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by pembrook 1y ago
This harmless incident shows us nothing aside from why nuclear is so expensive. There is essentially zero risk to the operation of the plant (or this worker!) from such an event. Imagine if oil and gas facilities were required for any worke
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by pembrook 1y ago
> It's about detecting safety issues which could lead to a catastrophe far beyond what a sea oil drilling rig can A worker falling into a reactor pool (which is just room temp water with very little risk) is not a catastrophe, yet
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by pembrook 1y ago
Aaaand it’s this alarmist attitude which is why we don’t have abundant cheap nuclear energy. Sea-drilling rigs (oil) have far more potential for environmental damage than modern nuclear plants Yet they have no federal public register for wh
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by pembrook 1y ago
Man in Michigan potentially exposed to radiation levels equivalent to undergoing 4 x-rays at the doctors office. Meanwhile, in Texas, 1.5 people die every day working in Oil and Gas extraction. A few people die every year installing or fall
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by pembrook 1y ago
Am I the only one who thinks this is just cringe? I definitely think AI companies marketing claims deserve mockery...but this isn't even good/interesting/smart satire?? It feels like we've fully completed the transition
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by pembrook 1y ago
I see "Get a demo" as the only call-to-action and a bunch of other venture-backed Saas startups as your customers...so I'm guessing pricing will be...high. This might sound vaguely pessimistic, but I'm getting the naggin
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by pembrook 1y ago
Warned multiple times over what exactly?
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by pembrook 1y ago
I'm sorry you don't understand the anti-democratic goals of many of the parties in your own country. If you are re-branding a belief in authoritarian seizing of all private capital as "Minor democratic arguments on details of
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by pembrook 1y ago
But doesn’t this prove my point. The AfD, like all political parties, is simply a coalition of various smaller subgroups. It’s by no means “extreme” right in entirety. Yet, leftist parties harboring actual communists are not labeled “extrem
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by pembrook 1y ago
Yes, now show me the legally accurate description of leftist parties with the opposite political craziness within it. The greens are filled with communists for example. Or the literal communist party, Die Linke. Why are they never referred
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by pembrook 1y ago
In the case of Germany I guess I can understand due to…uh…history. I’m sure the eastern bloc countries are more trigger happy to label people “far” left when they see it due to their history of the opposite. But it seems to be a Europe-wide
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by pembrook 1y ago
A word of caution to anyone trying to take health advice from HN comments: don’t. Want to debate javascript frameworks and linux distros? sure, there’s great knowledge here. This is not the case for most topics outside of software. If you f
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by pembrook 1y ago
It's clear that hackernews is a DIY crowd and loves this idea. I'm pro letting people do whatever they want and whatever makes them feel good. HOWEVER, I have to point out how incredibly silly this is. There is a reason why histor
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by pembrook 1y ago
Bizarrely, I also find Gmail's spam algo is actually oversensitive to marketing emails from companies these days, which I never thought was something I would complain about. But like you said its super annoying when I actually want the
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by pembrook 1y ago
> What is OpenAI's competitive moat? There's no product stickiness here. 20 years ago everyone said the exact same thing about Google Search. I mean, how could you possibly build a $3T company off of a search input field, wh
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by pembrook 1y ago
I think this is less of a market inefficiency and more a downside of “democratization” and the eternal September. In many fields of human endeavor, there’s the passionate or early adopters who seek out the best, most innovative, high qualit
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by pembrook 1y ago
You're critiquing OP for not playing with how the models currently work (bad at gathering context on their own). Sure, if you bend over backwards and hop on one foot, you can get them to do what you want. OP is critiquing the model as
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by pembrook 1y ago
If they stopped the automatic "You're absolutely right!" responses after the model fails to fix something 20 times in a row, then that alone will be worth the upgrade. Me: "You just burned my house down" Claude: &qu
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by pembrook 1y ago
Yes, would be wonderful to get Europe fully on Chinese hardware and away from those evil Californians. I can’t see any potential issues with that, China and Russia are great friends of Europe!
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by pembrook 1y ago
I think you would be surprised to learn China has far less regulation than the EU. Part of this is China being a far more dynamic, high risk, Wild West-style capitalist system that’s communist only in very specific areas. The other part bei
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by pembrook 1y ago
Hrmmm. Engaging in wild character assassination (ie. spewing hate on the internet) in return for emotional upvote validation...I would argue is a great example of what you just described. I don't doubt you've convinced yourself yo
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by pembrook 1y ago
Love this, assuming they come in as the lowest cost provider. But I'm more interested in seeing how they'll maintain clean sending IPs. I have a feeling they grossly underestimate how difficult this will be. I will not touch this
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by pembrook 1y ago
I lol'd at this. And he eats babies! Yea, humans tend to optimize for their own individual success. Do you not?
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by pembrook 1y ago
You don't fall into any desirable demographic for targeting apparently, or you've never leaked enough info about you that would signify you as desirable. In other words, nobody is bidding to reach your eyeballs specifically. This
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by pembrook 1y ago
One time I was at a Holiday Inn at the same time as some multi-level marketer (pyramid scheme) conference. Breakfast conversation sounded like this: Girl 1: "You should really check out Mary Kay, I'm making a fortune and could use
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by pembrook 1y ago
But why would I want my team generating/reading AI slop in our Wiki??
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by pembrook 1y ago
I would say that was true until recently (have basically been lurking for a decade), but this year in particular it feels like HN has gone full Reddit. More and more topics somehow devolve into emotional political fights instead of intellec
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by pembrook 1y ago
This blog post is about as insightful as what I'm guessing a blog post titled "Rules for backend development, from a graphic designer" would be.
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by pembrook 1y ago
The nazis had income tax rates virtually identical to most modern European countries, which was not at all common globally at the time. Also they had wealth exit taxes just like modern Socialists in Europe are fighting for right now: https
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by pembrook 1y ago
To point out the glaring holes in your comment: - Criminals will still use encryption even if its against the law, given they are criminals - Denmark is one of the safest countries on earth and every year crime has been declining for deca

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