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by herval 2y ago
Tiktok is entirely anonymous (well other than you showing your face if you post). So is Reddit. So is Candy Crush...
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by herval 2y ago
I don't think real identities broke the internet... what really did it was the perfecting of the addiction formula, by multiple companies (from facebook to king). It turned it into an Opium den
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> DOGE makes recommendations to the president Trump is so far gone in his dementia, he can't even make eye contact anymore. You see this in all the videos. He's basically King Théoden at this point. Not even Musk's kid res
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by herval 2y ago
Worth noticing that it _doesn't even work at a social media company_. Twitter is a husk of its former self, with all the problems that were if not solved, at least mitigated, back in full force (child porn, bots, impersonators). It&#x2
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by herval 2y ago
It's unbelievable how the US government is literally being dismantled in front of your eyes, and all you can see is this thought-terminating bullshit about "purple hair people". Half the American population completely lost th
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by herval 2y ago
and that's why I'm a senior engineer since my first internship! I always considered legacy projects more interesting than zero to one. A lot less reinventing the wheel and bikeshedding, a lot of puzzles - painful ones, sure, but a
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by herval 2y ago
Too gentrified for Python
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by herval 2y ago
It feels like YC population these days is mostly employees of mid-to-large tech companies trying to get rich out of RSUs. It used to be more about founders and wannabe founders, but the attitude shifted through the years to a mix of cynical
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by herval 2y ago
very thoughtful idea!
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Tesla resale value isn’t great, so even that serene, ascetic monk would better off buying a different brand
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DeepSeek's gambit proves that as much as Stable Diffusion proved that the future of Diffusion Models is open-source. In other words, it doesn't prove anything
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Has it really? What evidence do we have that it's such an insanely exponential advancement?
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...yet
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Go has been a masterclass in disparaging industry learnings as "unnecessary" (dep management, generics, null safety), then gradually bolting them into the language. It's kinda hilarious to watch.
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by herval 2y ago
This is my main worry with the entire AI trend too. We're creating a huge gap for those joining the industry right now, with markedly fewer job openings for junior people. Who will inherit the machine?
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by herval 2y ago
I don't think trusting that someone wrote the code was ever a good assurance of anything, and I don't see how that changes with AI. There will always be certain _individuals_ who are more reliable than others, not because they han
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by herval 2y ago
The last 2 years fundamentally changed how a lot of people perceive work. I've witnessed layoffs in the past, but they didn't seem to hit as many people as hard as they did this time. That said - having seen how layoffs are organi
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by herval 2y ago
...what?
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And the point is…?
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by herval 2y ago
So your point is that since anyone can use an elevator, we’re all “elevator operators”? So basically that everyone will be a software writer, therefore nobody will get paid to write software anymore?
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by herval 2y ago
That’s very easily googled: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Number-of-Elevator-Opera... There were more elevator operators before elevators became easily operated by the passengers - as expected
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by herval 2y ago
Feudal peasants weren't slaves. Employees aren't slaves. Serving someone makes you a serf in the worst case, not a slave. If you were a FAANG slave, Google could literally prevent you from marrying, or ship you in a box to a diffe
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by herval 2y ago
what in that list requires someone to be wealthy?
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by herval 2y ago
our brains adapt for "better" fast - faster feedback loops, crisper images, higher resolution, etc - and it's really hard to go back. I'd imagine it's something around the reward system of the brain. I grew up with
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by herval 2y ago
> The TikTok debate has always been about the balance between national security and free speech And now about how the sitting president can profit from brokering it
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by herval 2y ago
“Tit for that” is a solution for the USA on a great deal of topics, from reciprocal taxes to reciprocal visa requirements for travel. Why not reciprocate social media site access too? It’s just another product after all?
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Except they are
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did you read the rest of the sentence or
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by herval 2y ago
Precisely. Like TikTok and Douyin.
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by herval 2y ago
it's called Douyin. It's the same product, the same way a Mexican Coke is the same thing as an American Coke, and both are produced by the same company (Coca Cola).

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