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by SQueeeeeL 3y ago
The ad-pocalypse has been happening for about 10 years. The interesting results from this particular event is that we all have first hand experience how horribly invasive systems can be created and utilized without concerns of the majority
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by SQueeeeeL 3y ago
MANNG is such a cursed acronym, it sounds like drive LinkedIn speech
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by SQueeeeeL 3y ago
Yeah, one of the fundamental tenants of behavioral economics is that economic structures drive how people interact in society. So rising rent prices create a less livable world
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by SQueeeeeL 3y ago
This is an incredibly amusing hacker news interaction. You are 100% in the right in terms of having a breadth of accurate and passionate knowledge about your topic and it being relevant to the discussion @chowells
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by SQueeeeeL 3y ago
"A robot pizza delivery startup that raised almost half a billion dollars has shut down after a series of technological setbacks, according to The Information." The answer feels pretty obvious. This whole thing was a vaporware pum
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by SQueeeeeL 3y ago
Yeah, but also it didn't snow much this winter in NYC, so I'm pretty sure this is all in the heads of the author. I look forward to the free market solving global warming while keeping stock prices at a reasonable level of profita
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by SQueeeeeL 3y ago
This sounds like a weird Neil Stephenson plot about the nature of choice in an AI controlled artificial world
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by SQueeeeeL 3y ago
Ahh yes, and random 23 year olds who in aggregate thought crypto made economic sense are definitely the crowd who we should trust to point out meaningful holes in that gospel
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by SQueeeeeL 3y ago
Don't you realize this is hacker news and baseless overconfident claims by random code bros that use "intuition" to argue against well established scientific knowledge trusted by domain experts is mandatory
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by SQueeeeeL 3y ago
People really are bizarre addicts. Companies will literally blatantly say they hate you and your moderately healthy use patterns; and people will desperately try to use the site until they eventually get around to killing the service
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by SQueeeeeL 3y ago
I've found most people who are deeply critical of peer review as a process (and not just how shady modern journals are) have never engaged in serious scientific work. They have no idea how lost in the weeds researchers can get, and how
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by SQueeeeeL 3y ago
I've seen no evidence that autonomous vehicle operations in cities is anything more than a novelty service
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by SQueeeeeL 3y ago
It's primarily being driven by a transition to low engagement media, such as social media and cable news, being the primary thought drivers of society. The average person was always pretty unwise, but they typically had to engage with
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by SQueeeeeL 3y ago
That's mostly assuming that "decorum" is kept, which is essentially the hallmark bellwether for geopolitical stability. A populis leader could hypothetically take and maintain power outside of established rules and laws (i.e.
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by SQueeeeeL 3y ago
Yeah, democracy is a fundamentally flawed system in that way, the Greeks were heavily aware of the popularity contest potential of it as a governing system. It's essentially the job of the "political elites" who heavily manip
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by SQueeeeeL 3y ago
I actually agree, but it seemed extremely obvious that he had no real desire to run and really wanted to step away from politics. But the current political system has become such that the only way one can become the top official is via &quo
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by SQueeeeeL 3y ago
It simply shows growing political instability of the US. We see this all over the place: the inability to successfully tackle major issues (shown by yearly fights over debts), bizarre socio-political ideas on the rise, and the last two hold
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by SQueeeeeL 3y ago
I have no idea what argument this comment is trying to make. All the comments in this thread seem to be pretty wild, so this is probably another one of those "Hacker News becomes unhinged when you bring up topic X" situations.
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by SQueeeeeL 3y ago
What do you mean it's debatable? The govt was literally spying on the whole country without any disclosure. The actual people who live and were being spied on have at least an idea of their true circumstances now.
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by SQueeeeeL 3y ago
> "Our access to publish service alerts was suspended last week and again this week,” This is the real headline. It seems like Twitter is actually starting to fail to maintain proper functioning of legitimate accounts. It's act
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by SQueeeeeL 3y ago
The 5 million was going to a programmer and it was some weird thing with encryption of data
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by SQueeeeeL 4y ago
They have blatantly shown a pretty large disregard for consumer safety multiple times, this really isn't surprising. Not using lidar and releasing "self-driving" modes which routinely caused accidents both come to mind. Telsa
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by SQueeeeeL 4y ago
Was Google really a beloved employer? I feel like that was vapor marketing hype most real people saw through as bs, you'd pretty much see constant stories of overwork and toxic teams run by incompetent "project managers" just
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by SQueeeeeL 4y ago
They've been trying to automate away the "grunge" work of building and managing complex software systems since the 80s. Trust me, we'll be fine
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by SQueeeeeL 4y ago
They have simply made this calculus and decided that there is no way to monetize the Facebook posts . It turns out minor attention engagement just doesn't get enough click throughs ever. Simply. The only things that can exist in earne
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by SQueeeeeL 4y ago
I'm not sure if it's in the best long term interest of the entire state if a few niche businesses based entirely around salmon fishing have a bad year. The calculus is those businesses will either struggle now or struggle forever
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by SQueeeeeL 4y ago
Is anyone surprised? It's been extremely obvious that all the players in the crypto space are incredibly shady grifters basically from the start. I honestly can't tell if the people on HN who constantly comment about crypto actu
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by SQueeeeeL 4y ago
Or just go work in the field for a while and actually build your network, gain experience, look for pain points amongst those in your field, and build a business that actually has a chance to solve problems affecting people
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by SQueeeeeL 4y ago
I used a similar service and experienced a lapse in care when one of my appointments randomly vanished and the therapist voided out of their system. Super weird, but I learned about bridge scripts...
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by SQueeeeeL 4y ago
The American system is too deeply tied to capital to have a policy that actually helps citizens and small businesses get passed. The second a government official proposed something like this, the espionage arms of the credit card corporatio

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