converting pdfs to presentation

I don't get this, We've had OCR for a while. All around San Francisco Ive been seeing ads for "llamaparse" with the tagline "we parse pdfs", like is that all you do? How do you afford this marketing budget?

Russia did though, before the revolution Russia was still mostly agrarian and way less developed then western europe. Under communism they developed faster then any other country up to that point and nearly caught up to the west.

People often compare the soviets to western europe and say they're poor, but Russia was half a century behind the west before the revolution, and the revolution/ civil war caused even more destruction. A better comparison would be a country like Mexico which also was mostly agrarian and just finished a revolution in 1920. Compared to that the Soviet union did pretty well living standards wise.

Just look at there war performance , WWI Russia lost to Germany whose main focus was on the western front, WWII Russia was able to halt Germanies full force after they had conquered France and drive them back.

Why would you say he's a bad political theorist? If we measure the success of a political theory by its ability to take, hold and exercise power Marxism is one of the most successful political ideologies in the world. Sure it never "beat" liberal capitalism but it came the closest of any other theory to challenging it.

Or are you doubting it's accuracy more then its success?

To build new data centers

Really... You sure you want to rile up the "kill all the pedophiles in power" guys?

Fuck pelosi, but also fuck NY Post and murdoch even more, please don't click the article and give them views. OP can you link to a different site that isn't run by an arch capitalist hobgoblin.

They do a lot of "people in the industry are saying x" stories, like this one. The source then will often be a tweet or linked in post with a dozen likes or something, so not the height of journalism.

And a majority of southern whites couldn't read during Jim crow, but the literacy tests at the polls never seemed to stop them from voting...

Even more of a reason to wear masks on public transit

You okay Britain? You've been going through PMs like DiCaprio goes through 20 year olds.

All of this so Israel can keep killing Lebanese people. Epstein must've given them some really good compromat.

Why would the billionaires pay 5% when they can spend less then 1% flooding the tvs and mailboxes of Californiana with ads that this will destroy the economy?

It's sad to say but you get used to it, just like you get used to crazy people on the road. It's actually better because the person isn't operating a ton of metal at 60 mph. Also you can hear/see the crazy ones and try to keep your distance, whereas on the road some guy could be yelling that he's going to kill you for going a bit too slow and you won't know until he cuts you off dangerously close. Like others have said statistically your always way safer on a bus then in a car.

If, not saying we should, but if we were going to restrict gun rights for substance use it should be for alcohol. A drunk person with a gun is orders of magnitude more dangerous then a high person.

Personally I'd probably be safer with a gun if I were stoned because I'd just stay the fuck away from it because it would make me anxious.

Is there much heavy crude coming out of the strait? I always thought gulf oil was pretty light and the heavy shit mostly came from Venezuela and Canada who would be uneffected by the strait being close.

They aren't easy to get, just look at the centuries old mass graveyard just outside the walls at Constantinople.

The US is a net exporter of oil. If we put price and export controls on domestic oil we could let them keep the strait closed and not suffer any increase in gas prices.

It's just that export and price controls cut into the profits of the oil corporations, who have been making bank off this and are the real winners of this whole thing, and trump would never let that happen.

Tradwife content is on the rise for women as well, more and more young people are buying into this mythical simpler past as the world gets more complex, alienating and difficult.

Ignore the "containment" framing, they made a hacking bot and it seems to actually be good at finding and exploiting vulnerabilities:

The AI model "found a 27-year-old vulnerability in OpenBSD—which has a reputation as one of the most security-hardened operating systems in the world," the company wrote.

Dismiss this as marketing drivel all you want but hacking is just the sort of needle in a haystack problem that AI is very good at. It requires broad knowledge, a lot of cycles trying and failing, and is easily verifiable, ie. Can you execute arbitrary scripts or not. Even if this release is BS good hacking agents are bound to come eventually and we should be discussing the implications of that instead of burying our heads in the sand, pretending AI is useless and that this is all hype.