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by imgabe 3y ago
I think people do a disservice to their cause when they make semantic arguments like this. Isn't enough to say that AI can be used for enhanced surveillance by malicious actors? What does it mean to be a "surveillance technology
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by imgabe 3y ago
Because people don’t pay for the cost of goods, they pay for the value they provide. If you need heart surgery that takes four hours, would you pay someone the same amount to take a four hour nap instead? Probably not, but why not? Accordin
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by imgabe 3y ago
I will not live in the pod. I will not eat bugs.
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by imgabe 3y ago
You are extremely confused about how markets work. People are not going to willingly pay above-market prices for vegetables just because they have extra money. The pay for seasonal workers is not going to change if someone is able to buy De
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by imgabe 3y ago
> Ignoring everything, I also think it would be natural that everyone has the same wage - if you work for an hour it costs you an hour of your lifetime, no matter what you do. And you would be incorrect that this is natural. If two monke
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by imgabe 3y ago
Most people have computers. You don’t need to be in any particular place to learn to program as long as you have internet access. But yes, you might not be smart enough. Which was the point. The supply of people smart enough to program is s
577.
by imgabe 3y ago
Honestly, just learning that you can long press on the space bar to move the cursor around has fixed 95% of my mobile text editing woes.
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by imgabe 3y ago
Utterly insane. If you write a piece of software you can only sell it once? That makes no sense. And a subscription means you are administering a server (or some menagerie of “serverless” resources) which is an ongoing service that require
579.
by imgabe 3y ago
Nobody can ever do anything. Things only happen by random chance. What a bleak and pointless worldview.
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by imgabe 3y ago
Oh, so you won’t work to provide something for free, but you lament that someone else also won’t work for free. I see.
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by imgabe 3y ago
The price reflects the availability of the product and the willingness of the customers to pay. What more do you want? Clearly there are factors affecting the willingness of competitors to provide a cheaper offering, you just listed them.
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by imgabe 3y ago
What’s stopping them? You can learn to program with free information from the Internet. How much more ideal does it need to be?
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by imgabe 3y ago
No they shouldn’t. There is a large supply of people capable of cleaning toilets. And a relatively smaller supply of people capable of writing software.
584.
by imgabe 3y ago
Sound like the market is working just fine then.
585.
by imgabe 3y ago
Then why don’t you make the same thing for 85% margin?
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by imgabe 3y ago
Why? Were you born in Chernobyl in 1986 or something?
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by imgabe 3y ago
TV, game consoles, most computers (assuming you aren’t mining Bitcoin or something) are basically a rounding error compared to HVAC, and water heating.
588.
by imgabe 3y ago
Switched to Firefox years ago. Hopefully now more people will.
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by imgabe 3y ago
Surely if you’re looking for a game you pick a genre first, then look for the best reviewed game in that genre. It’s not like someone who wants an RTS game is going to choose a hidden object game instead because it has higher reviews.
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by imgabe 3y ago
> take comfort that Jesus was a carpenter and didn't die of respiratory illness/failure No, but it was an unfortunate incident involving some nails.
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by imgabe 3y ago
The REPL is huge and makes it so much easier to learn to program by trying out little snippets of code to see what they do. You can trial and error your way to a working program pretty quickly. Only Lisp has a better REPL.
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by imgabe 3y ago
I started programming around 2007. I actually wanted to get into Common Lisp, because I was heavily influenced by Paul Graham, HN and early Reddit. I did try a couple of web frameworks with Common Lisp, but didn't get very far. Ruby on
593.
by imgabe 3y ago
I’m not sure how useful it is to speculate about some massive media conspiracy to drum up bad news about countries with worker’s protections and universal healthcare to try and discredit those things in the US, rather than accept the Occam’
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by imgabe 3y ago
Or, you know, those things are not a panacea that magically turn a country into a utopia and they actually still have problems too.
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by imgabe 3y ago
You mean like all physical matter?
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by imgabe 3y ago
It could be done well. It would require some people with a better plan than "let's put cones on driverless cars hurr durr durr". That doesn't seem forthcoming, though. There's also no reason you can't have b
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by imgabe 3y ago
What is stopping the city from buying and operating driverless cars? Their money is just as good and I'm sure the companies selling the cars would be happy to sell to them. Oh, the only thing stopping them are "activists" who
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by imgabe 3y ago
You'd have a fleet of driverless cars driving around the city and summon one with an app. With no drivers they would only need to stop to recharge/refuel and for maintenance. If you can automate a car, you can automate a handicap
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by imgabe 3y ago
And driverless cars, if they are allowed to be developed, will eventually be public transit that takes you from door-to-door running 24/7, way, way better than any train or bus. But idiots just need something to be against.
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by imgabe 3y ago
Ethics might as well be religion. People decide based on emotion and come up with reasons after. If you read an article about Dollar Tree and it makes you feel bad and you don’t want to shop there, that’s your prerogative. For me, I’m not i

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