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by electrondood 1y ago
Check the source. Elektrek cranks out anti-Tesla articles. Hardly fair and objective.
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by electrondood 1y ago
I periodically receive OTPs I didn't request, because malicious actors are trying password stuffing with really old credentials of mine from data breaches. It's relatively frequent.
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by electrondood 1y ago
While men claiming to be ICE get to wear plainclothes and gaiters/face masks as they snatch people off the street without presenting identification or a warrant.
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by electrondood 1y ago
> doing the basic job of knowledge workers If you extrapolate and generalize further... what is at risk is any task that involves taking information input (text, audio, images, video, etc.), and applying it to create some information out
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by electrondood 1y ago
GLUT-4 activation in the muscles primes them to take up glucose and other nutrients. So air squats or going for a walk before/after a meal can significantly blunt the insulin response, because there's less glucose in your blood st
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by electrondood 1y ago
And then the courts are like "no, you don't get to do that." What kind of master negotiator creates a deadline that only applies to himself?
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by electrondood 1y ago
> An internal presentation on the 2021 strategy for TikTok describes the company as being in an *"arms race for attention"* We have a collective psychological experiment in the form of social media, but short-form content combi
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by electrondood 2y ago
> Any country can solve it Most wealthy countries have already solved it: immigration.
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by electrondood 2y ago
Fair, but he's not exactly a shining beacon of the best we have to offer.
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by electrondood 2y ago
At least it's an ethos.
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by electrondood 2y ago
This is the most sensible take I have seen online in months.
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by electrondood 2y ago
Here's a list of people who are both famous and polarizing, along with their number of credible claims of sexual assault. 1. Elon Musk - 1 2. Donald Trump - 26 3. Kanye West - 0 known 4. Greta Thunberg - 0 known 5. Joe Rogan - 0 known
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by electrondood 2y ago
Then you should likewise believe that the legislative branch should continue to determine how funds are allocated, and which agencies and departments are created and continue to function. Let's not be disingenuous.
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by electrondood 2y ago
"Smart fellas"? The guy is a billionaire, and all he can find are a few 20-years old edgelords with names like "Big Balls" who make racist comments in online forums?
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by electrondood 2y ago
The "I have nothing to hide" perspective on privacy is immediately revealed as disingenuous when you ask them to place a web cam in their shower. Privacy clearly is valuable for it's own sake.
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by electrondood 2y ago
What is the point of all of this? Reducing federal income taxes? It seems to me that these people are pushing a rope if that's the goal. For example, USAID is 1% of federal spending, but buys the US a disproportionate amount of soft po
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by electrondood 2y ago
It's ridiculous to me that we're back in the world of "politician blames bad thing on wokeness" > "everyone has to spend months discussing this as if it's a sane idea."
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by electrondood 2y ago
> I don't see why privacy matters, I have nothing to hide Anyone who says this should then be just fine with putting a webcam in their shower.
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by electrondood 2y ago
I know a corrupt real estate developer who would probably love to sell him a property at 500% of the market rate.
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by electrondood 2y ago
100% ditto for me. It's the interface for my external brain. The file search and global search are exactly what I need, and the multi-cursor editing, etc. are fantastic. I always have my IDE up on one monitor and Sublime on the other.
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by electrondood 2y ago
> ...to make sure workers have good working conditions and proper pay. That's universal to any job. This is wildly untrue. The less skilled your labor, the more exploitative the available jobs are. This is why we have labor regulat
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by electrondood 2y ago
Imagine complaining that an LLM is hallucinating, because it's not accurately hallucinating your delusion.
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by electrondood 2y ago
> To put a bullshit machine on the internet, in the name of Christ, is reckless So the problem here is an LLM hallucinating... about a completely made-up, delusional story that people happen to take really personally. This is like compla
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by electrondood 2y ago
HN is not intentionally engineered to be as addictive as possible now, is it?
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by electrondood 2y ago
No one forces you to smoke cigarettes, but claiming that it's purely a decision ignores a major confounder: they are addictive. Social media is the product of thousands of A/B tests to arrive at the most engaging (addictive) platf
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by electrondood 2y ago
"Infinite scroll" apps are harvesting your attention for ad revenue. That's what they are designed to do.
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by electrondood 2y ago
He's either been radicalized by his own platform, or he's intentionally being provocative to drive engagement, to drive ad revenue. It's disgusting. The hypocrisy is absurd. Like telling everyone to go fuck themselves, and th
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by electrondood 2y ago
"For You" is an engine designed to provoke an emotional reaction (engagement) from you at any cost, to the detriment of your mental health. Mine was filled with people getting into fights, toxic right-wing misogyny, "karen ca
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by electrondood 2y ago
re: point #1, the fire command team captain himself refuted this disinformation in an interview with Musk. I don't know about the other three offhand, but it's absurd to claim that state and local governments in California are som
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by electrondood 2y ago
> might I found their post helpful, and not an attempt to diagnose.

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