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by alexb_ 3y ago
Smart phones give complete access to social media at literally every single waking hour . They are practically one and the same.
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This is totally what a healthy and non-addictive thing does to children, right? Children being socially pressured into lying to their parents and hiding what they do is something that happens with drugs. The fact that it happens with smartp
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by alexb_ 3y ago
There is so much instant dismissal of this entire idea that smartphones are harmful in this thread, most of which is just "correlation is not causation". Yes, correlation does not equal causation. But when it makes logical sense w
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by alexb_ 3y ago
I don't care how "hateful" I'm being. Making a LLM do stock picks and then telling people who don't know any better that it's a reliable way to invest money is something that will cause someone to lose their sa
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by alexb_ 3y ago
You're using a language model to give retail investors that don't know any better financial advice? This is a horrendous idea that will probably get you sued if you act like it's an investment strategy. Financial advice, like
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by alexb_ 3y ago
Am I reading this correctly that your suggestion is to stop writing sex and violence in fiction because it might trigger people?
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by alexb_ 3y ago
Don't use ad services that collect user data and serve personalized ads. Find someone who actually wants to advertise THEIR AD on YOUR SITE, and present it as regular content. If you are trying to subvert people's ad block, you ar
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by alexb_ 3y ago
Then they still wouldn't be at fault. It's not their fault that the society Baltimore has crafted is so low trust that you can't leave your car outside for a second without it getting stolen.
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by alexb_ 3y ago
Kia could sell their cars with a giant button that says "BYPASS LOCK AND START IGNITION WITHOUT KEY" and it still wouldn't be their fault, at all.
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by alexb_ 3y ago
How is it Hyundai's fault that people steal cars? It's acting as if theives are some force of nature that we can't control or something. You prevent theft by putting theives in jail. It's not complicated.
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by alexb_ 3y ago
It's easy to say it's never acceptable when it's not your life savings that have been stolen.
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by alexb_ 3y ago
This game was made by a political action group for startups. Here is their agenda: https://engineis.squarespace.com/s/Startup-Policy-Agenda-202...
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by alexb_ 3y ago
Which I will absolutely never be doing.
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by alexb_ 3y ago
If the logic works in this direction, it works in the other direction too - are you saying we should shut down renewable energy so that the price of energy goes up and consumption of it goes down accordingly?
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by alexb_ 3y ago
>I've posted over 100,000 tweets This is not the flex you think it is. If you've been on for 15 years that's 18 tweets, constantly, every single day. That's an absurd number.
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by alexb_ 3y ago
For those not wanting to download a PDF: >At this time, agency personnel are not authorized to use Artificial Intelligence tools (e.g., ChatGPT, OpenAI, etc.) for official use. In the interim, EPA has blocked access to them. >Backgrou
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by alexb_ 3y ago
Frictionless competition in an economic vacuum does not exist. It especially doesn't exist in the US, where foreign car manufacturers are banned from selling their superior, smaller, efficient, lower tech cars that have everything I ac
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by alexb_ 3y ago
Nope, absolutely fucking none of that. The "baby" in here is not a baby, it is a gigantic pile of dogshit that seconds as a tracking device. I'm more than happy to get rid of all of it.
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by alexb_ 3y ago
"It's okay that they lock things behind subscriptions because how else would they pay for the mechanisms necessary to lock things behind subscriptions"
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by alexb_ 3y ago
...Are you of the impression that people like this? People hate it. It's like, the one thing everyone complains about all the time when flying. How did you get to the conclusion that people like this about flights
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by alexb_ 3y ago
>to have similar profit margins as FAANG and thus increase my compensation Why would they do this? They have enough labor working for the money they give already. If their profits doubled, why on earth would their labor costs go up too i
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by alexb_ 3y ago
You are exactly describing what all of these banks did. What happens to the value of 4% bonds if interest rates go to 6%? What about if people want their money back before the bond duration is up, so you have to sell the 4% bonds in a 6% en
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by alexb_ 3y ago
Why do people pretend like Chegg is an educational site that exists for any purpose other than cheating? The entire point of Chegg is to look at the answers. It got big because when you search a question, word for word, it comes up in Chegg
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by alexb_ 3y ago
This is one of the few tom7 videos that I see and am utterly confused by in every way. It feels like he's speaking a different language than I am.
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by alexb_ 3y ago
No it isn't. If you ask a child what comes after infinity, "Infinity + 1" is pretty much the default answer. Any kid who knows multiplication knows "Infinity + Infinity" is the same as "Infinity Times Two"
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by alexb_ 3y ago
Disgust is not a rational reason to dislike things.
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Failing to mention Gothamchess is weird - he's a 10 times bigger pusher of chess than Ben Finegold.
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by alexb_ 3y ago
>the only effect of the warning is to scare people Good. If you're not familiar with what sudo does, then you shouldn't be using it in the first place.
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by alexb_ 3y ago
Funny enough, I'm actually developing an AI-powered biomedical technological breakthrough that's about to disrupt the medical industry. It uses wearables to enable a blockchain-enabled data management system that also functions as
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by alexb_ 4y ago
Cloud turning a profit is a good thing, and makes sense. But cloud is also a super competitive market - not so for Search or Ads. Those two feel like the places Google can rely on money coming from - revenue falling for those is worrying!

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