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by keybored 10mo ago
I’m at a loss as to what these abstract to the heavens responses even mean to reply to. What I commented on was the propaganda tactics of capitalism. The topic in itself wasn’t even about the merits of it (but see the last sentence). What y
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by keybored 10mo ago
Capitalism always hides behind the petty business owner/store owner/craftsman. Then the haute bourgeoisie takes the bulk of the profits.
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by keybored 10mo ago
Why not. Just run with it sometimes. Get people to argue for ads. > Don't get me wrong, I'm well aware this is impractical. But it's fun to think about sometimes. Yeah, sure. Get them to convince you how impractical it is.
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by keybored 10mo ago
Some have commented that “negative” is too negatively-charged of a word for this submission. I don’t think so. I don’t subscribe to the Pollyanna-hacker-American idea that positivity is a virtue. You’re gonna feed me with negative news abou
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by keybored 10mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46506652
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by keybored 10mo ago
Conspiracy theory isn’t even a smear anymore. It used to refer to idiocy like Reptile Overlords. Now Conspiracy Theory just means the belief that organized groups have an agenda and can lie about their real agenda. People who yell Conspirac
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by keybored 10mo ago
Agent evangelists are are really using “you can’t ban kitchen knives” comparison on a murder-suicide coverup story? Unreal.
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by keybored 10mo ago
Sam Altman is getting the Genghis Khan treatment. You love to see it.
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by keybored 10mo ago
> I have very little sympathy towards "Open"AI, but in the same time, I think there will be always people in bad mental state who will unfortunately commit suicide after some interaction. Every time. The price of progress comme
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by keybored 10mo ago
Anno 2025. Makes a difference I guess.
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by keybored 10mo ago
A lot of technological advancements (or use scare quotes here) that claimed to let “regular people” be creative just end up passifying us and relinquishing our creativity. Why play the guitar, the record player already does it better. Why l
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by keybored 10mo ago
> Who is this for? Star-farming anno 2026.
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by keybored 10mo ago
Someone could be both anti-Trump and anti-Nobel Peace Prize 2025 winner. It could be the case.
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by keybored 10mo ago
What data do you have that they don’t care? Waging a war is a pretty massive thing to not care about. I would think that someone would either be positive or negative towards it. Because even if they don’t care about invading countries per s
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by keybored 10mo ago
I have now read your other replies from about four days ago. They go into substantive reasons like the licensing of LLVM. So I have no complaints about those.
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by keybored 10mo ago
> As I think I conveyed in my original post, I am not against anyone using whatever language they want to make their software. You conveyed that? How? Really, what neat little delineation is there between your little OS hack-on world an
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Obligatory use: it’s a block I guess Voluntary use: I know this one. It’s a pattern now.
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by keybored 10mo ago
But it is good for Just World arguments.
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by keybored 11mo ago
> It's pretty disappointing when people like him try to block new technology just because they don't want to learn any more... This is an irrelevant and disingenious hacker jab (oh look, they’re not a “real hacker”).
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> edit: I really, really like Rust, and I find it annoying that the clearest, most respectful arguments in this little subthread are from the people who just don't like Rust. Keywords right there. People who don’t-like-Rust are the
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by keybored 11mo ago
Thick hustle.
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by keybored 11mo ago
You are creating content[1] that is insightful. To everyone. Equally known. We all cheer. We know this. Then we move on. A catchy title. A novel enough term. That will hook them. We all read. We all smile. The daily grind. This insight is n
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by keybored 11mo ago
Hyphen-or-minus is good enough for me.
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by keybored 11mo ago
That this is the top comment says all you need to know about this board. Being a city on the hill is a cudgel, not a halo. It’s always been used in a self-serving way, and always against enemies. Who is someone who points out the flaws of t
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by keybored 11mo ago
Anyway. We used MongoDB for a good while.
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by keybored 11mo ago
> The cognitive tax > Every obscure name is a transaction cost levied on every developer who encounters it. It’s not a mental burden, it’s a cognitive tax. Moreover it’s a transaction cost? Levied on people? Which loads their RAM? Whe
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by keybored 11mo ago
> What are we going to do about it? Many of us are withdrawing, just putting in the time without real effort, "quiet quitting". Companies still get us, but they don't get our best. That you are framing it for apparent fami
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by keybored 11mo ago
> I know this will sound a bit cynical, but I've stopped putting too much care into my employer's product. I'll deliver work and perform my best, but I'm not killing myself over it. To say (yes, with some moderation b
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I never talk to people who don’t wear suits.
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by keybored 11mo ago
- Rust is invading the Linux Kernel - Actually, The collective Linux Kernel found that it was good enough to graduate from the experimental ph— - Aha! You are appealing to the authority of the Linux Kernel. That’s a fallacy.

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