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by 9rx 6mo ago
Meaning he could take on debt to cover what he doesn't have? Maybe, but finding a willing lender when you are 81 years of age isn't easy either.
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by 9rx 6mo ago
> You could buy checks from hundreds of different vendors Likewise, last time I was at the mall there were dozens of smartphone vendors in that one place alone. > Also, credit cards are free to get and checks cost a few pennies. T
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by 9rx 6mo ago
I am suggesting that if you have enough money to buy a ticket, but then take some portion of that amount away to buy a smartphone, you will no longer have enough to buy said ticket.
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by 9rx 6mo ago
You are free to use whatever word you want. Even "bloopydoopy", if you so wish. But "compiles" is best.
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by 9rx 6mo ago
> I can't think of any other case pre-smartphone, where I'd be denied the ability to buy a product simply because I didn't want to have to buy another totally unrelated product as a condition. Then you must not have been
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by 9rx 6mo ago
Amazon also only sells digitally. So now he has to buy a smartphone in order to get a smartphone from Amazon in order to get tickets? The guy doesn't even want one smartphone let alone two.
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by 9rx 6mo ago
It is not required to watch a game. At least not unless you are not using it as some kind of vision aid — although even then there are likely reasonable alternatives. It is required to satisfy the desires of a vendor wanting to sell somethi
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by 9rx 6mo ago
> If this guy has the money for a season pass (!) he has the money for a smartphone. Right, but he is wanting to choose the season pass over the smartphone. If he buys a smartphone then he won't have the money for a season pass an
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by 9rx 6mo ago
> Well, it is real $200 Okay, but then what supports the nominal $300 or whatever value it is after inflation has also been accounted for? We haven't even figured out how a nominal $200 is supported and now you're talking eve
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by 9rx 6mo ago
> It requires actually reviewing all the code and giving pointed feedback though Exactly. You can write good Typescript, no doubt, but LLMs cannot. This is not like some other languages where LLM generated code is actually consistent
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by 9rx 6mo ago
> which I carefully review and correct So you do agree? If you are having to review and correct then it's not really the LLM writing it anymore. I have little doubt that you can write good Typescript, but that's not what I
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by 9rx 6mo ago
> The main goal of business is to generate the most income with the least expense That's the goal of small business. It is the only way to stay afloat and try to grow while allowing the stakeholders enough to survive. Large busine
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by 9rx 6mo ago
Yeah, I've found LLMs cannot write good Typescript code period. The good news is that they are excellent at some other languages.
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by 9rx 6mo ago
> Good'ol money printing. Okay, so not really $200, except maybe nominally which doesn't mean much today. Per the discussion, what supports $200 oil in real dollars?
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by 9rx 6mo ago
Exactly. If you keep buying those things then the world economy will remain strong. Economies are damaged only when people stop buying things. So, again, if the world economy is damaged what supports $200 oil?
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by 9rx 6mo ago
No, it is. Humans understand that to err is human and thus have compassion for other humans. Human expectations are placed on full timelines, not instants in time. A human saying the wrong thing simply doesn't matter to other humans as
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by 9rx 6mo ago
Understandably it can be difficult for the machines of HN to truly understand, but humans don't normally have that kind of exacting control over what comes out of their mouth. Those who have carefully developed the skill of having that
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by 9rx 6mo ago
The 5 trillionaires can also afford $10,000 oil. Why would they pay $200 when they could pay $150?
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by 9rx 6mo ago
If the medium isn't human then the message cannot be human. The medium is the message.
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by 9rx 6mo ago
I do not find a lack of clarity, but rather a misunderstanding of the medium. Human discussion takes place where you find humans. Online discussion forums are not human, but rather software. The entire appeal is that it isn't "hum
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by 9rx 6mo ago
Online discussion forums have never been "human". You can rightfully point out that in the past human operators were required to keep the software operational as an implementation detail, and that we may be reaching a point where
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by 9rx 6mo ago
> If oil reaches $200, it would damage the global economy. What supports $200 oil, then?
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by 9rx 6mo ago
The same as the past? The medium is the message. AI doesn't change the medium.
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by 9rx 6mo ago
> that a 1200 one time check raised so many people out of poverty It was $600 per week for a while, along with several other stimulus programs, not even including state-level support — totalling around $50,000 all told. Maybe if you we
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by 9rx 6mo ago
> That article is just making the same mistake I pointed out The article doesn't do anything other than quote the US Census Bureau. Obviously you will have already read the citation in full, but for everyone else here is the full
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by 9rx 6mo ago
> A $1200 check isn't going to suddenly lift a lot of people out of poverty "A lot" is subjective, I suppose. Concretely, it lifted 11.7 million Americans[1] out of poverty. That makes up approximately 30% of those who w
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by 9rx 6mo ago
> In particular it seems weird that only we had a massive change during COVID. It is not weird if you were old enough to be aware of the news during that time. Poor people in the US suddenly coming into money and being lifted out of po
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by 9rx 6mo ago
The metric in question measures how much time it takes to get $1 in income. When, over a set period of time, your income increases (in this case because the government started paying you more than you were getting before), the time to get $
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by 9rx 6mo ago
Different responses to the COIVD shutdowns. The US government gave stimulus money directly to the people, for many bringing an increase to one's income during that period. The European response was focused more on helping people keep t
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by 9rx 6mo ago
> It can get pretty hairy when you already have well-established customers with long-term use-cases that absolutely cannot be broken LLMs are often poor at writing tests that provide useful information to human readers and poor at writ

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