AlexandrB

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by AlexandrB 1mo ago
> by the increasing rents extracted by the App Store and the services division in general I wouldn't care about the rents if they weren't in the form of ads being shoved in everywhere. The "2 ads in the first 3 results&quo
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by AlexandrB 1mo ago
Copyright in general, is too long, too broad, and - thanks largely to DMCA - enforced too strictly. One reason for China's success in tech is their willingness to ignore all the IP nonsense (or at least look the other way) allowing fol
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by AlexandrB 1mo ago
> He points out the value of introspection, which the literary culture has in spades, but the scientific culture utterly lacks. Maybe this was true at one point but I don't think modern literary culture has much capacity to be intro
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by AlexandrB 1mo ago
I suspect it can't be helped at this point. RAM is the new gold. Valve even had to increase the price for a 4 year old piece of hardware[1]. [1] https://tech-insider.org/ca/steam-deck-price-increase-2026/
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by AlexandrB 1mo ago
They frequently already are. Even here in Canada[1] where any kind of "carry" is generally not allowed. Shockingly, thieves often don't care about gun laws though. [1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/
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by AlexandrB 1mo ago
This sounds great in theory, and I used to agree, but: a. There's no guarantee against escalation, a property crime turns into a violent crime very easily. b. Property crime can have a deep psychological impact on the victim - somethin
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by AlexandrB 1mo ago
> This isn't a countdown, it's a post-mortem. Do people not read this stuff and edit it at all after getting some AI to generate it? Like, come on. This is not just obviously AI generated, but it's clunky as hell and add
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by AlexandrB 1mo ago
I'm sorry. I absolutely do not trust Bill Gates. His history of ruthless, cutthroat tactics in the 90s is not easily forgotten and when he proposes things like international organizations to audit everyone's AI[1] I can't hel
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by AlexandrB 1mo ago
Have you considered that other's ethical beliefs may not match yours?
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> The customer is NOT 'always right', but you can meet them halfway Reddit users are not customers. The advertisers and AI labs are the customers because they're the ones paying. The users are the cattle in the pen being s
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by AlexandrB 1mo ago
Worse, you can be banned for reasons unrelated to your local laws and lose access.
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by AlexandrB 1mo ago
> The rules I'm expected to follow based on the bottom quintile are generally rules that are no trouble for me to follow. This is not just laws, but stores putting everything behind plastic barriers to stop theft. Or "customer
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by AlexandrB 1mo ago
You forgot: 2b. LLMs are empowering bad actors to exploit loopholes and collect benefits they're not entitled to. The assumption from a lot of commenters seems to be that these are all legitimate claims and appeals, not a gold rush to
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by AlexandrB 1mo ago
I always thought these corporate naming deals for stadiums were gross. I remember when Canadian stadiums had names like "The Coliseum" and "The Skydome" instead of "The Roger's Center".
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by AlexandrB 1mo ago
If the economic capacity is in "the service sector" it's going to be just about meaningless in a war.
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by AlexandrB 1mo ago
> China invested in producing cheap energy. You mean coal[1][2]? [1] https://www.carbonbrief.org/chinas-construction-of-new-coal-... [2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/katharinabuchholz/2026/
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by AlexandrB 1mo ago
Canada having closer trade ties with China is also a case of "out of the frying pan and into the fire" for Canada.
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by AlexandrB 2mo ago
This is a justification for any kind of vigilanteism. Is this also what you will tell armed righties who decide to round up illegal immigrants and shuttle them across the border to Mexico because the government is ignoring their concerns or
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by AlexandrB 2mo ago
Bending Spoons's entire business model is product enshittification. Once they acquire a company, it's time to jump ship to a competing product.
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by AlexandrB 2mo ago
> Why is it a zero-sum game? Not to be flippant, but it's a zero-sum game because time is finite. I think you know this too since the following paragraphs describe you making this tradeoff yourself.
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by AlexandrB 2mo ago
This kind of "average" nonsense in the form of CAFE[1] standards is why we have endless SUVs and crossovers on the road now. I expect that this will lead to similar unintended consequences. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by AlexandrB 2mo ago
Yeah, it's a weird move to legislate this kind of trade-off, especially when one of the competing factors is tire wear. Making new tires takes energy too! If I was paranoid, I'd say the tire lobby was involved here and looking for
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by AlexandrB 2mo ago
You say that AI is transformation layer, then list out physical things that would be necessary to transform AI into something useful such as sufficiently advanced embodied robotics. How is this different than electricity?
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by AlexandrB 2mo ago
> A policeman sees a drunk man searching for something under a streetlight and asks what the drunk has lost. He says he lost his keys and they both look under the streetlight together. After a few minutes the policeman asks if he is sure
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by AlexandrB 2mo ago
I think you understate what a big deal the decentralization was when Git came out. Back in the early 2000s, getting internet while out of the office was hard . 3G was in its infancy and expensive so you were at the mercy of finding a WiFi
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by AlexandrB 2mo ago
I think that's fair. Em-dashes are pretty innocuous and I think technically correct regardless. What bothers me is all the filler in AI writing that just makes it longer and harder to read. I'm actually not that bothered by the
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by AlexandrB 2mo ago
I'm not dismissing the argument, I'm refusing to read a bunch of filler for an idea that (I'm guessing) could fit into 140 characters. Brevity is the soul of wit.
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by AlexandrB 2mo ago
> That is not a tool. That is a leash. as;dr (AI slop, didn't read)
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by AlexandrB 2mo ago
> Are clearly just intended as illustrative, rather than a claim that 500,000 people in Sub-Sarah Africa will go without water as a result of AI data centres. Let's be honest, it's meant to be emotionally manipulative. There ar
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by AlexandrB 2mo ago
> I personally also don't like that WhatsApp/Instagram/Facebook/Slack asks for access to the whole album just to display the photo picker, but I'm pretty sure some designer or product manager made a strong case f

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