jmyeet

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by jmyeet 2mo ago
So I've been thinking about this. It's more general than social media and sardines. There are now areas of the world with overtourism. Santorini, arguably Venice, Machu Pichu and maybe even Barcelona have more tourists than they c
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by jmyeet 2mo ago
I'm not sure if you're talking about Meta platforms or social media in general. It's been years since I've used any Meta platform but I'm a daily user of Tiktok. On Tiktok I don't think the platform is paying p
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by jmyeet 2mo ago
It's funny that you call Belt and Road "bribs" when it's basically the World Bank/IMF playbook with one difference: it's a much better deal for the recipients. The WB/IMF playbook is to pressure or bribe
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The US gained almost immeasurable power and influence by virtue of the 2 World Wars and being largely directly unaffected by those wars, whereas Europe was levelled, particularly by WW2. And that power came from selling weapons. The world o
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To be clear, the saying is about how companies treat open source, not the intrinsic value of open source to end users (individuals or companies). I'm very much a fan. The point is that profit-seeking only push for open source when th
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by jmyeet 2mo ago
There's a saying "open source is for losers". What it means is that winners in a market don't want open source. The losers in a market push for it to commodify it eliminate the winner's advantage. Now some of these
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So I have to wonder if this article written about clogging up employment courts with AI-generated cases is itself generated because the premise (in the title and the article) refers to the "tragedy of the commons", which was debun
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by jmyeet 2mo ago
Silicon Valley has been heavily influenced by a different author. It just happens to be Ayn Rand. Ayn Rand sold this idea that selfishness is a virtue. Taken further, you see a strong thread between objectivism and transhumanism. In the ear
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by jmyeet 2mo ago
I think a lot of people are misunderstanding the significance of "cluster" here. It's not just a statistical anomaly where a disproportionate number of deaths happen in a short space of time. Clusters also happen because suic
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> I'm thinking about having it automatically filter and re-rank my social media feeds so I can steer the algorithm instead of the other way around. I hadn't really thought about this but AI may well be the technology that disru
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Here's a question I have for all the predictable "I don't need a union" SWEs out there: if unions were so bad, why do companies literally spend millions and break the law to make sure they don't happen? To borrow a
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by jmyeet 2mo ago
You're so close to realizing the point but the difference is between a dystopian future and a future worth living. Corporate housing, and worker housing in general, is what we're bouldering towards. The only way to extract further
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by jmyeet 2mo ago
So I'm Gen-X. Statistically speaking, I have more yesterdays than tomorrows. I can't even begin to describe how much of a dystopian hellscape the world has become and is becoming. Many my age describe the 1990s as the last good de
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by jmyeet 2mo ago
Two thoughts on this. First, it is incredibly difficult to pivot a large organization because there are too many competing interests, too many fiefdoms people have built and too much organizational inertia. A new company has the advantage o
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We'll see if anyone gets to cash in on those. All you need is one down round and that gets wiped out. Or if the IPO gets delayed and disappoints then the stock can drop well before the lockouts expire. OpenAI and Anthropic are essentia
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by jmyeet 2mo ago
1350 is a neo-Nazi dog whistle. Think about it this way, let's say that black men committed more crimes per capita than men overall. That means one of two things: 1. There is an intrinsic reason. That's just racism. Black people
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by jmyeet 2mo ago
This is one of hundreds of reasons why I laugh at the idea of the US going to war with China and being prepared for a war with China. That's never happening . Why? Because China can cut off so many critical supplies, not just for weap
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I really dislike the manufactured conflict with China because it only exists to sell weapons. There are several flaws in this theory: 1. All but about 10 countries in the world recognize Taiwan as an independent nation. This always seems to
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by jmyeet 2mo ago
I've linked this article several times on HN. Nobody goes to war over a solar panel [1]. You have to understand that the US is an arms dealer empire. We now spend >$1T/year on the military and a huge chunk of it is basically lo
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There are several conclulsions you can draw from all this: 1. The US has been strategically and militarily defeated by Iran and this has been clear since at least April to anyone who was paying attention and has achieved none of its objecti
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by jmyeet 2mo ago
If I'm ever on the jury of somebody charged with this, the prosecution has an incredibly high burden to convince me the poles and the cameras on them didn't die of natural causes. Maybe if police weren't using Flock cameras t
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by jmyeet 2mo ago
Corporations want a reproducible formula that can scale. Creating movies (and TV) is an inherently creative process. The people who end up running these businesses hate that but creativity doesn't scale. This is why reputation and trac
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by jmyeet 2mo ago
I question the methodology of that 100kg (per kg) figure for beef, for several reasons: 1. It's not the true Carbon or CO2 figure. It's weighted for other greenhouse gases. That's kind of an issue because methane naturally br
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by jmyeet 2mo ago
Two mild criticisms: 1. Don't call your project "shitty". At best it's juvenile humor. At worst, it's going to make adoption within companies difficult for literally no reason; and 2. You don't need a two lette
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One big difference is that heroin is mostly illegal or, if not outright illegal, decriminalized for personal use. Gambling is legal in most places, can be advertised quite freely and restrictions can be easily circumvented with crypto. Cryp
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by jmyeet 2mo ago
This is the slippery slope fallacy and people in tech seem to love this argument. And you can argue in whichever direction you want with it. For example, "unfettered Internet access is just a series of tubes (shout out to Ted Stevens f
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That's a completely unhelpful, overly simplistic straw man argument. We restrict certain activities and places in the real world from certain people all the time. For example, not allowing people under 18 or 21 (depending on your count
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by jmyeet 3mo ago
Not to repeat myself, but I'll point to earlier comments about what's going on with interest rates [1]. For some context here, it's worth mentioning the Yen carry trade [2]. This is actually relevant because it allegedly unde
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by jmyeet 3mo ago
Yeah, I really don't know where this goes from here. Like certain sources, particular Reddit and Twitter, have to largely be considered spoiled at this point. It's hard to quanitfy the amount of bots but my intuition tells me it&#
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by jmyeet 3mo ago
Financial advice for most people is incredibly straightforward and it can be summed up as: cut expenses and invest conservatively. Cutting expenses is the absolutely best thing you can do because it gives you more money to save AND reduces

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