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  • Honduras Ratchets Up Battle With Crypto-Libertarian Investors, Rejects World Bank Court

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  • In the real world, sensible governments know that getting companies to make investments is a good thing, not a bad thing. Over in the States, Joe Biden is making the investment incentives of the IRA the centrepiece of his re-election campaign. That's why it's remarkable to see a government actively trying to drive away investors.

  • Honduras Ratchets Up Battle With Crypto-Libertarian Investors, Rejects World Bank Court

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  • Prospera is still subject to Honduras criminal law, so if there's any real concern about organized crime they can go after them using the criminal justice system. They wouldn't need these legal shenanigans.

  • Honduras Ratchets Up Battle With Crypto-Libertarian Investors, Rejects World Bank Court

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  • I haven't seen any explanation of why the current Honduras is so dead set on shutting down Prospera. At worst, the development is not an economic success, and the cost is borne by the investors. At best, it creates an economic boon to Honduras. Seems like a no-lose proposition, the same reasoning behind many other special economic zones around the world. The only explanation I can think of for the Honduras government continuing to chase this issue is ideological/political hostility. It feels like their energy would be much better spent elsewhere.

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    A 62-Year-Old German Man Got 217 Covid Shots—and Was Totally Fine

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  • He's more mRNA than man now.

  • Gemini WONT SHOW C++ To Underage Kids "ITS NOT SAFE"

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  • Based Gemini.

  • China drops 'peaceful reunification' reference to Taiwan

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  • It's been omitted from previous statements before. Sure, the Taiwan issue is important, but there's no need for hysteria over this kind of minutiae.

  • Biden Polling: A Guide for the Perplexed (and the Freaked Out)

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  • Even if Biden squeaks through a victory in November, him choosing to run again back in 2022/2023 was an act of incredible selfishness, and choosing personal ego over the good of the country.

  • Administration officials watered down Kamala Harris' Gaza speech before delivery

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  • Ya never watched Veep?

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    Ukraine Live: Putin in Shocks as Ukraine shot down three more Russian warplanes – Officials

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  • From my understanding, Russia is making more use of aerial bombing, because they are trying to exploit Ukraine's ammo shortage. Using aircraft more means more aircraft losses. Unfortunately, the bombing seems to have had some effect. It was a factor in their capture of Avdiivka last month.

  • Could Google be using Reddit to revive an ancient, failed project? — 60,000+ Redditors may well be mTurk’ing for Google Answers 2.0

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  • Canada to start airdropping aid into Gaza within days

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  • Isn't the airspace under Israeli control?

  • Apple Cancels Work on Electric Car, Ending Decadelong Effort

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  • There's a tidal wave of "cheap and good enough" Chinese EVs starting to sweep the global market, fulfilling pretty much what you said. The new BYD Qin retails for $15,000.

    If the US puts up protectionist trade barriers, the US auto market will turn into an enclave of gas guzzling SUVs, totally divorced from the rest of the world.

  • How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds

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  • they would've never invested in moderation, so it probably would've turned into a shitheap.

    i.e., basically Reddit!

  • How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds

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  • The crazy thing is, they had a nascent social network going with Google Reader, populated by people who were engaged and interested in the content. And they threw it all away to chase a Facebook clone, which was doomed anyway.

  • The highest funded plagiarist is probably this AI ethicist

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  • Because it looks bad if your text is peppered with quotes joined by little strips of connecting material. It gives (rightly) the impression that you don't know how to digest information and put things in your own words.

  • Why The New York Times might win its copyright lawsuit against OpenAI

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  • Some of the prior cases described in this article, as precedents that could spell trouble for OpenAI, frankly sound like miscarriages of justice. Using copyright to prevent organizations from photocopying articles for internal use? What the heck?

    If anything, my take home message is that the reach of copyright law is too long and needs to be taken down a peg.

  • Biden Administration Is Said to Slow Early Stage of Shift to Electric Cars

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  • Here's the story as I understand it. US automakers want to make expensive premium cars because those sell for high margins. The big breakthrough in the EV market over the past few years has been China EV makers figuring out how to make cheap and "good-enough" EVs, which are catching on in many places across the world. This is clearly the direction in which the market has to move (whether via Chinese or non-Chinese automakers) to spur mass EV adoption. In the US, however, the established automakers can rely on protectionism to block imports, this keeping the US market limited to big expensive cars that remain using ICEs.

  • Biden Administration Is Said to Slow Early Stage of Shift to Electric Cars

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  • These complaints about EVs being too expensive are way out of date, now that China is pumping out hordes of cheap EVs that consumers like.

    Even if the US doesn't want to let in Chinese auto imports, the question remains: why are Chinese automakers able to bring down prices, but not US automakers? You can point to Chinese government subsidies, but the US also does industrial policy these days. One of Biden's favourite talking points is how much money his government is putting into supporting US green manufacturing through the IRA.

  • Netanyahu Says He Won’t Bow to Pressure to Call Off Rafah Invasion

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  • I'd be shocked if Netanyahu gave any other response. He gets to massacre more Palestinians, and make Joe Biden look weak and impotent. It's all upside for him.