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Penis, got it!

This is great, but we also need a law that mandates leasing of existing last mile, to bring a competition like we had during the days of DSL.

Ideally the fiber from POP to my house should be owned by my city and leased to whichever ISP I want to do business with.

But you just did…

Yes, but he goes into more detail about why that is, why Ukraine is so important etc.

Basically when the Soviet Union collapsed, US politicians believed that as long as Russia has a free market, the democracy will flourish.

They couldn’t be more wrong, what it became was a klepocracy ruled by oligarchy with putin as the master oligarch. Russia on paper looked like a democracy, it has the institutions, but they are all neutered and despite having “elections”, there was never a democracy and free elections in there even in the 90s.

Putin realized that with EU Russia doesn’t matter as much, because EU integration makes smaller countries powerful. EU requires countries to have functional democracy before they can join. Putin tried to join, but instead having Russia to adapt and become a democratic country, he demanded that EU would change to accommodate Russia. That of course didn’t work.

So he created his own union (Eurasian Economic Union) hoping that it would take over EU. Initially they tried to subverting things politically having their puppet (kind of like they did in Belarus), but Ukrainian people demonstrated as they wanted to be part of EU, so it switched to military action first on 2014 and later in 2022.

We did fucked up a bit not supporting Ukrainian earlier.

There is also a lot of how Russia basically changes its own history ignoring all inconvenient events, how option is following fascist authors that render Russia as the World savor, that is on the side of God.

It is quite fascinating. A lot people think of the war as it started in 2022, some more informed will say it started in 2014, but it was much earlier then that. We just ignored it, we seem to pay attention when people are actually fighting, which is sad as most of how Russia is operating is to subvert via disinformation, destabilization and sabotage.

The war of 2022 got to what it got is because putin trapped himself in it, but underestimating Ukrainians.

I’m still not finish with it and am just in the middle of the book.

I highly recommend a book by historian Timothy Snyder called Road to Unfreedom. It explains how we got here, what Russia wants to achieve and why.

I’m in software engineering. One would think that English would be a useless class for my major, yet at work I still have to write a lot of documents. Either preparing new features, explaining existing, writing instructions for others etc

BTW: with using AI to write essays, you generally have subject that is known and that many people write something similar, all of that was used to train it.

With technical writing you are generally describe something that is brand new and very unique so you won’t be able to make AI write it for you.

The LLM isn’t really thinking, it is auto complete trained so the average person would be fooled thinking that text was produced by another human.

I’m not surprised it has flaws like that.

BTW here on Lenny there are communities with AI pictures. Someone created a similar community but with art created by humans.

While the AI results are very good, when you start looking and comparing it with non AI art, you start seeing that the AI while it is unique it still produces a cookie cutter results.