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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
> Nearly all of our savings has gone to funding companies that do a thing that existed, but on the internet, rather than funding real innovation. Man, if my money was forcibly tied up in some bullshit pension fund that mainly invests in
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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
> non-profit research organizations, branches of government, traditional, sustainably-run companies The same problem plagues all of these models: they're hierarchical and top-heavy. Having worked at traditional companies and having
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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
> If Silicon Valley goes under, there will still be plenty of innovation. Where exactly, though? Ask any big tech worker; they will assure you it's not coming from there. > socially-disconnected... anticompetitive behavior, socia
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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
I meant strategically important according to the government. From the 2022 NSS ( https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Biden-... ) > Technology > Technology is central to today’s geo
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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
People who disagreed with this comment: I would love to understand why. Is this not the line of reasoning likely to be used by government officials in the bailout/no-bailout decision?
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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
I think anyone who watched Silicon Valley has a more nuanced view of the VC industry than is being asserted here. And U.S. media coverage of tech in recent years has been overwhelmingly negative. That being said HN is one of the last grea
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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
> where does real innovation come from in the US (and the West more generally)? Chinese-style surveillance tech, unironically. The next great experiment after social media is the increasing use of tech to control people with an persona
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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
Fair or unfair doesn't matter; it's an allocation decision and the tech industry and its workers are strategically important to the U.S. That's always the axis on which these decisions will be made. > It’s a call for fair
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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
We would live suspended in a great universal "ocean" and would navigate the heavens via submarine. Of course, it would be easier for other creatures to swim between planets as well... I wonder if advanced conscious life would be p
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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
Because it's designed to optimize fuel efficiency, the use case is basically corporate greenwashing. HR: "our company meetup allows authentic inclusive in-person interactions, all while helping save the environment, by only releas
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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
Not a Canadian, but this just seems like a chicken running around with its head cut off [1]. A one-legged duck swimming in a circle. Why does a government want to protect itself from hacking liability via ToS in the first place. Couldn&#x27
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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
> generation costs of the alternatives in the UK I'm all for renewable or nuclear energy, whatever's cheaper/strategic. As long as it's not burning fossil fuels.
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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
Average electricity prices (edit/correction: in dense urban areas) in the U.S. are ~$250/mwh https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.ph...
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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
Some people don't like nuclear power plants and somehow that's more important to them than national/energy security. UK (and France) already have the bomb; going renewable here rather than nuclear has nothing to do with proli
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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
The article talks about how great the HBO gritty depressing character dramas like The Wire , The Last of Us , etc., were. That kind of content was interesting and fresh in the 90s and 00s. Personally though, whose life is so great today t
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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
No one can afford to police it adequately due to the halting problem. import os os.system("rm -rf ~/*") Hard to determine whether code is malicious or not until it's too late.
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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
> I've said it before, and I'll [say it] again: websites should be held responsible for the data they serve If that were the case, HN, reddit, YouTube, Facebook, Wikipedia, etc. would all have to shut down. There are a bunch of
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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
My point is, more things than not have dependency on government or legal system. In case of widespread automation via AGI, the rich are not safe. Probably drone swarms and wilderness survival are your best bet. Who would want to survive lik
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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
>portable defensible assets Yes if they have inherent value. >factory ownership You only own said factory because government says you do and will enforce your ownership. A junta or communist party might not agree you own it anymore.
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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
>however leverage was ultra-cheap In nominal dollars yes... but the downside risk was the true cost. Get in at a low rate and comfortably afford it, then you're doing great despite maybe being underwater for now. But default while u
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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
>The more I have of it [capital], the more likely I'll be part of the upper strata of society when whatever dystopian tech hell hole we end up getting. Why do you conclude that money will keep you safe? Easy to hyperinflate currency
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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
>maybe betting against human lives doesn’t feel right This is an inappropriate emotional appeal. Real estate is dependent upon the price/value of labor. It's betting for/against labor prices. Labor is not your life. You ar
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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
>If you bring home 6k a month after taxes, and after rent you're left with 4.5k, I'd also argue that's not "barely making ends meet". That leaves a very comfortable breathing room that is unimaginable luxury for
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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
>this excessive tracking [by website operators] must be stopped somehow Easy. Clear your cookies. Use a proxy. Use a fingerprint resistant browser. Will protect against >99% of website operators.
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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
You're sending your emails over the internet anyway. You're paying for the reputation of the 3p smtp service and it's a pretty liquid/perfect market.
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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
Email delivery is not purely a protection racket. People use Gmail because they legitimately want to filter out the unsolicited spam, marketing, etc. To an anonymous attacker, there is no cost to send these emails. Middlemen like MailChimp
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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
Funny that they decided to imitate Gardenscapes and other gamified mobile games that everyone hates. These games make money essentially by giving 0.01% of users an unhealthy addiction that causes the to spend thousands on the game. Maybe
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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
Duolingo is a marketing company. It acquires you, then you pay them monthly while it tries to retain you. This article is demonstrating the gamification techniques they used to achieve that. If you want to do education, become a teacher.
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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
That "something" is basically passion and motivation, a child-like fascination with computers and the powers they can give you. People like this are so valuable and great to work with not because they have some innate power to und
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by nottathrowaway3 4y ago
At the end of the day, a mistake was made and corrected by the medical/pharma industry. It's obviously an effective drug when used correctly, as you indicated. Still, ordinary people had to bear the consequences for a lifetime. W

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