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by bko 7mo ago
> This Musk guy makes Ponzi look like the Pope I don't get it. He owns some of the companies out right and has no problem securing financing. Who is he screwing over? > First they only release 5% to 10% to create an artificially
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by bko 7mo ago
I don't know, if you look at public health consumption expenditures per capita, current prices, current PPPs, 2015-2024, US is up there. It's mostly medicaid and medicare. You might not like how the money is being spent but the id
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by bko 7mo ago
You must be new here. But seriously, I think the level of discourse has gone down considerably on HN in the last few years. I know people always say this in their forum but I think it's true. For instance, you'll see a post about
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by bko 7mo ago
There are biological benefits for a male to stick around and being involved. I dont know but Andrew Tate style dudes don't seem particularly happy or fulfilled despite the show they pit on
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by bko 7mo ago
The person quotes his or her qualifications as being single for 20 years, as though that's a qualification. It was 100% about long term coping mechanisms for persistent loneliness and drifting in life. Why would you want to model that?
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by bko 7mo ago
Thats not what most people use about the wrong person. Thats an abusive relationship. And the comment says as much a few sentences later
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by bko 7mo ago
I guess no one is going to say the obvious, so I'll bite. Find someone else, make this a top priority. Forget online dating, just go out and try to make connections. Make this a top priority, much like trying to find a new job. The res
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by bko 7mo ago
> But it is also hard to be with someone and is very hard to take care of kids and family and such. And it is waaay harder to be with wrong person. Strong disagree. It's a different kind of hard. People can handle hard. Running a ma
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by bko 8mo ago
You make a lot of great points. You know what would be great for helping those elderly residence prone to heat strokes living in high-density stone buildings with less green space? Air conditioners! In face, I think EU should mandate air co
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by bko 8mo ago
> Maybe its just the higher life expectancy increasing susceptibility? Everyone has to die of something at some point. Ah yes, heat death, essentially "natural causes". Never mind what's obviously in front of your face.
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by bko 8mo ago
Got it, it's cooler, no one needs AC. Next question, why are there a lot more heat deaths per capita. I mean, a lot more (4/million vs 235/million) Should be simple
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by bko 8mo ago
I can easily google restrictions and share them, and I have in other comments but let me throw it back at you. Why do 90% of Americans have AC while only 20% of Europeans do? Why does US have ~4 heat related deaths per million while Europe
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by bko 8mo ago
Several EU countries have mandatory temperature limits for air conditioning in public buildings. Spain, Italy, and Greece have all announced that A/C in public buildings cannot be set lower than 27C (80F) in summer Some exceptions allo
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by bko 8mo ago
I'm pointing out the hypocrisy and the focus people have on developed countries is just signaling. A weird anti-west sentiment from people who almost exclusively live a wealthy life in the west. I'm not an expert, but from what I
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by bko 8mo ago
The point is that China is the only thing that matters at this point. It's a lot bigger, has surpassed OECD and is growing quickly. Every decline of emissions by developed countries is more than made up for by growing China emissions
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by bko 8mo ago
Keep reading the comment, pretty much the same. > https://ourworldindata.org/consumption-based-co2
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by bko 8mo ago
I thought the world and civilization would collapse because of carbon emissions. It's either serious or it's not. If it's serious then it doesn't really matter right? It's like you're on a boat that sprung a le
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by bko 8mo ago
> Nothing will change until developed rich countries are starting to hurt. Ironic OECD countries actually REDUCED their emissions based on a peak in 2007 and continue to do so. Not reduced as a percentage of GDP or adjusted for populatio
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by bko 8mo ago
Agree. Anthropic shouldn't require that in their contract (it is stupid). I'm glad the government resisted as it was an insane overreach. But since Anthropic insisted there should be no contract.
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by bko 8mo ago
> Auto-correct and speech-to-text still carry that idea Why? You didn't spend real time consulting a dictionary or using penmanship, since writing is often slower than speaking. You didn't do your own memory management? Wow, gu
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by bko 8mo ago
I like building apps, I don't necessarily like writing the same boilerplate BS for a necessary landing page for every app I make. Again, I'm not saying no one should write marketing copy, if that's your thing, go for it. Take
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by bko 8mo ago
Writing copy is painfully time consuming. AI just does it better, it's meant to communicate and people are not always great communicators. I know it'll write better copy than me. Terminally online people need to get over this weir
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by bko 8mo ago
They can have a contract that says whatever they want. My argument is this shouldn't try to push one of these contracts and the government shouldn't agree to such a contract. Nowhere did I say elected officials should violate cont
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by bko 8mo ago
Imagine if a gun manufacturer sold weapons to the military but said "don't use them is unjustified wars as we deem fit" seems wrong as we dont want gun manufacturers setting our foreign policy. Choose not to sell them sure,
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by bko 8mo ago
They can choose to sell to government agencies or not. But selling to them and then trying to have some veto power is wrong. So it sounds like we're in a agreement. I would like western Democratic powers to have the most advanced techn
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by bko 8mo ago
I want people to question people in power. Thats kind of the point of democracy. But it's good to remember corporations aren't people :-)
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by bko 8mo ago
Yes we obv need large corporations to exert some kind of control over our elected officials.
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by bko 8mo ago
I'm saying they shouldn't write in their contract that they have some veto power of how their software is used if it's within the law of the land (ie laws written by congress) Is that more clear?
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by bko 8mo ago
I never understood the point of this kind of comment. It doesn't add any value or anything to the discussion. Its basically two paragraphs with some presupposition (openai bad) and how the author is virtuous by canceling his subscripti
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by bko 8mo ago
Seinfeld way syndicated. It aired for a long time on TBS. But also Comedy Central after 2021, Nick at Nite briefly and TV Land more recently. I'm not sure what your point is.

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