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... additionally a few fraud cases, numerous cases of corruption, and quality issues.
At best, BYD lacks transparency (and thus trust).
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Musk gets what it deserves. But.
... Chinese electric vehicle prices are kept artificially low by significant state subsidies, that would in effect distort the EU market. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BYD_Auto
Artificially lowered prices (the delta is covered by the Chinese govt) to kill the competition.
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"Collateral Beauty" – A sunset in the background of an eliminated target
"Look Ma, No Hands" – The target won’t be holding a gun anytime soon
"Budget Cuts" – Destroy $2M or more of enemy gear
"Ghost Recon" – Wipe out the enemy before they see their target
"Fire Wheels" – Burn 3 or more motorcycles
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I personally share the same view. At the same time, I wouldn't interfere with people saying it. I think this kind of rhetoric is crucial in wartime. At some point, it has to be us vs. them, and it has to be simple. Additionally it puts pressure on the Russian state as a whole, even if only slightly.
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I'm very grateful for your work by the way. Thank you 🙇
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...blem is more complex, is exactly what Russian propaganda does. It seeks to create ambiguity, drown in conflicting views, and ultimately cause apathy and inaction.
From that point of view, his rhetoric could be considered not necessarily as lying but as a simplification to force _some_ action
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Thank you for your comments. Your argument is something I struggling to find an answer myself but on a different topic.
There is a certain war-time rhetoric like 'kill all Russians' (which I don't personally support because e.g. Legion "Freedom of Russia", etc.). Problem is, saying 'wait, the pro...
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In that case, they need someone like Landsberg even more — to remind them that lives, security, and possibly an even bigger war are at stake due to this paralysis.
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My point is, I'm 100% with Landsbergis. Without 3 years background, all these arguments about political complexity would be valid. But we are here, and the 'ultimatum' so far all bark no bite. Because again, if/when it would be implemented, it won't force the desired ceasefire.
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What about underwater cable damage? What about armed drones falling on NATO soil? What about Western nationals detentions and keeping hostage in Russia? What about weaponized migration? What about election interference with every Western country?
What is EU and coalition doing, three freaking years?
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And that’s the answer. We're three years into the war. Everyone knew Putin wouldn’t accept a ceasefire. Is sanctioning less than 1/3 of a disastrous, uninsured, illegal fleet really enough to stop the killing? Not at all. Couldn’t the legal groundwork and voting have started earlier? Absolutely.
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Budanov and Malyuk won't tell anyone but there will be signs
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Not necessarily — compilers could just let the int overflow (and likely wrap around).
The optimizer, being at the end of the toolchain, assumes the code is free of UB — (practically an axiom). Without that assumption, many optimizations would be impossible or too costly.
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Yes. Compiler's logic: UB is impossible, therefore the condition is always true and can be removed for good.
Modern C++ compilers and toolset are blessing.
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Obligatory xkcd xkcd.com/2347/
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You're absolutely right — you’ve earned a treat.
Here’s a for-loop that most compilers will ‘optimize’ into an infinite loop. The code looks simple, and I’ve even disclosed the outcome — can you spot the mistake?
for (int32 i = 0; i < 2000000000; i++) {
printf("%d", i);
}
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He's not wrong — Ukraine didn’t include Kursk, Bryansk, or Krasnodar Krai in 1991, though these regions are Ukrainian-speaking and historically within Ukraine's sphere of interest.
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Stop hating each other. Start organizing. Tax the rich. Support working people. Distribute collective wealth—not hand it to oligarchs.
9/9.
Please don't forget to share.
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Historically, inequality always ends in cataclysm — war, revolution, societal collapse, mass migration.
Most billionaires don’t care. They’re chasing bigger numbers. That’s the whole reason they’re ultra-wealthy to begin with.
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The rich need us divided so we don’t demand fair wealth distribution. Inequality is a squid game: 1% win, the rest lose.
There’s no individual escape. The solution is unity — collective action to stop inequality rising.
E.g., tax the rich.
Inequality is a structural threat.
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High immigration + anti-immigrant media = more public anger = protection for the rich.
Low immigration would make it obvious they were never the problem.
Trump and UK Conservatives nailed it: pretend to fight the 3% illegal immigration (which can’t be stopped) while increasing legal migration.
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Musk Backs Anti-Immigrant Far-Right
Living standards have dropped. Two competing stories are out there:
(1) blame the rich
(2) blame immigrants
Musk and others ultra-rich back story #2 to protect their wealth from taxation.
The rich want you to *hate* immigrants, not *reduce* immigration.
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INEQUALITY = Control of Public Funds
Trump’s win doubled Tesla’s stock because traders expect him to funnel public money to Musk.
So please let that sink in. Musk doesn’t just buy influence — he wants direct access to our taxes.
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For a while, the West was shielded from this levels of corruption. Rising inequality changed that. Media backed by the rich lies or spins narratives to serve elite interests. Inequality shapes the story, suppresses the truth.
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... and policy. They outbid the public for talent and services.
We can’t compete — especially when it comes to politicians. The rampant corruption seen in poorer countries was driven by wealthy foreigners paying local elites to funnel resources away from the population...
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Understandable
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I recommend reading Peter Thiel’s book ‘Zero to One.’ (The CEO of Palantir, PayPal mafia), he praises monopolies and views competition as a waste of resources.
This is what Musk and techbros are trying to implement.
Oligarchy as an official form of government.
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I don’t think Putin needs to ‘sell’ anything to Trump. The refusal to sell US weapons and the blame placed on Ukraine for starting the war shows that the Trump admin is aligned with Putin.
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How do you motivate a slacker? Use two carrots, one to chase and one to sit on!
The wise know: One may chase a carrot, another may choose to sit upon it. Each finds wisdom in his own way.
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I retired to management, indeed.
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Team composition is crucial. Youth eager to learn + Grandpas happy to teach = good vibes.
I worked in all grandpas teams — so annoying 🙄
EVERYONE has an opinion and THEIR best tool for the job, impossible to agree on anything — “Just start coding and break some stuff already.”
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DOGE gutted Department of Labor, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and the Department of Transportation, which were investigating numerous violations in Musks companies.
What a coincidence.
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Great! These advances in brain research make me happy.
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This is great research. It cracks open the black box of huge neural networks just a bit —and helps explain why LLMs hallucinate.
The link: transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribu...
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Claude 3.5 Haiku adds two-digit numbers like 36 + 59.
It breaks the problem into multiple pathways:
- A low-precision path: “add something near 57” → lookup for “add ~36 to ~60” → “sum is near 92.”
- A high-precision path: “6 + 9” → “sum ends in 5.”
These merge to produce the correct sum: 95. 🔽
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Now, the fascinating part:
Turns out the model plans its outputs ahead of time when writing poetry. Before starting each line, it identifies potential rhyming words that might appear at the end. 🔽
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Key takeaways: LLMs are weirder than we thought. They don’t just predict the next most probable word — they sort of reason, in a strange way.
The method used to trace neural network “thinking” was inspired by brain scanning techniques that show which groups of neurons fire together. 🔽
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Kinda makes sense, since they train to recognize patterns, and patterns have real-life representations, but not obvious.
Recently, Anthropic (the company behind Claude LLM) published a paper: “On the Biology of a Large Language Model.” 🔽