JohnFen

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by JohnFen 3mo ago
> critics will point to that and go "see it was a bubble!" while completely ignoring the several dozen new companies that will rise out of it. That several dozen new companies came out of it has nothing to do with whether or no
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
> The creation of value is me taking energy from the sun and converting that into a chair. Which requires money to do. If you borrow that money to enable using solar to make furniture, then you can repay that money with interest and keep
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
I wish that such systems in the US could be relied on to do that as well. It's pretty clear, though, that they can't.
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
This is an ad, and a deceptively presented one at that.
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
Stylish?? That phone is unusually ugly to my eyes. I'd put up with having a hideous-looking phone if it were really a dumbphone, but from the description, it sounds like this is like every other "dumb" phone I've seen on
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
This is why I have shifted to buying old, used things rather than new ones whenever possible. New stuff is, in the vast majority of instances, garbage regardless of the price point or how respectable the brand had been in the past. > To
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
Disgusting. But at least I now know that the Axel Springer Award isn't worth paying attention to.
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
> they're being built where water is cheap. water is cheap where it's abundant. Certainly not all of them. Several AI data centers in my state have been built near small communities where water is scarce. Those communities beli
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
I strongly prefer a standalone, offline-only password manager. It's the most secure. I personally wouldn't feel comfortable using one that can talk directly with a browser or where my passwords (encrypted or not) are being transmi
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
I'm just reporting my personal observations here. In several cases of major medical episodes I've personally witnessed, not a single person emerged from it without catastrophic financial damage. Most of these people had insurance
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
> If one of your friends is using an AI assistant it is very likely they are uploading your entire chat history to the AI assistant without telling you. If I learned that a friend was doing this, I'd have no choice but to stop inter
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
> you might have a catastrophic loss and have your finances wrecked. If you have health insurance (in the US) and you have a catastrophic event, your finances are going to be totally wrecked anyway. You're likely to have to declare
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
This has been my default position from when the software industry greedily decided to adopt them for things that aren't ongoing services. Software subscriptions are corrosive and lead to a whole ton of bad downstream effects. It's
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
Contact the admins: hn@ycombinator.com
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
All true. It's becoming increasingly dangerous and unacceptable to be in public spaces at all. However, Flock (and similar companies) are amping the intensity and risk of all of this beyond reason by retaining collected data and making
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
I certainly don't advocate threats or violence, but there is a little karmic justice here. AI companies have been threatening us for a few years now, after all. If these executives are feeling even a touch of that fear, that seems fair
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
There was, until the corrupt supreme court ruled that the president is above the law.
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
> if a friend used ai to make me a gift like in TFA, I'd be pretty offended As would I. Not only would that demonstrate they don't care, but it would also indicate that this "friend" simply doesn't know me at all
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
> Hegseth is obsessed with masculinity People tend to obsess over what they think they should have, but don't.
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
The prices for even low-grade ground beef have reached insane levels in the US, so I have stopped "importing" it into my household entirely as well.
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
I don't hate Rust conceptually or on principle or anything, but I do find it an unpleasant language to use. But from what Greg Kroah‑Hartman said, it sounds like Linux has too many dev contributers anyway, so they won't miss my co
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
Of course. If Trump's Department of Injustice were to release those files, it would undo too much of the hard work they put into covering the whole thing up.
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
What I have noticed is that graybeards who work for SV-style companies are treated as disposable, incompetent, etc. But outside of that, things aren't as bad as people think, and most dev jobs aren't in those companies.
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
> That includes a new app store Just as long as using the app store isn't required.
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
I agree with most of what you said, but this... > At this stage though you’ll be a grey beard and be unemployable. isn't as true as people think. I'm a graybeard and remain very much in demand, as do the majority of the graybea
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
You should ask the mods: hn@ycombinator.com You should not post a link with a misleading title (like this one)
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
Yeah, the whole Pyrex nonsense put me off of buying anything Pyrex. I can't trust them, so I won't buy them. > It's very much how the business world has moved the last few decades - amoral [1] is OK. I think your statement
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
No. Is your question a Fortnight reference? What are you asking? I'm just curious now. :)
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
Almost certainly. If it's publicly visible on the internet, it's probably being used to train AI models.
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
You're not going crazy. This has been the trend for a long time now.

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