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There is a missing link that shows the post-Apartheid behaviour - Paul Calder Le Roux.

https://coinmarketcap.com/academy/article/satoshi-files-paul...

It is all their when you include him: the unstable personal identity. The contempt for average South African (British or Afrikaaner) while being a minority white. The Sovereign Individualism. The use of the Internet to pioneer new firlds of commerce (telemedicine). The contempt for women. The attempts breed Ubermenschen. And of course, the utter contempt for Rule of Law.

We can also explain much of their behaviour when we look at his life story.


So do telescopes. Has anyone every won a Nobel for a telescope?


People have won it over new microscope designs and techniques.. possibly telescopes, too.. but I'm less familiar with that and not somewhere where it's convenient to look it up.


In 1986 and 2014, science (electron optics, nanoscopy/nanolasers) came first. Then the microscopy. Even 2017 won for 3D microscopy. What Nobel-worthy physics does thing do?


What Nobel-worthy physical, chemical, or biological process has been solved/discovered in silico?


What do computer programs have to do with physics?


I get the hoopla about why this shouldn't be in physics, but to answer your question: everything.

We like to act like it's a new abstraction entirely, but everything about code is predicated on physics and earlier associated works.


Not all of us are able to, or want to, use ebooks. Especially textbooks where one may be going back and forth through chapters fairly frequently. Simply saying "muh Libgen" ignores how most people , especially teenagers, study. For teenagers, any smart device will lead to distraction if connected online. They usually choose Insta over the PDF reader in their distraction.


If any of this is true:

1. Why haven't renewable solutions solved Germany's energy crisis?

2. Why didn't Germany experience its current problems while its nuke pants were operating?

3. Why has Germany been opening dirty lignite mines instead of just applying Gigawatts of renewables?

Something is not right I think.


There was no need for that "redesign". None. There is a distinct possibility that older Firefox could be in use today without issue. People must learn when to just leave certaon features alone.


As somebody who worked on the Gecko side on this, there absolutely was a need for a rewrite.


Not to sound like some sort of Pale Moon absolutist, but, I feel like the frontend changes were too much. And 3 years without Firefox biggest selling point is painful. It hurts. It really hurts. The only reason I haven't sold my soul and dignity to Chromium is that Iceraven lets me use μMatrix.


It had to be rewritten. Essentially there was no formal interface between the frontend and Gecko, and it had turned into a sluggish hairball of a monolith. We redesigned Gecko on Android to be embeddable (GeckoView[1]) and so a new frontend had to be written. That part was absolutely necessary.

The rest of the debate is just about the UX, really.

[1] https://geckoview.dev


It wasn't just a "redesign", they replaced a significant chunk of the internals. And the new version is much faster and more responsive than the old version.


>A lot of people exercise their intellectual, economic, or political freedoms by rejecting others' efforts to gain the same things.

Could you please explain what the above has to do with a Large Languange Model?


I'm talking about how many people react to any startling new information or idea. The advent of LLMs is just a relevant example.


No new ideas have been advanced in anything reported here. A state machine change state is all that is going on here.

What I'd like to know is why should anyone care about this preprint? Nothing has been stated on how this software will improve the life of the average human being.

LK-99 at least would have had lead.somewhere if it worked.


Given that LK99 was a ceramyc it was unlikely to cause any major changes.


A bigger Chinese Room - is still a Chinese Room. We already went through this with ELIZA 60 years ago


If any colonialism is being done, it certainly is not being done by China. The "China.Debt Trap" nonsense has been.debunked too many times to count. As cited below.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2021/02/ch...

https://www.chathamhouse.org/2020/08/debunking-myth-debt-tra...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_-QDEWwSkP0 (Bloomberg)

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19480881.2023.2... (From 2023)

Even where I am,CHEC is used as a local political tool, not the other way around.


I arrived at these conclusions independently while visiting my family who still live there. I had no idea the concept was a thing, or that there was debunking.


TIL, thanks for the links


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