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by chasing 1y ago
Crypto is a psycho solution to payment complexities. It'd be like putting an Indian scammer call center in charge of the telephone network because there are some dropped calls. Or electing a guy who spent a career committing fraud at e
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by chasing 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaregions_of_the_United_Stat... This seems like a much saner breakdown of the US into mega-regions. Feels much more intuitive and doesn't involve wacky stuff like grouping Philadelp
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by chasing 1y ago
Anyone who thinks Austin is more culturally aligned with Indianapolis than San Antonio is a maniac.
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by chasing 1y ago
I feel like this is the theme of our entire country at the moment: Many powerful people seem willing to torch stuff worth billions of dollars to the country as a whole in order to squeeze out a few million for themselves. If we had a functi
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by chasing 1y ago
Why should something like "patient harm" get in the way of profits? What is this, communist Canada?
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by chasing 1y ago
The problem with openness and anonymity is that it invites bad actors. Social media is an unsolved problem and any platform that gets sufficiently large will be more valuable as a tool to disseminate misinformation and propaganda than as a
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by chasing 1y ago
I think a lot of AI-generated stuff will soon be seem as cheap schlock, fake plastic knock-offs, the WalMart of ideas. Some people will use it well. Most people won’t. The question to me is whether we will lets these companies do completely
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by chasing 1y ago
> incompetence and cowardice rather than immorality Why not all three?
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by chasing 1y ago
Yes, they had that bias towards reality that authoritarians can’t stand.
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by chasing 1y ago
Sadly, I think you’re right. And a nation of citizens who don’t care about good government is a nation that is in collapse.
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by chasing 1y ago
Yes, if the executive branch is trustworthy. We need to send a clear signal to the Republican Party that this sort of general behavior is not acceptable to Americans.
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by chasing 1y ago
That’s the point. When Trump disagrees with facts the facts must be destroyed. When people are actually trying to solve problems they desire more information, not less.
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by chasing 1y ago
Fair enough. I’m using the term colloquially to mean a market in which actors are participating out of free choice and essentially getting what they pay for and what they expect. A market in which consumers are informed and empowered. Scamm
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by chasing 1y ago
Afloat in what sense? Usage is down. At least for me, the vast majority of my social and professional network has moved to other platforms. And every time a public figure (journalist, politician) does post it feels like they're immedia
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by chasing 1y ago
LLMs save me a lot of time as a software engineer because they save me a ton of time doing either boilerplate work or mundane tasks that are relatively conceptually easy but annoying to actually have to do/type/whatever in an IDE.
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by chasing 1y ago
> How about affordable housing? But space colonization is cool and poor people are yickie.
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by chasing 1y ago
> A lot more people will be able to create software, and art. But the world wants a lot more of both, and experts will probably still be much better than novices, as long as they embrace the new tools. "Hey, it'd be a shame if
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by chasing 1y ago
I mean, no shit? Casinos aren't in it for fair play and sportsmanship.
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by chasing 1y ago
Okay, but what about the largest possible files?
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by chasing 1y ago
No, AI has proven quite adept at generating self-aggrandizing bullshit.
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by chasing 1y ago
For vibe coding to replace software engineering vibe coding will have to become… software engineering.
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by chasing 1y ago
Probably on a Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
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by chasing 1y ago
It’s not just the general stupidity, it’s the complete disrespect for people who actually are experts and the bone-deep lack of empathy for human pain and suffering that my brain simply cannot work itself around.
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by chasing 1y ago
> A more serious political observation is that this administration operates on the theory that possession is 9/10ths of the law. It's just wild to me that people aren't simply arrested when this kind of thing occurs. It&#x
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by chasing 1y ago
> They are not just sitting around in a group chat, they are out there doing the leg work. They’re doing the propaganda leg work, I guess. But it remains shocking to me just how lazy and un-thought-through so many of these dudes’ actual
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by chasing 1y ago
The Trump/Musk administration is a superb example of how big ideas alone aren't enough to accomplish major goals. You could agree with the need to bring back manufacturing jobs. You could agree with wanting to stick it to China.
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by chasing 1y ago
“We added cocaine to our menu and now nobody’s buying our healthier food options. Also our customers are acting increasingly deranged.”
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by chasing 1y ago
> What _was_ Facebook supposed to do when it saw all of its users leave Instagram/Facebook for Tiktok? Not do anything? Though it's terrible that everything is now a short form addicting video platform, I understand the logic b
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by chasing 1y ago
Evidence that ideas are a dime a dozen.
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by chasing 1y ago
> I believe companies should use every inch of leeway in existing laws to do business. No. You can do things that are immoral, harmful, predatory, and generally shitty while still being perfectly legal. And people who want fewer regula

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