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This is starting to remind me of the switch from ASM -> C or more recently, the switch from pure HTML/Javascript to frameworks. Technology advances and if you don't follow the advancements, you will suddenly find yourself laid
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I still wonder what happened to Zerodium.
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I find it better for finding bugs and security vulnerabilities than actually creating new code from scratch.
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I can see this becoming something. A recent poll showed that a percentage of middle schoolers knew someone in a relationship with AI. How soon until we have an AI rights movement?
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The problem with every basic income program is in the long term. Eventually, generations of people are receiving basic income and relying on it and 1) will never vote against it (and politicians will use it as a weapon against anyone that s
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So he should just eat the cost that will add up over time, which is an unsustainable business model? Plenty of people buy subscription-based services, so I think 'everyone hates' means you actually hate it. It's a great produ
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Most technical teams won't do this because it will most likely mean a smaller team. You don't need nearly as many people (they also don't have to have as much experience or knowledge) to maintain 3rd party tools as you do to
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Most lawsuits can be prevented by just listening to the cease-and-desist. This mod obviously ignored it and will now need to pay the price. Just looking at what they've been doing and Nintendo's history in court, the mod will lose
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A 'Fuck You' in this instance is ignoring regulations that have been in place for years preventing outside competition. This is the 'disrupt' startup model. It works well when you have lots of capital to expand and fight
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"Prisoners for slave labour in the US, and is routinely discussed in US legal reddit and the like: It's normalised in the states which depend on this kind of labour to get some things like road construction/maintenance done.
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They could get it made in the US, they just choose profits instead.
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Beijing has factories for things like solar panels, but is still creating coal plants at a rate higher than most other countries. Many in the US don't have the stomach to achieve what is required (which what's happening in China r
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In a few years, vibe coding might not even be a thing anymore. Wouldn't it be better to actually learn coding, so you can then use vibe coding to increase your productivity (and know when it's giving you complete junk)?
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It didn't succeed because he was always against making money from software. He also has pushed for governments to be forced to use FOSS. I remember him doing some interviews in the 90s, and he would put his coat over the camera, if it
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What's not mentioned here is that every single successful OSS project is funded by multi-million dollar corporations and the reason it's so prevalent today. The rest usually become abandonware because maintainers don't have t
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The only reason these persist is because companies pay out and they can receive it in untraceable crypto currency in countries that are nearly to prosecute them in. Appeasement has never worked.
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This is great!
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The activists of the 70s made it so we were never able to really innovate Nuclear energy. If they instead supported it, we might not even have any climate issues today.
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I have children in early elementary and I'm not seeing any of this. Many things are still on paper, library books (and reading) are the norm, and kids are mostly happy. Sure, tablets are a part of learning, but I would expect this in o
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The US government colluded with sites like Twitter and Facebook to not only censor Americans, but actually change the outcome of elections by silencing the voices of politicians. These alarmist messages only seem to come out only when you t
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I didn't realize HN was so anti-science!!
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"The need to establish a link between cigarettes and lung cancers – and the backlash that ensued – changed this. Epidemiology and cigarettes grew up together." This can be proven now, so the science is pretty clear. 'Global
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I'm waiting for the tide to turn and not only show us that Dominion is bad, but it has security vulnerabilities that show us that elections can be stolen....only because it's now linked to the GOP.
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Every top job at every company is about networking and who you know. This is just in the spotlight.
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The technology is too useful to be a bubble. It's only going to get more efficient and when we can run very large LLMs from our own hardware at a reasonable cost? It will be used everywhere.
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I don't click on any urls from email. This should be the standard.
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When is any discussion a simple fact? If it was, you could just list it on a static website. I think the problem is that people get their incorrect world views from Reddit.
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A chart with temperatures on it doesn't prove it's caused by humans.
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"not know local norms and be operating on strange hours?" What 'local norms' are so different that you won't understand them as a traveler? 99.9% of the population sleep and wake up at the same time. You just need t
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"Then, the tech bros came for the delivery drivers, and I said nothing. Calling them gig workers, working them insane hours, stripping them of their basic rights and dignity, forcing them to pee in Coke bottles, demanding that they dan

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