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African here. It's greed.Many factors play a part, but the biggest one is greed.

In a lot of developed countries, getting into power is the start of your mandate. In Africa it is the end.

Time to start eating.To hell with the future. Why plant a tree if I can't eat from it, they say.

Re: on Friday February 07, 2025 @06:52AM (#42971594)
A corrected quote from one of your greater presidents - "Fool me once, shame on you..."
Re:DeepSeek's Success: A Triumph or a Sign of Poor Planning? on Friday February 07, 2025 @05:15AM (#42971111)
lol. hahah. lmfao. COPE
Re:The Full Story of the FAA's Hiring Scandal on Friday February 07, 2025 @12:19AM (#42969692)
You're gonna look at this one day - actually quite soon, and realize that you were part of the problem. What you see as carte blanche to spout your thinly veiled, racist spewings, will come to haunt you. Now that America has a bona fide, unashamedly right wing/republican(Capitaization not deserved)/racist government that encourages this diatribe, you, and others like you have become very bold. You will be a mouse soon enough. To quote that legendary grunge establishment. You'll be "All apologies".
Re:Suspension of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @05:40AM (#42946652)
Lol. you are speaking like a parent. Only China was never your child, like Korea and Japan was. You never overpowered or controlled them and forced them into whatever mold you wanted. You were never in control of China.

While you were basking in your arrogance, they overtook you. And now you have to deal with that. People are literally saying how they cannot do their jobs now that their stuff is not coming in from China. Why is that? You thought you were exploiting cheap labour, but meanwhile you were making them smarter with every bit of "menial" work you gave them. Now they can do anything that you can do, and a lot of it they can do better and cheaper. You are more dependent on them then they are on you. But your ego refuses to let you see it.

Here is some comparison from an uneducated nonprofessional...America is a company masquerading as a country. China is a country run like a business. Once you know the difference it will inform you of the way forward...Dankie

Re:What DeepSeek Changes About AI Competition on Monday February 03, 2025 @11:58PM (#42928194)
cope
Re:DeepSeek Fails Every Safety Test Researchers Throw at It on Sunday February 02, 2025 @08:08AM (#42908387)
Put Gaza or Israel or Palestine into your Western AI models...
Re:DeepSeek Fails Every Safety Test Researchers Throw at It on Sunday February 02, 2025 @08:08AM (#42908381)
Thank you Deepseek for pushing the sector forward and exposing the scammers. The world owes you.
The cope is so strong. You guys have been and still are bamboozled by "Open"AI and their expensive black box. They keep on fleecing you and their investors and you keep on drinking the Kool Aid, 'cause USA, USA, USA.

Now their whole scam has been blown out of the water. Anyone talking about that? Deepseek has done the world a huge favour by showing that what is being sold is snake-oil. And the world owes them a lot. They have built something for cheap (relatively speaking), they released it out in the open, permitted everyone to use it freely, shared all their research. Singlehandedly destroyed OpenAI's inference hoax (Expect massive discounts) and pushed AI ahead by a great leap.

And all you guys can say is - Look - Its calling China. Calling China and then what?

We have given our data to America our whole lives and never did I hear a complaint. As long as you are the ones sucking all that juicy user info right?

Your top companies. Your FAANG and whatever other stupid acronyms are shaking in their boots. They are crumbling and taking a huge part of the economy with them.

Getting tired of watching America run headfirst into a fire while trying to make enemies out of rivals.

I'll make it simple. If America and China fights we are all dead. Whether from the first few nukes or the fallout thereafter. So stop the showboating. You will not attack China. Because doing that means certain death for you too. And you're much too special for that.

I guess if some of you Americans are left after the madman presses the big red button, you can call that a victory and happily rule over nothing.

So go ahead and continue trusting in the grand vision of the crypto conmen. Musk pushing DOGE from a pump and dump when he needs some extra cash (Yah, I know), all the way to a government department, Trump making a meme coin every second week (when he's not selling Bibles. ..Selling Bibles... and the ultimate grifter, your eyeball scanning, orb peddling, poverty exploiting Alt-Man. Guess he doesn't need all that free moolah and biometrics from Worldcoin anymore...

The ignorance in here is astounding. I never even went to college. Just shows what a scam that is.

Re:US pauses all Federal aid and grants on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @02:42AM (#42862566)
So true. In for a penny, in for a pound. Until their money printer breaks down under the sheer weight of their lunacy.
Re:US pauses all Federal aid and grants on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @11:28PM (#42861536)
With all the megabrains in here, how can some of you not see what's coming? China is making friends at the rate that the US is making enemies. Think about it for a second... Which new friends has the US made? I am talking solid, willing-to-give-you-the-middle-finger-and-go-with-the-other-guy friends (yeah, I know). Now contrast this to the friends China has made. China has secured the most powerful nation in each contested territory. South America, Africa, The Middle East and obviously, it is, itself the biggest power in Asia.

Now for effect, The US cannot even keep Europe aligned with them, and the fallout will be that much sharper in the next few years. You have bought cash money the sinking territories of Micronesia (great for UN votes, but not much else) What you have left is The English Speaking Conglomerate of USA, England (Not the UK - because I don't think you can count on Ireland, Scotland and Wales), Canada, Australia and New Zealand. And of these "Five Eyes", in a Sino-American conflict, two of them will be felled very quickly by their neighbour China (Australia and New Zealand) and Canada will have to fend off a massive assault by it's neighbour Russia (China's BFF) That leaves the original "greatest friendship". The enduring Anglo-American powerhouse.

