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by jongjong 2y ago
Well you can buy as much fluoride paste as you like and add it to your own water.
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by jongjong 2y ago
I hope they will ban it everywhere. If my pineal gland gets any more calcified, I'll probably end up getting a full-chest tattoo and dye my hair pink.
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by jongjong 2y ago
Cynical take: Now that studies have shown that bottled water is loaded with nanoplastics, upper class people want to start drinking tap water again. Now suddenly states don't want fluoride in the tap water...
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by jongjong 2y ago
Ah yes I exaggerated there. The global debt-fueled fiat monetary ponzi is the ultimate scam, crypto just plays a supporting role in giving people false hope that you can fix corruption with corruption.
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by jongjong 2y ago
People who don't work in tech have no idea how hard it is to do certain things at scale. Skilled tech people are severely underappreciated. From a sub-tweet: >> no LLM should ever output a url that gives a 404 error. How hard can
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by jongjong 2y ago
I've found some use cases where CSV can be a good alternative to arrays for storage, search and retrieval. Storing and searching nested arrays in document databases tends to be complicated and require special queries (sometimes you don
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by jongjong 2y ago
Agreed. Higher education mostly became a pretext to justify why certain people were entitled to receive higher salaries in exchange for lower experience and lower quality output. It's likely also partly why the west moved away from con
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by jongjong 2y ago
Well it was a scam. The ultimate scam. Literally, they only supported scams and suppressed projects with real potential. I say that as someone who worked in the space and saw it turn into a scam... Started back in 2017.
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by jongjong 2y ago
Unfortunately, knowledge and intelligence has been losing a lot of value over the past couple of decades. Aside from tech making information more accessible, centralization and monopolization likely played the biggest part. Driven by the de
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by jongjong 2y ago
Agreed. It is a flaw of the media and human psychology that we shine the spotlight disproportionately. The media is almost always a caricature of reality. Scientific journals provide a more realistic view of innovation as an incremental pro
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by jongjong 2y ago
I don't agree with this position. Primagen worked at Netflix. This is already a massively significant luck component. I watched a video of his where he describes how he got his job at Netflix and it sounds like he got very lucky, by hi
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by jongjong 2y ago
I'm not a huge fan of types because they don't model the real world accurately. In the real world, most concepts which we describe with human language have many variations with optional properties and it's a pain and a waste
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by jongjong 2y ago
True, the barrier to becoming a tech influencer are very low now and yet it's harder than ever. This suggests that dumb luck plays an increasing role. Current tech influencers are generally smart and qualified but they aren't expe
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by jongjong 2y ago
Part of the problem is that React monopolized the entire space and most other frameworks became legacy; not able to maintain even a tiny community. The sad thing is that React's success, much like its parent company (Meta) is due prima
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by jongjong 2y ago
It is kind of gaslighting to say that frontend frameworks don't last more than 5 years when React has been around and popular for more than 10 years and the vast majority of FE jobs today are React. When I read comments suggesting that
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by jongjong 2y ago
Times are tough now but still, I hope we never have to go back to a 0% interest environment. It was a nightmare. It only created the illusion of abundance and opportunities but in reality only pure speculation was rewarded. I'm exhaust
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by jongjong 2y ago
It's weird that we don't have human-level AGI yet considering that we have AIs that are in some ways much smarter than humans. Top-end LLMs write better and faster than most humans. Top-end stable diffusion models can draw and re
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by jongjong 2y ago
I've been thinking about human communication and how much it changed over time. It crazy to think that before the printing press, the most efficient form of communication was word-of-mouth. Word-of-mouth only conveys a very vague, unre
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by jongjong 2y ago
The problem is that, at some point, the west decided to stop rewarding excellence in tech and started rewarding people for their social networking abilities. Now we have a lot of people who are good at talking and few people who are good at
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by jongjong 2y ago
Well compare things now with how they were during feudalism. Things are a bit better for the average person. The problem we have now is that the population is extremely propagandized/delusional due to powerful media, made possible by t
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by jongjong 2y ago
As I get older, I realize increasingly that there is a huge gap between how most people think the government works and how it actually works... Also, the government and other entities which benefit from the incongruity spend a massive amoun
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by jongjong 2y ago
Nothing wrong with that. Every other job requires that paid workers meet the requirements of their boss whom themselves must meet the requirements of their customers. Jeff Bezos is responding to his customers' requirements, so should t
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by jongjong 2y ago
One of the most horrible aspect of the tax system is that individuals are held responsible for ensuring that they calculate and pay the correct amounts. It's kind of messed up that not only we have to pay tax, but the government doesn&
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by jongjong 2y ago
How is supporting freedoms and free markets "subservience?" Freedom is literally the opposite of subservience. If a journalist, who is being paid to write, has to withhold from expressing oppressive ideas in order to protect the f
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by jongjong 2y ago
They can, and the incentive is there but re-entering the market by starting from scratch is tough and takes time. They have to get the land, build the barns/hangars to keep the chickens, apply for licenses, buy equipment, find chicken
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by jongjong 2y ago
Conspiracy theorists have been predicting the IMF getting involved in El Salvador since the day they got involved in Bitcoin. Those who read the conspiracy theory posts years ago are now rolling their eyes reading such articles.
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by jongjong 2y ago
For SpaceX, we can deduct the amount they saved which would have gone to NASA. For Tesla, we can look at foreign gov subsidies which went to foreign car companies like BYD, Toyota, etc... because it wouldn't make sense to target just T
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by jongjong 2y ago
It sounds like it may be the result of standard corporate business practices. Lower prices, take on debt if necessary, until smaller players cannot compete, buy them all up for cheap, then once most of the smaller competitors are out of bus
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by jongjong 2y ago
Well I guess it can serve some corporate use cases were most people don't have the skills to identify issues and prefer to have a policy to just blanket ban all. It's a habit in certain large companies to just ban any tool which m
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by jongjong 2y ago
Well of course they're going to hurt zombie companies, that's the whole point. That's literally why everyone voted for Elon Musk's DOGE. Every company is another company's competitor and it's not fair that some

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