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by achenet 3mo ago
from TFA: > Em dashes can be used instead of brackets in a sentence — like this one for example — and you can just type your shit and keep going. Brackets are for people who raise their hand in meetings and say: “this might be a stupid q
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by achenet 3mo ago
Forgive the uninformed question, but doesn't Saudi Arabia also have significant armed forces? Given that Iran has closed the Straights of Hormuz and attacked several other Arab states, and has conducted strikes in Saudia Arabia itself,
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by achenet 3mo ago
if your sole goal is making money, yes, because Microsoft have actually done a pretty good job of making money, even if that's generally at the cost of the well-being of people using their software.
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by achenet 3mo ago
I'd argue that generally speaking, the problematic social media tend to be ad-supported websites that focus on user-generated content. so Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Reddit are all social-media, because all are ad-supported, and a
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The Law of Shitty Clickthroughs(andrewchen.com)
2 points by achenet 3mo ago|0 comments
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by achenet 3mo ago
<HN is the 'well actually' capital of the internet> well actually , it's Ronald McDonald, not Donald McDonald (but Donald Duck's first name is indeed Donald) </HN is the 'well actually' capital o
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by achenet 3mo ago
sorry for the stupid quesiton, but why do you use Emacs daily if you consider the performance atrocious and the foundations unsound? Do you have to use it for work? Do you just consider other editors to be even worse, so Emacs is the best o
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by achenet 3mo ago
yeah, that is honestly a good win, going from awful side effects of prohibition to intelligent legalization. Even cannabis has been largely legalized, although there is the opiate epidemic to worry about now. Still, overall, I feel like dru
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by achenet 3mo ago
> what he did Obviously, calling out for violence and building organizations that commit atrocious acts of violence is a bad thing. However, it is really hard to do without the help of others. If you start arguing that your country sho
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by achenet 3mo ago
> As for WW3, well, there's a diaper-wearing senile old man, with an inferiority complex to boot, in charge of a nuclear arsenal and major conventional forces. Wait, which one are you talking about? Putin? Trump? Nethanyayu? Kim Jon
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by achenet 3mo ago
human beings are not always perfect communicators, regrettably. Luckily, other humans can 'clear things up' :)
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by achenet 3mo ago
Why do you refer to "good propaganda"? The piece compares the USA and 100 years ago. He notices that we are still in a time of large social change, often in some of the same areas, while also noting that we are materially more com
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by achenet 3mo ago
Personally, I really liked both your writing and the fact that you took the time to flesh out the main point. Thanks for taking the time to write this up and share it ^_^
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by achenet 4mo ago
the two party system is, in my opinion, unlikely to go away without electoral reform to change election at all levels of American government from "winner takes all" to "proportional representation", if Duverger's la
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Companies are scrambling to curtail soaring AI costs(economist.com)
2 points by achenet 4mo ago|0 comments
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by achenet 4mo ago
Solidly prophetic? Er, it kind of predicts the internet, but everything else? Quebec separatism? Corporate sponsored calendar? All of North America under the same flag? Dumping toxic waste in/on Québec instead of Africa ? none of thi
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by achenet 4mo ago
I recommend you read the book "Pimp" by Iceberg Slim, about a Black America in the early/mid 20th century. Personally speaking, I found the book very 'awe-inspiring'/it made me go 'wow' a bunch, becau
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by achenet 5mo ago
thanks for your reply ^^ It'll probably take me a while to grok it all, but I appreciate you taking the time to educate me, thank you ^^
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by achenet 5mo ago
Any resources you'd recommend to learn economics? I have a hard time seeing how "I'd like to live in a world where everyone is equally cared for" accidentally leads to "others must suffer for me to be better cared f
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by achenet 5mo ago
> power laws basically spoil it because it gives a hard worker an exponential advantage s/hard worker/person with more capital/ I can make 500 euros from a day of consulting as a software engineer. That's a typical da
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by achenet 5mo ago
I really hate to call people stupid, but I would actually go ahead and call people who choose option B idiots. I'm sorry if that offends anyone reading this, you can downvote me out of spite if that makes you feel better. I say this be
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by achenet 5mo ago
arguably, capital is also value. If you have a machine that makes widgets, which requires people to operate, the machine (capital) without anyone operating it (labor) is worthless, but if you have people (labor) without any machine (capit
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by achenet 5mo ago
not the person you're replying to, but someone who agrees with the gist of their message - I personally use Claude Code as a better Google search for debugging and syntax. It used to be "oh, why am I getting an error on line 352,
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by achenet 5mo ago
relevant Derek Sivers article "Delegate, don't Abdicate" https://sive.rs/abdicate there's a difference between having the LLM write stuff for you, checking it yourself, modifying it and merging it yourse
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by achenet 5mo ago
for STEM topics, I feel like some amount of "personal study time" is kind of needed to really grok stuff, at least for a percentage of students. I studied maths, and spending time alone trying to solve problems and redoing the pro
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by achenet 5mo ago
You can always nationalize ;)
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by achenet 5mo ago
The facebook/meta algo might be same for all users, but it had different inputs for each user. HN, on the other hand, everyone has the same front page. If I like a post I can favorite it to 'bookmark' it, but HN won't mo
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by achenet 5mo ago
Yes. Fascism isn't government making laws, fascism is "we're the superior race, kill anyone who disagrees". I wouldn't call this move fascism, even if can be considered a bit heavy handed.
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by achenet 5mo ago
mainframe industry vs personal computers. If their product is "access to a big model running on a really big computer" (if we can count 'multiple data-centers' as a single enormous distributed computer), then the product
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by achenet 5mo ago
This is beautiful, makes me wish I'd made it. Excellent work, thank you for sharing it with us ^_^

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