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thesmtsolver2··on Research finds 485 chemicals in US pesticide products linked to breast cancer
How much of it is due to other sources of death being addressed?
thesmtsolver2··on ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026
And ASML wouldn't be possible without US taxpayer funded research. ASML's extreme ultraviolet (EUV) technology utilized foundational research from the U.S. Department of Energy.

> In 1997, ASML began studying a shift to using extreme ultraviolet.[7] Two years later, it joined a consortium, which included Intel and two other U.S. chipmakers, in order to exploit fundamental research conducted by the US Department of Energy. Because the Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) it operates under is funded by the US government, licensing must be approved by Congress.[14] Furthermore, in return for being permitted to join this consortium, ASML committed to the establishment of a US-based research center and to source 55 percent of components for all machines sold in the US from American suppliers.[7] ASML collaborated with various manufacturers to obtain mirrors, including the Belgian firms IMEC and Sematech as well as Germany's Carl Zeiss.[14][15]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASML

thesmtsolver2··on ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026
> I get the sarcasm, but its not like e.g. TSMC popped up in a environment of pure libertarian free market capitalism.

Nobody said that. That is a strawman

thesmtsolver2··on California is chasing wealth that has feet
Why?
thesmtsolver2··on Every U.S. State Ranks Above Every Foreign Economy in Household Consumption
Wouldn't government subsidies increase consumption?

So the point is even with govt subsidies and a generous oil industry, Norway ranks below all US states.

thesmtsolver2··on Every U.S. State Ranks Above Every Foreign Economy in Household Consumption
The chart literally says PPP, how is overpriced?

> No one would willingly live in Mississippi over France or Italy.

Have you seen parts of Paris? Not all parts of Mississippi are bad.

thesmtsolver2··on UK military jamming other nations' satellites to defend itself, BBC told
I think this comment is the tech equivalent of "if they can't eat bread, let them eat cake"
thesmtsolver2··on Tokens Too Cheap to Meter
> Barring a true breakthrough in something like quantum computing or room-temperature superconductors

Won't that also help grep and then move the asymptote down more?

thesmtsolver2··on Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain
Look at the comment by mediaman

> The article doesn't mention this, of course, but Meta prohibits "socially sensitive" advertising due to the EU's TTPA law, or "Transparency and Targeting of Political Advertising." It imposes substantial bureaucratic compliance burden on advertising platforms to accept ads that deal with political issues. Meta decided that the revenue wasn't worth the compliance burden, so they do not accept any political advertising at all. They filter anything that smells like political or social issues, whether it be a campaign about anti-immigration or a play about feminism, because if they accept it they will get heavily fined by the EU. This is why Meta does not ban this advertising outside of the EU. It's a EU regulatory problem. The Register does not mention this anywhere in the article. reply

thesmtsolver2··on Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain
Look at the comment by mediaman

> The article doesn't mention this, of course, but Meta prohibits "socially sensitive" advertising due to the EU's TTPA law, or "Transparency and Targeting of Political Advertising." It imposes substantial bureaucratic compliance burden on advertising platforms to accept ads that deal with political issues. Meta decided that the revenue wasn't worth the compliance burden, so they do not accept any political advertising at all. They filter anything that smells like political or social issues, whether it be a campaign about anti-immigration or a play about feminism, because if they accept it they will get heavily fined by the EU. This is why Meta does not ban this advertising outside of the EU. It's a EU regulatory problem. The Register does not mention this anywhere in the article.

thesmtsolver2··on Nipple tattooist 'frustrated' by online censorship
Obvious: Look at who funds the BBC and who they are not criticizing.
thesmtsolver2··on Grok 4.7
This is /r/iamverysmart material (by Claude)

Part of intelligence is knowing your audience and communicating efficiently.

thesmtsolver2··on Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain
So, Meta should be banned because it followed EU law to ban some things?

Wow, Europeans do have a penchant for recursively banning things :)

thesmtsolver2··on Nipple tattooist 'frustrated' by online censorship
Follow the money
thesmtsolver2··on One-Electron Universe
Originally derived from Hinduism thousands of years before Buddha (see Advaita for a modern view and Upanishads or Gita/Vedas for source)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahman

thesmtsolver2··on Bend – A language that blocks AI mistakes via proof, on CPU and GPU
Funny you say that while OpenAI and rest of the world rely on Lean and other formal systems to power through (or sometime brute force) math problems.
thesmtsolver2··on Why I didn’t sign the Fields medallists’ letter
No, this is not survivorship bias. They didn’t claim ALL math is useful. They only said SOME math is civilization changing in nature.
thesmtsolver2··on OpenSpec – A lightweight and configurable AI spec framework
Well, they are absolutely pretty good at faking being good at long-horizon planning which is enough to fool a lot of people till things start breaking lol.
thesmtsolver2··on AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran
IDF wants to exterminate Bahrain and UAE?
thesmtsolver2··on Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes
Comparing to raw LLMs? Much much better.
thesmtsolver2··on Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes
Human beings can play chess directly without coding up a tool.
thesmtsolver2··on Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025
You are human. You claim humans intelligent. Then, why should we accept your argument?
thesmtsolver2··on Align AI and Mathematics–To Something Else
How dare the billionaire math professors profit off theorem proving!

The poor altruistic AI companies like OpenAI will unleash math understanding and theorems for free for humanity!

thesmtsolver2··on OpenAI considers slowing advanced AI development, Sam Altman tells employees
They have AGI but apparently can't trace if specific conversations were used in training a model.
thesmtsolver2··on A misalignment of AI in mathematics
You can steal lemmas, rough proof directions, conceptual ideas etc without stealing the full proof.

Any of that done unattributed is plagiarism.

Either OpenAI is incompetent or evil if they can't publicly prove the allegations wrong. Or even at least state categorically they didn't train on their conversations (even without proof).

thesmtsolver2··on A misalignment of AI in mathematics
The biggest cope is buying OpenAI's "We can't prove we didn't plagiarize"

Apparently, we have AGI that can solve Millennium Prize problems but can't trace simple data flows lol.

thesmtsolver2··on Rock band Muse lose social media handles to Meta’s new AI tool
That’s not how either logic or justice work.
thesmtsolver2··on Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare
What? Go ask almost anyone in Asia outside Mainland China.

They all consider China to be the aggressor because they are. E.g., Tibet or India.

thesmtsolver2··on Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare
Didn’t you read the memo? Only European govts or China can act in the interests of their people and companies but if the US does that it is immoral.
thesmtsolver2··on GPT-6 Astra
Just because a condition is new to you doesn’t imply moving the goalpost. People have been putting forward continual learning and similar conditions like autonomy since 1950s.
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