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by comfysocks 6mo ago
Fair enough, I see that online all the time. Here’s my take. Raising your hand alone is a common gesture that pretty much everyone has done. Saying “my heart goes out to you” gives plausible deniability. But making the hand gesture while
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by comfysocks 6mo ago
I wonder if going public will mean that SpaceX engineers are no longer going to be able to concentrate on rockets, but instead need to work on a variety of distractions meant to excite investors like dancing robots.
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by comfysocks 6mo ago
Yes, but this is for national (midterm election) security, so we need gas prices down before November.
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by comfysocks 7mo ago
Can you imagine the targeted ads we’ll have when they do deep psychological fingerprinting off of chats from AI therapists, AI girlfriends/boyfriends, etc?!
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by comfysocks 7mo ago
Not the first time Trump has wagged the dog. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wag_the_dog
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by comfysocks 8mo ago
Lex’s position at MIT would make sense for a grad student or perhaps someone early in their career as an academic. But Lex is neither a student nor faculty member at MIT. So what’s he doing? This type of thing is usually unpaid or low pa
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by comfysocks 8mo ago
Well he did try to overturn that election, but he failed. So I guess that makes him a failed fascist last time around. This time he’s trying much harder. Let’s make sure he fails again.
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by comfysocks 8mo ago
To be fair, “guidelines” and “rules” are two different things. There’s no strict prohibition on politics in the guidelines. If you read the whole thing in context, it’s trying to discourage topics that are mundane, frivolous, or vacuous —
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by comfysocks 8mo ago
If someone screams at you, they are actively invading your space. On the other hand, if you actively click on an article, read it, and make multiple posts on it, well that’s on you.
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by comfysocks 8mo ago
This article is #1 on news.ycombinator.com/active right now. Obviously top of mind for a lot of us right now. Pretty hard to find it without the /active, though.
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by comfysocks 8mo ago
In the eyes of some in leadership, tech workers should be apolitical worker drones. Weighing in on politics is for people like David Sacks, Marc Andreesen, Elon Musk.
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by comfysocks 8mo ago
No one will be held to account as long as Trump or his collaborators are in power. If anyone views the current situation as a problem, there is no viable solution that doesn’t involve removing MAGA from power.
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by comfysocks 8mo ago
That’s true if you want to keep the peace. The way to read their actions is that they’re trying to incite violence. If Trump can incite violence then he can invoke the insurrection act, or perhaps declare some form of martial law to seize
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by comfysocks 9mo ago
It’s easy enough to avoid clicking on articles containing “Greenland”, “ICE”, etc. if you don’t want to talk about those things. Is it also necessary to make sure that none of your fellow nerds talk about those things either? I consider te
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by comfysocks 9mo ago
I’ve considered Elon to be a bit of a bullshitter for almost as long as I’ve followed him. Back when he was an opportunistic Democrat, and now that he’s an ideological MAGA, his public statements always seemed to set off my bullshit detect
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by comfysocks 9mo ago
There may be some truth to that. But if we get too cynical, the battle is lost before it’s begun!
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by comfysocks 9mo ago
That I can think of, there’s Jesse Welles.
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by comfysocks 9mo ago
Since the current traffic infrastructure was built for human drivers with vision, you’ll probably need some form of vision to navigate today’s roads. The only way I could picture lidar only working would be on a road system specially made
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by comfysocks 9mo ago
Yes lidar has limitations, but so does machine vision. That’s why you want both if you can have it. LIDAR is more reliable at judging distance than stereo vision. Stereo vision requires there to be sufficient texture (features) to work.
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by comfysocks 9mo ago
Most practical navigation systems employ some form of sensor fusion. It’s more the norm than not. I’m sure even Tesla’s FSD does too for fusing vision, inertial sensors, wheel speed, multiple etc.
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by comfysocks 9mo ago
It’s great that starlink is there, but it can still be shut down on the whim of its owner as seen in the past. So hurray for starlink! (unless the opportunistic tides of politics change)
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by comfysocks 9mo ago
You know, not everyone on this site has an absolutist binary opinion on the Elon. Some people can give him credit for what he gets right, while simultaneously calling bullshit on his bullshit.
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by comfysocks 9mo ago
In a way, America didn’t ask for what it got. America voted for a guy who claimed to have never heard of Project 2025. It got Project 2025. Also, Trump ran on a populist message. Yet if you look at what he has done materially since he go
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by comfysocks 9mo ago
No, I’m intentionally speaking of the leadership. Yes there are dissidents in China (and Russia and NK…) but the governments have been able to make their work seem futile. There are also some Chinese who are happy to live in a police state
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by comfysocks 9mo ago
Venezuela has the world’s largest proven oil reserves. Larger than Saudi Arabia and the US, yet produces very little of it. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/business/energy-environme... Squeeze Ukrain
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by comfysocks 10mo ago
True, but both SK and Taiwan had always wanted to be more aligned with the West as they needed to be under the US defense umbrella. The liberalization could only come after gaining stability. On the other hand, China has always sought to r
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by comfysocks 10mo ago
A bit hypocritical for him to say that after his reaction to people commenting on Charlie Kirk’s murder.
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by comfysocks 1y ago
On the one hand, in interviews, Tarantino always seems to have contrarian opinions about everything. When Kill Bill came out, he’d verbally knock Lee and praise lesser known movie practitioners. On the other hand, if you watch the movie un
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by comfysocks 1y ago
Feel free to correct me if I’m off base, but it doesn’t seem like the robot is actually slicing. Looks more like it’s just mashing the blade into the tomato. In this case I can see how the vibration can make up for the lack of slicing act
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by comfysocks 1y ago
I guess compounds can be a hard sell. I read that Michael Jordan had a hard time selling his.

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