int_19h

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by int_19h 9mo ago
Do you want to live under Harkonnens? Because that's how you get Harkonnens.
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by int_19h 9mo ago
You're going to be doing that either way. The only question is whether you will first humiliate those "freeloaders" by having them do meaningless work just so that they can receive their paycheck, or not.
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by int_19h 9mo ago
There's no reason why UBI wouldn't work. The reason why it doesn't exist is because, for all that those in positions of power love to talk about it, they very consistently shoot down any actual attempt to implement them. I
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by int_19h 9mo ago
And yet he uses a typewriter. Imagine how much more human interaction he'd have if he did it with old fashioned quills! And let's not even talk about the fact that the letter was industrially processed, driven by trucks alongside
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by int_19h 9mo ago
All communist nations have implemented the same exact narrow subset of the ideology that we know as Marxism-Leninism. The reason being that everyone else who tried something more e.g. democratic generally got crushed. So the commies that en
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by int_19h 9mo ago
> That capitalism logically implies that the rich become richer? I don't think this is necessarily the case, It is necessarily the case. Capitalism is characterized by private ownership of capital, which among other things means tha
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by int_19h 9mo ago
Those particular roles were voluntary arrangement for much of human history, simply because people who fill them tend to be significantly better off than those who don't directly serve the powerful (and instead serve their economic int
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by int_19h 9mo ago
Your points seem to boil down to "it hasn't happened yet, so it will never happen". There really isn't much to engage with.
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by int_19h 9mo ago
AGI is not a "godlike power" under this definition.
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by int_19h 9mo ago
That paper again. LLMs have been trained on synthetic outputs for quite a while since then and they do get better. Turns out there's more to it than that.
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by int_19h 9mo ago
The vast majority of rich people don't get murdered. Those that do, yes, usually get murdered by those in position to do that (i.e. those that have physical access to them). That's neither interesting nor relevant though.
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by int_19h 9mo ago
FWIW I'm fine with the "sacrifices need to be made" angle in general provided that this sacrifice is fairly spread among the populace. The problem is that you can randomly end up in a group of people destined to be fucked,
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by int_19h 9mo ago
Companies as large as Facebook (really all of the American Big Tech) should just be illegal. It's long overdue that we remembered that the very notion of a corporation is a creation of society. Corporations have no natural rights wha
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by int_19h 9mo ago
The old town square had anonymous pamphleteers.
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by int_19h 9mo ago
Comments are where 90% of the value of HN is. If you remove them and it just becomes another news aggregator, I very much doubt that it would retain most of its users. Nor would submissions be "high quality".
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by int_19h 9mo ago
If I host a personal server with a Facebook-like app for myself and a few friends, at which point do I go behind bars in your brave new world?
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by int_19h 9mo ago
Hi, I'm a legal immigrant. I've seen what scum ICE and CBP are a long time before the current brouhaha. I hope they are in a world of hurt after Trump is kicked out.
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by int_19h 9mo ago
One wonders if you would be equally philosophical about an ICE agent getting shot after breaking down someone's door with an "administrative warrant" (which isn't a warrant).
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by int_19h 9mo ago
> People who are serious about achieving something will use a laptop. That really depends on what that "something" is.
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by int_19h 9mo ago
For boots, at least, there's an easy solution: buy the same stuff that the military gets (there are many options there). It might not be the best, but at least there are known standards other than minimum price that apply. I have a pai
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by int_19h 9mo ago
I just did a crash course on lingustics by reading through a bunch of highly specialized articles. 30 years ago, just finding those articles would require spending many hours in the library (and that's if I'm lucky and the library
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by int_19h 9mo ago
There's some evidence that tetrachromacy already exists in a few humans. If so we have the gene already. But why would it spread?
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by int_19h 9mo ago
OP is saying that this is a historical low for US , not in the grand scheme of things.
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by int_19h 9mo ago
He has very selective skepticism. It always applies when talking about US, Israel, and others on his list of bad guys, but is mysteriously dropped when discussing whether e.g. Khmer Rouge are "democratic" or whether Russian invasi
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by int_19h 9mo ago
> I do know that if you create a single account it is trivial to join any "server" Only if it's public. There are many private Discord servers. The way they do it is that the default set of permissions is basically none, b
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by int_19h 9mo ago
I haven't played GTA 2 much, but the first one was certainly pretty violent narratively speaking. I remember a mission where you have to drive a truck full of explosives into a building and blow it up, for instance.
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by int_19h 9mo ago
I'm using AdGuard running in Home Assistant and I don't see any ads in Apple News. Looking at what gets blocked when I open the News apps, try going for these domains: news.iadsdk.apple.com news-app-events.apple.com news-sports-ev
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by int_19h 9mo ago
Yes, it still wraps them into https://apple.news links. However when one such is opened in the browser, it - like any other app link - asks if you want to open it in the news app. And if you close that popup and click on &quot
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by int_19h 9mo ago
Yeah, I'm deliberately sticking to the time period when SF was recognized as a genre in its own right, distinct from others. Otherwise we might have to go back a few centuries, depending on one's definition of sci-fi!
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by int_19h 9mo ago
I don't see how. Yes, protons are made out of quarks. No, this doesn't mean that you can "roll out" proton "like a sheet", and then "etch a circuit" (!!!) on it, quantum or otherwise.

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