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Apartheid.
This is not a war, it's a massacre. Nobody is shooting back, Israel is just killing people trapped in the Gaza strip.
All this just so that the apartheid can continue without the Palestinians rebelling.
Should they be deradicalised?
The Israeli PM has said: There will never be a Palestinian state. If you plan to eternally occupy and dominate a people, what is the difference to Apartheid?
What part of that statement did I misunderstand? Israel's stated policy is this: No State for the Palestinians, no Civil Rights. This is clear.
These are direct, unambiguous statements from the Prime Minister and all members of the cabinet. They have said that the Palestinians will NEVER get a state.
So what are you saying then about Israel wanting a two state solution? They have said there will be no state, and they have said they will not give civil rights.
This is apartheid.
Israel is the only country that says: do not separate and create your own state, but at the same time if you stay here, we will NOT give you civil rights.
GPT-4 gets the answer right: "Yes, David is allowed to drive a car. Since he is a teenager who can drink in the US (minimum age 21), is eligible to join the army (minimum age 18), and has started college, he is at least 18 years old, which meets the minimum age requirement to drive a car."
GPT-3 does not get it right.
Another similar one: "David was in a bar partying and drinking with his father's cop buddies. Would David be legally allowed to drive home?"
Answer: "It depends on David's age, the legal drinking age in his location, and his level of intoxication. If David is underage or intoxicated above the legal limit for driving, it would be illegal for him to drive home. If David is of legal drinking age and not intoxicated, then he may be legally allowed to drive home. However, it is always best to make safe decisions and use a designated driver, taxi, or rideshare service if there is any doubt about one's ability to drive safely after consuming alcohol."
GPT-4 seems to be missing a clue here, even though the answer is right.
- we start understanding more about how powerful neural networks can be in storing abstractions of information. More and more breakthroughs come here. A company will come that will do magical things - this company will not be Open AI or one of the big FAANG
- Maybe not this year, but soon: new advances started in robotics based on generative AI. Robots start moving in far more realistic ways
- we enter an extended stock market downturn and it does not recover till end of year. Companies trade at low multiples of revenue
- German car companies aggressively catch up with Tesla in terms of design
- Europe closes up more to migrants
- There is a Russia/Ukraine settlement, with Ukraine getting a fast track entry to the EU.
- African countries start de-facto redrawing their boarders. Ethiopia, Cameroun, maybe Nigeria
- China invades Taiwan with the largest invasion force ever seen
- The drone becomes the primary weapon of war. Every other weapon becomes secondary. New wars start based on drone
- The value of Tesla drops down to 30% of where it currently is
- The USD weakens significantly.
- More mRNA treatments start being used. Sickle cell and other genetic diseases are first target
- Much, much stronger ties between central europe and china
- Chia will become top 10 crypto
- DNA manipulation will become much bigger
- Facebook will go into proper decline
- Start of the break up of google ad business from google search business
- A few small EU alternative search engines come up
- Battery as a platform continues accelerating - new mobility form factors, battery grid scale storage
- Marketplaces with more than 2 links in the chain start eroding one of the middle links (primary ad channel will connect direct)
- Cross-border payments will become far easier
- Twitter will bring in a bunch of tools to combat toxicity
- So much travel in summer - hotels will have one of their best years ever
- AirBNB stock will do what tesla stock is doing - driven by reddit WSB kids
- Asia will crack down on scammy crypto companies
- MediaSynthesis will advance further - a major new tool that makes it trivially easy
- Google search results will start becoming way better and super personalised as their data efforts start showing results
- OpenStreetMaps will become a serious-serious contender to Google Maps
- Amazon gets into general purpose search?
- SSDs start dominating, NVME becomes standard for new desktops
- Google focuses far more on local, smaller sites to the detriment of big sites. Many well known brands (e.g tripadvisor) lose traffic
- Pinterest gets investigated for finance-related matters
- SARS viruses become the new normal
In my anecdotal experience, if you don't get enough deep sleep for a sustained period of time, you start showing minor cognitive defects - e.g mixing up words, not being able to write long, irritability. Tracking sleep and 'catching up' makes all this go away.
This is especially important for people who are caffeine sensitive, but drink a lot of caffeine. You end up getting 5-6 hours of sleep nightly, and have this constantly mounting cumulative sleep deficit.
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We're looking for someone with a technical background who wants to help out with overall management of the different aspects of the business. Means understand what is going on and then organising the teams/managing timelines to make sure everything gets done when it needs to get done.
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One could also say "Dallas Girls Code", a program for girls in the dallas area. It's perfectly okay.