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@elonmusk How many atomic bombs did the communists drop on civilian cities?
Zero.
The ‘peace-loving’ capitalists? Two. Hiroshima and Nagasaki — melted women and kids in the blink of an eye.
Keep that in mind next time you wanna play holy saint and act like your side’s hands are clean.
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@justonemor39628 @Monyavolya Костей хватает с обеих сторон. И воровства тоже.
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@Monyavolya Миллион украинцев погибли чтобы зелепидор продолжал плясать на их костях, глумиться и пиздить бабло.
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@WallStreetApes That's absolutely untrue. I personally nodded off while driving — foot still on the gas, and I even managed to shift a manual gear just a second before.
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American was driving a brand new 2026 car
The car gave her an alert that said it couldn’t see her eyes. The car then automatically disabled the gas and slowed down enough that it could have caused an accident
She had to lean toward so the car’s facial recognition could register her eyes and stop the “kill switch” because the car thought she might be asleep
“It was a 6 lane highway and all of a sudden the gas stopped working and I'm pressing on the gas. I can't get the car to go. So the car is dinging, it's making all this noise and I can't figure out what's going on. And I look at the dashboard and in English it says, sit up straight. We can't find your eyes.
Why? Why do you need to see my eyes? — when I sat upright, the gas would work once again. And so I pressed the gas, but I was slowing down enough that it was gonna cause a traffic hazard.
And the thing is, it knew I wasn't asleep because I was pressing on the gas. So it knew I was awake. It just wanted to see my eyes. So once I set upright and leaned forward, I guess it did facial recognition. And then it says, may I send you these results to a third party”
This is horrifying considering the new mandate to have kill switches in every new vehicle by 2027. It looks like it’s already happening but overseas, we’re just next
This technology can and will be abused by the government
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МИД обвинил администрацию Трампа в насильной выдаче паспортов США детям российских дипломатов
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@elonmusk how, instead of buying them, we all chased after foreign goods and stood in long queues for them.
What is available to everyone doesn’t confer status. In capitalism, the price of a product gives status; in socialism, the rarity of a product gave status. It’s all in human nature.
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@elonmusk That’s only partially true. Recently, after the death of an old man, several pairs of Soviet-era boots were found among his belongings — and they were excellent, high-quality boots made of genuine leather. I remember a lot of such footwear in Soviet stores. And I also remember ⬇️
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@MoreBirths Larger number of children in married couples is not a consequence of them getting married, but rather a consequence of a common cause: increased reproductive motivation. Children are not a consequence of marriage. Marriage and children are both consequences of a common cause.
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A newly published paper debunks the narrative that marriage is becoming irrelevant.
For childbearing, the importance of marriage has actually increased. Even though fewer people are getting married, those fewer marriages account for a growing share all births in the US. 🧵.


Demography Journal@ReadDemography
In “Decoupled? Persistent Relevance of Marriage for Childbearing,” Kristen Burke crunches ACS data & shows that the marital birth rate “has remained remarkably stable” & even ↑ among inds. w/ less than a bachelor’s degree. Advance Publication | Demography | Duke University Press
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@SA61W @vladimiripad Без соплей, и без мата все тоже самое имело бы х10 эффект.
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Aujourd'hui grosse discussion avec mes ingés (chez Argil) sur pourquoi Elon a viré le LIDAR de ses voitures autonomes. Choix radical, moqué pendant des années, et comme d'hab il avait raison depuis le début.
Le LIDAR c'est un laser qui balaye l'environnement et crache un nuage de points 3D. Sur le papier tu obtiens la géométrie exacte du monde. Dans la vraie vie c'est une verrue technologique collée sur le toit parce qu'on sait pas faire mieux avec la vision seule.
Problème numéro un : ça rajoute une modalité dans le training du modèle. Ton réseau doit apprendre à fusionner vision + lidar + radar + ultrasons. Chaque capteur en plus c'est une source de désaccord à arbitrer, pas une source d'info supplémentaire. Sensor fusion artisanale = dette technique permanente.
Problème numéro deux, la bitter lesson de Rich Sutton : scaler le compute sur une seule modalité bat systématiquement les architectures bricolées à la main. Tesla a dropé le radar, puis les ultrasons, est passé full end-to-end vision. Leur courbe sur les edge cases s'est accélérée APRÈS, pas avant. Waymo fait l'inverse et reste stuck en ops géofencée.
Problème numéro trois, le plus fondamental : le LIDAR voit la géométrie, pas la sémantique. Il sait qu'il y a un truc, pas ce que c'est ni ce que ça va faire. Les derniers 9 de fiabilité sont des problèmes de cognition, pas de perception brute. Un capteur de plus résout rien, il ajoute du bruit.
