease. My stomach is eating itself
How positive would he be if instead he had spent a bit of his wealth in improving the world, like curing a disease instead of just trying to live forever?

To me he reminds of those stories of wealthy medieval ladies bathing in the blood of virgins. You just know this psychopath is one capitalistic stepping stone away from doing it.

potatototoo99··on Micron locks in historically high memory prices for five years
The article says they locked in floor prices, so they can even continue to climb is what I understood. So maybe they are buying capacity instead.
potatototoo99··on SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
Not annual, annualized. Let's see if people stick to it knowing it belongs to Musk now.
potatototoo99··on Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion
I guess when you have 65k tests you can use an AI for transpiling, and it still seems it took an enormous amount of hand holding. That is very far from actually writing new code. But you tell me, are you a software developer? Write or have code written everyday? I am one and for me and everyone I know AI has been mostly just a (fantastic) replacement for google search.
potatototoo99··on Farmer donates land for a park, city sells it for $10M as data center land
The city could have refused to buy the land for $10 if they didn't agree to the terms. Or claim eminent domain and pay a fair price maybe.
potatototoo99··on Missing worker at Los Alamos National Laboratory found dead in remote forest
It is a coincidence, some of the deaths have been already solved and not related with the conspiracy theory. Nuno Loureiro for example.
potatototoo99··on Michael Burry says neither SpaceX nor Anthropic is worth $1T
Elon must be looking to merge the new amalgamation of SPCX into TSLA and join all his sinking ships in one. Starlink itself won't be able to save that, but make it too big and the government might. That is the way to get to the ridiculous valuations needed for Elon's pay package.
potatototoo99··on Michael Burry says neither SpaceX nor Anthropic is worth $1T
We know nothing about Anthropic, they make a few money go round deals, announce a bit of revenue, extrapolate it into the whole year and people parrot that they may be making $50bn. Most likely the cost to remain competitive eats at whatever revenue they could hope to make. I expect them to fudge the numbers the last quarter before their IPO, dump on passive investors, and then go back to being officially unprofitable.
potatototoo99··on The people who actually want AI to replace humanity
So you want to be a quasi-AI automaton?
potatototoo99··on US's big bet on quantum computing may not be legal
There are many people to prosecute besides the POTUS.
potatototoo99··on DHS Quits Granting Green Cards–Almost
Death by a thousand cuts.
potatototoo99··on Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets
The counterparty in prediction markets are whales though, and those are the few players making money off it. The ROI is also less negative in casinos and sports betting than prediction markets.
potatototoo99··on Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait
It's only illegal if you recognize the law. Why is charging for passage in Ormuz illegal and not in the Panama or Suez canals? Iran can (legitimately) say they require compensation for reconstruction and keeping the security of the strait after the attacks from the terrorist states of Israel and US.
potatototoo99··on Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait
Oman was not neutral and did not bar it's airspace to Israel/US planes/troops/ships, so it's a legitimate target.
potatototoo99··on Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait
Yes they did, to the best of anyone's knowledge they did adhere to the nuclear deal until it was cancelled by Trump. Do you have sources that contradict this?
potatototoo99··on Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait
The US is not blocking the strait because they'd be at the bottom of the sea if they got closer lol
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