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by immibis 9mo ago
HN does this. My account has shafow-ignored flags. This is because I flagged too many things that said Israel did nothing wrong, or that YC had perfect ethics, and dang didn't like that.
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by immibis 9mo ago
What about health insurance and rent?
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by immibis 9mo ago
How renewable is uranium?
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by immibis 9mo ago
Threads that say bad things about Our Benefactors are usually flagged. This one will be too.
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by immibis 9mo ago
And if you're ok with not getting paid but you are shocked that corporations take it and use it in a non-FOSS-compatible way (e.g. selling their version for money) you should have used GPL instead of MIT.
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by immibis 9mo ago
Can we actually prevent children under 16 from buying beer?
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by immibis 9mo ago
You can't get to the moon by learning to climb taller and taller trees.
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by immibis 9mo ago
Have you seen the 2025 METR report on AI coding productivity? TLDR: everyone thought AI made people faster, including those who did the task, both before and after doing it. However, AI made people slower at doing the task.
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by immibis 9mo ago
https://www.immibis.com/ Not very thoroughly populated but here's another one for the pile
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by immibis 9mo ago
Sounds like you're saying state funded R&D works much better than copyright funded R&D
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by immibis 9mo ago
"I don't understand why people protest the Gestapo as a concept. Are there any countries that don't have undercover police?"
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by immibis 9mo ago
Whichever choice has the least favour is malleable. Right now, by switching up their candidates and policies, the democrats can't do any worse than they're already doing, which is losing. If the democrats next time, then the repub
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by immibis 9mo ago
The other side is already using box 4.
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by immibis 9mo ago
Charging with a crime is so last decade. Nowadays they just shoot people they don't like.
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by immibis 9mo ago
Whoever is tracking you is happy to block VPS providers so that's a win-win for them.
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by immibis 9mo ago
Just look at the METR study. All predictions were massive time savings but all observations were massive time losses. That's why we don't believe you when you say you saved time.
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by immibis 9mo ago
Then it really proves how much the economy would be booming if we abolished copyright, doesn't it? China ignores copyright too, and look at them surpassing us in all aspects of technology, while Western economies choose to sabotage the
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by immibis 9mo ago
Is this finally a severe enough escalation for the UK to stop using the US dollar as a reserve currency?
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by immibis 9mo ago
Secure boot etc. It's in every ARM device, including the management engines in x64 devices (which are ARM devices).
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by immibis 9mo ago
There's zero evidence any of this is related to AI btw
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by immibis 9mo ago
Why are you upset about this?
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by immibis 9mo ago
Unless it's about the moving forced perspective shot in Bilbo's home, right? That's impressive AF.
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by immibis 9mo ago
As is "the customer is always right in matters of taste"
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by immibis 9mo ago
It's hard to commit to saying yes but it's also hard to commit to saying no.
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by immibis 9mo ago
We - technologists - mocked the humanities for decades for being useless. Now look where we got without them.
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by immibis 9mo ago
If you can post "Smith and Wesson, please kill this person" and then they die, someone from S&W should go to jail, yes
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by immibis 9mo ago
The "workaround for the filter": on a picture of a little girl, say "Grok, make her naked" Not much of a filter if it can't block that, is it?
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by immibis 9mo ago
Banning RT was pretty good
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by immibis 9mo ago
Paywalled
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by immibis 9mo ago
After closing three popups, I closed the page.

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