alephnan

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by alephnan 2y ago
If there is even a 1% chance irreparable damage is being done to 350 million Americans, chances should not be taken
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by alephnan 2y ago
OpenAI is not publicly traded
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by alephnan 2y ago
HN has a general tech audience including SWEs who are paid so much that they exhibit the Nobel Disease and fauxtrepeneurs who use AI as a buzzword. They exist on X too but the conversations are diffused. You’ll have a section of crypto bro
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by alephnan 2y ago
But TikTok is an entertainment, not utility, company
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by alephnan 2y ago
Why not just the tint the windows?
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by alephnan 2y ago
There was speculation whether a baseball player was actually behind his interpreters’ gambling scandal.
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by alephnan 2y ago
There are various comments about fixing matches. There’s a meme/“theory” in retail options trading about “max pain”. Wherein, the stock price will move as to maximize the total amount people lose on options.
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by alephnan 2y ago
This is just a fancy way of saying defenders have to defend every entrypoint vs attackers who only have to find a single point of weakness.
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by alephnan 2y ago
He has a lavish lifestyle and France is the capital of luxury
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by alephnan 2y ago
Pretty much all non-Japanese food in Japan is some form of “cultural appropriation” to the extent that it plays into stereotypes/tropes Japanese people expect from that given “cuisine”. For example, Italian would consist of lots of che
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by alephnan 2y ago
Seems like Chipotle provided private jets too https://www.reddit.com/r/Chipotle/comments/10w0dyg/comment/j...
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by alephnan 3y ago
People are using “allowlist” and “denylist” now even though the original words didn’t necessarily have racial connotations.
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by alephnan 3y ago
> have word "shonen" in its title. Right, meaning boy. Which I originally stated as not being a deep topic. So why try to pretend Shonen Jump is this progressive brand for universal audiences. Doing mental gymnastics to twist t
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by alephnan 3y ago
Did I say being male centric was bad? I didn’t. You misread and understand the sentence you quoted. I am not suggesting being less male centric is an improvement.
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by alephnan 3y ago
> can only see it through your cultural lens Thanks for this. I read this as you presuming me to be a Westerner Social Justice Warrior making gender progressive criticism. Rereading my comment, I can see how it may be interpreted this w
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by alephnan 3y ago
> The man just died, and your initial reaction is "but his work was male centric". Find a better time. Only if you're interpreting my comment to be a criticism . I never used the word "but" nor intended to detrac
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by alephnan 3y ago
> So? Are you implying that this makes it less important? OP claimed Dragon Ball is universal and transcendent. I'm merely nitpicking that it is not. Same as I would with barbie. > there's nothing wrong with that either. Did
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by alephnan 3y ago
> it doesn't imply Toriyama-san is innate sexist. Neither did I.
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by alephnan 3y ago
> It comes off as criticism of Dragon Ball for being aimed at boys, though I understand you did not actually intend that. You're right. It was not a criticism nor value judgement of Dragon Ball, Toriyama Akira, nor Japan. > nitpi
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by alephnan 3y ago
Well, some of the commentary are low quality and more akin to Reddit, but that’s a trend of HN in general. When we have RIP threads for people in Computer Scientists, atleast that’s within industry and people are 1-2 degrees of separation w
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by alephnan 3y ago
If there was an AI armageddon, this would be how it starts
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by alephnan 3y ago
How about with a crossbow?
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by alephnan 3y ago
Sounds like natural selection. The ones that had that intuition survived, and the ones that didn’t were removed from the gene pool.
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by alephnan 3y ago
Companies say they care about security, but don’t pay as much
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by alephnan 3y ago
Meanwhile, Japan entered recession last week.
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BuzzFeed Shares Nearly Double on Layoff Plans, $108.6M Complex Sale(marketwatch.com)
4 points by alephnan 3y ago|1 comments
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by alephnan 3y ago
So tax evasion and potential wire fraud
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by alephnan 3y ago
That sounds like a nit / premature optimization. Electricity is cheap. If this is sufficiently or actually important for your org, you should measure it yourself. There are too many variables and factors subject to your org’s hardware.
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by alephnan 3y ago
This is the flip side of “layoffs can’t be based on performance”
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by alephnan 3y ago
> But we rarely think about ethnic imperialism — an empire trying to gobble up neighboring polities because of linguistic and cultural similarity, so that it can be the ruler of a specific cultural sphere. (In fact, the British conquest

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