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4 months ago
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on: Türkiye will not sell rare earth elements to the USA
as stated many times before, rare earth mining isn't a major issue, capacity to process into something useful which requires tons of water and toxic chemicals is the real issue for the US since China controls lion's share of the market.
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6 months ago
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on: “No Tax on Tips” Includes Digital Creators, Too
Generally correct, low income digital creators will benefit the most since "No Tax on Tips" will reduce their taxable income by 50% or more in comparison to someone who earns close to 150k which isn't a low income according to BLS as you pointed out.
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6 months ago
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on: “No Tax on Tips” Includes Digital Creators, Too
"No Tax on Tips" meant for low income taxpayers so most of the major digital creators won't qualify.
Low income digital creators can deduct upto 25k in tips, so if their income from tips and other sources is below $150k a year, their taxable income will be 25k less.
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7 months ago
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on: Digg.com is back
Download on the AppStore, get it on Google Play.
Conversation should be over here.
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7 months ago
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on: How to rig elections [video]
So to summarize, people did vote for Putin, major opposition was blocked, local elections are rigged.
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7 months ago
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on: AI is already replacing thousands of jobs per month, report finds
"Over the past two years, there has been a 400% increase in employers using AI in job descriptions, the firm found."
How is that replacing?
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7 months ago
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on: Ex-Google Exec Says "The Idea That AI Will Create New Jobs Is 100% Crap"
I think he is wrong, in a short run AI will create more jobs. We need more things to run AI and to make more things like power generation, connectivity, sensors, silicone, datacenters, monitoring, security, construction and so on. All of these things and more require massive workforce skilled or not skilled.
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8 months ago
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on: Preliminary report into Air India crash released
Throttle control module (TCM) was replaced twice in the past 2019 and 2023 which is not very usual.
Now pure speculation, both pilots have long record of flying, you have to literally pull up and move each fuel control switches to cut off. Either one of the pilots did this intentionally or control unit was faulty. Considering past history and pilot experience, my bet is on faulty controls but we will never know.
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8 months ago
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on: OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome
so basically the logic is gather your analytic data directly and tailor AI for your needs to sell you things, basically remove middle man Google, no?
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8 months ago
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on: American science to soon face its largest brain drain in history
Yes, just pointing out that this article implies that Nazi Germany was the reason many scientists moved to the US which isn't the case, many moved when the war was over and they lost.
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8 months ago
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on: American science to soon face its largest brain drain in history
All the scientists who came to the US in 1930s were mostly Jewish for obvious reasons. After victory in WW2, we had Operation Paperclip when we brought thousands of Nazi affiliated scientists to work for us, the whole premise that scientists fled Nazi Germany is very shaky. I just don't believe so many people don't know the history...
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8 months ago
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on: The AI Backlash Keeps Growing Stronger
This article doesn't talk much about mass hiring during COVID period due to high demand, what we see now is unwinding of that trend, feels like people behind this type of narrative are interested in regulating what goes into these models.
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9 months ago
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on: One million and counting: Russian casualties hit milestone in Ukraine war
ugly truth is so much better than a beautiful lie.
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10 months ago
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on: Corporation for Public Broadcasting Statement Regarding Executive Order
I find the whole discussion here that Trump is Hitler propagated by our government is quite amusing, yet again reaffirming 1960s, 1980s, 2000s were inconsequential. Asch paradigm still dominates our reasoning after so many years of grinding for liberal values.
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10 months ago
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on: Elon Musk is wrong about GDP
This is done to curb the inflation caused by military spendings and low unemployment rate. Yes, this is net negative for projected economic growth but considering historic record of oligarchs in Russia who would invest in foreign economies instead of Russia during peace time, I would argue for Russia it is net positive development assuming massive western sanctions stay in place.
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11 months ago
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on: Marijuana hospital visits linked to dementia diagnosis within 5 years – a study
as someone who started from few puffs a day to several blunts a day... wouldn't be surprised to see prolonged marijuana use/abuse linked to not so great outcomes, glad I managed to quite a while back.
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1 year ago
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on: Many people overestimate the percentage of immigrants in their country
If you consider 1st and 2nd generation immigrants since most 2nd generation immigrants can speak their parent language and share some culture, these numbers usually get close to 30% in the US. People are not far off.
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1 year ago
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on: Dead Internet (2023)
I remember back in the day these ad companies would pay you directly to run an ad bar on your screen.
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1 year ago
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on: X (Twitter) blocks links to hacked JD Vance dossier
I scrolled over the dossier and there nothing significant there, most of it is bunch of things he said, his investments, property, donations, tickets, taxes and so on.
Most of the information can be found online, this is just complied into one PDF file.
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1 year ago
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on: Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport
Facebook has many illicit groups and Mark Zuckerberg was never charged with anything. I assume this is more related to privacy where US government has backdoor to Facebook while doesn't have one to Telegram.
