Papazsazsa

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by Papazsazsa 5mo ago
"In cultural practice this process of minimal change takes two primary forms. First, we create stories and metaphors that map strange new experiences back to something we already understand." This is quite common in creative field
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by Papazsazsa 5mo ago
This is a great insight. Taste is the human moat.
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by Papazsazsa 5mo ago
Interesting to see this on HN, I'd be curious to know OP's rationale, but I'm glad they posted it. Film criticism itself has suffered greatly in recent memory; at the end of the day, whatever trouble a critic might have gone
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by Papazsazsa 5mo ago
I use the internet but I don't trust it.
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by Papazsazsa 5mo ago
"Follow me: a day in the life of a soup line influencer"
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by Papazsazsa 5mo ago
The bottom line is that you can also compete by investing in quality.
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by Papazsazsa 5mo ago
It's certainly a lot less messy!
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by Papazsazsa 5mo ago
Good. The intangibles of art are undeniable. - emotional connection - aesthetics - zeitgeist - lived experience - artist journey You're free to fall in love with your sexbot, but it's still just jerking off.
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by Papazsazsa 6mo ago
The bigger question is constructive prohibition, i.e. can the government kill civil rights with a thousand cuts. This opinion is mostly standing/housekeeping. Here's a clean interpretation of the ruling https://law.just
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by Papazsazsa 6mo ago
I have been looking for an excuse to cancel Zoom, and now I have one. Looks like jitsi, whereby, and signal are all viable alternatives – anyone have something better, or feedback on the above?
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by Papazsazsa 6mo ago
"From whence this barbarous animus?" tweeted the technologist from the cauldron in which he boiled.
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by Papazsazsa 6mo ago
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47754379
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by Papazsazsa 6mo ago
Yes. Anthropic is burning much of the goodwill they built up in contrast to OAI, and I personally am taking it as a sign to limit dependencies. Luckily for me I am not at all dependent on frontier models, and it's increasingly apparent
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by Papazsazsa 6mo ago
Headline: "The Stealth Era May Be Over" Last paragraph: "Does this make the F-35 obsolete? No." From https://www.shatterbelt.co/about : "One analyst. 500+ open sources across 15 languages. AI-augment
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by Papazsazsa 7mo ago
This site is so nice.
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by Papazsazsa 7mo ago
Socials are caught in the innovator's dilemma. Given the dependence our society now has on the internet, it's bonkers to me that more VCs aren't rethinking their investment strategy. Privacy is not some niche concern anymore,
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by Papazsazsa 7mo ago
Yeah it seems like they have a great product that some spreadsheet toucher killed. A cryin' shame.
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by Papazsazsa 7mo ago
The individual who figures out how to do this will be both wealthy and beloved.
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by Papazsazsa 7mo ago
Great to know, thank you!
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by Papazsazsa 7mo ago
The boox monitor refresh is not great, and they included a little button to manually refresh the screen as the ghosting is so bad. Sorry.
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by Papazsazsa 7mo ago
I have found the use of e-ink screens has not only given my eyes a rest, but reduced distraction as well. Short review of what I've tried: POMERA/KINGJIM: https://kingjim.us/products/pomera-full-suite-typewrit
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by Papazsazsa 7mo ago
This is actually quite an insightful comment into the mindset of the tech set vs. the many writers and artists whose only 'boilerplate redundant code' is the language itself, and a loose aggregate of ideas and philosophies. Probab
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by Papazsazsa 8mo ago
You're presenting this as an argument against snobbery, but really it's an argument against all humanity.
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by Papazsazsa 8mo ago
"So if we apply OpenAI’s own formula [...] that is $3 trillion in datacenters between 2028 and 2030. Just for OpenAI."
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Sam Altman Turned $1T Non-Binding Commitments into a $100B Round(kakashiii111.substack.com)
5 points by Papazsazsa 8mo ago|2 comments
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by Papazsazsa 8mo ago
There is no un-poisoning of this well unfortunately. Whatever benefit USAID was offering should have been put under State long ago.
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by Papazsazsa 8mo ago
Two games: Domestic and Foreign Domestic 'gain' is fiscal + political + transparency. USAID was pass-through where taxpayer dollars flowed to NGOs and contractors whose missions aligned with whatever administration or congressiona
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by Papazsazsa 8mo ago
USAID is nowhere near the most effective nor the most important source of soft power for the U.S., just a highly visible one. Besides security guarantees/defense aegis, the heaviest lifters in U.S. soft power projection are structural
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by Papazsazsa 8mo ago
Whether DOGE's motivations were reform, political theater, or budget slashing is irrelevant to whether the underlying problem – IC integration into civilian development infrastructure – is a legitimate issue worth addressing. For peopl
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by Papazsazsa 8mo ago
1. USAID was never purely a soft power instrument and has extensive integration with the IC, including providing cover for destructive and often illegal programs, i.e. clandestine infra. 2. The "biggest erosion" framing ignores wh

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