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by palata 5mo ago
> How many times do we hear things like "if the product is free, you are the product" This is old school. Now we know for a fact from the "enshittification" concept that you are always the product. If they can keep ab
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by palata 5mo ago
Mythos is already here, you cannot use it for predictions just because you don't have access to it... I just have an issue with all the people saying "I predicted this 10 years ago" (implying something like "you should l
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by palata 5mo ago
> caveat with your level of irrational skepticism toward the overwhelming evidence If you can talk about my irrational skepticism (because I said that "we don't know the future", I suppose?), can I talk about your total la
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by palata 5mo ago
> The fact that we don’t know exactly what they’ll be isn’t a good reason to think there won’t be any more. Nor is it a good reason to think there will be more.
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by palata 5mo ago
I am confused. Does the article say "The fact that AI can write code proves that programming is real engineering"? AI can generate poems too, does it prove that poetry is engineering, too?
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by palata 5mo ago
> The massive straight up IP theft helps a lot here I think this is vastly underestimating what "catching up" means. All my life, people have been saying "China copies". Now they are objectively better at many things
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by palata 5mo ago
Most smartphones being sold are Android, though.
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by palata 5mo ago
Are you saying "I don't know how expensive it would be to achieve that, but it won't prevent me from mentioning it as an economically viable option"?
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by palata 5mo ago
> Far left politics are wrecker politics that have their moments and then (hopefully) get sent back to the political desert for a generation. Are you talking about US politics here? I don't see anything that would get close to &quot
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by palata 5mo ago
I find it interesting. It's a mini-linux computer with a mini-screen and enough connectivity, somewhere between a smartphone and an RPi? I like that they try to push for everything open source, let's see how that goes. I wish ther
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by palata 5mo ago
Yeah I think the presidential election system may be the one to blame. Only two parties, both very much "to the right", doesn't feel like a sane system anymore. IMO the better way is to have the government represent the peopl
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by palata 5mo ago
Enough people did not vote against Trump is my point. "The democrats" voted against Trump, otherwise they don't really count as part of "the democrats" for this election, right?
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by palata 5mo ago
I find it interesting to blame it on the democrats. We ended up with him because enough people voted for him .
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by palata 5mo ago
I believe that it is possible to compromise. Of course, the parents must play their role. But it doesn't mean that it should be legal to publish porn ads to kids, and hope that the parents install an ad blocker, does it? I don't t
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by palata 5mo ago
I don't think so, no. I'm asking if it is a good idea to ask the government to delegate the addressing of the problem to the platforms. For instance, the government could provide privacy-preserving age verification and mandate tha
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by palata 5mo ago
I didn't say that age gating VPNs was the solution. I just doubt that the platforms themselves can address the problem in a desirable way.
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by palata 5mo ago
> Rather than age-gating technologies like VPNs, we believe that regulators should address the root causes of online harm by holding platforms to account Honest question: if you tell Pornhub "now you will be fined heavily if you let
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by palata 5mo ago
The one clue I have is that you sound very aggressive for no apparent reason.
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by palata 5mo ago
Or that Trump doesn't have any leverage there?
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by palata 5mo ago
I don't think that this is what the parent says. The parent doesn't complain about the devs moving to Anthropic (presumably to work on something they find exciting and get a good salary for it). The parent complains about Anthropi
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by palata 5mo ago
> I'm certain that he's not doing this because he wants more money. There are many reasons to change job. The pay is always one of them (if you don't work for money, it's not called a job, is it?). > join Anthropic
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by palata 5mo ago
The thing is, the EU age verification initiative does explicitly talk about privacy. The first paragraph here mentions it: https://ageverification.dev/ . But most comments explicitly criticise the EU, saying it is authoritar
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by palata 5mo ago
I am not saying that you lie. I am saying that I have been defending, on HN, that it is possible. And more often than not I get dismissed by comments that insist on saying it's impossible. > I am arguing for not always helping you
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by palata 5mo ago
Did you read the whole subthread before saying it wildly misses the point? Or am I again wildly missing the point by understanding that when you say it's wildly missing the point, you mean that it is wildly missing the point? :-) Feels
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by palata 5mo ago
Yeah I agree with the feeling. And actually more than "building your own" because "it's faster than installing", "Emacsification" probably also works for "using an open source project and quickly patc
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by palata 5mo ago
Right. But if you decide to make your own, won't you spend some time "researching" and "designing" it first? I personally will :-).
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by palata 5mo ago
100%.
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by palata 5mo ago
To be fair, I think it is true that AI will help nerds (like me) implement their own clients. Without AI, I will think that "I could make my own client", I will spend some evenings and weekends proving that I can solve the problem
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by palata 5mo ago
> As tptacek says in the OP, it's "easier to build your own solution than to install an existing one" - or to learn an existing one. I can install WhatsApp in a few tens of seconds. You most definitely spent more time than
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by palata 5mo ago
Does it? If you browse the web and run Excel, it makes sense to me that you wouldn't need the same specs as when running video games? IMO developers should be forced to run on such computers, such that they would care a little bit ab

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