EA-3167

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by EA-3167 2mo ago
Belief has nothing to do with this. If you think something is common then gather evidence of that and make a convincing case to support your claim. "Trust me, guy" doesn't cut it. "I've seen it" doesn't cu
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by EA-3167 2mo ago
Interesting, it shouldn't be. https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w35560/w355... It's a very specialist tome though, and I suspect it's meant to be quoted for its conclusion a
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by EA-3167 2mo ago
It's interesting how every single person replying to you here has the same impression of what you're saying, except of course for the other person saying the same thing as you, but louder. I'm not going to suggest anything by
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by EA-3167 2mo ago
That's a good question that I don't have the answer to, but I know where someone sufficiently motivated and curious can find it definitively. https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety... I
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by EA-3167 2mo ago
Very bottom of the page, you can see links to the long and storied history of people saying “HN is bad now,” and why it’s an opinion you don’t really need to share. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html I’d throw
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by EA-3167 2mo ago
As always everyone is entitled to their opinions, the question is how much should the rest of us care.
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by EA-3167 2mo ago
The tech is real, the use cases are increasingly forced and fabricated to justify a ludicrous valuation that will never come to pass. For research and military applications ML is great, but it isn’t going to print trillions for anyone.
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by EA-3167 2mo ago
So because you deem others to be speaking in ignorance, you decided to follow their example, but with a contrary position? What a waste of everyone's time.
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by EA-3167 2mo ago
If you don't know much about it then why are you making accusations about what is and isn't true?
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by EA-3167 2mo ago
I take it from the shift in tone that you understood my point, although you don't particularly care to discuss it. I get it, no one ever wants to hear that biggest changes have been: More people More money More people with more money M
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by EA-3167 2mo ago
They might have been "buying" a home with a long-term mortgage, and by the 1980's you were seeing the rise of individual credit card debt as a way to finance a previously unobtainable lifestyle. The 1980's saw the first
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by EA-3167 2mo ago
https://www.nahb.org/blog/2026/08/Median-Lot-Sizes-by-Region... If you're buying a $700k house there are only a few parts of the country where your statement is true, and frankly much of that comes down
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by EA-3167 2mo ago
I was around in the 1980's and people weren't buying a home and a yearly family vacation on a single income, that era was long gone. If you're talking about those "Good Old Days" then you're talking about the p
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by EA-3167 2mo ago
I addressed this is an earlier reply, but I'll add that almost by definition if your and their lives are intersecting it's going to be at the level of YOUR life. You're never going to be showing up for a private $20k per plat
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by EA-3167 2mo ago
While true a lot of subtlety is hidden in those seemingly simple comparisons. For example has the median/average home size grown since then? If so by how much? How about amenities that are expected in a modern home? In the 1950's
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by EA-3167 2mo ago
"Wealthy" is extremely relative, which is why people here think of SV oligarchs, but people in a very poor part of the world might see the standard of living of the average middle class person in another country as wealthy. For ex
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by EA-3167 2mo ago
I think that sort of careless waste is a very human behavioral pattern, but then we are the ones training these bots. ed sp
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by EA-3167 2mo ago
Arguably the ability of people to see how the wealthiest people are living is going to create exactly that sense. What is Instagram if not a giant machine to generate the exact feeling? After all it “inspires” people to emulate what they se
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by EA-3167 2mo ago
Thank you, that’s correct.
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by EA-3167 2mo ago
All of this is predicated on the reality that 70%+ of Americans don't want to be in this war, none of our allies want any part of it either, and the person who started it is a coward who expected to get an easy win. Now we're stuc
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by EA-3167 2mo ago
Geology over large time-scales is profoundly unforgiving.
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by EA-3167 2mo ago
When I consider how highly to value conjecture, I can think about the Mitch McConnell saga and recognize that conjecture is just another word for WAG.
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Everyday Technology Is Becoming a Black Box. Is There a Cost?(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
3 points by EA-3167 2mo ago|0 comments
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by EA-3167 2mo ago
There are loads of issues with it as hard sci-fi, but the bigger issue is that it's meant as a political allegory far more than it's meant to be hard sci-fi. Where I think it shines to some extent in the latter case is its ability
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by EA-3167 2mo ago
https://www.snopes.com/news/2026/04/20/us-navy-ships-food/ https://www.ibtimes.com/us-navy-releases-photos-that-refute-... The bit about it being taken earlier came from an episode
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by EA-3167 2mo ago
I believe you're misunderstanding what I meant, we're talking about a specialized lab with a hell of a lot of privacy (read: zero oversight), lots of time and money, and the freedom to experiment on a range of animal models. I&#x2
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by EA-3167 2mo ago
The last time dire news about the state of morale and food on board a US Navy ship was paraded around it turned out to be pure fiction. That famous pic of the gray "insole" and pile of ground something with carrots was from years
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by EA-3167 2mo ago
They will absolutely not create anything of note with that setup, engineering viruses de novo requires a properly stocked lab with quite a few more zeros at the end of your proposed figure. Guess what happens if you try to assemble all of t
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Put Your Money Down, They Say(science.org)
3 points by EA-3167 2mo ago|0 comments
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by EA-3167 2mo ago
Well... that's a sobering thought.

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