diego_moita

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by diego_moita 5mo ago
In a sense "Americans" don't really exist. The people the article describes are a very small subset of the American cultures: the ones with intellectual curiosity and money to travel to another country. For each American tour
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by diego_moita 5mo ago
And he is absolutely right! If, like Brin, you're the boss and you can delegate all the unpleasant parts of work to your minions then why not work 60 hours only in the pleasant parts (including having sex with a marketing manager) and,
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by diego_moita 5mo ago
Funny that things are discussed in HN only when "Tech Workers" are affected. Artists feel the same about AI, it is probably much worse for them. Computer was a job before becoming a machine. And IT has been automating jobs out of
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by diego_moita 5mo ago
2 proverbs from southern Brazil: "The job of a judge is to arrest the poor, free the rich and carve some sweet nepotism for his/her relatives". "From a judge's head, a politician's mouth and a baby's but y
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by diego_moita 5mo ago
> Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops? If you want to put it in such dumb terms: AlphaFold. However, Photoshop and Excel aren't only code. They're a culture, a social environment. They are the user base that built a social envir
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by diego_moita 5mo ago
Outside of niche applications (e.g. virtual desktops, gamming, embedded systems) native UIs are dead. There are even parts of both Windows and MacOS rendered through HTML. If I remember correctly, at least in Windows 10, File Explorer was r
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by diego_moita 5mo ago
> All that was needed was a tacit understanding that there were rules, that the US set those rules, and that those who followed the rules would benefit from the trade that came with being a part of the global hegemony. This as been so ov
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by diego_moita 5mo ago
> Winning the AI Race Which one of them all? If you mean "building models that are very good at coding and as substitutes for search engines", then yeah, sure. But if you mean: "applying AI to industrial applications and r
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by diego_moita 6mo ago
> and maybe Israel. I doubt. Israel is a racist project and zionism is just apartheid with better PR.
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by diego_moita 6mo ago
Brazilian proverb: when gangsters fight, I cheer for the fight. Among Trumpistan, Israel and Iran there is no good guy in this war.
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by diego_moita 6mo ago
Doesn't matter. Whenever Telus calls my standard answer is the call blocker.
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by diego_moita 6mo ago
Several reasons: 1. Unlike the rest of the world, EVs were sold in the US as muscle cars for rich people (e.g. Tesla). Everywhere else they're cheap cars for urban commuters (e.g. BYD). 2. Republicans sabotaged every attempt from the D
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by diego_moita 6mo ago
It is easy to blame Trump's incompetence, but I think there are 2 more important reasons to consider: 1. Industrialization of Asia and factory automation 2. The rise of efficient agriculture in 3rd world countries and the consolidation
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by diego_moita 6mo ago
Bilionaires talking about morals sound like Tony Soprano talking about morals. And let's be clear: Palantir executives want "other" people to die in wars, not them or their children.
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by diego_moita 6mo ago
This story isn't new. Several sports were famous for corruption caused by bets: box, soccer, bicycle racing, etc. The result is always a loss of credibility. With time, only the dumbest keep betting.
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by diego_moita 6mo ago
Does anyone remember when western nations were freaking out that Huawei would handle everybody personal data to the Chinese government? Now, please tell me that American companies are better at privacy than the Chinese ones. Btw, some alter
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by diego_moita 6mo ago
I don't know the details but it is a very good idea to restrict people's access to guns. Guns, fireworks, explosives, sulfuric acid, all sorts of bio-hazards, ... every civilized country restricts peoples' access to these thi
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by diego_moita 7mo ago
Veritasium made a video about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZeIEiBrT_w
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by diego_moita 7mo ago
No. It is like a drug addict doubling down in its obsession. Oil is in the way out. Only countries addicted to oil don't see that. And the Americans are addicted to oil.
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by diego_moita 7mo ago
It is almost impossible to understand what you mean when you speak in such vague terms and lack specifics. What exactly are you talking about? Psychoanalysis, acupuncture and homeopathy? I think science already has produced a solid body of
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by diego_moita 7mo ago
> using a higher epistemic standard. It has been tried for centuries but the best we got is science itself. If you can create such an "higher epistemic standard" you'll be just upgrading science.
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by diego_moita 7mo ago
Some of the biggest lies in history where, indeed, made with books. Examples go from "Malleus Maleficarum" to "Mein Kampf" to even "Chariots of the Gods". But there is a difference in efficacy. It is harder to
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by diego_moita 7mo ago
I am worried. I do agree that the bigger picture of learning non-fiction is richer. We now have other ways to learn non-fiction: Wikipedia, Veritasium, Gemini, etc. But only books can provide you something we may call a "coherent world
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by diego_moita 7mo ago
Windows gets a lot of (deserved) bad rap for bloatware but MacOS is just a little less bad. "Features" that we can't uninstall (e.g.: Siri, Apple Music), arbitrary changes in the UI, ... True, the "blessing" of forc
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by diego_moita 7mo ago
Yeah! That will be even better!
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It will be so much fun to watch the World Cup from outside the US...
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by diego_moita 7mo ago
Are you referring to Thiel, the Catholic Church or both?
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> That's it? Yes, that's it. The only reason for imperialism is "what's in it for me". All the rest is bullshit. Source: I am not American, therefore I know American Imperialism when I see it.
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by diego_moita 7mo ago
If past crisis are any indication this "push" won't last. We've had crisis with fossil fuels since OPEC's first big price increase in 1973 and the pattern is always the same: first the whole world realizes they need
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by diego_moita 7mo ago
> and least toxic communities Your comment sounds toxic to me. It endorses silence in face of a genocide. We discussed a lot other wars here without immediate technological or economic consequences: Ukraine, Iraq, etc. Why not the genoci

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