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by ordinaryradical 1y ago
Correct, and the second subtext is that every company using one of these is actually filtering for desperation, not talent. So these companies are actually screwing themselves Think about it: if you’re talented, why would you ever put up wi
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by ordinaryradical 1y ago
Examining empty ownership as a percentage of overall housing in America, which has tens of millions of units, is not a very helpful way of categorizing a highly localized and locally felt phenomenon. The real effect of this type of ownershi
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by ordinaryradical 1y ago
It has to have better use cases than fraud and gambling for the first ten years of exploration for me to buy this argument.
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by ordinaryradical 1y ago
Whose morality counts? Are there moralities worth entertaining that place no value on human life or its enslavement?
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by ordinaryradical 1y ago
“I actually composed that first image with black and white video static of my childhood in mind, sodium silvery and almost painful, a whopping anachronism right at the very start of my career,in the imaginary future, but an invisible one, i
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by ordinaryradical 1y ago
Because there will always be someone with an advantage over the others. Equilibriums in geopolitics are inherently unstable, states naturally compete for their own self-interest. No state will be willingly co-equal with another unless some
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by ordinaryradical 1y ago
If it’s not America it will be China and I don’t think you want to live in that world.
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by ordinaryradical 1y ago
I write novels. What am I supposed to do to earn in this new, copyright-free regime where anyone is free to “implement” my novels?
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by ordinaryradical 1y ago
Source: worked at a startup that took over the patents for the X-33 next gen shuttle and VentureStar SSTO (aerospike design!) The Columbia disaster really set back SSTO appetite. Probably the whole reason we got the patents, truly. SSTOs ar
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by ordinaryradical 1y ago
Sure, but if they’re detaining people because the officers are personal fans of JD Vance those ICE officers need to be fired. Like now. It’s unacceptable whether it’s 1 in a million or 1 in 10. The numbers are not a principle.
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by ordinaryradical 1y ago
I used to find these changes compelling but now I think they are mostly a pain in the ass or questionable. Proof of a well-designed UI is stability, not change. Reads to me strongly of an effort to give traditional media something shiny to
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by ordinaryradical 1y ago
I’m an artist and also work in tech. Enjoy using AI for work, no interest in using it for my art. Using AI for art is an idiotic proposition for me. If I was going to use AI to write my novel, I would literally be robbing myself of the plea
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by ordinaryradical 1y ago
You’ve been hearing it’s eminent because most of Chinese history has played out this way and the Chinese world view sees government as dynastic and cyclical as opposed to progressive or something else. It’s plausible because it’s culturally
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by ordinaryradical 1y ago
Consider wage growth adjusted for inflation as well and we discover that disposable incomes have gone up 1% on average in that period. What is a video game if not an outlet for disposable income?
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by ordinaryradical 1y ago
The “thinking that precedes the writing” is not where the gold is. That kind of thinking is often confused, internally inconsistent, liable to miss critical details or nuance, and full of deductive leaps which may or may not pan out. Writin
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by ordinaryradical 1y ago
I’m not sure this claim has any more validity than his. Calling people unknowable flies in the face of a bunch of modern disciplines. We can see people behave very predictably with Game Theory, for example. Still, I respect the view that th
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by ordinaryradical 1y ago
Literally riding in a Waymo right now in Los Angeles. IMO they already won. The amount of stupid things you see people do here while driving is astonishing, so many people are not paying attention and looking at their phones. I used an Uber
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by ordinaryradical 1y ago
Shouting over and over again, “This is normal” doesn’t make something morally acceptable. If any of this is (arguably) normal we should tear down the systems that support these norms. They are bad norms. The solution is never, “Welp, people
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by ordinaryradical 2y ago
Salaried positions don’t pay by the hour but by meeting benchmarks, job accountabilities, etc. so I’m not sure “fraudulently” belongs in that sentence.
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by ordinaryradical 2y ago
If you don’t want your software used for things you don’t approve of, don’t give it away for free.
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by ordinaryradical 2y ago
It’s easier to steal your own customers’ money than for someone to break in. I don’t know if it’s exactly Occam’s Razor that “hacks” would originate from within the institutions compromised, but in crypto world the incentives are nuts and t
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by ordinaryradical 2y ago
No one invited the Chinese through the front door. If you can’t understand that difference, you’re missing something very critical. One is serious because a foreign adversary is compromising us; the other is serious because we are apparentl
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by ordinaryradical 2y ago
It’s different because they are using data at scale to collectively decide on pricing via Potatotrac, ya know, the title of the article…? The issue of having four players is that it makes the coordination problem of colluding relatively eas
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by ordinaryradical 2y ago
If you can’t be intellectually curious why even be on HN? Strawmanning like this may make you think you’re clever but it signals to the “average person” that your mind is made up. I don’t read articles here because my mind is made up but be
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by ordinaryradical 2y ago
This is great and the spiciest take buried within what you mention is the following (Christian) POV: People inherently need meaning to function and if a postmodern society insists that there is none, life is a tabula rasa , and religion is
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by ordinaryradical 2y ago
I have no problem with foreign labor growing our economy in ways that the local labor cannot; I have a problem with systematically disempowering that labor to make it more attractive than equally capable domestic labor, because it cannot ne
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by ordinaryradical 2y ago
Before you tie yourself in this knot it might be useful just to look and see if there was a Roman census in that time period: "When I administered my thirteenth consulate (2 B.C.E.), the senate and Equestrian order and Roman people all
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by ordinaryradical 2y ago
Cool! What about deploying?
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by ordinaryradical 2y ago
You seem to have an interesting product philosophy - how does that translate into your engineering choices? I’m curious what you built Jelly with and how you approach building web apps from a language and framework perspective.
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by ordinaryradical 2y ago
True, and because of the electoral college system, we do not have a popular vote for our most likely monarch, the President, hence a demagogue must win according to a different means than “appealing to the mob.” I still think the EC should

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