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by dbingham 11mo ago
> We can incorporate, but can we indemocrate? I'm working on this right now. I'm building a Facebook alternative that will be a nonprofit, multistakeholder cooperative if I can get it off the ground. It won't be owned by
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by dbingham 11mo ago
See, now this is an excellent use of LLMs (if we're going to be using them at all). Low stakes if it gets shit wrong, but can provide some really useful and surprising answers! One request, it would be nice to not have to add Goodread
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by dbingham 1y ago
This all comes down to "We can't have nice things in America because of our toxic mix of individualism and capitalism." Because we insist on trying to privatize everything, refuse to provide a safe floor for people, and make
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by dbingham 1y ago
This is really unreasonable entitlement. Expecting perpetually free cloud services of any kind is wholely unreasonable. Clouds have monthly costs. The only reason companies like Apple can offer them is because they are very well capitali
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by dbingham 1y ago
I feel like the real opportunity for e-ink displays is white boards. I would love a 4 ft x 3 ft e-ink display that I could mount on the wall with calendar and note widgets and that I could also draw on like a white board. Plus, remote teams
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by dbingham 1y ago
It also matters whether we are considering it a static $10 million or considering reality. In reality, if you have $10 million, you put it in the S&P500 and make an average of 10% ($1 million) per year. Far more than inflation and more
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by dbingham 1y ago
The question is, how do we enforce this?
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by dbingham 1y ago
The same, in theory, applies to social media. But they've all enshittified in very similar ways now that they've captured their audiences. In theory there is intense competition between Meta, Twitter, TikTok, etc, but in actualit
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by dbingham 1y ago
It is every bit as irrational to dismissively rule out "aliens" as it is to rush to declare it the definitive answer. It is a valid possible answer that should be included in the possibilities as we try to figure out what caused t
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by dbingham 1y ago
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but my understand of the alien craft theory specifically for Oumuamua wasn't just because the object itself was new, but that it changed acceleration [1] without apparent off gassing in a way that i
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by dbingham 1y ago
It feels like these new models are no longer making order of magnitude jumps, but are instead into the long tail of incremental improvements. It seems like we might be close to maxing out what the current iteration of LLMs can accomplish an
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by dbingham 2y ago
This was true a decade ago. It is no longer true. The modern Trump controlled Republican party is not a party that cares about personal liberties. It is a fascist, authoritarian project that is toying with straight up Nazism. They are ex
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We Need a Class Action Lawsuit Against AI Companies
6 points by dbingham 2y ago|2 comments
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by dbingham 2y ago
That value is only great if it's shared equitably with the rest of the planet. If it's owned by a few, as it is right now, it's an existential threat to the life, liberty, and pursuit of a happiness of everyone else on the pl
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by dbingham 2y ago
Missing from this answer is the early evidence that they may be _very_ harmful. Early evidence suggests they are not non-reactive. They disrupt many of the body's systems in ways we're only beginning to understand. > Various e
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by dbingham 2y ago
You might want to choose a different name and branding. [Helm]( https://helm.sh/ ) is already a package manager for Kubernetes with pretty similar branding.
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by dbingham 2y ago
No, it's saying that _in any moment_ you can only focus deeply on, and thus care for, one other person. And if you have to care for multiple people, then you have to shift your focus moment to moment. As a parent, can confirm. To give
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by dbingham 2y ago
Airships could potentially be electric and solar powered. That would insulate it from fuel cost fluctuations. It would also resolve the issue with refueling.
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Ask HN: What apps / platforms inspire you? Who do you learn design from?
1 points by dbingham 2y ago|0 comments
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by dbingham 2y ago
The problem is that ultimately, all those efforts are building software - whether open source or platforms. And few of them are building it very well. The user experience of the vast majority of these efforts is abysmal and it undermines w
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by dbingham 2y ago
1984 was not an instruction manual.
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by dbingham 2y ago
It seems like HN has gotten one of these posts every month or two for as long as I've been reading it (about 15 years now). They always make me some combination of sad and angry, because they almost always misdiagnose the issue. Proce
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by dbingham 2y ago
That is flatly false. Worker cooperatives are every bit as innovative as any other form of private corporation. These are owned by workers not a centralized government. There are quite a few of them and you may well have purchased their p
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by dbingham 2y ago
Euthanasia is not murder. There are many situations in which death is the desired choice. In the case of abortion, you have one being (the fetus) that isn't yet fully formed and capable of living on its own and another being (the moth
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by dbingham 2y ago
Death and torture are different things.
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by dbingham 2y ago
The fact that we do more horrifying things to other species is not a justification. We shouldn't be doing those things. The fact our legal structures haven't banned them yet does not invalidate the ethical concerns about using h
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by dbingham 2y ago
This falls squarely into the "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they never stopped to consider whether they should" category. There are so many unknowns with potentially horrifying answers. We don
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Disney trys to block a wrongful death lawsuit because the plaintiff had Disney+(npr.org)
2 points by dbingham 2y ago|0 comments
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by dbingham 2y ago
It'd be really awesome to have a link to the channel and video that is playing in case I want to find it later. This is a wonderful discovery tool, but I'd really love to be able to save the content I discover!
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A robot gets a face of living 'skin' that allows it to smile(npr.org)
3 points by dbingham 2y ago|2 comments

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