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"end to end" I see what you did there.
Re:Grokipedia Is the Antithesis of Wikipedia on Monday December 01, 2025 @07:38AM (#46106710)
the article remains laughable because it is biased agitprop quoting a single unpublished pre-print paper with no attempt to provide any counter arguments in favour of the site. Have you actually visited ? I took a look at the articles on white nationalism and National Socialism and found them quite informative. Nothing "hateful" that I could see.

Now visit the Wikipedia articles on "Drug Liberalization", Communism, Roe v Wade, abortion to see the left wing bias in favour of drug legalization, white-washing Stalin's crimes, against reversal of Roe v Wade, and in favour of abortion.

Re:We're Losing Our Voice to LLMs on Sunday November 30, 2025 @10:46PM (#46103282)
Do you really want a “competitor” to Facebook? Do you really want to have to make and manage accounts on multiple sites because you want to chat with someone and you don’t know which social media that person uses? Isn’t it better to have a single place you check when you need to chat with someone because everyone else is also there?
Our government up here in Canada collects a carbon tax, in exchange for which it promises to change the weather. So it's crystal clear what Icelanders must do : set up an ocean tax and the govt. will take care of everything.
Re:Grokipedia Is the Antithesis of Wikipedia on Sunday November 30, 2025 @10:39PM (#46103247)
this laughable article cites luminaries such as unnamed "experts" and a computer science grad student. So, no, this is not enough - can you yourself define what you mean by "ultra-right" viewpoints ?
Re:Grokipedia Is the Antithesis of Wikipedia on Sunday November 30, 2025 @09:50PM (#46102983)
can you a) define "ultra-right" viewpoints and b) give some references for these views on Grokipedia ?
All Icelanders need to do is pay more tax - I'm sure their government can use this money to reverse the ocean-current instability.
Re:We're Losing Our Voice to LLMs on Thursday November 27, 2025 @11:38AM (#46070862)
This. Linkedin is garbage, yet I still use it because there are no competitors. This is what happens in a monoculture.
the main problem with UBI is it makes people even more dependent on the state, and therefore more easy to control by said state.
Pascal's Wager for tech.
Israel must be really bad at apartheid, as Israeli Arabs can vote, serve in the army, the parliament, supreme court and form coalition governments. Worst. Apartheid. Ever.
Re:AMD GPUs Go Brrr on Saturday November 15, 2025 @08:54AM (#45937491)
This is a great project, but the bigger question is: why isn't AMD doing this themselves? It continues to boggle my mind how much they don't seem to get the importance of a mature software stack when it is so obviously the key to the success of team red. A stack that can be used for EVERY card they produce, like CUDA, not just a select few. I used to believe that AMD the underdog would catch up some day, but I've more or less given up on them.
Re:Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet on Friday November 14, 2025 @03:10PM (#45931596)
I'm surprised there aren't more, given how we saw this culture behave on October 7th.
Re:My dad could still be alive, but he's not on Thursday November 13, 2025 @01:49PM (#45918853)
Good lord, take a look at Dearborn, Michigan, then get back to me.
Re:My dad could still be alive, but he's not on Thursday November 13, 2025 @01:48PM (#45918837)
lol
Re:My dad could still be alive, but he's not on Thursday November 13, 2025 @12:08PM (#45917406)
I would say this is one of the mortal dangers currently facing the West - more particularly, importing people who hate the West and would like to see it become like their failed origin states.
Re:My dad could still be alive, but he's not on Thursday November 13, 2025 @12:05PM (#45917363)
lol - given the politics here, I almost did not catch the sarcasm of your post
Re:My dad could still be alive, but he's not on Thursday November 13, 2025 @12:03PM (#45917333)
of course ! flooding Toronto with unskilled, uneducated immigrants couldn't possibly put emergency services under increased strain leading to poor quality of service.
Re:My dad could still be alive, but he's not on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @10:37PM (#45910289)
Canada has experienced an unprecedented spike in both legal and illegal immigration over the past decade of Liberal rule. Every system has its carrying capacity: the health care / EMS system is overloaded (and underfunded). This no doubt contributed to that ambulance not arriving in time.
Re: on Sunday November 09, 2025 @11:12AM (#45866582)
That is a good point. Injection rates were higher with older population. I would say that younger immune systems are more robust, potentially leading to exaggerated inflammatory responses to spike protein, which could heighten neuro-inflammation and cognitive impacts.
Re: on Sunday November 09, 2025 @10:25AM (#45866211)
spike protein is known to travel across the blood brain barrier

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35052867/

But of course something introduced between 2013 and 2023 that gets your cells to manufacture spike protein, with no way of regulating the spike dose, couldn't possibly be connected with memory decline.

Re:James Watson has died on Friday November 07, 2025 @03:31PM (#45850757)
Yes, how she was treated by Crick and Watson was scandalous.
Re:Tim Bray on Grokipedia on Friday October 31, 2025 @09:59PM (#45778665)
The problem of debunking left-wing misinformation is that it doesn't seem to matter. The consumers of that misinformation want it and those of us who think it's bad for society already know that its garbage.
That is an interesting point. The statement "the company that helped save the world" that I was responding to was stated without evidence. So, in the words of Christopher Hitchens, what can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

IMHO, if someone disagrees with me, they can ask for evidence, and there is plenty. Downvoting makes my post less and less visible, suppressing my opinion, rather than debating it. That's why I think it is cowardly. Of course there is a place for suppression, for example for abusive posts or inciting violence. But here, I politely state my opinion, let people debate.

It certainly did not save the world. Because, as we now know, it did not prevent either infection or spread. All it did was expose people to risk such as elevated incidence of myocarditis, a fact even the manufacturer has acknowledged. For all you down-voters, can you provide an evidence-based rebuttal rather than a cowardly down vote ?
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Note that this code is licensed under "Elastic License 2.0 (ELv2)", so not open source according to OSI.

Re:JupyterGIS breaks through to the next level on Friday October 24, 2025 @10:58AM (#45695329)
Looks nice. Hopefully this is one more geospatial jenga piece removed from the current dominance of buggy, ancient closed source software like Google Earth and ESRI.
Re:I almost got hacked by a 'job interview' on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @11:58PM (#45601305)
ok, that made me laugh
Молодец!
I don't see how we can differentiate between long covid and injury from mrna shots.

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