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by kubb 1y ago
I'm wondering, will the big G be allowed to start another browser project, once they sell Chrome? Let's say Google Cobalt. They'd fork the open source of Chrome and get to work. After a while, they'll start taking the ma
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by kubb 1y ago
Firefox is working pretty swell for me.
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But weren't people here supposed to be intellectually curious, and have the cognitive tools to overcome things like instinctive tribalism?
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by kubb 1y ago
We'll have buggy, unsafe, slow browsers with diverging standards and we'll like it.
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by kubb 1y ago
When you feel real love for your favorite celebrity convict, whose incompetence is beyond denying, you'll put your mind to work to search for any device that will enable you to excuse anything he does and who he nominates. People will
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by kubb 1y ago
Wasn’t there a recent EU fine for Apple for preventing developers from promoting alternative distribution channels within their apps, or linking to external subscription websites? Half of the entire HN was like „EU bad, how dare you regulat
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by kubb 1y ago
You could hang out and be friends with a lot of people. That's a meaningful contribution that's impossible right now. Also why should a person be entitled to being a neurosurgeon who has a worse success rate than the magical theor
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by kubb 1y ago
That was never my premise. It's also absurd. Machines can't make a person feel powerful because they're controlling another human being.
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I'd work for the little more than subsistence that I need to be happy.
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Well, yeah, that's rare among aristocracy though. Look at today's billionaires, they'll tell you that you should work until you drop dead.
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by kubb 1y ago
So the problem is capitalism?
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by kubb 1y ago
I don't know, a benevolent, humanity loving oligarch? Or you know, common ownership.
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by kubb 1y ago
We haven't reached post scarcity, I grant you that, but we have reached a point where we could get away with much more leisure time than in the past. Either that, or all technology is useless.
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I see your point, but it feels like you're engaging in a broader defense of the system rather than directly adressing apercu's concern about wealth concentration and elite influence.
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> a “job” is just doing something useful for other people So all you need is someone who considers a task useful, and boom, you have another job. What it that person is out of their mind?
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by kubb 1y ago
I really wish that machines could just take over at some point and we could be free of the pointless jobs we have. There are two problems with this: machines can’t do that right now, despite everyone trying to make them, and somehow we huma
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by kubb 1y ago
And because we are very smart, so must be it.
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by kubb 1y ago
Classical Utilitarianism (Bentham, Mill) is about maximizing overall well-being (or happiness), not just minimizing suffering as a number. It's not just math with units, it's about the quality and context of experiences too. There
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by kubb 1y ago
This talks mainly about research. But if you work at a megacorp, like Facebook, and lobotomize people for money, is it your fault, and are you a bad person for doing it?
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For those using Obsidian: https://help.obsidian.md/plugins/slides
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by kubb 1y ago
Yes, it would be better if they built it closer to the inner city, but there's not that much space there anymore. Cities have to be polycentric if they want to scale. I'm sure a lot of people would be happy to live there even if t
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by kubb 1y ago
What's so bad about it other than it's obviously not the cool, centrally located district? Well connected, long time residents who have access to flats in the inner city always feel superior to the people who move to the city afte
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by kubb 1y ago
Apparently you have a housing shortage of 400k homes, rents increase 5% YoY, and residents spend more than 20% of their income on housing. Your cities are great though, I love the Netherlands.
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I love it, and why doesn't every city do that.
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The website has an ".ai" domain. It's about people wanting to run inference, and maybe mine cryptocurrency and for some reason only NVIDIA cards are used for that.
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That's fair, but the number of cities with urban rail transit is increasing over time. Whether it's the smaller cities paying for the bigger ones... I don't feel like that's the whole picture, but I don't know enoug
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by kubb 1y ago
I think it’s a misread to attribute large-scale construction mainly to inequality. While inequality funded grand projects historically, today it’s effective planning, strong state capacity, and streamlined execution that make the real diffe
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by kubb 1y ago
Good luck to the author with the tutorial. I'm really beginning to accept that despite all of the new languages, like Rust and Zig being available, they won't be able to displace C for the next couple of decades at least. A good p
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by kubb 1y ago
Chongqing seems incredible on pictures and YouTube videos. No doubt it's a comfortable place to live for many people, and surely it isn't perfect, especially when it comes to things like air pollution. What amazes me is China&#x27
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by kubb 1y ago
GDP, CPI, PPI, PMI, CCI... Not to mention that considering full employment as the desirable state assumes a certain ideology (work is good , low unemployment pushes wages up which is good , etc.).

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