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by jongjong 9mo ago
In the tech sector, EU has been a colony of pretty much every other country which it used to colonize. IMO, the fines that the EU used to collect regularly from US big tech companies were bribes to keep suppressing the EU tech sector.
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by jongjong 9mo ago
Yes, clearly it should be the other way round; people should be drinking clean water and Google should use their waste water for cooling.
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by jongjong 9mo ago
This does not match my observations. Also, what I've heard from experts is that 'intelligent' people are more suggestible. The way society measures intelligence is thinking speed; which tends to correlate with learning speed.
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by jongjong 9mo ago
Makes sense. My perspective is that fast learners are fast because they absorb information quickly without the overhead of cross-domain synthesis. They have more logical contradictions in their minds which they haven't resolved or ar
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by jongjong 9mo ago
It's so obvious why. Money is created by governments and banks and it goes right back to them. Money doesn't stay in the system for too long because it's taxed each time it hops between people/companies. If you assume a
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by jongjong 9mo ago
I disagree with the idea that regulations work. Just consider forever chemicals like phthalates... Known endocrine disruptors. They're everywhere disrupting our hormones and health. Carcinogens are everywhere. How is regulation really
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by jongjong 9mo ago
Yes. It's a zero trust society. Nobody can trust anybody else. The only thing that's trusted is money in a bank account... And we really shouldn't be trusting our eyes there because the money is backed by nothing and there is
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by jongjong 9mo ago
It's not capitalism, it's the monetary system that's the problem. It's not a level playing field. Capitalism requires a fair monetary system as a precondition. Though I can agree that communism would be better than whate
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by jongjong 9mo ago
Yes of course AI is just a symptom. The cause is the fiat monetary system. In all history, no fiat monetary system has ever lasted. There have been hundreds. They always fail eventually and lead to the collapse of nations and empires.
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by jongjong 9mo ago
Yes but we can't stop progress while scarcity is still causing suffering. I think that communication works long term, even with algorithm suppression. Insightful ideas tend to bubble up, especially during chaotic times.
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by jongjong 9mo ago
The author seems to stop at 'code' but it seems we could go further and train an AI to work directly with binary. You give it a human prompt and a list of hardware components which make up your machine and it produces executable b
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by jongjong 9mo ago
It's disappointing how so many people blame AI for our problems. I see this pattern over and over; people never blame the socio-economic system and blame technology instead. Technological improvement is the only thing which allows us t
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by jongjong 9mo ago
How do you find users? Organic? SEO is useless as all the projects with any meaningful pagerank are all pointing to each other. Social media advertising is useless; nobody even sees your tweets or posts. Advertising? How do you get a return
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by jongjong 9mo ago
I would strongly recommend staying away from software startups unless: - The CEO of some major corporation or a big VC is a close friend or friend of your family. - You are rich and have a lot of friends who will buy your product. - You alr
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by jongjong 9mo ago
Attention is the only moat. Companies always try to make it seem like data is valuable. Attention is valuable. With attention, you get the data for free. What they monetize is attention. Data is a small part to optimize the sale of ads but
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by jongjong 9mo ago
I'm joking yes but as an engineer who has seen the bureaucracy in most big tech companies, the joke is getting less funny over time. I've met many software engineers who call themselves communists. I can kind of understand. This k
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by jongjong 9mo ago
The moat is marketing and social media algorithms. These tech companies are subsidized by investors and drive up the CPC to levels that don't make financial sense this is the moat. If a superior product launches without marketing, it w
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by jongjong 9mo ago
Most modern software is horrible. Linux is objectively better than Windows and cheaper but it has much smaller market share. Same story with OracleDB vs PostgresDB. Developers recently identified a critical vulnerability in MongoDB that had
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by jongjong 9mo ago
It's ridiculous that a trillion dollar company feels beholden to a supplier. With that kind of money, it should be trivial to switch. People forget Nvidia didn't even exist 35 years ago. It would probably take like 3 to 5 years to
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by jongjong 9mo ago
No moat? In the software industry? My decades of experience suggests that the opposite will happen. People will realize that the software industry is 100% moat and 0% castle. People will build great software that nobody will use while a few
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by jongjong 9mo ago
I found out more ways in which our entire socio-economic system is a scam. I literally learn something new about this every day. I need my Universal Basic Income now! Help.
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by jongjong 9mo ago
Yes and at least 30 more minutes to write the report; with the help of LLM. So it still required my analysis skills but at least I was able to do it, relatively fast... Whereas I wouldn't even have considered doing this kind of stuff b
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by jongjong 9mo ago
Probably closer to equality than we have now. I've been told by people who lived there that there were no homeless people and very little crime in the USSR. Capitalism is just much better with PR and covering up its failures. Even the
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by jongjong 9mo ago
It does help A LOT in the case of security research. Particularly. For example, I tended to avoid pen testing freelance work before AI because I didn't enjoy the tedious work of reading tons of documentation about random platforms to t
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by jongjong 10mo ago
What I find infuriating is that it feels like the entire financial system has been rigged in countless ways and turned into some kind of race towards 'the singularity' and everything; humans, animals, the planet; are being treated
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by jongjong 10mo ago
I'm not a diabetic, but even I was skeptical of the title "Seven Diabetes Patients Die Due to Undisclosed Bug"; this draws a very direct 1-to-1 association when in reality, we know that a death would be the result of multiple
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by jongjong 10mo ago
Not so. It's a lot worse now because before, people just monopolized fixed quantities of gold. If they made bad bets, their gold holdings would shrink. Now the monopolies aren't over limited quantities of units... They are monopol
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by jongjong 10mo ago
Personally, I've been feeling the pain of this kind of 'giving.' I've seen people get handed out huge opportunities, big bonuses despite objective incompetence! Meanwhile I was highly competent and never once received a
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by jongjong 10mo ago
This is how it should be if we had a scarce money supply (e.g. gold-backed). If it was truly people handing out their own hard-earned money, then it would be great and we would know they TRULY deserved it. With an infinite (fiat) money supp
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by jongjong 10mo ago
I switched to Linux about 10 years ago... I used to keep a partition on the side for Windows for dual-boot... But nowadays I just wipe my drive clean! With my latest computer, I noticed that some kind of boot protection was added in the BIO

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