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by elefanten 2y ago
But there’s no AI that can do your hobby either. If your hobby is painting… are you painting for those who are now paying Chatgpt for their painting needs? Have you been robbed of your hobby? No. The scenario is as imaginary as Dishwashgpt
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by elefanten 2y ago
Not quite what you’re asking for, but Discord is broadly the go-to for small private communities, imo. It’s not half bad at it either
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by elefanten 2y ago
Yeah, I’ve long felt his PR game outshines his interestingness and insightfulness. He gets quoted and referenced reverently by media often, but then you read his takes and they’re either eye-rolling hype or stifled-laughter obviousness.
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by elefanten 2y ago
That’s an awesome policy. Compare to car share services (in SF.. apples to apples) such as Gig Car and Getaround which allow unsupervised general access (i.e. no driver there to witness car treatment)… those are generally pigsties. Blunt
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by elefanten 2y ago
There’s a surprising amount of vocabulary difference across Czech and Slovak, in addition to the pronunciation differences you mention. Pre-split everyone on both sides grew up hearing bilingual broadcasts, so they picked up the differences
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by elefanten 2y ago
“I understand that you believe” …that questioning diagnostic clarity is associated with some nebulous conversational or clinical scenarios that make you uncomfortable. But sticking your head in the epistemological sand and chastising people
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by elefanten 2y ago
You ignore “the spirit of the law” with fancy acrobatics around “the letter of the law”… at your own peril. I can’t comment on the claims here, but if MSFT is skirting the intent brazenly enough, the predictable regulatory reaction is no bu
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by elefanten 2y ago
> Lesné, who did not reply to requests for comment, remains a UMN professor and receives National Institutes of Health funding. The university has been investigating his work since June 2022. A spokesperson says UMN recently told Nature
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by elefanten 2y ago
Yeah. Worth visiting and revisiting now and then
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by elefanten 2y ago
We’re decades into the pattern. I continue to be stunned that anyone is surprised by Chinese product anymore. Here’s a rule that will not serve you poorly for the indeterminate future: avoid it all costs whenever and wherever you can. It’s
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by elefanten 2y ago
>it would be very strange for someone to argue that Israel is not attempting to destroy, in whole or in part, Palestinians This line alone proves all my points on the topic. That you find it _unfathomable_ that Israel has goals other tha
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by elefanten 2y ago
This thread feels astroturfed, or at least like some overly enthusiastic friend-posting. Buncha low activity accounts posting marketing copy style testimonials. I’m not saying it was necessarily intentional manipulation, but it feels off fo
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by elefanten 2y ago
That's a strawman caricature of the argument. States that are driven by free market allocation rather than central planning (because there's no _pure_ model of either/or) are much less likely to initiate major wars of conques
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by elefanten 2y ago
You missed the requirement that it be better than comparably priced options. Hard to find a reason to buy this over other flagship Androids other than wanting to be more integrated with a Chinese software ecosystem.
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by elefanten 3y ago
This is absolutely the correct answer, all identity-based solutions are coarse and imprecise ways to solve a directly measurable problem (relative economic hardship). But the identity-based lever has proven too effective rhetorically and cr
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by elefanten 3y ago
You're muddling issues. China restricts free speech in all contexts, and also separately puts onerous requirements on or outright bans various kinds of foreign businesses. If TikTok is banned for geopolitical reasons, reciprocity reaso
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by elefanten 3y ago
Ive drifted in and out of reading him over the years. What’s a representative stance of his on genetics of intelligence
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by elefanten 3y ago
The snap take came across as an argument about which of two names for the measure is better-known. The wikipedia page implies the opposite of that argument. Perhaps that’s changed since 1984, but the proposition was about current practices.
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by elefanten 3y ago
That’s the supply / costs side of it. The demand / revenue side might be another obstacle, especially if the easy money environment for school loans evaporates
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by elefanten 3y ago
No but you have to pick where and how quickly to ramp the tax schedule which will eventually lead to you having to make some “assumptions” about what size (range) is “too big”
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by elefanten 3y ago
You can buy stuff today with it vs. waiting til tomorrow. A dollar you own today has zero risk of not being delivered tomorrow. You can invest that dollar one day sooner. If there’s a general expectation of inflation, it exchanges for more
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by elefanten 3y ago
While this has mostly held, there’s a big push to redefine anti-trust. That’s what the MSFT-Activision case was actually about beneath the surface narrative. The challenger jurisprudence lost, but it got pretty close and has lots of politic
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by elefanten 3y ago
This is completely ignorant of how influence works and how espionage assets are developed. A foreign entity would have no obstructions to using collected information as ruthlessly as possible, whereas even a corrupt/politically-motivat
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by elefanten 3y ago
So how does one invest in actual god damn “tin foil” hats? That oughta hold off the brain parsers for a while.
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by elefanten 3y ago
The name and brand styling are so atrocious though. Feels like an Ed Hardy t-shirt became a water bottle.
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by elefanten 3y ago
Yeah, the commitments in this post don’t preclude an entity other than Carta doing the same thing. It seems incredibly risky and foolish to try, to the point that I don’t expect them to. But this post leaves room for other attempts.
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by elefanten 3y ago
11 months early for the 10 year anniversary. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8716538 Edit: and coming up on 40 times on HN! https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
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by elefanten 3y ago
Seems like the natural gulf between a serf and an edgy quant. :shrug:
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by elefanten 3y ago
Haha. This is funny because you're making a slippery slope argument that consists of chastising gp for making a slippery slope argument (which they didn't). GP was just saying (given their assumptions / understanding) that it
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by elefanten 3y ago
That’s not how the law would see it. Blackmailers incorporating otherwise-legal third party activity into their threat does not add legal liability for that 3rd party. Nor does it excuse any pre-existing liability for the blackmail target.

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