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by afavour 5mo ago
Can’t speak for the OP but it’s often about what’s most valuable at different points in life. Depending on where you are in the US, having kids can be a formidable experience. Poor leave, expensive childcare, etc etc. It can change the calc
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by afavour 5mo ago
To be clear, no matter how it is phrased I’m going to report any kind of “you left this message in your cart” message as spam.
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by afavour 5mo ago
Two wrongs don’t make a right. Much of the HN audience lives in the US, giving money to the US is unavoidable in life. But in return we do have the democratic ability to try to alter the behavior of the country. It still makes sense to avoi
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by afavour 5mo ago
I’ll save you a click: yes, of course it was a no bid contract. And: > The procurement did not require the system to clear FedRAMP, the government’s security review for cloud systems handling sensitive data, before deployment. It describ
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by afavour 5mo ago
Oh, for sure. But I'm old enough to remember when standard IT tools would have never supported Node in the first place and the idea of JS on the server made everyone scream. You just need to build demand for that support.
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by afavour 5mo ago
I actually lost interest in Deno once it started leaning into NPM. I thought it was a bold and wise idea to make a clean break from the mess of Node and restart with a sensible ecosystem. Absent that... I'm just sticking with Node.
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by afavour 5mo ago
Goes to show how inoculated I am against banner ads I suppose. Either way part of me feels like it’s for the best. One off payment for lifetime membership of an app that has continual development isn’t a great business model.
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by afavour 5mo ago
Their site says $250? https://www.plex.tv/plans/
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by afavour 5mo ago
I actually think that's a great comparison but not for the reasons you're making it. I live in NYC. When the automobile started to get popular the city saw it as the future and went to extreme lengths to accommodate it. Bulldozed
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by afavour 5mo ago
> Hating work is good, wanting it to all be automated is good. Not without a concrete answer for how we all continue to survive and thrive when our jobs are replaced. And that's the part the AI boosters are silent on, beyond vague n
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by afavour 5mo ago
I think this attitude is part of the reason there's so much pushback. "it's here, it's staying, so shut up and like it". You're allowed to still hate something that ubiquitous. God knows a lot of people hate th
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by afavour 5mo ago
The tech giants already violated existing copyright laws when scraping for AI content and faced very few consequences. So far the government has shown an inability to enforce anything.
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by afavour 5mo ago
> aren't we supposed to reject these technologies that allow Google to Embrace, Extend, Extinguish In what way is this technology a means to embrace, extend and extinguish? This seems like a logical extension of existing web APIs. I
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by afavour 5mo ago
The really confusing part about the ad-supported sites is that most of them are supported by Google's ad products. So Google is eating their own lunch here.
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by afavour 5mo ago
I don’t disagree, I think the tea leaf reading is ultimately pretty futile. But at the same time I do think it’s valid to say it’s more than a coin flip. The polling data over the election cycle showed that Trump had a smaller but still leg
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by afavour 5mo ago
I think this gets to the core of why a lot of this election prediction stuff doesn't work. People just don't parse the numbers the way the authors intend. FiveThirtyEight had Trump at a 30% chance of winning, and he won. The model
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by afavour 5mo ago
In fairness I don't think that's Google's fault. Circa 2009 we were in a Cambrian explosion of possibility with mobile. These days the tech is just... fine.
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by afavour 5mo ago
I don’t think it does. I think it’s better phrased that he is market ing rather than a markete r . He can do whatever he wants to do, in return Anthropic gets to say “hey, this guy works with us!”
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by afavour 5mo ago
I hope price increases will mean we see serious moves towards open source and/or on device models. Feels like that's where we should all be headed but the current subsidy is a distraction.
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by afavour 5mo ago
Personally, I want to avoid the responsibility for hosting it myself. I'm happy to pay for that. But a reasonable amount. Today Bitwarden's price is fine for me, but I worry about what's coming.
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by afavour 5mo ago
> As much as I hate what gambling does on the society, I'm still not sure if banning this activity counts as freedom. I believe that grown consenting adults do have a free will and should have the ability to destroy their lives if t
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by afavour 5mo ago
OP specifically cited “reduce the footprint on the planet”
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by afavour 5mo ago
Both things can be true. Chrome supports a bunch of non standard APIs but it also has some of the best coverage of standard APIs.
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by afavour 5mo ago
> Not sure if it helps, but if we get our first blind user I will gladly make some admends to make it more usable for them. How will you know if they are unable to use your site? They'll just leave.
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by afavour 5mo ago
I don’t think that’s all that mattered. FiveThirtyEight was a strong brand, it was definitely worth something.
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by afavour 5mo ago
I don’t really think that’s weird. Hobbyists, just for the sake of it projects always get judged much less harshly than projects people’s work depends on.
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by afavour 5mo ago
I don't know that this has a ton to do with AI. Meta has had "fuck around" money for a very long time, the kind of money that let Zuckerberg hire a ton of people to make the Metaverse. And it let a lot of engineers work on th
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by afavour 5mo ago
Totally understandable, and probably another reason why morale is so low, as employees watch the stock price and their personal fortunes fall.
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by afavour 5mo ago
I still think/hope/pray the future will be on-device models that don't need constant retraining. That will blow up the existing business model but I think a company could still make good money with a "majority local&#x2F
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by afavour 5mo ago
My pessimistic take is that the majority of the population will simply never do that. Look at organized religion. One of its key promises is “behave in life and you’ll get everything you could ever dream of in the afterlife”. I don’t think

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