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by hcks 3y ago
Except a single dvd back then was inflation adjusted more expensive than one month of these subscription? So how does your reasoning hold?
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by hcks 3y ago
They actually do?
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by hcks 3y ago
Your comment has no substance
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by hcks 3y ago
You could do it by hand at that scale too
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by hcks 3y ago
Why do you spend weeks adding something instead of directly testing all the later hypotheses?
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by hcks 3y ago
Good idea! What if the bill you received was in $ every month? Even better, what if it was a flat rate so you’re not surprised by how much you owe?
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by hcks 3y ago
You don’t understand, there is a parallel universe where people don’t pay for Spotify and totally spend 500 bucks per year on merch for each artist they listen to
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by hcks 3y ago
Nothing. Also contrary to what the hype is trying to make people believe, the whole field is pretty much in the same place as in 1990
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by hcks 3y ago
Yeah I’m sure what’s missing in mathematics is miles of parentheses
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by hcks 3y ago
Holy cringe
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by hcks 3y ago
Wow I love traditional automakers!!
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by hcks 3y ago
It’s not enough to rent a 2 bedroom flat in paris but ok
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by hcks 3y ago
If this had been enacted, there would never have been any scientific progress. Should tell you something
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by hcks 3y ago
"Why doesn’t my bowling ball go through the ground if it’s denser than dirt??" Mind == blown
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by hcks 3y ago
« Google workers are nice humans therefore the company is doing good (tm) things » Maybe it’s time to stop drinking the koolaid.
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by hcks 3y ago
Yes it’s well known that children in dense walkable mixed use cities such as New York spend all their time outside.
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by hcks 3y ago
What makes you think you’re more competent than the type of people who were interested in joining OpenAI before? What if the type of people who made the company successful are leaving and the type of people who have no track record become i
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by hcks 3y ago
Pathetic gatekeeping. Sorry but software engineer are not the same as real engineers.
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by hcks 3y ago
Can the author provide example of dumb ideas? Or is it "dumb ideas" == "ideas I disagree with" More generally, it seems like the recipe of this breed of substack author is to take a basic object level opinion e.g. "
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by hcks 3y ago
It’s been 20 years of well-intended governmental initiatives to reinvent the text editor and waste millions of taxpayer money. What’s the end goal? What are we trying to achieve here?
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by hcks 3y ago
Once you take in 10 billions then it’s pretty much the opposite, legality is the only things that matter.
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by hcks 3y ago
Yeah but inflation also affects rich people you see. With this we can have selective inflation but only for proles
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by hcks 3y ago
I love spending 1% of the GDP to make sure my big pile of metal doesn’t explode.
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by hcks 3y ago
People here love to pretend 100k is an outstanding overpay
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by hcks 3y ago
Coders had decades to unionise and setup legal barriers to protect their livelihood. (Doctors won’t ever be out of a job because of AI because they’ll always get a fat paycheck even just to look at the output spat out by the machine.) They
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by hcks 3y ago
> I want to earn the scale through hard work How lost in life do you have to be to start valuing things like that. I, as an individual, do not care about your SaaS scale. I’m sorry, it literally isn’t weighted at all in my utility functi
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by hcks 3y ago
This is being downvoted yet there’s a reason why this types of treatments always starts being developed to serve the US market initially
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by hcks 3y ago
I love being poor and not able to own a home
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by hcks 3y ago
> I hope that this industry turns it around, and refocus on the prime objective: being nerds. Actually, the prime objective of the industry is to create surplus value for the capitalist ruling class. The second software engineer becomes
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by hcks 3y ago
People should stop trying to cope and pretend that life is very long when it’s not. At 30 you’re well into your professional career.

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