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by andrepd 9mo ago
? No, because (1) the distance is still short and (2) 2500km/h flight is uneconomical so it's never going to happen anyway.
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by andrepd 9mo ago
Well duh x) because the "train" is dogshit, that's exactly my point. If instead of a 28 lane highway there was a dirt road, or instead of an intl airport and jets there was a grassy field and biplanes, nobody would drive or f
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by andrepd 9mo ago
> claiming the world today is simply too screwed up to bring kids into is astounding. But that's not what I'm saying, so there's that. Anyway, everybody (barring the global ultra-poor) is obviously aware that their standar
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by andrepd 9mo ago
Would expect nothing less from someone self-styling as "rational optimist".
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by andrepd 9mo ago
1h flights are just wrong period. Just build a train.
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by andrepd 9mo ago
I don't use algorithmic social media and I'm looking at dozens of history books in my shelf as I type this. I can do without the patronising tone, thanks very much.
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by andrepd 9mo ago
Why would young people with dismal economic perspectives and a poisoned political system possibly be miserable? That doesn't take too much to understand.
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by andrepd 9mo ago
I'm very much into Rust but this article is precisely about the fact that Rust is not "better in every way"...
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by andrepd 9mo ago
They can't show you because that doesn't exist, and will likely never exist as long as the approach is "just scale LLMs lol". Once in a blue moon it will not completely fail and might even spit out something impressive a
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by andrepd 9mo ago
They were all a bunch of fascists (exalt the punch and the slap and all that), so the comparison is more than appropriate x)
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by andrepd 9mo ago
They are high on ego and self-importance, that they are.
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by andrepd 9mo ago
https://open-slum.org/
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by andrepd 9mo ago
Lisbon, Porto, and Dublin (that I know of among those) are all car-centric hellholes though. The only advantage they have compared to something like Houston Texas is old medieval / historic centres that force those zones at least not
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Mayor Mamdani Announces Complete Redesign on McGuinness Boulevard(nyc.gov)
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by andrepd 9mo ago
> Strongly disagree, it's why I'm not dying in a ditch of famine at the ripe age of 30. I'm obviously talking about the future of technology and not about technology in general. I agree that vaccines and antibiotics and
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by andrepd 9mo ago
> Why hire a builder to build your home? Why hire a mechanic to fix your car? Why pay a neighborhood kid to mow your lawn? Why hire a photographer for your wedding? Why hire a cook to make a meal? But precisely, "AI" is _NOT_ f
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by andrepd 9mo ago
There are more objective reasons to be pessimist about technology than optimist. There's mass surveillance, centralisation of power to an historically unprecedented degree, and algorithmic social media is destroying our community, cult
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by andrepd 9mo ago
Vultures doesn't even begin to describe it.
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by andrepd 9mo ago
5000 years of civilisation and a sizeable chunk of the population of first-world countries still doesn't understand why law and courts are better than "just kill people who are le bad". Let's not even talk about the kill
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by andrepd 9mo ago
Trump has spent the last year (decade actually) doing a disgraceful show of pleasing a dictator who invaded his neighbour. To say nothing of his own authoritarian projects at home. And let's not even get started about Netanyahu. How ca
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by andrepd 9mo ago
In all that rant you forget that there's a difference between paying 3$ to buy "hope" and excitement until next week's draw, and compulsively buying scratch cards with abysmal odds several times a day. The latter is a re
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by andrepd 9mo ago
Of course they are possible! But it would take a fraction of a day's tuition to pay for a TA to do it, so they want to make a god damn chatbot to do it... Good lord. They're even more possible if you do an oral exam only on the
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by andrepd 9mo ago
There are phrases that hn loves and "scalable" is one of them. Here, it is particularly inappropriate. Some people dream that technology (preferably duly packaged by for-profit SV concerns) can and will eventually solve each and
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by andrepd 9mo ago
> sports arenas and social services and vanity projects and three-star dorms One of these is not like the others.
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by andrepd 9mo ago
There are phrases that hn loves and "scalable" is one of them. Here, it is particularly inappropriate. Some people dream that technology (preferably duly packaged by for-profit SV concerns) can and will eventually solve each and
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by andrepd 9mo ago
Chastity is 100% effective at preventing STDs exactly like living in a plastic bubble is 100% effective at preventing the flu (incidentally, it's also 100% effective at preventing humanity from existing within 80 years...). The fact th
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by andrepd 9mo ago
You're replying on a post that shows a literal >16x reduction in prevalence, with "just don't be a slut, worked for thousands of years". I'd invite you to look up the prevalence of STDs during the most puritanica
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by andrepd 9mo ago
> I'm aware that Battlefield series and League of Legends won't work I consider this a feature, not a bug
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by andrepd 9mo ago
By definition anything is preferable to global nuclear holocaust, so I'm not sure where you want to go with your argument.
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by andrepd 9mo ago
Hard disagree. How many paragraphs of fawning over the unique culture of the Bay Area must I endure before he arrives at the point? Such gems as > I like SF house parties, where people take off their shoes at the entrance and enter a spa

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