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by mingus88 1y ago
I don’t think you’ll ever see a billionaire tackle this. To become a billionaire, you have to have a complete lack of empathy. This is why the only solution we see are maximized profit vehicles. The qualities that would make someone want to
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I think it’s natural for homeowners to be resistant to new builds in the same way office workers hated the move to cubicles. I was in the Midwest recently and it was wild to see a block of high density houses in the middle of farmland. Hous
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by mingus88 1y ago
I guarantee that there are many people who have joined up with ICE in the past few months for the sole purpose of committing violence. If you have ever done any research that covers “boogaloo boys” or any of those types of groups, you’d kno
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by mingus88 1y ago
It’s only a matter of time, maybe even weeks away, before this pops off with actual armed resistance. History has shown there is no peaceful disagreement with fascism, and you would have to be naive to listen to folk like Hegseth today and
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by mingus88 1y ago
Yeah that’s interesting. Imagine what could happen if AI allowed us to work fewer hours and in exchange there was a program to enable people to pursue volunteer programs in their communities Some “it takes a village” type of mentoring for c
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by mingus88 1y ago
Because optics matter. they are all ultimately fundraising and competing and this is terrible PR Ask Jeeves from 1997 could answer this question, so tell me why we need to devote a nation-state amount of compute power to feed an “AI” that c
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by mingus88 1y ago
The reason for that should be obvious
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Deep fake nudes are illegal so…I guess I would expect the output to be something else?
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by mingus88 1y ago
Yeah it’s probably both. Underfunded IT department, probably one or two people who aren’t allowed to say no.
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The fact is that hosting is a cost and businesses are always cutting costs They don’t get to become one of the biggest and most successful companies by providing free services to legacy customers. Personally, I keep a folder for product man
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by mingus88 1y ago
I pay for Kagi and Claude. I feel that the core of this decline in services is simply because nobody want to pay for what is of value. Search is still useful. Claude is not good at citing sources. Search is great for doing my own research.
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by mingus88 1y ago
I’m not that surprised. To reach the level of billionaire, it’s pretty much a requirement that you abandon all empathy and ethics. What’s surprising is that nobody in their circle has educated them on the concept of a win-win. These people
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They also had a record breaking quarter for their services, when streaming services everywhere are bleeding out Yeah I guess it’s been a while since their last iPhone moment but that entire decade was just one revolution after another for e
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by mingus88 1y ago
Can you source the apple PR claiming they invented the mp3 player or the smartphone? I recall marketing comparing iPhones to blackberries. They even had iTunes running on Motorola phone https://www.makeuseof.com/itunes-phone
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Apple’s answer to that is Private Compute Cloud
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Which is why you see execs get golden parachutes for failing. The assets get transferred to private parties who walk away to repeat the exact behavior they were just rewarded for at another firm.
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Because all businesses are run by people and everything is inherently political Coffee production by itself is already mired in geopolitics. And as a customer, where we spend our money matters. It’s often the only voice we have. Take a look
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by mingus88 1y ago
150 people is huge. The logistics of doing this in person just don’t make sense. Are you going to send out hundreds of calendar invites spread across weeks for the sole purpose of being nice to people? Are affected employees expected to que
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by mingus88 1y ago
To expand on this a little, even before this hyper-tribalism consumed politics, conservatism has always had an in-group / out-group mentality It has been remarkably effective to find a niche wedge issue and drive it to the forefront. A
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by mingus88 1y ago
In my area it’s common to see cars with no plates. The police don’t seem to enforce it. People planning home invasions know how to avoid ALPR. They wear masks and gloves, and leave their cell phones at home. You are giving up your privacy,
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by mingus88 1y ago
Atherton is actually notorious though for this kind of thing. Before ALPR was ubiquitous, in the 2000s, the Atherton Police Blotter in the local paper was a hoot. Half of the entries were residents calling about suspicious people that were
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by mingus88 1y ago
Ah, the “you are holding it wrong” argument returns These are trigger-safeties, yeah? The ones that are marketed as safe unless you pull the trigger? Or is it # until you pull the trigger # or don’t clean it right # or don’t use the right h
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by mingus88 1y ago
That’s such a sad sentiment. There was a brief moment in history where we could get concise and efficient answers to any question we had. Now we need to harness the computing power of an LLM to get something remotely similar…and it’s still
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Never meet your heros
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I’m not a novice user anymore either, but I care about my security and privacy. When I see a package from a repo, I have some level of trust. Same with a single binary from GitHub. When I see a curl|bash I open it up and look at it. Who kno
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Gawker was tabloid journalism but that doesn’t give anyone else a pass for their bad actions. All parties involved are disgusting
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I think it’s absolutely fair to judge a person as a whole. It’s part of who they were. I heard Keanu Reeves anonymously donated millions to cancer charities. It’s private. Should we not include this in our assessment of his character? Or ar
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by mingus88 1y ago
You are essentially asking what is safer than running arbitrary code from the internet sight unseen directly into your shell and I guess my answer would be any other standard installation method! The OS usually has guardrails and logging an
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My problem with it is that it encourages unsafe behavior. How many times will a novice user follow that pattern until some jerk on discord drops a curl|bash and gets hits IRC used to be a battlefield for these kinds of tricks and we have le
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by mingus88 1y ago
There are actually two Musks on the board. Kimbal Musk is Elon’s brother. Could both of them get pushed out? I doubt it. The stock is a meme and it’s entirely propped up by Elons smoke and mirrors.

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