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811.
by dools 3y ago
I should have been more specific: no amount of assault is acceptable. Although the other follow up that brings up the fungibility of carbon emissions versus the fungibility of assault is better I think.
812.
by dools 3y ago
Glad to see that AI Twitter is as vacuous as human Twitter
813.
by dools 3y ago
I'm not giving my eldest daughter a smartphone until she is 15. She has an iPad, a laptop, an apple watch and a 4g Nokia, but when she gets a smartphone with a SIM in it, it's the last thing she will ever look at. I'm just tr
814.
by dools 3y ago
The the reason you can’t offset violent crime in the same way is that no amount of violence is acceptable but some amount of carbon emissions is acceptable. Also in some cases damages are used to offset wrongdoing, especially in civil litig
815.
by dools 3y ago
I come to Hacker News to avoid comments like this.
816.
by dools 3y ago
The article we are discussing cites: On Thursday Qantas posted $1.4b half-year profits, tripling revenues On Wednesday Woolworths posted a 25% rise in profits. Supermarket profits have soared on the strength of rapid food price inflation. O
817.
by dools 3y ago
Well ... if you think about it the additional spending power was sitting somewhere right? People lost their jobs because other people weren't spending. The people who didn't spend, kept their money. Then the people who laid off wo
818.
by dools 3y ago
OP did say: > (sometimes fiscal policy, sometimes both) Although it's also clear that monetary policy alone cannot stimulate the economy, otherwise there would have been a correlation between ZIRP and economic growth, and there wasn
819.
by dools 3y ago
I think it's reasonable for companies to want to have infinite profits and $0 in costs to produce. That's what they're supposed to do. My point is that when the OP says "inflation is the result of monetary/fiscal po
820.
by dools 3y ago
> This is a measure of where inflation "goes", not what fuels inflation. The narrative that profits are "fueling" inflation is completely made up and the people pushing it are lying to everyone for political reasons.
821.
by dools 3y ago
Yeah my favourite "in mice" story is cryogenics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tdiKTSdE9Y
822.
by dools 3y ago
> Attorneys for Elk Mountain Ranch owner Fred Eshelman last week designated real estate agent James Rinehart of Laramie as an expert witness in Eshelman’s civil suit against the hunters Nothing more credible than a local real estate agen
823.
by dools 3y ago
> The men corner-crossed in 2020 and 2021 to hunt public land enmeshed in Eshelman’s 22,045-acre ranch. What sort of a sociopathic son of a bitch do you have to be to tie up so many resources on such a minor transgression? That dude eats
824.
by dools 3y ago
Yep I have received a genuine report completely unsolicited before, paid a modest bounty and fixed the problem immediately, then took some precautions to ensure any potential data leaks were rendered innocuous. I was very glad to have recei
825.
by dools 3y ago
Is that 3.5 or 4? I don't play word games with GPT but for coding tasks it went from unusable most of the time to absolutely indispensible team member between 3.5 and 4.
826.
by dools 3y ago
I’ve been listening to the Catalyst podcast with Shayle Kann recently and it’s given me an appreciation of the importance of this type of work for the future of our planet. As we electrify everything the amount of work we need to do on the
827.
by dools 3y ago
> Do people actually do that much copy paste programming? So much: https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/12/30/how-often-do-people-ac...
828.
by dools 3y ago
I have spent the past couple of years solving problems that, evidently, no one else is trying to solve (or else everyone else finds it easy to solve). The evidence is that I spend a lot of time searching for error messages of which I am app
829.
by dools 3y ago
Personally I'm just glad to see the back of blockchain hype. AI seems to me to be much more consequential.
830.
by dools 3y ago
> How does the ethical use of this prolematic tool get ascertained? Via the judicial system > Where and how is the democratic oversight implemented? In congress > How is misuse treated and prevented? Through the judicial system and
831.
by dools 3y ago
> Google is not a private company though. The distinction I’m making is between public sector and private sector, not privately held versus publicly traded >> if you really care about the impacts of boom and bust don't worry a
832.
by dools 3y ago
That's what private companies are supposed to do though. They exist to make a profit. The type of people working for Google will be the first to get hired when the economy picks up again, if you really care about the impacts of boom an
833.
by dools 3y ago
Agreed. There are people whose jobs involve abseiling from the side of a building. Therefore it's only fair that we should all be doing our jobs while abseiling from the side of a building.
834.
by dools 3y ago
I can no longer edit, but it's worth noting that I went through my Trellinator libs and updated for use with WeKan, throwing exceptions where functionality doesn't yet exist: https://github.com/iaindooley/trel
835.
by dools 3y ago
Have you not spent much time working with ChatGPT? Or maybe you haven't upgraded to plus so you get GPT4? It's so fucking good. It's a bit like pair programming. Even though it can't always give you the result you want,
836.
by dools 3y ago
When I was evaluating open source Kanban recently I found WeKan had the closest REST API compatibility with Trello: https://wekan.github.io
837.
by dools 3y ago
That's what programming with ChatGPT is like.
838.
by dools 3y ago
I was on mIRC, ICQ and MSN all day with my friends in the late 90s-2000s so chat definitely existed!
839.
by dools 3y ago
> You have to trust somebody I know, all the time, and thus the entire premise of crypto is flawed, as are the libertarian ideals that birthed it.
840.
by dools 3y ago
Easy as one, two, three!

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