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by pavlov 9mo ago
How is that related to the claim that "children are now being radicalized to hate capitalism"?
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by pavlov 9mo ago
Nobel-winning author Doris Lessing wrote a novel called Shikasta in 1979 that (to my recollection) is a rewriting of the Old Testament and Earth history from the point of view of an alien community who played the role assigned to the divini
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by pavlov 9mo ago
Xcancel.com is a site that archives discussions that took place on a site I don't want to visit. What's wrong with that? Similarly archive.org maintains copies of the Fox News website in the past. I don't see that as sad. If
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by pavlov 9mo ago
Immediately plays the Broadcasters logo laughter in my head. IYKYK (but only if you lived in Finland in the 1990s)
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by pavlov 9mo ago
Is Brave still a front for a cryptocurrency pump-and-dump scheme?
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by pavlov 9mo ago
> "iRobot refused to incorporate LIDAR scanners, instead relying on some janky computer vision approach" Reminds me of this one car company that sold me something called "FSD" that never worked. Hopefully they'
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by pavlov 10mo ago
> “In my opinion, the traditional charm of the Mac isn’t just the desktop; it’s the entire ecosystem of applications that conform to the Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines” Sadly this barely exists anymore. Cross-platform Electron ap
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by pavlov 10mo ago
Last month the US president pardoned a Honduran politician who had been sentenced to 45 years in prison for trafficking 400 tons of cocaine into America. Whatever is behind this attack, it has nothing to do with drugs.
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by pavlov 10mo ago
Nokia had exactly this kind of CTO office during the 2005 - 2012 years when they lost the entire smartphone market. The CTO fiddled with greenfield projects that had no path to products while the house burned down. The best that can be said
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by pavlov 10mo ago
The small states aren’t going to become like China because nobody abroad will want to import their products that are artificially propped up by tariff barriers. It’s going to be more like 1980s Brazil joined at the hip to California and New
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by pavlov 10mo ago
Is it? Reindustrialization basically means that you want to turn the overall American economy to be more like China and less like California. Maybe that’s good for national security (or whatever is your values-based metric), but it’s not au
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by pavlov 10mo ago
The administration has wrecked US economic data collection, first with indiscriminate firings across the board and then a government shutdown. Labor and inflation statistics are completely unreliable for the past three months.
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by pavlov 10mo ago
He didn’t need to watch Handmaid’s Tale. He grew up in 1970s South Africa and has never accepted that this model of society lost. He and Thiel claim South Africa’s current government is engaged in genocide against whites, but they have neve
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by pavlov 10mo ago
I suppose if one only reads self-help books of the “You’re the best, trust your instincts!” kind, then LLMs are an appropriate replacement.
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by pavlov 10mo ago
Yeah, it’s like asking “why would anyone read a book today when LLMs can generate infinite streams of text”
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by pavlov 10mo ago
It’s something you feel in your knees.
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by pavlov 10mo ago
It goes deeper. The Ellisons want to replace Murdoch as the state media for Republican administrations.
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by pavlov 10mo ago
I’ve always hated SQL, but fortunately LLMs write it so well that it’s effectively become a read-only language now. You just need to know enough to check the output.
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by pavlov 10mo ago
From the article: “He may be sentenced to die in prison in connection with his efforts promoting liberty in China.” Martyr doesn’t sound like overstatement if that happens.
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by pavlov 10mo ago
> I'm sure a lot of things are linked to "poor mental health" like having to go to work So you think unemployed people are in better mental health than those with jobs? I guess this is part of the reason why we need thes
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by pavlov 10mo ago
Germany has a history of its government using data collected about citizens against them. Much legislation was created after WWII to try to prevent that from happening again.
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by pavlov 10mo ago
Negligible cost compared to a real maid in 1825. The washing machine also doesn’t get pregnant by your teenage son and doesn’t run away one night with your silver spoons — the upkeep risks and replacement costs are much lower.
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by pavlov 10mo ago
The point is that, as far as development of AI is concerned, 2025 consumers are in the same position as the 1825 housewife. In both cases, automation of what was previously human labor is very early and they’ve seen almost nothing yet. I ag
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by pavlov 10mo ago
A woman from 1825 would probably happily accept that description though (notwithstanding that the word “robot” wasn’t invented yet). A machine that magically replaces several hours of her manual work? As far as she’s concerned, it’s a speci
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by pavlov 10mo ago
That’s like arguing that washing machines should be called rapid-rotation water agitators. It’s the result that consumers are interested in, not the mechanics of how it’s achieved. Software engineers are often extraordinarily bad at seeing
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The most obsolete infrastructure money could buy – my worst job(snellman.net)
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by pavlov 10mo ago
What I find strange is that life feels oddly opaque. I’ve never met anyone who can clearly explain how it works in practice. Not just the rules, but the dynamics: what’s repeatable, what’s luck, and what actually matters.
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by pavlov 10mo ago
It's also known as Sutherland's Wheel of Reincarnation: http://www.cap-lore.com/Hardware/Wheel.html
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by pavlov 10mo ago
For a country with a $4.5 trillion GDP, a 6 billion deficit is a drop in the bucket and easily covered from taxes. It’s just a political question of what you want to fund. For comparison, the New York City public transport system (MTA) runs
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by pavlov 10mo ago
Finnish. We had a good selection of translated literature.

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