SimianSci

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by SimianSci 8mo ago
It really does look to be a rewrite of ChromeOS to make it a native Android experience with very few tweaks to the User experience that I can see. I think it's a good idea on Google's part. The trend of consumers using mobiles as
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by SimianSci 8mo ago
Altman's Law: 99% of all content is slop I can get behind this. This assumes a tool will need to be made to help determine the 1% that isn't slop. At which point I assume we will have reinvented web search once more. Has anyone lo
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by SimianSci 9mo ago
I've been researching the usage of Developer tooling at mine and other organizations for years now and I'm genuinely trying to understand where agentic coding fits into the evolving landscape. One of the most solid things im begin
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by SimianSci 9mo ago
To put it very simply, I and other Americans I discuss this with have absolutely zero faith that all of the promises being made around AI will lead to a better life. For one, if AI stands to threaten our jobs, these jobs are critical to our
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by SimianSci 10mo ago
I see the Christofascism as more a flavor of the month than a serious unifying ideology. Religion has always been a tool used by those in power to gain favorability with people at scale. But history tells us it is easily manipulated and twi
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by SimianSci 10mo ago
I see this as a downstream issue of a greater issue needing to be solved. Many American's risk homelessness and violence outside of the corporate world. The control over money used for housing and healthcare lies entirely within the ha
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by SimianSci 10mo ago
ICE has more funding now as a domestic law-enforcement agency than almost every military on the planet. If we need to fund the "arrest of illigal immigrants" to such an amount as this, can you please explain to me how other countr
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by SimianSci 10mo ago
Its pretty clear that ICE is being used as a means of forming an industry similar to that of the Military Industrial complex, but focused on law-enforcement and domestic action. What alarms me here is that once a certain level of investment
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by SimianSci 10mo ago
I would implore you to empathize with the American working class, who have seen their living standards continuously deteriorate over multiple generations. I know the hackernews audience skews more affluent and wealthy, with demographics pul
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by SimianSci 10mo ago
> "US Technology benfits from these graduates' work even if they leave." Can someone please substatiate this claim? Many people I know are begining to question this and Id like to know more.
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by SimianSci 10mo ago
While indeed a positive outlook, I think alot of Americans are beginning to wonder what the benefit will be to them. The isolationist and xenophobic rhetoric of recent years is mostly a reaction to a growing sense that increasingly few Amer
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by SimianSci 10mo ago
Wouldn't the easy answer to this be increased efficiency of RAM usage? RAM being plentiful and cheap led to a lot of software development being very RAM-unaware, allowing the inefficiencies of programs to be mostly obfuscated from the
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by SimianSci 10mo ago
Vague whataboutisms aside, at least governments can be changed more easily than waiting for a single individual to die off or be hanged/guillotined.
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by SimianSci 10mo ago
I see multiple comments regarding his actual views. Its been pointed out multiple times that hes a believer in a dark-enlightenment, where democracy has run its course and the power should be taken from ordinary people and centralized to th
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by SimianSci 10mo ago
free speech absolutism sounds fair in a vacuum but neglects the power disparity that wealth provides in a connected world. Free Speech is not the concept of anyone can say anything without rules. Its about the ability for those without powe
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by SimianSci 10mo ago
Wealth is allowing people to buy consent for their worldviews these days. this is an incredibly naiive take.
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by SimianSci 11mo ago
Adafruit is wrong here A missing piece of the puzzle that i feel is ommitted in Adafruits posting, is that the changes only affect the Arduino Cloud Services, which provide various github-like services for the arduino ecosystem. Looking ove
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by SimianSci 11mo ago
The last time this happened in America it gave rise to Progressivism. Mandani is the first in a long line of corrective actions that American society needs to make in order to correct itself and not deteriorate into neo-feudalism.
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by SimianSci 11mo ago
This goes to where our wealthiest people no longer invest in our society. We used to use a progressive tax system as the means of helping this process along, but I dont think anyone can argue that this has since been subverted.
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by SimianSci 11mo ago
I think Thiel's right, though I despise the man immensly for unrelated reasons. I grew up wildly excited about the capitalist world of promise and meritocracy in which I was going to grow to be a man. I never had grand ambitions of bec
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by SimianSci 11mo ago
No, but I dont think it matters if wealth truly translates as a 1:1 relationship. What matters is that the wealthy specifically invest in the mobility of wealth itself. They will absolutely pay a premium to make the wealth move more easily
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by SimianSci 11mo ago
We have more companies that can be classified as monopolies in existence than ever before. In principal our market is not a zero sum game, but in practice we see it quickly collapsing to become one. How many of the billionaires you mention
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by SimianSci 11mo ago
I call it Rent-seeking, of which, subscription fees are just a part. The biggest issue here is that the "meta" of capitalism has turned to toll booths and rent collection. This is why people say that American capitalism is turning
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by SimianSci 11mo ago
"America’s problem isn’t that we lack wealth - we have enormous wealth - it’s that we’ve made our wealth invisible while letting everything visible decay in a way. We’ve inverted the formula." In a way, I see this as our unwilling
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by SimianSci 1y ago
If OpenAI can pull this off, couldnt Google just do the same with its Gemini Product and start using their scale to compete more directly? Perhaps the sentiment isnt as negative as OpenAI lacks any sort of mote here to keep competitors from
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by SimianSci 1y ago
Being reminded of how Sychophantic OpenAI's models can be and coupling this with the parent comment makes me unreasonably upset.
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by SimianSci 1y ago
OpenAI desperately wants to compete at the same level as the big tech firms. While their only successful product is impressive, it is doubtful that its success alone can sustain them beyond the first 'downturn' of their value in t
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by SimianSci 1y ago
"long list of people canceled for making content that displeased the Democrats" If we exclude the people advocating violence and discrimination against others due to their immutable characteristics, we find that its not such a &qu
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by SimianSci 1y ago
Brendan Carr is overwhelmingly partisan and suprisingly unqualified for the role he occupies as the Chair of the FCC. Anyone paying attention to his actions over his time in office is not surprised by this outcome. Carr has been regularly g
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by SimianSci 1y ago
An Arms Race isnt your regular race, its just running on a treadmill. There is no end, and the only thing you do is hope you dont collapse of exhaustion before your competition does. All the while, new competitors keep joining in. If I reca

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