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Very much. Try to start a union in China and see how communist that country is. China is essentially a right-wing hypercapitalist country run by a dictatorship.

To be fair, I don't know where starting a union under Mao would get you

AI will also just run some query or grep commands against it for the most part and has no magical way of finding connections that a human can’t.


No. But it also can automate some of the tedium away. Maybe there's some level of organic linking that you do, but it can also go through and be more thorough. I guess it depends on where you derive the value - if you want to be the one discovering the connections and making them, then obviously less so.


Interestingly, contamination of the forensic equipment was considered early on already. However, due to the geographic area of the findings and initial negative control tests using fresh swabs, they ruled it out.


The way you describe the alternative option seems not very good faith.


Obama actually did this in 2016.

https://www.cnn.com/2016/08/03/politics/us-sends-plane-iran-...

> Washington CNN — The Obama administration secretly arranged a plane delivery of $400 million in cash on the same day Iran released four American prisoners and formally implemented the nuclear deal, US officials confirmed Wednesday.


Secretly-ish - it was announced publicly 7 months prior (Jan 2016) and it was the first instalment of a legal settlement, not just some random or ransom payment.

Obviously Republicans decried it with bad faith bullshit because reality and sanity don't matter to them.


"reality and sanity"? The reality is the US gave them cash to improve their living standards and enrich their country, not their uranium.

With that money they chose to massacre their own people and fund terrorism across the region.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_massacres


Again, it was legally owed money, a decades-old arbitration claim from some arms deal.

Now we're spending a multiple of that literally every day for this war. And screwing the global economy in the process. Is this a better deal?


> With that money[...]

Delivered in August 2016.

> ...they chose to massacre their own people...

In 2025-26 according to your link.

I dunno, that's a big chronological gap to bridge for implying a causal relationship to work.


Account created 52 days ago and working over time ever since to defend trump and the regime. No submissions. Color me skeptical.


Skeptical of what, exactly?


While the optics of this may look bad, the same thing happens after armed conflict too; the US has spent boatloads of money in Afghanistan on top of all the military costs, and we're basically in the same situation as before.


Hmmm… $400M and we got a nuclear deal?

We're looking at 5x that this time around (so far) and no deal in sight. Not sure this admin is doing the smart thing.


We got a nuclear deal Iran violated so badly that we had to take military action.


And the bad faith keeps on rolling. We get it, you're a MAGA true believer, it's not like you're being subtle. But besides trying to troll the good people at HN, what is your point?


Was I not clear?

"I'm glad someone is finally doing something about it rather than sending palettes of cash on an jet to radical Muslims."

Point is you can mock Trump with your minesweeper game and jeer from the sidelines, but it's a better policy than sending bad guys money.


Yeah war in the middle east is great policy, very popular and definitely what he campaigned on.

The corruption and incompetence are both unprecedented, but you keep doing your dance!


So far, the EU's track record on privacy is definitely a lot better though. Not saying it'd always stay that way of course.


The emphasis of "domestic" surveillance is definitely concerning.


>Not Google.

Google's main revenue source (~ 75%) is advertising. They will absolutely try to shove in ads into their AI offerings. They simply don't have to do it this quickly.


But they haven't. Last time I checked, you don't get shoved ads into your face if you paid for the product.


That's true but OpenAI also isn't introducing ads to the Plus accounts as far as I'm aware.


I find the quality is not consistent at all and of all the LLMs I use Gemini is the one most likely to just verge off and ignore my instructions.


Same, as far as I am concerned, Gemini is optimized for benchmarks.

I mean last week it insisted suddenly on two consecutive prompts that my code was in python. It was in rust.


Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46780065 (2 days ago, 70+ comments)


I think Kagi buys search engine results from SERP vendors who typically scrape Google’s results and offer an API experience on top of it.


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