The defeat of the Spanish Empire in the Dutch independence struggle meant that the culture of modernistic schism, or autonomizing capital, would not be stopped. No future foe would present comparable challenges, whether estimated in terms of the apparent balance of forces, or even the clarity of ideological decision. Globalization in the 'neo-liberal' sense was henceforth implicit, dominating the historical horizon of the world. All of its subsequent contestants would be compelled to articulate their resistance within a framework fundamentally shaped by the liberation of Capital, and benchmarked to it.
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A Solution to Static vs. Dynamic Linking
urbitsystems.tech
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Chinese Spies Accused of Using Huawei in Secret Australia Telecom Hack
bloomberg.com
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The Most Senseless Environmental Crime of the 20th Century (2017)
psmag.com
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Mideast Insurgents Enter the Age of Drone Warfare
wsj.com
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Dark Crystal – social secret sharding using Shamir's Secret Sharing
darkcrystal.pw
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1 in 4 Biostatisticians Surveyed Say They Were Asked to Commit Scientific Fraud
infoproc.blogspot.com
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The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life with Dr. Robin Hanson
youtube.com
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China deploys experimental electromagnetic railgun aboard a warship
news.com.au
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Algorithmic horror
chrisrodley.com
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Replacement for Worrisome Flame Retardants Raises Its Own Concerns
undark.org
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Virulent WCry ransomware worm may have North Korea’s fingerprints on it
arstechnica.com
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Snowden Docs Reveal Scope of Secrets Exposed to China in 2001 Spy Plane Incident
theintercept.com
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I found the Holy Grail of backups (2014)
stavros.io
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The chilling stories behind Japan’s ‘evaporating people’
nypost.com
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New quantum computer, based on five atoms, factors numbers in a scalable way
news.mit.edu
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Create an anonymous Signal phone number with Android
yawnbox.com
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Elon Musk's Sleight of Hand
medium.com
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CIA and the Drug Business
consortiumnews.com
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NSA winds down once-secret phone-records collection program
bigstory.ap.org
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A degree by degree explanation of what will happen when the earth warms
my wife logs into the seerr ui with her jellyfin account, makes requests, they get grabbed by sonarr/radarr, which in turn place them in the correct library, and they're identified & labeled correctly on import
if somebody defects against society very seriously, damaging others, i have no problem with stripping them of legal rights. this is in fact exactly the principle underlying imprisonment. constitutional rights are granted by men, not god, in service of shared prosperity; democracy is good insofar as it produces good results, not because it is the intrinsic source of good. there is no higher construct to appeal to, like this platonic ideal of democracy you're gesturing at
> One of the strangest fixations of AWFL metaphysics is on a substance called 'trauma' that they believe is 'stored in the body' in small saclike organs where it constantly threatens to be 'triggered' and erupt out of its ducts. They assert life itself is about 'processing trauma'
tech wages have stagnated since ~2010 despite being one of approximately three productive growth industries. ever wonder why?
> Well it's because by this logic we should just stop Americans from studying for computing jobs as well, that way those who remain will have higher wages.
generally speaking, the point of 'having a country' is not 'offering opportunities to talented foreigners at the expense of citizens'. major employers routinely violate federal employment law in the pursuit of wage suppression; cursory googling will show you the biggest names you can think of losing lawsuits for hundreds of millions of dollars for their h1b pipelines, and yet they continually do this.
the problem is that this data exists somewhere where i have no control over it and was collected without my consent, in clear violation of my constitutional rights. perhaps you have perfect trust in the current and future good faith of the US federal government, but perhaps you can understand why others do not. i would not want the local police keeping copies of all of my emails "just in case", why would it be any better for unaccountable strangers to keep secret dossiers on me?
yes, i absolutely believe we are less than two years from what you describe (aside from physically manipulating an instrument -- but robotics seems to be quickly picking up pace too). what you are imagining is only a difference in speed, not kind. this is the 'god of the gaps' argument, over and over, every time some insurmountable previous benchmark is shattered -- well, it will never be able to do my special thing
> thinking (ALL the thinking) on par with a highly trained human
you are mistaking means for ends. "an automobile must be able to perform dressage on par with a fine thoroughbred!"
> LLMs are so, so far from being able to the thinking that goes in a real-time musical improvisation context it's laughable.
have you actually tried any of the commercial AI music generation tools from the last year, eg suno? not an LLM but rather (probably) diffusion, it made my jaw drop the first time i played with it. but it turns out you can also use diffusion for language models https://www.inceptionlabs.ai/
> The built-in TOTP in Bitwarden password manager is only available to premium Bitwarden subscribers, requires you to have a Bitwarden account, and stores your TOTP codes in Bitwarden's servers.
if you selfhost (eg with vaultwarden) you get all the pay features for free
there is no such thing as rehabilitative justice, which is just secularized christian theology of redemption; there is only keeping dangerous or destructive people away from the rest of us. if they manage to reform themselves all the better, but the stats don't indicate any persistent institutional success despite decades of effort and rotating fashions. the thing that actually brought crime down after its tremendous mid-century spike is mass incarceration, ie taking the pareto tail out of circulation
> In the US police and prisons are directly derived from slave patrols. This is history and factual.
and human rights are derived from feudal rights. okay, and? is this just supposed to make you feel bad with scary words?
> Recidivism rates for people incarcerated more than 6 months is something like 66% for one year post release.
this sounds very much like you are mixing up cause and effect. is it surprising that someone who commits more serious crimes is more likely to commit further crimes?
that labor is not compelled and is in fact a privilege; they are given absurdly low wages, but the jobs are still desirable vs sitting in a cell. misbehavior results in privilege revocation.
it would be more like blocking students from nigeria from applying during a period of historical tension between the US and Nigerian governments. there are a huge number of chinese individuals in other countries that did not face any filtering.