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Yogthos

Segment Anything Model can identify individual objects in images and videos, even those not encountered during training licensed under Apache-2.0
github.com/facebookresearch/se

6 Apr 2023 at 14:43 | Open on mas.to
Yogthos

Beijing has effectively frozen high level bilateral diplomatic contact with US in the wake of the Chinese spy balloon incident in February.

politico.com/news/2023/04/05/c

6 Apr 2023 at 13:52 | Open on mas.to
Yogthos

A debate on the topic "Is the Chinese system better than the American/European one at providing stability, prosperity, and freedom?"

youtube.com/watch?v=8eGa6i2DY3

spoiler
6 Apr 2023 at 12:23 | Open on mas.to
Yogthos
aleksana :pusheenwalk:

@yogthos In China, most historical news pages and government release pages were removed, while many other types of lifestyle articles were left unaffected. Many people believe that this may be to prevent the government from keeping its promises, and the powerful willfully guide the public's emotions to satisfy their own interests.

6 Apr 2023 at 13:00 | Open on bcom.moe
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Psentee

@yogthos @psentee also AWS engineers discussing how to serve a website that consists of one static index.html file

7 Apr 2023 at 9:42 | Open on stolat.town
Paul

@yogthos Judging by the PPE, they appear to take cable management very seriously.

7 Apr 2023 at 18:17 | Open on mstdn.social
Waotzi
so simple yet so complex

@astro is my current solution to go with
8 Apr 2023 at 7:35 | Open on taobox.pub
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Wenslauw

@yogthos but these days two guys next to you are having a half hour discussion and further down the open office a guy is in a Teams meeting with five others.

6 Apr 2023 at 5:13 | Open on m.beautifullosers.org
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Yogthos

People often focus on China's top down central planning system. However, local governments (provinces, cities, villages, etc.) account for 85% of the country's expenditures while the OECD average is... 33%.

Whilst on avg countries spend 66% of their expenditures centrally, China's central gvt only spends 15%, letting local authorities spend the rest.

Doing so, it empowers them to do a lot of local experimentation, which can be emulated countrywide if successful.

tnsr.org/2023/04/paying-the-de

People often focus on China's top down central planning system. However, local governments (provinces, cities, villages, etc.) account for 85% of the country's expenditures while the OECD average is... 33%.

Whilst on avg countries spend 66% of their expenditures centrally, China's central gvt only spends 15%, letting local authorities spend the rest.

While the reforms overhauled some aspects of China’s fiscal system, they also left certain core features in place. First, China remains, by quantitative measures, among the most decentralized political systems in the world.125 Local governments — starting at the provincial level and working down to prefectural, county, township, and village governments — account for 50 percent of government revenue and almost 85 percent of expenditures. In Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries, the averages are 20 and 33 percent, respectively. China’s central government commands just 15 percent of total government expenditure, compared to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development average of 66 percent.12é Second, China continues to rely almost entirely on business taxes, collected through a value-added tax on business-to-business transfers and a corporate income tax. Since 1990, these business taxes have made up between 60 and 75 percent of tax revenue. Consumption taxes (7 percent) and individual income taxes (6.3 percent of total revenue in 2021) are relatively unimportant. The remaining 15 percent of government revenue comes from central and local fees.127
5 Apr 2023 at 12:50 | Open on mas.to
loathesome dongeater

@yogthos

> Second, China continues to rely almost entirely on business taxes, collected through a value-added tax on business-to-business transfers and a corporate income tax. Since 1990, these business taxes have made up between 60 and 75 percent of tax revenue. Consumption taxes (7 percent) and individual income taxes (6.3 percent of total revenue in 2021) are relatively unimportant. The remaining 15 percent of government revenue comes from central and local fees.

this is also very cool

5 Apr 2023 at 14:10 | Open on toots.matapacos.dog
Yogthos

Denmark former minister arrested for telling ppl US was spying on European countries. Turns out that revealing US crimes is considered a crime under the US-led Rules Based Reich.

apnews.com/article/politics-de

5 Apr 2023 at 12:45 | Open on mas.to
SoyViking

@yogthos This is not a story of an honest politician who turned whistleblower because he believed the truth would bring justice. No, this is the story about a shitty reactionary ghoul who couldn't keep his mouth shut when bragging about what a good and useful tool he was for the Americans.
He is a horrible person who has spent a long political career doing evil to vulnerable people. He is not one to feel sorry for.

5 Apr 2023 at 15:37 | Open on toots.matapacos.dog
Yogthos

Domestic Chinese IC designers are expected to move toward the 4nm manufacturing process in the next 2 to 4 years

asiatimes.com/2023/03/huawei-n

5 Apr 2023 at 12:29 | Open on mas.to
Yogthos

A lawyer for the United States government told Quebec’s highest court today that the country should be immune from prosecution for the infamous brainwashing experiments at McGill University from the 1940s to the 1960s. thestar.com/news/canada/2023/0

5 Apr 2023 at 12:19 | Open on mas.to
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'We are at a breaking point': Toronto's Daily Bread Food Bank seeing highest demand ever

toronto.citynews.ca/2023/04/04

4 Apr 2023 at 23:19 | Open on mas.to
Yogthos

Xi, Biden show contrasting styles of world leadership. On the one hand, we see peace deals; on the other, exploding pipelines.

asiatimes.com/2023/04/xi-biden

4 Apr 2023 at 22:35 | Open on mas.to
Yogthos

China’s Wind and Solar Are Now Almost Enough to Power Every Home archive.ph/6UEpT

4 Apr 2023 at 22:29 | Open on mas.to
Cyril

@yogthos Link is not working but it is probably both true and wrong. True because you probably can reach peak power with it would require a lot more than peak power combine with huge storage capacities. It would consume too much resources too be sustainable.
There is a French report made by French electric grid maintainer which propose multiple scenarii. About the one with only solar + wind, people that work on ore resources (copper, aluminium, etc…) says «far too much ore required».

5 Apr 2023 at 6:45 | Open on framapiaf.org
Yogthos

At gatherings of European and NATO policymakers, officials have settled into a rhythm, said one senior European diplomat: “Don’t talk about Nord Stream.” Leaders see little benefit from digging too deeply and finding an uncomfortable answer, the diplomat said, echoing sentiments of several peers in other countries who said they would rather not have to deal with the possibility that Ukraine or allies were involved. 🤔

archive.ph/Xz8wT

4 Apr 2023 at 22:06 | Open on mas.to
Yogthos

An investor is now Canada’s largest landowner. Investors are racing to buy farmland, meaning hedge funds, pensions and wealthy individuals have a growing influence over Prairies farming and food production.

thenarwhal.ca/prairies-farming

4 Apr 2023 at 21:24 | Open on mas.to
Cykonot

@yogthos They want us to be serfs... Technofeudalism, here we come!

4 Apr 2023 at 21:27 | Open on mas.to
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McHollander ☑️ | Alarmist

@yogthos Goes to show they knew to fight the system, not the individual that can't change it either.

4 Apr 2023 at 20:02 | Open on mastodon.chasalin.nl
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non_saturatio

@yogthos Tell me it's AI generated, please

4 Apr 2023 at 21:10 | Open on mastodon.online
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