Now I would think that England has not done itself any favours with Brexit. How is that going for them? So Europe is not a certain ally for them either. The EU is Europe, ask Turkey :-)

What you have left is an Anglo-American vs Sino-Russian battle for the future of humanity. The thing is the rest of humanity has already decided who they are betting on. Hint - It's not Anglo-America.

You Anglophones have managed to take control of 3 of the 6 continents. Is that not enough? And if it isn't then expect that there will be hell to pay, because at this point, the world will rather die on it's feet then endure more suffering under your boot.

Goeiedag en Dankie.

Re:US pauses all Federal aid and grants on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @07:06PM (#42859807)
Awesome conversation. Saner heads prevailed in this one. This is going to backfire very badly on the American people if it becomes the norm. Happy that supporters of this madness got their asses kicked out of here today.
Re:The Myth of Bitcoin Liquidity on Friday December 13, 2024 @04:25PM (#42412516)
You lost me when you talked about Coinbase being the biggest exchange.
Re:Race Science for Non-Racists on Sunday December 08, 2024 @09:08PM (#42362480)
You are comfortable highlighting the supposed fact that Indians apparently smell worse then others, in general. Why do you suppose you can literally highlight that so easily? Are you of Indian descent? Now if some random white guy said the same thing... I live in South Africa, home of the biggest Indian population in Africa, and one of the biggest in the world. I will answer your question as an unemployed Coloured(gasp) male who dropped out of highschool - It's the spice. It's the atchar. That stuff goes right to your armpits. Like onions find their way to jizz. No science, just astute observation. Anybody got a grant to give? I will investigate this 24/7
Re:Save 100% on Half-Life 2 on Steam on Monday November 18, 2024 @06:37AM (#42171547)
Thanks. Can't wait to get back in there.
At the rate that the US and its allies are warring with the rest of the world, they will be very thinly stretched in an all-out war. Deep down they know it.

When you keep losing friends and influence and your rivals keeps gaining them, sooner or later all you have left is the nuclear option.

Now which American President is unhinged enough to press the button? They certainly seem to be getting worse with every new administration.

Re:'Who Wrote the Bible' by William M. Schniedewind Review on Monday November 18, 2024 @02:07AM (#42170414)
Since the story of Noah is a direct copy pasta from The Epic of Gilgamesh, then when do fictional characters start producing real-life offspring?
Re:Show HN: I'm betting everything on this. No plan B on Sunday November 17, 2024 @12:08PM (#42165324)
Best of luck to you. Courage is in short supply.
There's a reason Telegram bots are so popular. Whatsapp API can become quite pricey. And all the hoops you have to jump through just to get API access, it's ridiculous.

Test and perfect on Telegram. Deploy to Whatsapp when you are ready to open your wallet.

Re:I hated Dubai until I learned about it on Saturday November 16, 2024 @08:44AM (#42156367)
You went as an expat. Try going as a foreigner.
Re:Pactory – freelance platform for AI agents on Friday November 15, 2024 @10:28PM (#42153892)
Cool idea

A bunch of coders out in the wild

How useful are a bunch of programmers in the wild in 2028? How much coding can they do? What level of tooling is sufficient for them to do their work?Is there someone out there that can code with only paper and pencil?It might be hard for them to run the program, but do they exist?What level of tooling is sufficient for them to do their job?A laptop and IDE comes to mind. At this point they...

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Ubiquity would like a word...
Re:Yales is set to offer a course on Beyoncé and her legacy on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @06:18AM (#42125036)
Lol. What is her legacy? I fail to see anything. Self enrichment? Intra-cultural appropriation? Laughable
Re:The most installed AI app on GitHub on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @06:14AM (#42125018)
When you start off with lies, it's downhill from there.
Doge to a dollar
Re:D.O.G.E –> Elon Musk, Ramaswamy land Trump admin roles on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @06:08AM (#42124988)
Please tell me this is not true.Is it? I guess Dogecoin really is going to a dollar. The American people are being trolled. Wow
Re:D.O.G.E –> Elon Musk, Ramaswamy land Trump admin roles on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @06:08AM (#42124983)
Please tell me rhis is not true.Is it? I guess Dogecoon really is going to a dollar. Thw Amwrican people are being trolled.
Re:Celebrating the Life of Aaron Swartz: Aaron Swartz Day 2024 on Saturday November 09, 2024 @04:36AM (#42093469)
Rest easy King. And thank you for all that you have done for us.

"One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter"

Re:Tencent Hunyuan-Large on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @04:08PM (#42055173)
Kickass. The cope is strong around here. Let's talk in 3 years when most SWE's are unemployed due to arrogance, failed gatekeeping and rampant xenophobia.

Meanwhile, the rest of us noobs will:

Embrace the Superbrain

Welcome and take advantage of the fallen gates and lowered barriers.

Not let politics and thinly veiled racism stop us from using Non Anglo Models (NAM's)

See, I'm already well-versed. Creating acronyms left and right. 50% of the job.

'll have my popcorn ready.

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