Sébastien Loeb balance une 208 T16 à 180 dans un chemin boueux corse sous la pluie avec zéro LIDAR. Deux yeux, un cerveau. L'évolution a donné des yeux aux prédateurs pendant 500 millions d'années, pas des lasers. Il y a une raison.
Le LIDAR c'est l'équivalent du marxisme appliqué à l'économie. Une solution planifiée, centralisée, qui prétend modéliser explicitement ce qui doit émerger d'un système distribué et adaptatif. Tu remplaces l'intelligence par de la mesure, la compréhension par de la donnée, l'émergence par le contrôle. Ça rassure les ingénieurs qui veulent tout spécifier en amont, exactement comme la planif rassurait les économistes soviétiques. Et ça échoue pour les mêmes raisons : la réalité est trop riche pour être capturée par un capteur, comme elle est trop riche pour être capturée par un plan quinquennal.
La vraie intelligence, celle de Hayek comme celle de Tesla, c'est de faire confiance à un système qui apprend de l'expérience plutôt que de tout pré-encoder. L'élégance d'une solution c'est son rapport signal sur complexité. Le LIDAR explose le dénominateur.
Défendre le LIDAR en 2026 c'est préférer empiler des hacks plutôt que résoudre le vrai problème. C'est de la feignasserie intellectuelle maquillée en rigueur d'ingénieur. Les mêmes gens qui défendaient les systèmes experts en 2012 contre le deep learning. Ils finiront pareil.
Never bet against end-to-end. Never bet against la simplicité. Never bet against Elon.

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@vow_pavlov @iwsfutcmd copper developed rapidly. Despite a sharp rise in income inequality during the 1990s, the well-being of even the poorest segments of society gradually improved.
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@vow_pavlov @iwsfutcmd Russians moving to Russia and other countries. Migration outflows peaked around the year 2000.
Gradually, the situation stabilized — those who wanted to leave had left — and economic growth resumed. The extraction and export of natural resources such as oil, chromium, and 🔽
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Трамп решил самостоятельно заблокировать Ормузский пролив после срыва переговоров с Ираном
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@hanaseiscap @herefortsla @DixZucker85 @grok @davidsenra Just go where the Internet does not reach and stay there for a month.
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Marc Andreessen on why Starlink may be the most misunderstood success story in tech right now:
“Elon’s not the first guy who said we’re going to do satellite-based internet access.
There was Bill Gates, Craig McCaw. Complete catastrophe, total bankruptcy, complete disaster.
Elon’s like, ‘I know, I’m going to do another three of those. We’re starting as a side project at the rocket ship company.’
If the rockets are reusable, we’re going to be launching them all the time. What’s going to go in the rockets? I could wait for the customers to come to me, or I could just put up my own satellites.
Anybody who knew anything about the history of satellites knew that was the craziest idea in the world.
And of course it’s like this giant success. It’s the side project.
It’s clearly the least studied and understood thing I know of in the world right now.”
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@ItIsMeLuba @IsraelMFA Oh right, because Jews were totally a belligerent nation in WWII, weren’t they?
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The remarks by the President of Korea, Lee Jae Myung, including the trivialization of the massacre of Jews on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel, are unacceptable and warrant strong condemnation.
President Lee Jae Myung, for some strange reason, chose to dig up a story from 2024 and to cite a fake account that falsely presented it as a current event. This account is notorious for spreading anti-Israeli disinformation and falsehoods about Israel. The event discussed occurred during an operation against terrorists, at a time when Israeli soldiers were facing direct and immediate threats to their lives. The event was thoroughly investigated and addressed two years ago.
Yet we have not heard a single word from the President about the terrorists who were at the center of this event.
Nor have we heard a word from the President regarding the recent Iranian and Hezbollah terror attacks against Israeli citizens.
Mr. President, it’s always better to check before posting.
이재명@Jaemyung_Lee
이게 사실인지, 사실이라면 어떤 조치가 있었는지 알아봐야겠습니다. 우리가 문제삼는 위안부 강제, 유태인 학살이나 전시 살해는 다를 바가 없습니다.
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@MoscowTimes_ru они движутся по геодезическим линиям пространства-времени.
Запарили уже адепты гелиоцентризма. Вбили им в башку в школе что Солнце в центре и одновременно отключили мозги.
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@MoscowTimes_ru Ежели людей тревожит ньютоновская физика, так там ни Солнце не вращается вокруг Земли, ни Земля вокруг Солнца, а оба физических тела вращаются вокруг общего центра масс (это в первом приближении, на самом деле все сложнее). Ну а ели подняться на уровень ОТО Эйнштейна то там 🔽
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Каждый десятый россиян заявил, что Солнце вращается вокруг Земли
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