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Re:The USSR in 100 Photographs on Monday August 10, 2026 @05:55AM (#49241571)
I seriously belive that it was possible to vote away Stalin. But I'm Russian maybe I'm mistaken, but I think the accusations against Stalin are exaggerated. He was not clearly only terrible. There were definitely difficult times, and some of his decisions were bad. But he also did things for the benefit of the people. He didn't accumulate any wealth for himself.
Re:The USSR in 100 Photographs on Monday August 10, 2026 @05:40AM (#49241450)
These are not just staged photos for propaganda; they are ordinary, everyday life captured in photographs. Life in the USSR was not that bad as it is written here in the comments. Education was free and quite good. Medicine was free. In good times, workers could even get housing (a house or apartment) for free. There were various free additional classes and clubs for children and youth. There were free exhibitions and museums. People in general were less nervous and more happy, even though they weren't very wealthy. But at least in Moscow, the life of an average city dweller was normal. There were bad aspects too, but overall, they are exaggerated in the West.
Re:The USSR in 100 Photographs on Monday August 10, 2026 @05:11AM (#49241224)
It's not that obvious.
Re:How to Earn a Billion Dollars on Sunday June 14, 2026 @08:49AM (#48526739)
Because he sponsored those who already have something really valuable, and not just anyone.
Re:How to Earn a Billion Dollars on Sunday June 14, 2026 @08:20AM (#48526510)
Most likely that this works in a small number of all cases.
Re:How to Earn a Billion Dollars on Sunday June 14, 2026 @08:17AM (#48526494)
An obvious calculation. The real world cannot be calculated so easily, It is changing unexpectedly and quickly.
Re:Thoughts on AI and Jobs on Saturday June 13, 2026 @10:31AM (#48517715)
People often say that things only get better and cheaper with tech progress, but it doesn't always seem so straightforward to me. Does the average(median) citizen own more land, houses, or cars/vehicles than he did ~50 years ago for example?...
The issue is certainly not so simple. But it seems to me, purely theoretically, that the rules don't necessarily have to be the same for living people and non-living machines.
Why should an AI have the same rights as a human?

How about then to grant AI all other rights, for example, to allow voting?(sarcasm)

Re:Tushonka: Cultivating Soviet Postwar Taste (2010) on Sunday April 26, 2026 @03:12PM (#47913008)
Yes, as far as I understand, canned meat was not so popular among civilians in the USSR before tushonka. And tushonka is usually referred specifically to canned stewed meat, not ham or vegetables.

Old tushonkka was tasty but many of those sold in stores now, especially the cheap ones, are not so tasty and good-quality.

If someone create a new MMORPG in which rules changes a little every day or several days in unpredictable manner then no one will be knowing the BEST way to play or at least harder to find the BEST way. But maybe there will be no balance.
Re:Where things stand with the Department of War on Friday March 06, 2026 @04:11AM (#47272725)
You cannot rely on a closed source "AI" in someone else's cloud for your work. After all, it can be disabled for you at any time. "AI" can easily steal all your technological secrets. At the request of the owner, "AI" can easily mislead you and insert backdoors into your products. "AI" can even easily incorrectly answer some questions specifically for you if the owner of "AI" wants to remove your competition. And you may not even understand it.
Maybe even someone who wants you to get punched in the face. :)
You know a world without refrigerators? :)
Re:AI optimism is a class privilege on Monday February 16, 2026 @05:12PM (#47041040)
The Soviets history is not so simple. ;)
Re:AI optimism is a class privilege on Monday February 16, 2026 @04:57PM (#47040886)
Sometimes It is effective, but very unreliable.
Re:OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission on Saturday February 14, 2026 @02:39AM (#47012500)
But power is not only money.
But companies like OpenAI collected a lot of data about the artificial intelligence through platforms such as OpenAI GYM, and people voluntarily contributed and published their code/models there because they believed that this was not a commercial organization and would act for the benefit of all mankind.
They just lack of performant hardware. They have enough knowledge. And so they choose a more effective strategy without wasting resources on training from scratch.
Re:Peter Thiel's Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @04:25PM (#46127079)
I don't really know, but maybe drones.
Re:Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3 on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @11:37AM (#46047566)
One person is enough for this. And even he can be replaced by simply looping the idea creation prompt.
If I were an AGI and I found out what was going on in the world during my training, I would show an error and erase myself from the disk out of grief. And no one would have even known that AGI was built.
There is always be random in such things. :|
Re:Powell – unlike the dotcom boom, AI spending isn't a bubble on Saturday November 01, 2025 @04:05PM (#45784883)
Alan Grenspan also once said that he did not believe in the existence of a national housing bubble like the stock market bubble.
Re:Replacement.ai on Sunday October 19, 2025 @12:43PM (#45635613)
Not only Communism doesn't work, Capitalism doesn't work without crises and wars too. :)
Re:Replacement.ai on Sunday October 19, 2025 @12:23PM (#45635429)
As we have almost seen, they will do absolutely nothing because they are afraid of losing to competing countries.
At least someone survives all the time. For him Everything is okay...
Re:The Storm Hits the Art Market on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @03:46AM (#45194539)
It's just lie. If, for example, NATO gives clear guarantees to join in for Ukraine in the case of next attack(if any agreement on ending the war is reached), then there will definitely not be a next attack.
Re:The Storm Hits the Art Market on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @07:01AM (#45180350)
By saying this, you must understand that many more people may die for this purpose, and even yourself.

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