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by jongjong 7mo ago
But people have data. A lot of empirical data from their own lives. When something resonates with someone, it just means it fits the data they collected in their brains. Most people aren't stupid. If they sound stupid, it's often
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by jongjong 7mo ago
Trump should sign an executive order to appropriate the money for himself. Then all the other rich folks will learn what it feels like to be on be on the losing end of government wealth redistribution. I think Trump would deserve the money
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by jongjong 7mo ago
This is a great article. It's why I roll my eyes when someone asks "Show me the data" or the classic "Sources please." Unless we're literally having a debate about raw statistics, the data likely adds nothing t
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by jongjong 7mo ago
This is scary. I always reject PRs from bots. The idea of auto-merging code would never enter my head. I think dependency audit tools like Snyk should flag any repo which uses auto-merging of code as a vulnerability. I don't want to us
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by jongjong 7mo ago
If your values are non-violent and you're value producers, that doesn't happen. Sure, there can be situations where the land itself is valuable and the people on it are only a liability, but usually the value is in the people them
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by jongjong 7mo ago
Interesting reading this. It reminds me of my time in cryptocurrency sector. I suspected that some team members were paid by Ethereum folks to sabotage our project. Why do I suspect Ethereum? Because our project founders ended up switching
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by jongjong 7mo ago
Good point. Meanwhile you can often lead a good life if you're willing to forego status and try to be objective about your accomplishments. Let others believe what fantasies they want. It's always a fantasy anyway. Everyone is clu
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by jongjong 7mo ago
I get it but I don't buy this. You don't need to fight for this. You just need to live according to your values. My ancestors' country had (and still have) nice values. Used to be under the control of France, then switched to
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by jongjong 7mo ago
You've got to die of something; so you might as well die for something but your country isn't the best thing to die for. The problem with your country (at least the vast majority of countries) is that it doesn't care about yo
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by jongjong 7mo ago
All this work to solve one website's problem... You can be sure MANY other open source projects are facing the same issue. It's just not a viable solution. There is something wrong with Google. Google has to fix it.
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by jongjong 7mo ago
Google should just make their algorithms open source so at least scammers don't have the edge over legitimate project; which is the current reality.
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by jongjong 7mo ago
The root problem is that these big companies are not capable of serving the customers that they have but because they have a monopoly, the customers are forced to use them. All alternatives which are capable of actually serving the customer
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by jongjong 7mo ago
Yep great point. I guess this is the most extreme case. This dependency that billionaires have on the government is a symptom of the same effect and it's terrible regardless of which party is in charge, just negatively impacts differen
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by jongjong 7mo ago
Yes, but it's not just personal moral failings, the system itself is corrupt. Rich people aren't supposed to be constantly living on the precipice and forced to double down on evil to keep their wealth. It shouldn't be all-or
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by jongjong 7mo ago
Yes, I guess that's a projection of how their own minds work.
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by jongjong 7mo ago
I self-taught myself coding at a young age but I haven't had any identity crisis due to AI. I always saw myself as a software architect, not a coder. When I was a junior learning to code, I would feel proud of myself because I could re
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by jongjong 8mo ago
We can actually get a glimpse of how AI might wipe out humanity here. Model collapse making models identify everyone as a potential threat who needs to be eliminated. Companies should have a right to refuse such requests on moral grounds th
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by jongjong 8mo ago
Yes, it's glaringly obvious to me that they've been actively suppressing their own tech sector. Feels like a lot of EU politicians owned shares of US tech companies. This effect of politicians making decisions based on what corpor
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by jongjong 8mo ago
I cannot comprehend why there are so few companies dominating the payments sector. It doesn't seem competitive. Anyone can build a payment processor, nobody can get regulatory approval. I also don't understand the fear around SaaS
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by jongjong 8mo ago
Why not? There is a ceremonial aspect to it whereby I frequently comment on social media and news sites to preach my gospel. Also, I believe the people at the top are the devil so you could argue there is an overlap with mainstream religion
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by jongjong 8mo ago
I believe the monetary system is broken and creates asymmetric monetary playing fields based on distance from monetary injection points (banks and governments). The tax system makes it hard for each unit of currency to travel far from a &#x
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by jongjong 8mo ago
I switched to a different, smaller payment provider. It was pretty easy to switch. No problems at all there. I wonder why I even wanted to use Stripe in the first place. You'd think with their size they wouldn't have to fear regul
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by jongjong 8mo ago
No. My Blockchain had nothing to do with payments. The Blockchain is for authentication (protection from fake accounts) and tokens represented credits and licensing rights within the platform. The token wasn't even listed on any market
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by jongjong 8mo ago
Unfortunately, I don't use Stripe products because they discriminated against me by blocking my account because my project used a Blockchain (which I built myself) as an authentication mechanism. It's discrimination because Blockc
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by jongjong 8mo ago
Because JavaScript is the best for the application layer. We just have to accept that this is reality. AI training sets are just full of JS... Good JS, bad JS... But the good JS training is really good if you can tap into it. You just have
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by jongjong 8mo ago
I oppose all regulations (except self-regulation which is rooted in fear of consequences) and I despise all startups which profit from regulations. It's such a scam. Most regulations achieve exactly the opposite of what they claim.
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by jongjong 8mo ago
We need to abolish the legal system. Just go back to old-school vigilante justice. It's just too arbitrary. Blanket tariffs were a good idea but if they're being selectively applied, then it's fundamentally unfair; it becomes
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by jongjong 8mo ago
If anything gets too popular too quickly, I just assume it's a PsyOp. That kind of growth requires extensive media coordination and big money. If you're not paying for a product, then you are the product. As sure as gravity.
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by jongjong 8mo ago
This is well put. If the LLM gets the type wrong, then we're already discussing a failure scenario with a feedback loop involving back-and-forth changes. LLMs are not really good at this. The idea that LLMs benefit from TypeScript is a
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by jongjong 8mo ago
I don't see the point of Elixir now. LLMs work better with mainstream languages which make up a bigger portion of their training set. I don't see the point of TypeScript either, I can make the LLM output JavaScript and the tokens

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