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0xDEF commented on The Richest Countries in 2023   economist.com/graphic-det... · Posted by u/simonebrunozzi
killdisk · 2 years ago
As an American living in Berlin for 2 years while working as a software dev, this article very much confirms my experience. The move started with a bit of sticker shock at having my income effectively cut in half - lower salaries and higher taxes - but I feel just as "rich".

Germany has very strong worker protection laws, I feel secure in my job, the time off minimum STARTS at 28 days a year, + holidays + effectively unlimited sick days. And recently I went to 80% work capacity at my job (I no longer work Mondays), which again is a protected legal right within Germany. And I'm using this extra time to pursue a masters degree in music composition, something I've always wanted to do but never had time for.

Germany has provided me the stability and opportunity to follow this passion, something that would be much harder to do in the U.S. I am very grateful, and I think the U.S. could learn a lot from it's European peers in this regard.

0xDEF · 2 years ago
It is worth pointing out that we Northern Europeans can only afford this because we have a small group of highly competitive and wealth generating companies and sectors. We would be in a dire situation here in Denmark without Novo Nordisk. 1-2 years ago it was Maersk, DSV etc. that held up our economy because freight prices were high.
0xDEF commented on The Richest Countries in 2023   economist.com/graphic-det... · Posted by u/simonebrunozzi
joenot443 · 2 years ago
Some day we'll lose this ability and it'll be a sad day for HN. Feels like a special trick we've got to enjoy while we can. Nice submission OP - I learned something.
0xDEF · 2 years ago
It is also interesting that some of highest income people on Earth use the archive trick instead of paying to get through the paywall.

Who actually pays for legacy media anymore?

0xDEF commented on Perplexity Labs Playground   labs.perplexity.ai/... · Posted by u/MaximilianEmel
kookamamie · 2 years ago
Seems like garbage.

"My house is blue. What causes that?" gives a rambling about some residential area in South Korea as a response.

0xDEF · 2 years ago
It's a playground to try out various free open source LLMs. You seem to have picked the default one. Try mixtral-8x7b-instruct. It gave the following answer:

>The color of your house is likely caused by the paint or material used on the exterior. Blue paint or blue-colored siding, shingles, or other building materials would cause your house to appear blue.

0xDEF commented on EU opens proceedings against X over efforts to combat information manipulation   reuters.com/technology/eu... · Posted by u/layer8
GordonS · 2 years ago
I actually think it's more likely that this is to prevent people from posting videos of ongoing Israeli war crimes and the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, and also to prevent people from posting anything in support of Palestine or Hamas.

It's become apparent that the Israeli political/war/propaganda machine has an incredible amount of influence - far beyond anything I'd personally imagined could be possible. They've been able to effectively commandeer most of the West's "traditional" mass media, but social media is a huge problem for their narrative, as it allows people to see what is really happening, often in real-time.

I clearly see now the benefit to humanity or a system like Twitter, but it really worries me that Twitter/X is in the hands of a single billionaire, especially one with some very controversial views. I'm not sure what the solution is, but we (humanity) really need something free from the influence of government (foreign or domestic) and other bad actors.

0xDEF · 2 years ago
>It's become apparent that the Israeli political/war/propaganda machine has an incredible amount of influence - far beyond anything I'd personally imagined could be possible. They've been able to effectively commandeer most of the West's "traditional" mass media

Why make up blatant lies like this when mainstream media has been very critical of Israel for the past few weeks? The only exception is Fox News.

0xDEF commented on Discord tips off FBI to 13-year-old's synagogue mass shooting plot   abcnews.go.com/US/discord... · Posted by u/0xDEF
0xDEF · 2 years ago
Interesting that Discord has automatic systems for this. Is it LLM-based?
0xDEF commented on Barcelona Supercomputing Center presents Sargantana: new open-source RISC-V chip   bsc.es/news/bsc-news/bsc-... · Posted by u/pimterry
ansible · 2 years ago
Here's a pre-print paper I found:

Sargantana: A 1 GHz+ In-Order RISC-V Processor with SIMD Vector Extensions in 22nm FD-SOI

https://upcommons.upc.edu/bitstream/handle/2117/384912/sarga...

RV64GC with a subset of the v0.7.1 vector extension. 1.26GHz nominal clock on a 22nm process.

0xDEF · 2 years ago
>RV64GC

>C

What is the purpose of including the RISC-V Compressed 16-bit extension set in what is supposed to be a HPC chip? Most embedded/IoT RISC-V implementations include that for obvious reasons but why here?

0xDEF commented on 'Like we were lesser humans': Gaza boys, men recall Israeli arrest, torture   aljazeera.com/features/20... · Posted by u/wahnfrieden
lornemalvo · 2 years ago
Do you really think that the Russo-Ukrainian war has 10x LESS civilian fatalities than the current Gaza war?
0xDEF · 2 years ago
The reason people think only 10,000 Ukrainian civilians have been killed is that is lowball number the UN made up to not offend and anger Russia and China.

It is estimated that 25,000-75,000 Ukrainian civilians have been killed just in Mariupol and surrounding areas.

0xDEF commented on 'Like we were lesser humans': Gaza boys, men recall Israeli arrest, torture   aljazeera.com/features/20... · Posted by u/wahnfrieden
0xDEF · 2 years ago
>Even that, has x10 less the civilian rate death.

What a blatant lie. The Siege of Mariupol alone is estimated to have killed somewhere between 25000 and 75000 civilians. The UN's fraudulent claim that "only 10,000 Ukrainian civilians have been killed" is a blatant lie to keep China and Russia happy.

Any discussion about collateral damage should take population density into consideration. The population density of Ukraine is 63 per square kilometer. The population density of Gaza is 5500 per square kilometer.

u/0xDEF

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