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by nico 2y ago
This is incredibly well done. Thank you! Love that it works so seamlessly on mobile. I clicked on it expecting it to be almost impossible to use Instead, I was able to easily navigate everything without getting lost Also, the speeding up&#x
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by nico 2y ago
> America is tending towards an oligarchic system. (This is a history of weak democracies, historically, and a reason we were founded as a republic and not pure democracy.) That doesn't prove it currently is one Maybe that doesn&#x2
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by nico 2y ago
Vote them out and elect who? Some other member from one of the two parties, who will continue to make decisions mostly for their rich donors? > Princeton University study: Public opinion has “near-zero” impact on U.S. law. > One thing
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by nico 2y ago
This is just false > Study: Congress literally doesn’t care what you think > Their study took data from nearly 2000 public opinion surveys and compared it to the policies that ended up becoming law. In other words, they compared what
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by nico 2y ago
> I'm curious what the driver for reproduction will be in the future once robots are capable of doing all the work If robots are doing all the work, my bet is humans won’t be dominating for too long Then if robots take over, and the
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by nico 2y ago
Thank you for that video. Unfortunately the guy spends the first part of it just hating on Hancock, which I don’t think is a good way to debunk stuff I was also hoping the guy would find whatever papers or publications were made by the scie
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by nico 2y ago
I know it has that reputation. But besides people saying stuff like your comment, I haven’t seen any specifics about exactly what’s wrong Would you care to elaborate? Have you seen the show? Could you point to the things that are wrong and
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by nico 2y ago
The show seemed very convincing, not in the speculative theories about an ancient precursor civilization necessarily, but definitely in some of the findings they show Do you have any resources you could share that debunk the specific things
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by nico 2y ago
Thank you. Looks like a fascinating read I remember seeing some discussions about it and related topics here on HN a few years ago
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by nico 2y ago
It seems like you grew into your loneliness and that you also did it consciously OP found himself alone rather fast and without truly realizing it was happening He’ll probably get over it at some point, will find a group to belong to and re
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by nico 2y ago
> Twenty years ago, brazilian researchers who would mention this theory were considered a bit lunatic You are right. However, not only Brazilian researchers, an not just 20 years ago Check out the movie "The Lost City of Z" or
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by nico 2y ago
Just finished watching "Ancient Apocalypse" on Netflix. They go over this kind of discovery It's quite speculative, but also really fascinating. Even if what they claim is not completely right, it definitely shows how the cur
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by nico 2y ago
> I think his problem is his identity (founder of Loom) suddenly disappeared. This is spot on. And I think it’s probably the biggest thing he’s going through However, the money is definitely a big factor as well. Not because of the amoun
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by nico 2y ago
> No path out of this valley involves traveling alone In my opinion, this is the big take here When you have enough money to not work, it becomes very lonely fast All of a sudden you have tons of time, but no one to share it with. Everyo
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by nico 2y ago
> I’ve never seen a mortgage in UF ?? On this recent Reddit post in /r/Chile someone asks “does anyone know if there is a bank which offers mortgages in pesos instead of UF?” The answers all pretty much say they don’t even exis
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by nico 2y ago
> France is a democracy And even there, sometimes people will get treated like terrorists for saying the wrong political thing Like it’s been happening for the last year. Including some protests getting outright made illegal And as you s
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by nico 2y ago
Super interesting Some thoughts: - if you get whatever you wanted before it snaps back out of it, wouldn’t you say you had a successful jailbreak? - related to the above, some jailbreaks in physical devices, don’t persist after a reboot, th
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by nico 2y ago
> with an annual contribution of €13.61 and a real rate of return of 3%, 400 years of annual compounding would be over €7 million. With a rate of 4% it would be €280 million 400 years -> 280M That gives you a perspective on how insane
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by nico 2y ago
> also free future generations from your debts Only if the debt is not pegged to inflation In Chile at least, you can get a loan in “UF”, which is an inflation-adjusted equivalent of the underlying currency. The value of UF changes with
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by nico 2y ago
> Just today I used a completely local AI research tool, based on Ollama. It worked great What’s it called? Could you post a link please? Thank you
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by nico 2y ago
Well NSO does their work for them, so that’s not gonna happen Also, look at how the govt has acted in the last year or so, they will never move against Israel
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by nico 2y ago
And now watch as the definition is stretched to fit whatever the powerful want to do Like how they are now charging the UHC CEO suspect with terrorism Then, if you support the guy, now a terrorist, well then you can be called a terrorist to
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by nico 2y ago
To further this. Look at how easily they are bringing terrorism charges on American citizens now (check out the Mangione case) And I would guess they’ll use the opportunity to increase the reach as well
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by nico 2y ago
This is actually really wild BTC has a current market cap of around $1.9 trillion And we don’t know who created it! Additionally, it’s estimated Satoshi’s wallet holds about 1M BTC, out of ~20M BTC total supply So there is a mystery account
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by nico 2y ago
> "Surveillance companies should be on notice that illegal spying will not be tolerated." That is kinda funny, although sad at the same time On the flip side, I guess that means META allows WhatsApp users being only “legally sp
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by nico 2y ago
*inference
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And there you have it. Never let a good crisis go to waste
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That’s essentially what we are being told, yes
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And that’s a big issue The govt has shown that they can legally do pretty much whatever they want with someone they deem a terrorist, 0 accountability Like all those peeps in Guantanamo More recently, Snowden showed us what the consequences
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by nico 2y ago
> someone kills a prime minister in Europe Sure. And the law here also says that if someone kills a politician, they can be charged with terrorism But the law doesn’t say anything about CEOs or other private citizens Sure, charge the guy

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