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by caseyy 2y ago
> I’ve seen many of these people approach implausible tasks, ones we wouldn’t even have chosen to tackle before, with reflexive and brilliant usage of AI to get 100X the work done. Ah yes, the 100x engineer delusion. Why not a 1000x? If
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by caseyy 2y ago
We also have a problem with VCs that want start-ups to scale quickly, even though this often builds incapable teams. We then say, "Oh, it's because they stopped being in founder's mode," whereas in reality, the team is s
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by caseyy 2y ago
I'd say you're underestimating how much anxiety there is in the world because advertisers and influencers bombard people with the idea that they are not enough, or that they don't have enough. It becomes very clear when you m
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by caseyy 2y ago
I'd say don't let the perfect be the enemy of good. Banning 80% of existing advertisement practices would practically achieve all the goals bans strive for.
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by caseyy 2y ago
That’s exactly right. Even if ad banning isn’t 100% doable, we’d be better off with it done 80%. All-or-nothing thinking is so common in HN that it’s seriously over-complicating simple problems by trying to find a perfect solution. Such an
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by caseyy 2y ago
> How do you even define advertising? Almost everyone can tell when they’re being advertised to. And almost everyone can tell when they advertise. Effectiveness of such bans would depend on enforcement, the definition is clear enough.
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by caseyy 2y ago
This reminds me of the "universal building blocks of life" or the "standard model of biochemistry" I learned at school in the 90s. It held that all life requires water, carbon-based molecules, sunlight, and CHNOPS (carbo
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by caseyy 2y ago
OSINT = open source intelligence. It’s the whole of openly accessible data fragments about a person or item of interest, including their use for intelligence-gathering objectives. For example, suppose a person shares a photo online, and you
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by caseyy 2y ago
That’s an interesting point. If we created super-intelligence but it wasn’t anthropomorphic, we might just not consider it super-intelligent as a sort of ego defence mechanism. Much good (and bad) sci-fi was written about this. In it, usual
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by caseyy 2y ago
It is rather awkward that the US right-holders chose to sue TuneIn in the UK, rather than US radio broadcasters that stream online without appropriate licenses. However, TuneIn was profiting from the premium subscriptions relating to conten
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by caseyy 2y ago
A UK High Court ruled in 2019 that websites like TuneIn are distributing illegal music[0]. It went to appeals but the previous ruling was upheld. There hasn't been much clarification beyond that nor very clear enforcement. But the prec
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by caseyy 2y ago
There are many broadcasting laws worldwide, many quite archaic. Even Radio Garden got meaningfully restricted in the UK (only licensed national radio stations are allowed by a high court ruling). I worry for projects like TV Garden but they
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by caseyy 2y ago
If you want to simulate the behavior of a large crowd of people, 2D fluid simulation is accurate enough for most purposes. I’ve used it to simulate a crowd in a video game. One could say it’s spherical people.
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by caseyy 2y ago
I would ordinarily say something along the lines of “don’t blatantly break laws and you won’t be fined”, but this is a minor implementation detail. There are so many bigger fish to fry in consumer rights space that it just looks petty. And
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by caseyy 2y ago
I read this is how the CD Projekt Red founders smuggled Western games into the Iron Curtain states. I think it's an urban myth, but separately, the founders smuggled games into the USSR, and some games were smuggled through the radio t
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by caseyy 2y ago
Media in this case is a plural of medium — something that both contains information and describes its interface. I think the idea is a bit different than what you describe. New media contains in itself the essence of old media, but it does
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by caseyy 2y ago
Being kind and civil with your words would strengthen your message.
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I also dailied it on XFCE. The UI was very utilitarian and purposeful. I suppose aesthetically it is unimpressive and not streamlined, but it serves the purpose of being a good interface to do a task . Same as you say, people have aske
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by caseyy 2y ago
I haven't read Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan, but I think he introduced your second point in that book, in 1964. He claims that the content of each new medium is a previous medium. Video games contain film, film contains thea
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by caseyy 2y ago
"Student chimpanzee builds a tiny mirror for 6 bananas. It shows the same image."
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“Chimpanzee closes Jira ticket, with acceptance criteria met but product not functional.”
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by caseyy 2y ago
I’d imagine their actions are socially isolating.
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If xitter was pronounced as “shitter”, would xAIter be pronounced ʃʌit.ə (shait-uh)? I’m in favor of the British twist.
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Now xAI should just issue more stock that X would buy with xAI’s funds. Dilute until financiers have nothing — a move known as the tech bro classic.
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Microsoft is really degrading themselves over the 0.1% of users that opted out (and however much money they didn’t manipulate out of them because of that). I’m really surprised how humiliatingly their top managers act. Surely someone who li
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by caseyy 2y ago
This is my latest and most advanced comment yet.
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I would say it's natural for people to feel empathy towards others, especially those to whom an injustice was done. If you go out of your way to justify not showing empathy and write comments about it, you are spending energy fighting
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It’s still much more productive to fight the abuser than it is to fight the victims.
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by caseyy 2y ago
Yes. If, as a culture, we don’t stand up for consumer rights when a seller mistreats others, no one will stand up for us either.
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I'm not sure Trump news is the right content for Hacker News. It would be relevant if it related to technologists and their businesses, but this is a bit out of scope in my opinion. Thankfully, it got flagged away. From the aggressive

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