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by danans 4mo ago
What's the old saying? "Behind every great fortune lies a great crime." Most common people throughout history made their living working in the systems owned by aristocrats whose wealth was usually built on both corruption an
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by danans 4mo ago
> the thing is while something is better than nothing, new drug development is critical > there is absolutely no cure for certain types of long-covid and me-cfs right now > no repurposing any drug is going to cure it, they've
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by danans 4mo ago
The consumer-opinion perspective of this survey misses what I think is the main factor in the general public's feelings about AI. People have a huge capacity to absorb enshittification of everything they consume, from goods /servi
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by danans 4mo ago
> I can use Gemini 3 Flash with the harness I built for around 8 years and still not exceed the cost of a Mac Studio with 128GB And sounds like you haven't factored in the cost of electricity to run that Mac Studio as an LLM machine
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by danans 4mo ago
> Shouldn't a bad job market convince people to get a degree? Maybe, but the degree has to be paid for, with time and money.
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by danans 4mo ago
> How much more software does Uber need? > Unless they are iteratively replacing expensive vendors and optimizing other headcount costs? Yes and yes. Also the world changes and software has to evolve to model that change, especially
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by danans 4mo ago
> Mathematical Operation tables are not a language. Not a natural language, but they are certainly a language as in a symbolic representation of information.
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by danans 4mo ago
> How did it meaningfully impact their revenue in a positive direction? It probably allowed them to avoid hiring as many people to build a certain amount of software. Even if it didn't increase revenue, it could have lowered human
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by danans 4mo ago
> Entire civilization flourished for 2000 years and then disappeared without any clue why. I think it's well understood that upliftment/desertification of the lower Indus valley resulted in many of the rivers the civilization w
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by danans 4mo ago
Musk poured lots of money into FL governor Ron Desantis's 2024 presidential campaign.
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by danans 4mo ago
> Some people never recognize this and many never successfully adapt to what seniority entails. > > However, this requires a level of initiative and agency that most employees never exhibit Even if some aspects of that might be tru
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by danans 4mo ago
> This is a legislative problem which it sounds like, for this narrow case, the legislature actually solved (shockingly to me). I find it hard to blame the residents of the city for exercising their rights. Filing frivolous lawsuits is a
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by danans 4mo ago
> They lost. So why did it still cost us $400 million? Did the article provide a direct answer to this? I see the $20M delay payments to contractors and the rise of labor costs cited, but is that all?
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by danans 5mo ago
> assuming we're all 10x more productive - we'll still be working 5 days and enjoying 2 days a week, but we'll consume 10x more, or everything we consume will be 10x higher quality Who is "we all"? To me, it sou
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by danans 5mo ago
> The middle ground is integrated solar panels, where you have normal sized panels but they are flush with the rest of the roof and there are no tiles underneath them Flush with the rest of the roof seems like a mistake. What if you nee
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by danans 5mo ago
> "California completely drought-free for 1st time in 25 years after winter storms" California is like 5% of the land mass of the contiguous 48 states. Just because it is out of a drought doesn't negate the article.
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by danans 5mo ago
> A123 bankruptcy giving China its EV industry For those who aren't aware, A123 made the batteries for the GM EV1, which GM famously killed after killing the CA clean air regulation that gave rise to it.
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by danans 5mo ago
Money is a proxy for other things. In the places where meta has offices, the cost of living (housing, childcare, healthcare, etc etc) is so high that working for a company that pays like Meta can be the only way many can afford it all. It&
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by danans 5mo ago
> This is frustratingly one-sided writing Tangential, but by being that, it's also refreshingly human writing, vs the both-sidesy bullet listed AI pablum that's all around us these days. I have zero take on the subject matter,
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by danans 5mo ago
> Look at e.g. General Mills, based in a blue state, but a great deal of what they buy are ag inputs from red states. Are the businesses from who they buy ag inputs in the red states not compensated at market rates for the raw materials
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by danans 5mo ago
> There is not overall any sign that poor people, as a whole, have increased criminality; other factors like culture are far stronger. "Criminality" is too broad a characterization. It covers both assault and petty theft. I n
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by danans 5mo ago
> t’s a myth that petty shoplifting is something done by poor people. The people doing it are usually part of organised crime (that is not “hyperlocal”) and generally are doing better than actual poor people There is not such a strong d
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by danans 5mo ago
> Is this an oligarchy or a kakistocracy? Yes. Also a klepotocracy
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by danans 5mo ago
I personally find Chevy's recent infotainment control center great (Equinox/Blazer, maybe others too). Physical buttons with lots of travel (almost feel like an old IBM keyboard) for HVAC essentials, knobs for temperature and vo
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by danans 5mo ago
> I think HN specifically, and the country more generally, has become disgusted with the magnitude of wealth concentration. I'd like to believe this, but the proof is in the pudding, the pudding being how they vote. Apart from a fe
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by danans 5mo ago
> Taxing the wealthy is the most popular way to lower the debt. Let me clarify: Few in the mainstream of current politics and media want to discuss higher taxes on the uber wealthy (1B and up) - much less the very wealthy (100M and up).
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by danans 5mo ago
> The right says it’s fine as long as it goes to endless wars, and the left says it’s fine when we spend the money on social programs. Both say it’s bad when the other side spends it, but not when their own spends it. Spending is only on
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by danans 6mo ago
As funny as this is, there is a serious side. This is a case of an unintentional hallucination propagating and amplifying through human social and incentive structures. This is also how probably how religious miracle stories work.
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by danans 6mo ago
> Does it inspire fear to motivate productivity? > Haha, no, it inspires motivation for finding a new job. Interview prep takes time Everyone's circumstances are different. Many people - especially those with dependents - would r
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by danans 6mo ago
I doubt it. Expensive and wasteful side quests are a symptom of too much wealth/power concentrated in too few hands. Unless your parallel universe has a more (not perfectly) equal distribution of capital and resources, it would have e

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