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by 1_2__3 9y ago
It's been in that state for many years at this point.
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by 1_2__3 9y ago
The refrain of shitty developers everywhere.
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by 1_2__3 9y ago
Google more than any other organization on the planet has bought at least some of its own bullshit. For at least 6-7 years they've been consistently, 100% sure that generally-useful AI (or something sufficiently approximately close) is
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by 1_2__3 9y ago
I often wonder what the comments on various sites looked like the day before the 2008 crash. Or the dot com bust. It seems for every highly voted analysis of how vulnerable we are there's a highly voted comment pooh-poohing it.
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by 1_2__3 9y ago
You underestimate how many levels of engineering at Google are entirely populated by recent college grads. It could absolutely be unwillingness (I agree it's probably not blind ignorance) to pay attention to the lessons of the past.
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by 1_2__3 9y ago
I'm going to guess your unspoken assertion is that these things would have happened anyway - or even faster, natch! - had the government not gotten involved and mandated ever-stricter safety requirements. I do not agree.
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by 1_2__3 9y ago
> There is no economic rationale for the government to tell airlines what extras they can and cannot charge for, If only the world was populated by dollar bills instead of human beings this would all be so easy.
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by 1_2__3 9y ago
I eagerly await a comment section full of armchair economists and recent college grads explaining how the free market will fix all of this and how the problem is things just need to be more fre-er and market-er. How it's just that it&#
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by 1_2__3 9y ago
You're certainly a busy bee, posting this repeatedly in this thread. Almost like you have an agenda.
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by 1_2__3 9y ago
That'd be super chilling if the various legislative bodies didn't act as a check on that through confirmation requirements and limits on executive authority. You know, like Turkey used to have. Before yesterday.
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by 1_2__3 9y ago
What you call "hell" I call record profits. Sorry if you're trying the tired old "the best way to lose millions is to buy an airline" bullshit this probably not the thread to do it in.
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by 1_2__3 10y ago
And how much less than their private sector counterparts did they make over the course of their career?
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by 1_2__3 10y ago
The counter argument would be that we learned many decades ago the societal consequences of employment that does not cover basic needs. We can't pretend a human can survive in many parts of America on that kind of wage without governme
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by 1_2__3 10y ago
Is the US even manufacturing non-military firearms at a rate sufficient for 2k/day to slip out through smuggling? That seems extraordinarily unlikely.
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by 1_2__3 10y ago
And the whole thing is effectively structured as a 4th amendment sidestepping initiative. Which is why it will never go away.
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by 1_2__3 10y ago
That's a tacky and pointless comment.
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by 1_2__3 10y ago
Honestly I think appeals to emotion like this have no place in dispassionate conversations about international espionage.
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by 1_2__3 10y ago
Companies like google are obsessed with diversity. The idea that they'd systematically pay women less is laughable - you will not find more liberal environments outside of academia. I can't help but wonder if this is politically m
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by 1_2__3 10y ago
Whataboutism is basically the currency of debate on the internet these days. For whatever reason it's the arguing style de jure.
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by 1_2__3 10y ago
I disagree completely. Just what do you think the people you interact with every day are like when you don't see them? This is puritanism, nothing else.
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by 1_2__3 10y ago
These luxury towers are shitholes. They're run like hotels, the property managers are complete pricks, and things are broken constantly. I don't know why anyone would think quick-build apartments from cheap developers would be lux
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by 1_2__3 10y ago
Because that's the craziest fucking thing you've heard this year?
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by 1_2__3 10y ago
Yes, surely that's the reason.
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by 1_2__3 10y ago
Right, so we're just arbitrarily moving the goalposts now that the data doesn't back the claim. Got it.
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by 1_2__3 10y ago
The daily HN dose of anti-car hysteria is here right on schedule. I can't help but think there's some deep-pocketed companies making sure that "autonomous cars are our only future!" and "there's no point in try
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by 1_2__3 10y ago
Be careful staring into the abyss.
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by 1_2__3 10y ago
Because nobody likes to pay for something they don't want? No, incremental cost is not zero, or there'd be infinite channels.
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by 1_2__3 10y ago
We should remember the only reason in many states buying a car is a transparent process is because the government realized this kind of billig/invoicing is exploitative and unfair. Almost every argument applied to the "one page&qu
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by 1_2__3 10y ago
This has always stuck with me. When I was a lot younger, in the early 90s I was dating a guy who was pretty high up in Washington state's DSHS. I remember him saying that massive cutbacks were forcing all the institutions they had left
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by 1_2__3 10y ago
That's basically like saying that horses and buggies will just be tools in a larger toolset needed for space travel. What generalized AI will look like bears little or no resemblance to what we're doing today.

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