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by jjav 3mo ago
> We can enact any law we want And the government is free to ignore all the laws, as witnessed by 2026 in the US.
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by jjav 3mo ago
> Revocation should come with full refunds. If I buy, say, a shovel and the hardware store sends someone to break into my house and steal the shovel back, hopefully they'd get arrested for the crime. We should not be treating digita
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by jjav 3mo ago
They should I agree, but consumer protection has been decimated in the US. Also the CFPB has effectively been dismantled. All is fair game as long as the oligarchs get a few more millions they don't need.
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by jjav 3mo ago
I'm thinking you missed the "/s"
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by jjav 3mo ago
> self-inflicted problem Self-inflicted would mean the person (or people) suffering from the problem is the same person causing the problem. But the gazillionaire corrupt politicians aren't really suffering from any affordability pr
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by jjav 3mo ago
> They are not gunning down Brits, Germans or Australians. I don't know their heritage, but both Renee and Alex were very white (not that it should matter) US citizens, savagely murdered by ICE. So yes, ICE is gunning down pretty mu
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by jjav 3mo ago
> paying people If you are not in the US, there can be a lot of surprises in these comparisons. You might see that you make $X in tech and in Silicon Valley someone makes $3X for same job and that sounds awesome on paper. But how much
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by jjav 3mo ago
There might be a correlation with mainstreaming, but that's not the root cause. I'm happy to use a mainstream OS if it is awesome. A full honest answer is too long for a HN comment, could write a long article about it but won&#x27
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by jjav 3mo ago
Same here, using Linux since the beginning (1993) but slowly migrating machines to FreeBSD (some to OpenBSD) as Linux slowly becomes ever more like windows which is exactly the opposite of what I want.
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by jjav 3mo ago
Intriguing, thanks, will need to check it out.
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by jjav 3mo ago
> God I miss the 2000s. Exactly! Having to check 27 different places for messages (also add individual sites like linkedin, etc, where people message), it is completely ridiculous. Just send me email. It's universal, standard, no co
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by jjav 3mo ago
> Why not group emails? Yes, email is the absolute best for opimal reach. All the proprietary platforms are inherently fragmented and gatekeeped by their corporations. Trying to find a common denominator is hard. Email is standard, not o
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by jjav 3mo ago
This boat isn't your regular kayak, it is larger than a great white shark (although certainly not heavier).
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by jjav 3mo ago
Ocean swell height doesn't matter much, the period does. A 10ft swell on a 30 second period is nothing, a 10ft swell on a 5 second period you're going to have a bad day.
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by jjav 3mo ago
If bankrupcy is allowed some reasonable number of years later (not sure if that is 7 or 10, but some reasonable time) then if your education worked out and you're in a good career path and maybe close to buying a home, etc, declaring b
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by jjav 3mo ago
> Do you have kids? Are you telling me that you and the other parent spend (or spent) 100% of your time with your 5 year old? Yes and yes. Always personal interaction (one of us parents, or babysitter or teachers, or friends). This is pr
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by jjav 3mo ago
> A subtle reminder how inconsequential our actions are on this planet in the grand, unplanned scheme. I don't find that to be useful at all. Yes of course, all the suffering on Earth is nothing but a footnote in 0.000000001 font si
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by jjav 3mo ago
This is very sad. Just spend the time in person with the 5 year old, no screens, no AI, nothing impersonal. A 5 year old just wants mommy and daddy in person playing with them. No 5 year old (or any age in that neighborhood) should be expos
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by jjav 3mo ago
I'm fine with that. The company doesn't have infinite people so as long as someone spends 3 hours generating and I spend 5-15 minutes reviewing, that's fine. Problem with AI is that generation is so many orders of magnitude f
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by jjav 3mo ago
> It is not the government’s job to “take care of” anybody. That is actually the only legitimate function of government.
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by jjav 3mo ago
Yes. Run away if you can, run far away.
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by jjav 3mo ago
> I'm getting so many requests to review LLM-generated documents That's the other nightmare of AI slop. So easy to generate endless content. Who will review? Just today the boss request I review slides for a presentation. But i
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by jjav 3mo ago
> but at every moment there is always something ready Yes, this is to me the primary driver of the extreme AI burnout. In ~30 years in Silicon Valley and many, many startups, the pressure has never been as intense. Before AI I'd mos
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by jjav 3mo ago
> Further the owner of those mineral rights can drill on the surface of the land, which you own, without your permission. The oligarchs always win.
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by jjav 3mo ago
"Inbox" used to be literally the box/tray on your desk where people would leave work for you in written letters. That's where email got the term. Amusingly in my first job in the 90s they still assigned each desk a label
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by jjav 3mo ago
For my partner it was something like (about ten years ago so don't recall exact numbers) doctor said: you need physical theraphy every other day for three months. Insurance said: you get four sessions total. But you can pay the rest ou
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by jjav 3mo ago
I assume this is sarcasm? In the US, getting a medical plan to pay for physical therapy is an uphill battle akin to hiking Mt.Everest. Observed this both with my partner and parent. It's nearly impossible to achieve.
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by jjav 3mo ago
> You cannot push physical buttons on a dashboard without taking your eyes off the road, it's a myth You can't possibly make this argument in good faith. Obviously it is trivial to interact with physical buttons while blind, so
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by jjav 3mo ago
> That’s why I think it must be a legal requirement for any car with touchscreen controls to operate car functions must have driver assistance features enabled, no exceptions. Absolutely! Twiddling with a phone while driving is illegal,
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by jjav 3mo ago
> Do you not have muscle memory for screens too? No, that's not a thing because there is no physical sensation to it.

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