Every single of the innovations the OP listed was attained under "the bolshevist/communistic terror system". Prior to the 1917 Revolution, Imperial Russia was an Agricultural backwater that was widely derided as the least industrialized part of Europe.
Honest question: Don't they teach history in school these days? The level of ignorance displayed in some of the comments in this thread is staggering.
I understand. You literally don't know what else to say, so you have to at least attempt to say something that you think might sound witty. A real pity.
And yes, compared to Imperial Russia that was a Near-Absolute Monarchy with an Hereditary Emperor whose imperial style/form of address was "Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias" the Soviet Union was a beacon of progressiveness.
Maybe you should read it again: he is 1/4th russian and born in Ukraine. His father was half russian half Belarusian, born in Belarus. His mom not russian at all, she was Ukrainian. That makes him max 1/4th russian. So no, he's not Russian.
It clearly states he was born and raised in Ukraine.
But hey, Russians like to claim everything is theirs, nothing new here. Good to see which side you are on.
And again the same mistake of claiming USSR == Russia.
Yes, he was born in USSR, not Russia. Yes he received Soviet education, not Russian education. He made achievements in the communist system, not Russian.
Also, look up in a dictionary what "racist" means.
Nowhere was I talking about Russia in this thread. I made a point that USSR developed a lot faster than western capitalist nations, and that it made a lot of inventions ahead of the west. You're the one who started bleating about Russia and making weird comments about what percentage of heredity makes a person Russian.
What are you apologizing for? Your reply is quite insightful and makes far more sense than quite a number of theories being bandied around by 'some' who call themselves scientists.
Thanks for saying that. I have just come to notice that this HN community can be ruthless and lacking sense of humour and imagination. Even with apologies I always get downvoted. I don't really care but it's a funny game :)
Rubbish. Make a reasonable argument instead of playing at being a communist.
'Capital owners' bankrolled the company that manufactures the device you used to type your asinine comment, as well as bankrolling/funding the companies that manufacture every single item you own, from your toothbrush to your clothes.
If you despise capitalism so much, put your money where your mouth is and relocate to Cuba.
Champagne pseudo-socialists like you give the rest of us liberals a bad name.
I made a reasonable argument: the intent with Stable Diffusion is to do the same thing that many startups have done, i.e. break the law enough that you establish a dominant market position/raise a ton of money, but create enough externalities that the state has to intervene. Then, bribe politicians to legalize your former law breaking and to lock out any of your competitors. This is what myriad companies in the gig economy have done, for example.
Instead of reflexively spewing a series of ideological non-sequiturs, perhaps engage with what I actually said.
>bribe politicians to legalize your former law breaking and to lock out any of your competitors
Could you name a single startup in the US that has been caught 'bribing' politicians?
And stop drinking the Uber/WeWork/Airbnb/ kool-aid. The vast majority of startups are founded by honest people, and don't rely on breaking laws in order to establish a dominant market position or 'raise a ton of money', I should know, I'm an early employee at a startup with a 'dominant market position'.
Yes you should demonise people for any criminal actions they've actually committed, but please don't demonise them simply for being successful.
All of your comments on this thread sound as though they're made by a college undergrad still in the anti-capitalist/hippy-communist stage.
Grow up! Most things in life are not conspiracies and believing they are will significantly harm your emotional health.
Oh, but of course, only if I set aside the “kool-aid” of citing the examples of the dominant startup players of the past decade.
Perhaps you should, again, grow beyond your ideological name-calling to a rational engagement with the world, which actually involves everything I’ve described.
I'm late to this, but both of you broke the site guidelines badly in this thread. Please don't do flamewars on HN, and especially please avoid tit-for-tat spats, in the future. We ban accounts that get into this sort of thing regularly; it's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.
You've posted some good comments in other threads, so hopefully this should be easy to fix if you review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the intended spirit of the site more to heart. We'd be grateful!
I did a word search of the linked article you posted, and I didn't see a single incidence of the words 'bribe' or 'bribery' in it.
Or are you claiming that the word "lobby" in the phrase "attempts to lobby Joe Biden, Olaf Scholz and George Osborne" actually meant 'bribe'?
And despite you frantically scouring Google for something to backup your 'bribery' claims with, the above article ended up being the only thing you could find.
So basically, you essentially spent your own time to prove my point. Thanks.
I'll repeat again what I told you earlier: grow up and stop gorging yourself on conspiracy theories.
I'm late to this, but both of you broke the site guidelines badly in this thread. Please don't do flamewars on HN, and especially please avoid tit-for-tat spats, in the future. We ban accounts that get into this sort of thing regularly; it's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.
You've posted some good comments in other threads, so hopefully this should be easy to fix if you review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the intended spirit of the site more to heart. We'd be grateful!
Do I genuinely believe that startups funneling millions of dollars to politicians in campaign donations, speaking fees, and giving them plush gigs when they leave office is a legalized form of bribery? Yes. Is most of this illegal in other developed democracies? Yes.
I feel like after the whole SBF fiasco this should all be quite obvious…
The Volkswagen beetle futuristic concept car really looked like something a company could incorporate and make into a real 'futuristic concept car'. It's amazing amazing what AIs can do. As months go by, they keep on getting better and better
My thought exactly when I saw the picture, it's features are 'futuristic' but if someone were to ask: which car does it remind you of? what would come to mind would be the Volkswagen beetles. It's just amazing.
It is amazing. Although I am not surprised it's able to give such result, with the amount of information it is trained with, it will only keep getting better and better.
Honest question: Don't they teach history in school these days? The level of ignorance displayed in some of the comments in this thread is staggering.