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by intended 5mo ago
Private control of public data which is needed for the commons has worked very well so far.
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by intended 5mo ago
In our modern democracies, we are highly dependent on our information economies to build consensus. Those economies have essentially ceased functioning as competitive markets for ideas, globally. In general, newsrooms don’t make enough mone
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by intended 5mo ago
America had scientific hegemony and political influence over its allies. All of tech traces its roots to American academia. American tech enthralls more of humanity than American military has ever fought.
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by intended 5mo ago
Picking winners in the stock market is a fools errand on a long enough time scale. This has been proven time and time again. That’s the whole reason we diversify risk. So, we will not have conversation 1, because that is not what index fund
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by intended 5mo ago
The ideas behind these bodies is really cool, and is actually a policy that is a great start to build further on. The idea is that users can send moderation actions to be reviewed to an independent body. Users pay 10% to 20% of the cost and
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by intended 5mo ago
I know and understand. I follow American politics closely since it’s a massive incubator for techniques that get applied globally. I promise you, it can be worse. This is kind of where being a first world person works against you; you have
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by intended 5mo ago
HN is filled with people who are on the other side of an "internet best practices" information divide. For everyone else, the internet is already a shit show and a half. They want control, because it means putting a stop to being
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by intended 5mo ago
You've covered both bases here. The issue is that the way the rules have been changed, risky stocks have been added to a product that is meant to be stable. A 401k, any retirement focused product, is not serving its purpose when it tag
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by intended 5mo ago
From someone who lives in a country that is still more corrupt than America. You need to vote for the next several years, no matter what, because you still have a chance. Once corruption becomes the default, then you are REALLY screwed. Bec
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by intended 5mo ago
Bit confused - you and me voluntarily reading a blog post linked on HN, doesn't make the author someone who is pushing their morals on us? I read the article, and at worst it could be called whinging, but at its lowest point it never c
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by intended 5mo ago
If someone who has never had any major financial benefit from tech, but loved it all the same, criticizes AI, do they get a pass?
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by intended 5mo ago
> According to Google Wikipedia still gets 4 billion pageviews a month. > But it seems the online encyclopedia is not completely immune to broader trends, with human page views falling 8% year-over-year, https://techcrunch.
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by intended 5mo ago
However your experience isn't necessarily where the other poster is coming from. As a counter point, I have more nuanced conversations in person and am able to do it online; however I have also moderated a community for several years a
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by intended 5mo ago
By who exactly ?
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by intended 5mo ago
One recent comment from my interviews was that people who use AI are using it for tasks in domains they didnt deal with before. So this would be creating dashboards or writing sql queries. Or reading and reviewing contracts. The “easy stuff
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by intended 5mo ago
I think Mike Masnick said it best here: > " Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not)" > ...but a few asked questions regarding what Techdirt is focused on these days, and how much we were leaning into
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by intended 5mo ago
At a US conference last year, people thronged a session that talked about studying in Korea. This would be an empty room at, pretty much, any point in the past several decades. The amount of capability that America is burning is impressive.
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by intended 5mo ago
it works in the west. In specific areas and under specific conditions. Driving data is cultural data. This is one of the many blind spots from commenters, when they think about their own experience and generalize it to the larger global mar
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by intended 5mo ago
I know its going to cause angst, but the net we knew of is dead. The incentives to keep it the way it used to be are gone. AI is cheap, and it sounds better than what a majority of users write. Humans adapt. Maybe we shift from communites a
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by intended 5mo ago
Quite true ? English is ludicrously over abundant in training when compared to any language.
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by intended 5mo ago
There’s enough political power to force the government to pay for the belief systems that have been fostered by a captured media environment. The rational part of the economy has less leverage when the irrational information market is so la
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by intended 5mo ago
I phrased it poorly, I haven’t heard the term sloptember. Eternal September is the kind of trivia that let me know if someone is a grey beard or not.
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by intended 5mo ago
Its one of my favorite parts of online trivia.
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by intended 5mo ago
If nothing else, Eternal Sloptember is a term that seems obvious once you have it. I can’t believe this is the first time I’m seeing it.
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by intended 5mo ago
As much as people complain about the EU, its the last western polity that is functioning to some degree of normal. To put it politely, America is just not, at this moment in time, with a predictable actor with rational self interest. If thi
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by intended 5mo ago
> AI optimism is rising, but so is anxiety. > Globally, the share of respondents who say AI products and services offer more benefits than drawbacks rose from 55% in 2024 to 59% in 2025, even as the share saying these products make th
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by intended 5mo ago
It’s also the one tech that has been picked up by porn but not video games. I’m kinda surprised by that. Gaming and porn were the ones that spearheaded tech uptake.
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by intended 5mo ago
Crinacle is where I got my IEM advice.
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by intended 5mo ago
Google giveth jack shit here. Google users wanted to find that info. Google served its users.
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by intended 5mo ago
What? Booing Eric Schmidt, for a point in a graduation speech about AI? That shouldn’t be happening. Those tend to be positive, happy press articles. Nor is it the only data point, theres been multiple articles shared on HN alone about cons

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