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by nativeit 5d ago
These kinds of discussions very quickly arrive at the “no ethical consumption under capitalism” line of thinking. No matter who you are, no matter what you do, some activity or product you engage with will have been the result of some kin
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by nativeit 5d ago
Aggressive enforcement tactics certainly haven’t won the war on drugs.
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Learning another language may be one of the best ways to keep your brain healthy(theconversation.com)
133 points by nativeit 7d ago|117 comments
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by nativeit 9d ago
I’m still baffled as to where these 100x valuations came from. Amazon’s market cap is $2.65T, and I don’t see how any AI company comes within a faint whiff of that sort of value.
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by nativeit 9d ago
I’m not really a dev, so hefty pinch of salt with this take, but doesn’t this feel like we’re just inventing new “fuzzy” regex with much more required compute?
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by nativeit 9d ago
I think I heard that we’ll be fracking with nuclear materials soon so we can harvest the tritium water as a byproduct. Does anyone know if that’s just a wild, stupid theory that will never work, or an actual idea being explored? Sounds horr
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by nativeit 9d ago
Recycling plastics is a huge lie that’s caused society to perform rituals that absolve them of the horrible impact they’re inflicting on the planet. I don’t think this kind of gaslighting is unique or new, but the AI company’s specific mela
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by nativeit 9d ago
> …if you see an emdash it’s probably AI generated… Or, and—hear me out—the writer typed two successive hyphens on their iDevice.
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by nativeit 9d ago
This brings back some memories. I was an admin for “Millions Against Monsanto”, a group on the still-nascent Facebook. I ultimately left because the org was overtaken by conspiracy theorists who couldn’t stop yelling about aspartame and ant
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by nativeit 12d ago
That assumes the people who need XCancel most are aware of its existence, but from what I can tell only folks like us are.
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by nativeit 12d ago
It’s really unfortunate how much public trust they burnt along the way, maybe this wouldn’t be such a hard sell now?
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by nativeit 12d ago
The company is valued over $950B. It remains to be seen how much it’s worth.
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by nativeit 13d ago
The average life cycle is 20 days, during which time a female can lay ~3000 eggs and travel up to 200km. In 1971 there were 473 confirmed cases in the United States, in 1972 migrating flies breached the sterile fly barrier, and by 1973 it s
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by nativeit 13d ago
Viva Mayor Gunderson!
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by nativeit 13d ago
“Containment” doesn’t really work when you leave the lid off.
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by nativeit 13d ago
Aren’t American AI companies drawing billions in federal contracts? Not to mention the federally-sponsored pushback on foreign competitors?
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by nativeit 13d ago
What you’re arguing for is essentially a return to pre-1990s enforcement of antitrust laws. Not new legislation, just the pragmatic application of existing legislation.
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by nativeit 13d ago
Anti-competitive tactics aren’t in play at all?
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by nativeit 13d ago
They evidently did not.
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by nativeit 13d ago
Pangram reports “confidence is limited - low word count” https://www.pangram.com/history/94ff59a6-b5f1-40c2-be6e-7dcf...
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by nativeit 13d ago
The problem is the litany of people below this comment say “they get great results”, with zero sources or examples to back any of it up. Is there a showcase, or “Claude’s Hall of Fame” with a list of Git repos full of production-ready, ro
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Two dire warnings from Terence Tao and from someone who just quit Anthropic(garymarcus.substack.com)
3 points by nativeit 17d ago|1 comments
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by nativeit 20d ago
Cleanup costs should be applied to all coal mines, but we didn’t bother with that either.
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How A Telescope Mirror Creates an Image [video](youtube.com)
5 points by nativeit 26d ago|0 comments
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by nativeit 27d ago
How are unsustainable decisions and practices working in the best interests of the shareholders?
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by nativeit 27d ago
I’d imagine it’s not so simple, especially without a functional legislative branch, but we could really use a “digital bill of rights” that could provide a comprehensive set of baseline protections and standards for things like this, online
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by nativeit 28d ago
I vote for “shenanigans”.
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by nativeit 1mo ago
That’s [part of] what regulatory frameworks are supposed to accomplish: minimize and compensate for capitalism’s excesses. A free market can do a lot of very impressive things with surprising efficiency, but it fails on a number of things
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by nativeit 1mo ago
None at all.
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by nativeit 1mo ago
I’d have given them bonus points if they’d used “alternativetoalternative.to”.

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