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by phs318u 3y ago
I read this title as, "Company of professional addiction manipulators and compulsion maximisers, pays $15M ransom to probably-more ethical group"
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by phs318u 3y ago
The choice to use a scummy app (and you should know if it's doing this that it's scummy), is still a choice.
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by phs318u 3y ago
AI: scary Humans: scarier Humans + AI: scariest
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by phs318u 3y ago
> they didn’t do anything Are you sure? Do you have any evidence that the vaccinated who caught COVID would not have had worse symptoms had they not been vaccinated? I’m pretty sure all the stats at the time showed greater infection rate
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by phs318u 3y ago
Also: c) https://github.com/twinbasic/twinbasic Once it gets out of beta.
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by phs318u 3y ago
If you take this argument to its absurd conclusion, one could argue that by merely living, I'm making a conscious choice to harm other people.
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by phs318u 3y ago
To the best of my knowledge, most real estate agencies don't deal in cash transactions (as in "bags of"). Money is transferred from bank to bank. The banks have the responsibility to uphold KYC (know your customer) and AML (a
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by phs318u 3y ago
Correct.
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by phs318u 3y ago
In 1972, the Club of Rome published their seminal report, “Limits to Growth”, which basically concluded the same thing - this can’t go on - and put an outer limit of around 2100 as to when this system will hit the wall (my words). https:&#
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by phs318u 3y ago
I had the same thoughts about Apple and (at the time) Sun, 15 years ago. https://macoverdrive.blogspot.com/2008/10/using-zfs-to-manag...
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by phs318u 3y ago
Why are there even men’s and women’s chess events? Are our brains so different that we can’t play chess against each other? As a layperson that sounds nuts. Also, I heard that at the next world swimming championships there’ll be an “open” c
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by phs318u 3y ago
So hallucinating doctor > no doctor? Hmmm...
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by phs318u 3y ago
Good points except for that last sentence. We already know that not only some people wired such that they're much more likely to be compulsive/obsessive, we also know that some of the worst "culprits"/software vendo
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by phs318u 3y ago
Really? There are times I find it hard to tell :(
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by phs318u 3y ago
> The original goal of federation was to make sure everybody has to read everyone else on the internet’s posts This could not be further from the truth. The goal of federation is to _allow_ everyone to read other's posts, NOT to for
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by phs318u 3y ago
There's a part we can all play here and that is to downvote no-effort/low-value comments. I do that and occasionally explicitly respond to people asking them to refer to the HN guidelines and not turn HN into Slashdot. Jokes (with
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by phs318u 3y ago
Back in 1989 I worked as a one-man-IT-department for a bunch of ex-academic economists doing econometric modelling on a Digital VAX 11/750. This mini-computer was running VMS - a multi-user operating system. All users had admin rights
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by phs318u 3y ago
SpaceX's mission is to spread humanity to the planets. Bezo's mission is to offer orbital fun rides to cashed up tourists. Fisker failed due to its major investor (DOE) halting future financing, and then being hit with the loss of
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by phs318u 3y ago
I’ve said this before. The reasons SpaceX and to a lesser extent Tesla are the successes they are, is because of the “true believer” leadership it draws. Those endeavours have a clear social-good aspect to them at the “good for humanity” sc
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by phs318u 3y ago
It’s a common European direct translation. In Greece they’re called υπεραγορά. Which translates directly to hypermarket. And I’m pretty sure that ultra > hyper > super in the general case. I’ve yet to see an ultramarket though.
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by phs318u 3y ago
But maximum efficiency does not scale linearly with organisational size/product complexity. So yes, lots of wastage, but still possibly the least wastage of other tried-and-tested organisational models. Also, effectiveness of software
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by phs318u 3y ago
> solar radiation management Hahahaha. I can see it now: "Exxon Stratospheric Sulfur Shield - using dirty fuels in long-haul flights to create a particulate-based solar shield [0]. Partnering with governments around the globe [1] to
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by phs318u 3y ago
To me it implies that Russian designs on Ukraine were understood quite some time ago, and the "buying time" to make Ukraine "stronger" was the counter to Russia's intention. That supposition about Russia's inte
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by phs318u 3y ago
At the company I'm working at, we're looking at LLM's to introduce an guided, interrogatory interface for our university students to manage tricky enrolment scenarios. Basically to translate requests from English into formal
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by phs318u 3y ago
> I have no doubt that Apple are working on local LLMs and combining them with Siri, it's only a matter of time. I expect we will see something next year, probably tied to the next iteration of hardware - they do want to sell hardwa
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by phs318u 3y ago
Except it isn't blind and it isn't belief? A hypothesis that has been amply supported by decades of evidence of many forms is hardly a subject for "blind belief".
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by phs318u 3y ago
I'll point out a few things that maybe you have noticed but not correlated because they're not obviously "headline grabbing" (in a personal sense). I'm in Australia too (Melbourne), and have travelled to Europe seve
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by phs318u 3y ago
The first 5 words of your comment were highly relevant. The rest is snark. This is HN - please don't contribute to its enshittification.
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by phs318u 3y ago
Wow. Just checked them out. Hadn't heard of them before. Will definitely be bookmarking this one. Thanks.
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by phs318u 3y ago
I'd add that there are more user cohorts than you describe. There are the scrollers that just want a constantly changing feed to "engage" with (typically though not always, showing little discretion about whom they follow), t

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