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by bgun 3y ago
Right in principle but wrong attribution of agency. The evil use the stupid to stay in power.
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by bgun 3y ago
This is a very interesting assertion - can you provide a source or information on how to learn more about this?
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by bgun 3y ago
It’s not the hottest summer of your life, it’s the coolest summer for the rest of your life!
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by bgun 3y ago
Not sure which came first or if it’s an even older saying, but Mythbusters said the same thing. https://youtu.be/BSUMBBFjxrY
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Tune Your Motor Cortex(bewelltuned.com)
1 points by bgun 3y ago|1 comments
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Reddit’s fight with powerful users enters new phase as blackout continues(cnn.com)
19 points by bgun 3y ago|3 comments
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by bgun 3y ago
This is an unfair take. Whatever you think of Meta as a corporation or Zuckerberg as a person, neither caused the Rohingya crisis, much less the conflict; and while it's fair to argue that FB/Meta could have done more to stem hate
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by bgun 3y ago
I read his book "UNSONG" awhile back and found it equally enjoyable to his blog writing, with the added advantage that it lasted for days.
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by bgun 3y ago
Old books are how they passed down knowledge about drugs, which absolutely included hallucinogens and psychedelics. We just made them illegal because modern chemistry, manufacturing and trade made powerful chemicals too accessible for worke
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by bgun 3y ago
History can be "profoundly shaped" by more than whoever was President of the United States at the time.
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by bgun 3y ago
That's a fair answer but only addresses half of my question. There do exist companies (some large ones) who are in the business of providing useful devices or service to end users; why aren't any of them building smart home device
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Ask HN: Why is the state of “smart home” devices still so dire?
41 points by bgun 3y ago|86 comments
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by bgun 3y ago
and I will protect capitalism. Truly the hero capitalism deserves.
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by bgun 3y ago
Where did I say or imply that it was good? What the AI-content-apocalypse Chicken Littles seem to constantly miss is that the incentive structure of the public web for the last 20+ years has rewarded trash content, so the public web is an S
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by bgun 3y ago
If you've ever searched for recipes online and had to read through ten pages of drivel before getting to the actual recipe at the bottom, you may have realized that just because articles are human-written doesn't make the article
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by bgun 3y ago
Is it not totally normal and OK (and not a violation of any kind) for Microsoft to share user data with Microsoft ? Fighting for user privacy is a laudable goal but in this particular case what, if any, ethical breach has occurred? As othe
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by bgun 3y ago
Product from [Company] shares user data with other product from [Company]. A shocking and newsworthy revelation. /s
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by bgun 3y ago
This is because software development still doesn't and has never qualified as capital-E Engineering. If "software engineering" were held to any of the same kind of rigor and responsibility that applies to mechanical, civil, a
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by bgun 3y ago
But worse, it's like being required to own a Tesla because it's the only car available.
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by bgun 4y ago
Wait until ChatGPT hallucinates something and then that thing happens a few days/weeks later. Articles about GPT predicting the future!
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by bgun 4y ago
https://archive.md/3M1oh
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by bgun 4y ago
Even though they conceded, you should still follow through on all of the above. You aren't hurting a person, it's a corporation that will only change when forced financially or socially to do so.
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by bgun 4y ago
Premise, outline, augmentation.
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by bgun 4y ago
Seat belts only caught on because driving is incredibly dangerous.
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by bgun 4y ago
Because adblockers have made selling "free" content to astute, tech-literate people extremely difficut, and in 2023 micropayment/subscription models are still hopelessly bad .
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by bgun 4y ago
A tortured analogy for a tortured industry. It's really quite apt.
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by bgun 4y ago
All political problems of sufficient gravity become military problems.
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by bgun 4y ago
Because it’s a low-effort shallow dismissal that basically just cherry-picked some quotes from the article and says, “this.”
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by bgun 4y ago
Holiday lights are the main scenario (which is why these signs are often seasonal). Someone will spend hours stringing up lights only to find that they strung backwards with the female end dangling near their desired outlet. USB cables &#x2
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by bgun 4y ago
I would make a joke about equating “free internet” with “proper information” but in 2022 that joke writes itself. And let’s not get started on the “without government oversight” part of your comment.

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