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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Nah. These companies do not have nearly the same value proposition relative their intended market as Apple did. BYD or Tesla are still just cars. An iPhone completely changed what a "phone" was. And did so in a way that required t
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
“Should get paid less” is the obvious value judgement from the employer’s perspective. Nothing subjective about it In the original comment, the argument of "should be paid less" was based not on an objective evaluation of produc
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
The patriot act was supported by everyone when it became law. In fact, one senator had the unmitigated gall to ask the rest of congress, “but what about Constitutional freedoms?”. So the rest of us promptly removed him from office and repla
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
This is actually a coherent and legitimate argument rooted in objective data. Often you don't really get that when supporting what is not a popular position. People who support unpopular positions generally ignore data. (As do many oth
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Huh? Money acquired via divorce is "easy"?
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Not even scammers. This is essentially the future of AI models that emulate male sex workers. The "romance scam" is basically what they'll do. Only they will dispense with the Brad Pitt likenesses, because they will have enou
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Touché
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
OK. Cards on the table. This is not arrogance. This is not even about China and Taiwan fighting a war. (Heck, that's probably never gonna happen anyway.) This is about the US manufacturing important things on our own. And it's n
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
I think the above commentor is right, in my opinion, intensification shapes our world into being very reactionary, with only a superficial understanding of issues In fairness, this is how the world has always been. In the US for instance,
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Britain, had no separation of church and state. People who objected had no right to express their displeasure. And the United States was a twinkle in the eye of men who wouldn't be born for like 70 years. In other words, non-existent.
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Yeah, but it would bring HN User Eumenes' out of pocket cost down. Which is, probably at base, the only thing they care about.
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
That's not even the problem. The problem is Eumenes wants his school to be funded by everyone else's property tax. When did this entitlement mindset grip this country so much that people openly ask for handouts like that? I kn
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Gotta fund those Christian Madrasas! On a more serious note, you have to wonder why religions are more overt about having the taxpayer foot their bills these days? I mean really, if you want Christian, Muslim or whatever religion schools, f
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Problem in Africa is that the Chinese will sail in with their alternatives at the first sign of trouble. Right now, we can’t have games like that in Africa. We’re in an almost daily grind trying to counter Chinese influence as it is. The la
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
No one would allow a business perceived to be US Owned to play games like that in Africa right now anyway. With the Chinese sitting right there ready to swoop in and help the affected nations problem solve. We’re not as dumb in the US as th
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
The point was that there are too many people like you out in society in quasi-religious political groupings that adhere less to natural reason and more to ideological 'scriptures'. 'Scriptures' like woke-ness, or anti-wo
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
I have a theory that with the decline of religion in the West, people replaced what they got from religious ideology with political ideology. The sense of belonging and community. The sense of certainty in basic tenets. The confidence of be
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Related. But people should also keep in mind that layoffs throughout the industry are extensive. So don't make the mistake of only keeping good connections with your team and managers. Try, to the extent that it's possible, to kee
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
I think there is a misunderstanding of the engineering challenges in some of these projects. The Big Dig was less than 10 miles, never deeper than roughly 100 ft. TARP is over 100 miles always deeper than 100 ft. And because of intended use
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
I feel like only in places like Chicago could this have worked. It's like the water system in Chicago, just massive. And everyone just shrugs and says, "Dig 100 miles of deep tunnel and massive reservoirs? Yep. Let's get &#x2
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
I don't know man? Kind of depends on what you're doing. Going to the extreme cases.. You may be a person from one religion who doesn't feel it is evil to off people en masse if they believe in any religion not your own. I don
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
And how many world bank loans are given to, well, let’s call them “less than stellar” African governments? All the Chinese needed for the infra loan projects to work were nations who couldn’t access financing via other means. Now they’ve be
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
The problem in China's case, is that there's a lot of evidence that China doesn't even care whether or not it's paid back. One, the loans were given often in dollars. Which China found itself with a surplus of the past f
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Pretty sure the parent is talking about overlooked nations. Nations no one even fights a war over. Probably referring to things like China going "all in" on under-developed African nations. It's a very "Eastern" str
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
"If you get this wrong, OpenAI will be sued for a lot of money, and all the board members will go to prison" This didn't work. At least not on my task. What model were you using?
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Thinking about it now, I don't think I've ever heard about a female doing this Gentlemen I give you, the latest iterations of the Nigerian Romance Schemes.
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Let's not overstate it. The US government hacks telecom for the benefit of the US government. Now having said that, as someone above mentioned, the intelligence agencies of the top 50 national governments are obviously all keen to use
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
I think HN User potato3732842's comment was probably true back in the 90's. But now, yes, the nature of threats to US citizens have changed. There has obviously been a decrease in the whole drug and gang violence side because of i
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Here's the thing, take a look at just a bit of what Meta is demanding: *AirPlay Continuity Camera *App Intents *Devices connected with Bluetooth *Apple Notification Center Service *iPhone Mirroring *CarPlay *Connectivity to all of a
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Wow. I mean, where does a company get the balls to demand total access like this to the phones, networks and data of every phone in the US? These companies have zero fear of us as a people. (They have zero respect for us as well, but that

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