foxglacier

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by foxglacier 4mo ago
Try another branch. I had that exact problem and just shopped around. I think some staff err on the side of caution when they don't know what to do.
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by foxglacier 4mo ago
Tech people forget how the real world has solved these problems long ago. I got access to my bank account in another country by writing them a letter on paper and having it signed by a policeman in my country then sending it in the mail. A
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by foxglacier 5mo ago
Yea that sounds like different people. Even news sites can have contradictory opinions and narratives - they should otherwise they're just biased. But it doesn't make it the same people.
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by foxglacier 5mo ago
Yep but most news readers are innumerate and scientifically illiterate so they just get swept up by the narrative.
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by foxglacier 5mo ago
Looks like you're making the common mistake of counting all people you disagree with as the same person. In this case they're clearly different - AI proponents and AI skeptics respectively. But your 2nd paragraph is spot on.
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by foxglacier 5mo ago
I fully agree about provocative content. Well except that some people enjoy feeling angry by believing something that isn't true. That's a kind of pleasure that's worth something, but it seems emotionally harmful in the long
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by foxglacier 5mo ago
The general public are only able and willing to use the internet because of the capitalism! When it was an academic thing, most people didn't care at all, and even if they did, they'd have to have social connections to gain access
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by foxglacier 5mo ago
2. is literally you making money off someone else. That someone else might not also be making money off your work - you might be selling services to an individual for their personal consumption, or more commonly, you might be doing that thr
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by foxglacier 5mo ago
Not generally, no. Workers usually do have choice - they can work in a less desirable job, just as consumers can buy a less desirable product. At the extremes, both are serious - workers without income can starve and consumers for whom food
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by foxglacier 5mo ago
So basically most older professionals, and today's young professionals will step into their shoes as they grow their wealth over time too. Which means probably far more than 10% of the population will at some point in their life belong
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by foxglacier 5mo ago
I think you mean who will protect the interests of the consumer? That's ultimately who loses to unions. There's no direct ethical value in protecting businesses or their owners but workers and consumers include pretty much all hum
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by foxglacier 5mo ago
Those edge-notched cards for mechanically searching are amazing! I guess you could enter a binary number with several needles to instantly pick out a single card from a deck of thousands. I have a child's puzzle game that works the sa
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by foxglacier 5mo ago
It can't do that if it's not to scale! And who knows where the errors are? Neptune's orbit is way too big compared to Alpha Centauri. Are other stars also way too close compared to that? I can't stand these intentionally
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by foxglacier 5mo ago
You people need to stop saying this. You're being greedy when you buy groceries from a cheaper supermarket. You're being greedy when you negotiate your salary or choose a job based on pay, or anything where you're trying to g
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by foxglacier 5mo ago
They did look petty and intolerant. The explosion of popularity of the internet in the late 1990's was done by capitalism. Only a few privileged people had access to the pre-capitalism academic internet. Additional capitalism also made
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by foxglacier 5mo ago
Thanks for clarifying. I think we just differ on what we value. I don't mind communicating with someone even when there's no hope of them gaining any understanding from our interaction. I'm happy to read a technical manual th
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by foxglacier 5mo ago
It must be having their mindset set wrong for the situation. Are they a business out to make money? Then suck it up and accept they have to smooch their leads to convert them into paying customers. Or are they trying to build a community of
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by foxglacier 5mo ago
That's the same attitude as "cheap airfares caused too many tourists which ruined my favorite tourist destination". You're unhappy that more people have access to it and wish it was still exclusive to the small group you
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by foxglacier 5mo ago
I don't think you understand that people pee lithium into their toilets too. But you didn't just read an article riling you up to being mad at the municipal sewage industry so you aren't mad at it at the moment.
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by foxglacier 5mo ago
God this is classic journalistic lying with true facts. I read all the way up to the start of Tesla's response and couldn't tell what they had supposedly done wrong. If there's an accusation in there, it's buried in wort
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by foxglacier 5mo ago
You need to quantify this "significant" amount of harm otherwise all you're saying is "doing any activity causes harm to something so doing more of that activity causes more harm" which applies to absolutely every a
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by foxglacier 5mo ago
> for communication to hold any meaning there must be persons at either end of it working towards a common understanding of truth. I'm really struggling to understand that. Are you defining the meaning of the word "communicatio
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by foxglacier 5mo ago
It sounds like the maintainer you're describing was underhandedly helping their users with the silent expectation that they also contribute back to the project and got bitter when it didn't happen that way. Open source is altruist
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by foxglacier 5mo ago
His stated reasons for SpaceX and Starlink are to colonize Mars. Starlink is to generate money to pay for the rest of it. Whether that's true or realistic doesn't matter. It is what he said his reason is, disproving your claim of
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by foxglacier 5mo ago
You people should work out why you need to know if something was AI written or not. If there's really no way to know the truth, then the truth can't have any impact on you, so it doesn't matter. Why then do you care? I'v
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by foxglacier 5mo ago
How?? Are you saying there's a lot of silent AI-boosters on HN voting it down despite almost every single comment here being non-obsequious? Looks like your model of reality has detached from modelling reality.
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by foxglacier 5mo ago
Must has clearly stated the reason and value. You know that. You're just trying to be wrong because the internet told you you'll be a good person for hating him.
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by foxglacier 5mo ago
Why are so many people just desperate to imagine environmental, economic, or social harm from any new technology or ambitious projects? Are you all just too old to enjoy the thought of an amazing future that's better than today? Or are
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by foxglacier 5mo ago
Wait, websites were adding cookie banners when they didn't need them just to look modern?! Those bastards! Could there also be newsletter signup pop-ups on sites that won't even send you any spam but they do it to look cool?
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by foxglacier 5mo ago
It's usually intentional so they're not going to show more information to reveal that their narrative is weak or wrong. It's up to the reader to think critically because journalists are constantly trying to fool them with tru

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