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by Jensson 1y ago
> That's really a matter of accounting. So increasing taxes can be said to reduce government spending? Do you think anyone really buys that argument?
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by Jensson 1y ago
But this event was already covered, there is no need to also have this opinion piece as well. You can just read this thread which isn't flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45282482
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by Jensson 1y ago
> It has resisted standardizing like lawyers, doctors or even real estate agents. You can't standardize a field that changes so fast, it takes decades to standardize a field and there has never been a point in time of software where
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by Jensson 1y ago
> Some of us prefer to see what’s going on And you can see that anywhere else, why should every site talk about the same things?
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by Jensson 1y ago
> an ad free competitor that can be trusted to never show ads for the lifetime of the product There is no such thing, every big corporation adds greedier and greedier practices over time.
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by Jensson 1y ago
> Certainly people who have a lot of kids today, aren't doing it for financial reasons. Because its illegal, people did certainly use kids as financial assets back then. Your kids was what took care of you when you grew old, there w
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by Jensson 1y ago
No, but the average users have things they want to do that require ICPC level problem solutions. Like making optimized games etc, average users wants that for sure.
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by Jensson 1y ago
Oracle hosts data for many corporations, I don't think they will have any moderation input.
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by Jensson 1y ago
I don't think Israel is conducting a genocide, to me for something to be a genocide you need to do much more than they are currently doing. To me it seems like they are conducting a fairly standard occupation with very authoritarian mi
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by Jensson 1y ago
And why didn't people get up in arms over that?
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by Jensson 1y ago
It is, if it was Democrats installing a government appointed board seat you'd see a very different response to this event from both sides, but both sides want to do this in the end.
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by Jensson 1y ago
Governments are much better at free speech than companies are, the US government is much more for free speech than Facebook or Google or Apple or Microsoft is etc. So it is common for Governments to cooperate with media to ensure they remai
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by Jensson 1y ago
> losing the ability to criticize Israel or the current administration When did Americans lose that ability? I didn't hear about this happening. > could be argued that the rise in pro-palestine awareness post Oct 7 is in part to
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by Jensson 1y ago
> Wiretapping requires probable cause and a court order in order to be used chat control does not Chat control does not allow the government to read anyones messages for any reason, so no that is not true. > Wiretapping was not retroa
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by Jensson 1y ago
> yeah, for now - it was always close. And they need to succeed only once. What do you mean, this can just be reverted it isn't like these laws can't be changed. Currently most people don't vote in EU elections, so you don
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by Jensson 1y ago
There are people with no backing, not even existing parties, that get elected as EU representatives. So its not that difficult to run if you have a platform some people care about. It is much easier to break into EU than the local governmen
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by Jensson 1y ago
A small business owner has much more control over it than a local manager in a big corporation does so there are more benefits to becoming friends with them. That doesn't happen with large companies since there is no singular "own
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by Jensson 1y ago
Flags became simpler and simpler, until they were just two colored stripes with no elaborate drawings etc. Simple is better as long as its enough, its both easier to spot and easier to make, but it is hard to realize when a simple thing is
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by Jensson 1y ago
You have a point, but people would just say "you use it wrong, just prompt better" and so on. The selling point is that it unreliably solves all your problems, "this model is PHD level intelligence!", compilers we know s
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by Jensson 1y ago
> “The left” is simply more liberal than I What is "liberal" here? Seems like that term has gone obsolete as well, what Americans call liberal is not what I call liberal, to me they are pretty authoritarian.
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by Jensson 1y ago
Compilers reliably solves 90% of your problems, LLM unreliably solves 100% of your problems. So yeah, very different.
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by Jensson 1y ago
Yeah, it sounds like this label might fit on you, but I'd still be interested in seeing any studies about it. I do feel that most people who label themselves as "slow thinker" aren't actually having the kind of issues yo
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by Jensson 1y ago
> You may have ADHD Don't think this is related to ADHD, I have very serious ADHD but I have no issue keeping up in conversations I am interested in. ADHD is about where you can put your energy / attention, not if you are fast
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by Jensson 1y ago
Likely your name attracts downvotes, most HN comments doesn't get any votes at all but likely you attract an extra downvote here and there due to your name.
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by Jensson 1y ago
Then where is the evidence? I can't find any, mostly find studies about reaction time differences and so on but that isn't what we are talking about.
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by Jensson 1y ago
Is there actually such a thing as a "slow thinker"? I find it hard to believe that slow thinking skills doesn't heavily correlate with fast thinking skills, is there any evidence of this? Note you have to rule out stress, sin
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by Jensson 1y ago
What says you didn't? Smoking is associated with worse IQ development according to this study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00223...
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by Jensson 1y ago
It is important to note that Sweden has never had serfdom or in other ways oppressed its people to a high degree like most other countries did, so it makes sense the culture doesn't hate its government as much. People there have had th
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by Jensson 1y ago
Meme is a thought virus, so yes "protect the children" is a meme. Politics in democracies is largely driven by such memes.
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by Jensson 1y ago
In other words: In countries where the government represent the people well those people trust the government a lot more and give it more power since the government does what the people want.

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