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by alexb_ 4y ago
The idea that "will my life ever have meaning" and "will I be forced to work for all of eternity" is just bikeshedding is absolutely ludicrous. What is with this new thing where we call death a "disease" anyway
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So what happens if we eliminate aging? Would we be doomed to work until the end of time, forever being in a state where you don't have enough money for the infinite retirement?
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Digital can steal all they want but if the thing you have attached to the ad ends up costing more than the ad gives you, market share means nothing. All this means is you lose even more money.
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YouTube being a billion user product has nothing to do with how successful they are. My free service of "Contact me and I will give you a dollar" can grow to billions of users if you borrow enough money, and don't care at all
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AI is not the issue here. There is this very large assumption that just so happens to underpin a VERY large part of the tech industry, not just Google. It is assumed that ad spending will always be worth it, ad revenue will always increas
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by alexb_ 4y ago
It's unfortunate that Hacker News doesn't support bold text. I would have bolded it if I could - it seems like a lot of people replying to me completely missed that I don't actually agree with any of these arguments, and am j
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by alexb_ 4y ago
Let me be clear that I do not agree at all, in any way with this argument, I'm just answering your question as to what the opinion of people who like this think. There are books which contain explicit depictions of sex between teenag
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by alexb_ 4y ago
This sounds like an amazing code-golf-esque project. You would also have to store the last move made by a side to determine if en passant is legal, if the kings can castle, as well as which side is to move. Reserved values could be used for
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Honestly I read this the first time and thought you were making a suggestion as to how the game should be changed. I love the idea but the design and explanation is just awful.
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>If I had bad service, I should not be obligated to tip. But society has decided that I owe a 15-25% service fee to my waiter even if the service sucked. Says who? Just don't tip if you hate the service. That's what I do.
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To people replying to this saying that customers don't like it - do you have literally anything to back that up other than you not liking it?
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Cash is needed for a free society as it's one of the last ways you can actually have transactions without being mercilessly tracked by large businesses and governments. Getting rid of tipping is another step closer to "cashless so
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Servers like it, customers like it, business owners like it, clearly we must get rid of it
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Stupid question: the article says that each module can produce 50 megawatts. What is the time of that number? Like how many people can have their energy needs met by one module?
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by alexb_ 4y ago
You can read the safety evaluation here: https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/smr/licensing-acti...
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I'm starting to wonder if you even read my comment. So let me just repeat for you: >Gwin has lived in San Francisco for 45 years. He said this confrontation was the result of multiple attempts to get the woman help, after he spent d
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by alexb_ 4y ago
>To try to say homeless people are commit financial violence by not having homes is something that I'm not going to entertain. I'm not saying that. I am saying that because the guy would refuse to leave and would physically blo
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Mr. Coffee perfected the effort/quality ratio 50 years ago. I'm not performing a giant routine to get 5% better coffee when a drip machine costs 10 bucks and makes a perfectly fine cup of joe
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At what point does camping outside of your business and preventing people from coming in count as financial violence? If having complaints with the police and city management is as effective as yelling into the sky, how is that a solution?
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CBS had a report on this[0] that is illuminating: >Gwin has lived in San Francisco for 45 years. He said this confrontation was the result of multiple attempts to get the woman help, after he spent days cleaning up her mess and letting h
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by alexb_ 4y ago
>Google knows Youtube is no longer the money maker it once was Implying YouTube literally ever made money lmfao
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Going to repost this from reddit: This is a garbage article that tries to lump very valid concerns about who decides the moral compass of AI with "everything is WOKE!" conservatives. If you've ever used ChatGPT, you know that
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>Until it starts generating PROFIT, anything else like: clean code, unit testing etc, makes zero sense. And also for the record, whenever I'm trying to figure out where something went wrong, commit are not the thing I look at, it&#x
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I refuse to believe this comment is anything but a troll.
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You've got it exactly right. There are a lot of people here who are completely deluded into the "move fast and break things" mindset not realizing that sometimes you really do not want to move fast, because you REALLY do
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Nice! Knew once I thought about it that someone had to have done it already.
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I've often wondered why a service doesn't exist that allows you to rent out your graphics card for the large data processing needed for training models. Like mining bitcoin except you are doing something actually useful and gettin
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>The data, when paired with prior months’ lower-than-expected readings, point to more consistent signs that inflation is easing and may pave the way for the Fed to downshift to a quarter-point hike at their next meeting ending Feb. 1. I
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Where are all of the people using twitter now going to go when they finally run out of money? It's clear Mastodon/fediverse is an absolute failure at keeping people around, so what's next? Are we all going to move to personal
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>I am a bit mad at myself for not even thinking about that. I know people who still use flip phones and this basically segments them out even further Don't worry, you're in good company - increasingly a gigantic amount of syste

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