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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
It's a reference to the Chappell Roan album "The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess" which has been a smash hit this summer.
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
Cheaper movies in terms of cost are often better than expensive movies because they have a humanity that shows through. Let me know when an AI can make a Jon Carpenter movie
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
I don't think that's true at all. Duchamp's "Fountain" is an example of something that is profoundly impactful, didn't "cost" him anything, yet an AI could never reproduce it.
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
In specific genres of game where the developers put a lot of effort into the mechanics to facilitate procedural generation, yes it's interesting. You can't tell me Dwarf Fortress was fast and easy to make because fortresses are pr
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
My favorite quote on this topic is "Why should I bother to read something you didn't bother to write?" Especially when you're talking about fiction and reading/watching for enjoyment, what does it matter if you can
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
If you don't like them leeching money from small businesses, you'll hate the army of overworked support staff (formerly "gurus") who are constantly on the precipice of being downsized and asked to turn over calls faster
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
This post is just weird AI vomit, it's completely incoherent.
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
Salesforce bought Heroku in 2011. Also every cloud provider has an in-house "good enough" PaaS at this point.
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
If you don't trust risk-limitjng audits, you're never gonna trust any voting system. Someone has to administer the system, do the counting, sum up the totals, etc.
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
We need a housing policy reset, the OAPs shouldn't have the majority of their retirement assets tied up in a 1.4M illiquid house. They need an affordable off-ramp to downsize, and we need to build more affordable housing to deflate the
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
Ah yes all those billionaires trying to jump the turnstiles. Between that and trying to sleep under bridges they're a menace.
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
It's amazing how much bureaucracy they're willing to spend money on to means-test a fundamental service. If you just made transit free at the point of service you wouldn't have free cards for all under 16, and some over 16, a
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
"thought experiments" like this are worse than useless, it's a way for people on the internet to discuss any hypothetical topic without actually knowing anything. You take some contrarian view and say "yes if I construct
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
OP is being facetious, the "last 20%" is a common saying implying that you've back-loaded the hard part of a task.
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
By this rationale the moon landing also never happened, because everyone from NASA was incentivized to lie about it. Why bother even going when you could fake it?
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
Trying to receive mail or apply for public benefits can be difficult without a permanent address. There's a stigma associated with applying for jobs if you can't list an address. Edit: I agree single-family homes are insane, the s
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
I wouldn't take OP's word for it, if they really believe they know how it's going to react in every situation in the first place. Studies have shown this is a gross overestimation of their own ability to pay attention.
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
I'm glad you came around, yes the correct solution is to eat Sam Altman and not to let him invent his own private currency.
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
Does poverty not also ruin lives? There's room for people to disagree about the specifics but the lack of widespread wealth redistribution has certainly killed a lot of people as well, it's just easier to ignore than a war.
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
Anyone in any profession can have burnout. Set money aside, set boundaries, have a life outside of work. It's not exclusive to computer programmers, and there's lots of worse burnout-inducing jobs that pay less.
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
What actually ended apartheid was international pressure and the white government's fear of a civil war. Economically isolated and vastly outnumbered, the apartheid government would have been completely removed from the country and had
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
Homeostasis is a powerful force. Once you gain weight your body has a tendency to keep it, and overcoming that to establish a new equilibrium is difficult and uncomfortable.
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
Billionaire oligopolies are everywhere, this isn't a uniquely Canadian problem. TFA points out we live in an era of Gilded Age inequality.
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
Making the bus more useful for more people has the opposite effect. The people who are currently on the bus are people with no other option. The population on the bus, on average, is only going to get less "undesirable" (to the HN
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
There are men and women who, at least professionally, just go by Charlie. So it's kind of moot if it's on their birth certificate, you can't tell their gender by name.
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
My guy, I know lots of autistic people. You're not coming across as autistic, you're giving straight up Napoleon marching into Russia with this one.
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
There's many English names that aren't gendered ex. Morgan, Casey, Charlie, Jayme (plus Taylor and Bobby as mentioned previously)
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
It's amazing how something that should be a public utility has been carved up by private equity and sold to a foreign company. Greyhound has completely stopped operating in Canada and the impact has been tremendous.
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
I think it's substantial to say that AI is currently overhyped because it's hitting a weak spot in human cognition. We sympathize with inanimate objects. We see faces in random patterns. If a machine spits out some plausible looki
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by bdndndndbve 2y ago
The current AI hype wave has really hit a nerd soft spot - that we're steps away from AGI. Surely if a computer can make plausible-looking but incorrect sentences we're days away from those sentences being factually accurate! The

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