Comprehensive49 @ Comprehensive49 @lemmygrad.ml

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This is great progress! IDK if they should take the Apple closed ecosystem route or eventually go open source and compete with Android.

It's ridiculous that this needs to be done. Water utilities are the definition of a public good and natural monopoly. Any developing country whose water utilities are privately owned will have water access and shortage issues, as the "costs" of the infrastructure to provide drinking water to all threaten the easy profit of sitting back and forcing people to pay, lest they die from disease or dehydration.

Updated with changes and new articles on Cuba and Che Guevara.

The issue is that dollars do not make weapons via alchemy, Europe spent shittons of money on of artillery shells to Ukraine, just to raise the price of existing shells without making any more new ones.

I believe China had a number of world's fastest supercomputers in the Top 500 list before, and probably has the world's fastest supercomputers right now. They stopped posting them on the list because they got tired of the West freaking out and sanctioning every time they built a bigger one.

See here: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3234495/us-guru-says-chinas-supercomputer-power-may-exceed-all-countries-flies-under-radar-because-sanctions

For milder forms of autism, treatment should be left up to the person and definitely isn't necessary.

However, I also know people who have extremely severe forms of autism, which are debilitating and require 24/7 care, for which such a treatment would be a godsend.

The DPRK is only able to take such a principled position because most of their trade is with the PRC. If China didn't thread the diplomatic needle, DPRK would have no one to trade with.

By 'neighbor', I presume you're referring to UC Berkeley (hereon referred to as Cal).

No radical ML organizations will officially form clubs at any university, even radical ones like Cal. Some orgs may meet on-campus, but it will be off-the-book. Any real work will be done in the wider community (e.g. Oakland) and not on-campus.

This is due to university administrations' historic hostilities toward student movements. For instance, the Free Speech Movement at Cal certainly was not organized through official school channels. In fact, university admin had banned all political activities and fundraising until students forced them to concede by chaining their doorknobs, locking them inside the admin buildings (which is why today all the doors on campus have only 1 doorknob to prevent chaining again).

I would also warn that most UCs today in California have almost no radical energy anymore. After Ronald Reagan was elected governor of California in 1966, he brought in the National Guard to beat up students, shut down UC and Cal State campuses, and steadily cut public funding toward said schools to prevent the formation of a dangerous "educated proletariat" (his words, see here). California state schools were previously almost free, so this drop in funding forced them to charge more and more tuition, pricing out poorer students. This has caused a steady gentrification in students at the UCs. Today, most Cal students have affluent backgrounds (median family income = $119,900), compared to the 1960s when most were low-income (NYTimes). I think all the UCs have this problem (median income +$100k) except for UC San Diego, Riverside, and Merced (median income 60-80k)

Any radicalism left in Cal today is due to the leftism of the city of Berkeley, not the UC.

If your concern is about national security, why the heck are you hiring Nepalese Ghurkas who have never seen an ocean in their lives? Why can't the British do their own laundry themselves?

Is it that they have a fetish for foreign laundry servants, or that the working conditions of laundrymen on their ships are so poor that no full-blooded Brit would ever consider the job?

I think this mostly has to do with the extensive use of vegetables cooked in various tasty ways. Western dishes (specifically West European) seem to have very few good techniques to cook vegetables, leading white children to hate veggies. I think this is exacerbated in Britain and their Anglo-Saxon colonies (cue the meme about British food having no seasoning).

Also, proper Asian dishes tend not to actually use much oil. Stir frying only lightly coats the outside of food with oil, very different from western deep frying.

One million preorders, the phones haven't been delivered yet.

Updated mirror with new articles on the subreddit wiki.

Thanks so much! This helps a lot.

Thanks comrade! Did you manage to save the sources he posted for each video? Or should I check normal archive.org for them?

No problem. Will Lemmygrad get its own wiki feature eventually, or should I post these on Prolewiki and link from there instead?

Buy the time you save for 10 months, you can just save a couple more months and buy the newly released upgraded version of that GPU.

Recently, the r/TheDeprogram subreddit was threatened with banning by Reddit admins. I got the go-ahead to mirror the subreddit wiki on lemmygrad in case. I have made a few formatting changes to better suit Markdown formatting and corrected a few typos. Full credit goes to the original authors of the wiki.