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by appreciatorBus 3mo ago
I don't know a single person under 80 outside of tech who isn't using ChatGPT or more on a regular basis. If you really think everyone hates it, you are being very selective in your information/opinion sources. Yes 100% of l
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by appreciatorBus 3mo ago
> amid growing worker opposition lol this is not "worker opposition", these are the antics of over educated downwardly mobile elites.
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by appreciatorBus 3mo ago
I think fossil fuel taxes are a great idea, but if one consumer, data centers, should pay it, shouldn't all consumers (private car owners) pay it too? That's the only way we'll be able to make good decisions about what types
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by appreciatorBus 3mo ago
Productivity is important, even if the immaterial aspects that contribute to it can’t be precisely measured. Productivity is the reason that only 2% the population works in agriculture and the only way we can afford to maintain a space stat
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by appreciatorBus 3mo ago
TBF most ppl reading/posting on HN are part of the elite. Elite doesn't imply "more money than I know what to do with" it simply means being closer to the upper end the of income and/or wealth distribution, or faili
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by appreciatorBus 3mo ago
With all due respect, if you bought a house during a frothy market, and you use words like “mid-century modern, you are 100% part of the elite class, even if you don’t consider yourself rich. Maybe you are part of the top 10% instead of the
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by appreciatorBus 3mo ago
I am skeptical this is the origin of modern decor. The trend away from ornamentation, toward simplicity, flatness, etc in design goes back several generations and transcends interior design. If the thesis was true, we'd expect rich pe
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by appreciatorBus 3mo ago
I would wager that almost every civilization has been some other civilization’s sea people at some point in it’s history.
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An orbital StormWall could mitigate the next Carrington event(hackaday.com)
2 points by appreciatorBus 3mo ago|0 comments
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AI bills are baffling the C-suite after shift to usage-based pricing(theregister.com)
12 points by appreciatorBus 3mo ago|0 comments
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by appreciatorBus 3mo ago
Nah. Workers in 2026, even non-tech workers have an easier life than workers alive at any other point in human history. Yes ofc there are problems - collectivist land use laws that ban construction near homeowners continue to drive housing
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by appreciatorBus 3mo ago
The mega corp is making 3.98% profit. Sure you could focus all your time at Starbucks on that 3.98%, but most of us would focus on the other 96% which is helping customers.
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by appreciatorBus 3mo ago
If you find that sort of work, tedious and monotonous, then I think that says more about you than the job. I’ve been a janitor, a barista and a software developer, and they all are fascinating and fulfilling in different ways. Of course if
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Midtown NYC building 'shifting' and in danger of 'localized collapse'(nypost.com)
3 points by appreciatorBus 3mo ago|0 comments
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by appreciatorBus 3mo ago
If service to others and to society mean anything to you, working in Starbucks or any fast food job will teach you more about humanity and human society than most college grads learn from a humanities degree.
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by appreciatorBus 3mo ago
Just because they already spent the money yesterday, it does not follow that the best decision today is to just carry on as if was still the correct decision. Yes they cannot get that 70B back, but if they have to choose between: 1. a long
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by appreciatorBus 3mo ago
Imagine that AI lives up to its promise, gets captured by unaccountable bureaucrats and socialist dictators, ushering in a world of untouchable über-oligarchs that de facto rule the world. Would it have been worth it then? Can this problem
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Real time map of France's rail network(carto.tchoo.net)
44 points by appreciatorBus 3mo ago|12 comments
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by appreciatorBus 3mo ago
How is it surveillance for an organization that operates a fleet of trains, to know where the trains are? Even if there were no such thing as GPS, simply the act of running a fleet of trains or trucks or buses on a schedule, means that anyo
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by appreciatorBus 3mo ago
What you neglected to mention is that your app is free. If this is something you’re able to do and people like it, I think that’s great. However, the post is about a paid app and that’s going to have a significant influence on the type of s
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by appreciatorBus 3mo ago
This is poster’s last show HN; homepage features some 16,000 user claim. App appears to be free, which I suspect will rather drastically change the composition of incoming support messages. https://macrocodex.app/
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by appreciatorBus 3mo ago
Copyright is not an unalloyed good. In small doses, and short terms, I might agree with your classification. But when copyright is 150 years It no longer has anything to do with reward for the author or encourage you creativity, it’s just a
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by appreciatorBus 3mo ago
There is nothing about collectivism, socialism or communism that guarantees they would be any better stewards of our environment than the status quo. Again, there’s a track record and it’s not good. There are many ways our economic system i
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by appreciatorBus 3mo ago
That people of means could assist those who do not, does not at all imply that people of means who say they are assisting are actually assisting. The road to hell and involuntary collectivism is paved with good intentions.
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by appreciatorBus 3mo ago
> These were not people starving; they were aggrieved that they were in the 90th percentile rather than the 99th. Surveys show progressive activists are wealthier, whiter, and more highly educated than the average American. They are near
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by appreciatorBus 3mo ago
It does, but then we have to decide which context is relevant, and who decides which context is relevant, which quickly gets us back to "me good, you bad" unless you have something else to bring to the table. History did not begi
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by appreciatorBus 3mo ago
"My violence is good, your violence is bad"
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by appreciatorBus 3mo ago
Will there also be footage from Oct 7?
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by appreciatorBus 3mo ago
> I want to pose a question: Is it possible that online users just have nonstop shiny object syndrome, and even if forums worked correctly and did the job, users would still move onto something else because we’re never happy? I think the
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by appreciatorBus 3mo ago
Why does it seem more ethical for the organization that makes your daily bread to be democratic? I have no doubt that there are people who wish to attend meetings to vote and argue about minutia involves in the running of bakeries and other

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