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by Barrin92 2mo ago
>People hate being unsure. I disagree with this and the same patronizing attitude of the article. We live in an age where being anxious, unsure and neurotic isn't just tolerated but encouraged. The reason is pretty obvious, anxious
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>Half of my work is telling claude how to behave Dijkstra in the Foolishness of Natural Language Programming [...] the "naturalness" with which we use our native tongues boils down to the ease with which we can use them for
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it didn't recede, this kind of rebellion was what made it thrive (see the book The Rebel Sell, Why Culture can't be Jammed ) or Deleuze: “The death of a social machine has never been heralded by a disharmony or a dysfunction; on
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the difference in the vast majority of cases is that people go to a tutor with an intentional stance of cultivating a particular kind of practice, not merely to get an answer to a question. It's not technically impossible to do this wi
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not the OP but the heaviest charges against Swartz didn't stem from his IP infringement, it was wire fraud and computer fraud. He used a network access and MIT guest account he didn't have legal access to because he wasn't af
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The United States government does not set prices for doctors bills, what are you talking about? Healthcare providers in the US operate privately and set prices based on market rates. Again, if you want to, you can go and purchase whatever h
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they don't, for the simple reason that if they did all you'd need to do is go to the hospital and pay out of pocket, most US states don't require you to have health insurance. (or switch your insurance provider, as you pointe
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>, but so that they can make you jump through 50 hoops in order to cancel. again, doesn't apply in the EU. Consumer Rights Directive passed a few years ago stipulates that any subscription must be as easy to cancel as it is to sign
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it would not because the margins in the insurance industry aren't high. The OP is entirely correct, insurers are a source of payment, not a driver of cost. Insurers don't benefit from hospitals charging them high prices, they try
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>who desperately need to exercise their right to capture every and any piece of data the OS provides. thankfully the EU has extensive privacy regulations prohibiting developers from doing just that, so we can enjoy open platforms instead
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high wages, intellectual pluralism or trade disputes aren't part of the bedrock of international norms. China actually did spend a huge amount of energy to join the international institutions like the WTO. Whether they maximize their l
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>interesting that the concept of international law is by definition in conflict of the anarchy of real Realpolitik not 'by definition'. There's a fairly good case to be made that playing by, and being able to set, internat
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>>When Obama used social networks, he was called a genius, but when it’s someone you don’t like Obama used social networks to spread a milquetoast 'yes we can' message, not to justify an ongoing genocide. How is that even a
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>What does it means to be a "fake" think tank? presumably that you don't have employees that do any of the proverbial thinking, which is the case here. Every think tank has its biases and funding sources but something like
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>What changed? Motors, electric or otherwise, made it so you can jump in a car, or a bus and drive you and your friends to the movies or on a holiday and go out and see the world. LLMs make it so people end up like delusional zombies tal
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it also coincides with the size of the global oat milk market, thank god those hipsters solved the climate problem. Didn't know we needed to go over causality and correlation. China put itself on the renewable energy path during the 10
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>largely due to Trump I know the US has a main character syndrome but this has been going on for decades now, Donald Trump is not responsible for what happens in the rest of the world regardless of what US news says. China has been addin
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as is often pointed out, loneliness and solitude are two different things. The latter, especially in nature, can be a very formative and restorative experience.
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I love that they're at this point not only adopting the apocalyptic worldview of Millenarian religious cults but also the faith healing marketing strategy. Waiting for the day when Claude makes someone walk out of a wheelchair after s
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>Assume that there is a sequence of tokens, such that it is considered the absolute best by the author You can't assume that because if that was the case he'd already know what sentence to write, because that's what that m
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>The US in the 70's and 80's is not comparable to current US given different socioeconomic factors The socioeconomic factors have become more favorable. Excluding surveillance there's been a secular crime drop due to aging
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that'd only be true if you have a lot of trust that people care about quality. It's wrong to think of industrialization as only affecting producers. Fast fashion is a good example of this. There's studies on the quality of fo
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>If you want to live in a safe country, you must give up some level of freedom Is that why prisons so safe and free of crime? How is that life? Electronic mass surveillance is how old, the late 90s? Yes, let's ban all mass surveilla
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>I do see the value of having something that folks can synchronize their time and interest to that gives joy to the masses As a bottom up communal activity yes, American sports is Roman bread & circuses now with their own Temu versio
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There's a researcher at Harvard, Arthur C. Brooks, who wrote a book on this, the importance of the default mode network of the brain that is engaged when you do nothing or are bored. People who drown out boredom or silence tend to elim
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>but, nobody uses it. I used to work at ByteDance and they alone employed I think more than 800 Flutter Devs. Douyin uses Flutter (the Chinese version of TikTok), Grab and Ebay use it, Alibaba and Baidu did too. Toyota and Volkswagen I t
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you license both. When you go in for surgery your hospital is accredited and the surgeon who operates on you is licensed. I don't even understand what you're trying to argue, you're okay with being operated on by a guy they f
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>Why would we restrict other creative work in this way? Because it isn't creative work. Software underpins payment processors, medical services, emergency alerts, infrastructure. In the UK not long ago a ransomware attack took the h
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>whether you click or not doesn't change the fact that there is still ad sales happening in the background if nobody clicks on the ads nobody's going to buy ad space because people who place ads care about whether their ads tra
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Didn't HN decide to not allow AI submissions? This is quite explicitly one in that the operator of the site declares to "automate investigative journalism" and launched the site with its five pieces of 'journalism'

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