CPLX

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by CPLX 1mo ago
> funding never made anyone smarter One of my favorite things about HN is the way that you can find someone who has produced definitive proof of the non-existence of the public education system in an offhand comment.
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by CPLX 1mo ago
He would be promptly murdered by someone named Alexander the Great.
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by CPLX 2mo ago
Pretty sure "causes Aspirin sales to soar" is an attempt at cleverly saying "gives people headaches"
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by CPLX 2mo ago
You’re gonna run into a little bit of resistance on principles with that argument. For context, I would have absolutely no interest in living in an HOA neighborhood and I don’t support them at all. But we do have a fairly strong precedent f
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by CPLX 2mo ago
Yes of course. Just interesting to see the divergence between the community and its host.
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by CPLX 2mo ago
Interesting to see the sentiment expressed in the comments here given the context that they are being posted on a promotional website for the private equity firm that launched Flock.
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by CPLX 2mo ago
At some point, people will figure out that this doesn't matter. The more I use AI, and especially the more I have my team deliver work and documents to me using AI, the more I realize that the skill of producing high-quality written ma
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by CPLX 2mo ago
If you’re of a certain age this article headline should immediately make you think of this website: https://despair.com/products/mistakes And if that doesn’t resonate with you then you probably missed the era when thes
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by CPLX 2mo ago
I guess it depends on what you call the new world, but for what it's worth that's not quite correct, the main transit point was Manila. In true pedantic HN fashion I am currently vacationing on the west coast of Mexico and learned
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by CPLX 2mo ago
> Meta isn't a public nuisance The premise of the article is that they are, as determined by an actual judge, as well as a jury after a full trial where evidence was presented. Replying “no they aren’t” is utterly free of substance.
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by CPLX 2mo ago
Well, of course. But I think any list of well-run countries, societies, and so on that doesn't have places like Scandinavia and Switzerland tied for first is a little bit confused.
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by CPLX 2mo ago
Yeah this was a shocking realization as I grew older. I always thought “third world” countries were trying really hard to improve their economies but just failing for various reasons. Turns out living in those places can be more than great
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by CPLX 2mo ago
> Otherwise you get the Europe situation I love when people use this as an argument. As far as I can tell “the Europe situation” is the most successful model for social and economic governance the world has produced so far.
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by CPLX 2mo ago
Money does not fix all unhappiness but lack of money guarantees it.
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by CPLX 3mo ago
This concept has annoyed me so much that I decided to give it a name and create a bunch of shortcuts in my AI tools to stop it. I call these things "sprinkles" Because I feel like AI can't stop sprinkling dumb shit all over i
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by CPLX 3mo ago
The CPI showed health care price dropping by 7% in the most completed numbers, which were June. It's fucking ridiculous and obviously so. The problem does involve methodology and so on but mostly it's just that "the map is no
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by CPLX 3mo ago
The numbers are just bullshit. The current inflation numbers tell us the price of health insurance is falling for example. When reality seems to be in conflict with logic, the next step is to question assumptions.
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by CPLX 3mo ago
The business model is making your country more innovative, which makes its citizens richer Americans used to do that too, spectacularly. Just consider the two alternatives: one is your industrial sector with this incredible new automation a
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by CPLX 3mo ago
It's not forgery so much as people using the same passport. People look similar.
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YouTube's S-CTS: The AI Slop Purge has arrived(insidethecreator.beehiiv.com)
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by CPLX 3mo ago
Yeah, I completely agree with you. I think it should be highly regulated. I think billboards should be completely banned, or at most relegated to designated districts of dense urban areas. I'm in favor of banning products that are addi
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by CPLX 3mo ago
Yes, of course, there's often dishonest or misleading or exploitative marketing. But that's not really what the problem is, since marketing would still be annoying even with that solved. The problem is much more akin to a tragedy
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by CPLX 3mo ago
Marketing is just an attempt at persuasion. It's the most fundamental form of communication. It's intrinsic to being human and interacting with other humans, and drives the reproduction function for basically all living things. Yo
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by CPLX 3mo ago
Who cares? There have always been layers of abstraction. I've been around for a while, and when I was a kid, the two choices I remember seeing were assembly code and simple semantic languages like BASIC. Assembly seemed like too crypti
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by CPLX 3mo ago
That does not seem to be an accurate description of what has happened here. What it looks like is someone with significant biochemical experience and a Harvard PhD has created some kind of drug or chemical that he thinks will be effective f
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by CPLX 3mo ago
It’s not legal. There is a current federal lawsuit on this exact topic.
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by CPLX 3mo ago
Yeah but the veil doesn’t get pierced that’s super rare, which is more important than everyone’s emotional state.
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by CPLX 3mo ago
Kind of a tangent, but as someone who's done both, registering in Delaware versus New York is actually basically the same process.
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by CPLX 3mo ago
> I can tell you that you have never lived in a 'society' where there were no taxes. I have. Bet ya haven’t
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by CPLX 3mo ago
You have convinced me that there are in fact no differences between things, and that protecting children from adult content is indistinguishable from stealing from people, and therefore I was foolish to advocate for it. I stand humbly corre

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