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by cmdli 2y ago
I would argue that many people outside of Palo Alto would absolutely be fine living there even if it was substantially different. The primary benefit of Palo Alto is its location, which is close to many jobs and to San Francisco/San Jo
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by cmdli 2y ago
I've spent an afternoon in downtown Manhattan; it's rather a nice place. The world could use more places like that, preferably close to existing population centers.
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by cmdli 2y ago
For many (most?) drugs, the actual cost to produce the drug is usually far less than the selling price as it is an enforced monopoly. Given that monopoly, price restrictions don't actually restrict supply as the single supplier will st
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by cmdli 2y ago
Honestly, I think a big part of the problem is that passkeys have been tied to hardware devices and they don't have to be. A passkey is just a public key credential, and it can easily be provided by software as well as by hardware. You
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by cmdli 2y ago
One thing that is worth mentioning is the idea of a “private life” really hasn’t ever existed. Even before the internet and computers, banks still held records of customer identity, merchants would still track their customers and what they
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by cmdli 3y ago
I think the quote is referring to the stakes of the underlying decision being made, not necessarily the stakes of the politics. Academics will argue in great detail about trivialities and those trivialities can decide careers.
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by cmdli 3y ago
We already have car centric suburbia and its going to take decades to change that. We might as well switch to electric cars which are quieter and produce less air pollution rather than wait for thousands of homes to be rebuilt.
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by cmdli 3y ago
I feel like this take is dismissive and unhelpful. Expecting people to sacrifice their current wellbeing for the sake of a nebulous, far off reckoning is simply unrealistic and a bit of a dead end in terms of climate progress. We would be b
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by cmdli 3y ago
Not OP, but Apple tends to be a lot more straightforward in how they make their money. Their products cost more for the same technology, but in return they try their best to provide me with a good experience (to keep me buying their overpri
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by cmdli 3y ago
While I agree with your argument, it's not as simple as "letting the low value efforts die". If most anime were to stop being produced, most of the animators would also be fired and be unable to continue what is (I assume) th
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by cmdli 3y ago
Honestly? Because it’s Apple’s service to do with what they wish. I don’t view iMessage to be enough of a public good that Apple should be forced to make it public. There’s a lot of other apps like WhatsApp that provide open messaging and s
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by cmdli 3y ago
Are those policies proven to work? The war on drugs was proven to be ineffective, many successful businessmen are immigrants or the children of immigrants, and mental asylums were brutal institutions that only propagated mental illness and
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by cmdli 3y ago
While we don’t know the whole story, I don’t think Sam is innocent in this matter. It seems likely that this was a recurring disagreement, and perhaps this was simply a step too far where the board had to act. When you fire somebody, typica
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by cmdli 3y ago
They also won't have a company if they resign. Not much benefit to them here, is there?
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by cmdli 3y ago
Source?
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by cmdli 3y ago
Why would they accept a different corporate structure where they get fired? What do they get out of the deal? Currently, OpenAI is essentially owned by the board as a nonprofit.
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by cmdli 3y ago
I think the trouble is that "model" is a very general term. If you had a computer doing simulations of artillery shots back in the 50s, then it would have a "model" of the world in terms of variables tracking projectiles
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by cmdli 3y ago
The argument “a sufficiently capable autocomplete must contain a level of general intelligence” is correct but also not very useful. It is a lot like saying “a sufficiently fast horse can fly”. It is technically correct that when you take t
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by cmdli 3y ago
I went into this hoping that it would go more into how web design sucks now, hopefully with more specific critiques. I understand that the typical "web designer that builds entire websites" role is mostly gone now, but how has t
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Show HN: A JavaScript library to generate rhyming passphrases(github.com)
33 points by cmdli 3y ago|5 comments
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by cmdli 3y ago
> Taken together, the Bush tax cuts, their bipartisan extensions, and the Trump tax cuts, have cost $10 trillion since their creation and are responsible for 57 percent of the increase in the debt ratio since then. They are responsible f
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by cmdli 3y ago
Copyright doesn’t apply to consumption of a work, only redistribution. For example, it is not a violation of copyright for you to make many copies of a movie for personal use. Similarly, it is not a violation of copyright for an artist to l
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by cmdli 3y ago
I would argue that authentic is a relative term, and actually helped me understand the product more easily. IMO, it is “authentic” because, compared to other image fills, it tries to fill in the data using real data from other photos.
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by cmdli 3y ago
I, for one, do not look forward to having to sideload Facebook, Instagram, Google, Gmail, and every single other megacorps app just because they want to track my every click. I would rather give power to Apple than all the other companies.
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by cmdli 3y ago
But people have a choice. They can choose Android, but they don’t, even though they know iPhones are locked down. By this point, you have to assume that the people who buy iPhones are okay with it. Apple doesn’t have a monopoly by any means
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by cmdli 3y ago
There is the question of where this profoundness comes from. If it comes from an evolutionary instinct for the purposes of reproduction, most would find that disappointing. But why would we find our own true nature disappoiting? Why would e
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by cmdli 3y ago
Trade should be reciprocal, that's how most trade decisions work. If you add a tariff to foreign goods, it's expected that the other party will add a tariff as well.
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by cmdli 3y ago
Probably changing the laws in those countries, which only the citizens of those countries can really do. Google isn't the cause here, just the middleman.
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by cmdli 3y ago
Weird, I've had the exact opposite experience with UTM. I need to get Ubuntu up and running with virtualization (emulation is too slow for GUI work), but the install simply hangs. If I forcibly reboot, the installed OS simply blackscre
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Show HN: ssh_passkey – a tool to use SSH keys as passkeys(github.com)
8 points by cmdli 3y ago|0 comments

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