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by phs318u 7mo ago
The machinery to make them, the fertilisers to grow them, the plastic to package them, the transport to deliver them. It ain’t just cooking oils that will be massively impacted. The entire food chain in the western world is reliant on petro
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by phs318u 7mo ago
Who said there’s only been one mis-strike among 1000s of sorties? There’s been one mis-strike so egregiously wrong that even the western media call it out. There would be many more that don’t make it onto the front pages of first world medi
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by phs318u 7mo ago
I've done the same. Discussions on some subjects are worth having and so I will sometimes upvote because I really want to hear what the HN crowd - who are by and large pretty smart and have interesting perspectives - have to say.
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by phs318u 7mo ago
You know history goes back before the 70’s right?
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by phs318u 7mo ago
Given the history of ordinary employees getting fired for secretly using AI to do some/most of their job, can we at least expect that the shareholders will renegotiate Zuck's compensation significantly downwards? Given he won&#x27
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by phs318u 7mo ago
Do you remember Internet Explorer before Edge? Jeez I never want to go back to that. And that’s what we’d end up with in a browser monoculture.
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by phs318u 7mo ago
The Germans attacked Poland. It was only then the allies got involved.
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by phs318u 7mo ago
Maintaining peace is not the same as restoring peace. Perhaps the American executive should have extrapolated the consequences of their actions using a model of the real world and not the fever dream they seem to be in. I am all for the Eur
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by phs318u 7mo ago
> Could it be that we’re now sicker than ever Are we though? Globally, mortality rates continue to decline and lifespan to increase. We definitely are seeing increases in classes of disease (eg. immune system related) as others decrease,
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by phs318u 7mo ago
Forgiveness is not the same as trust.
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by phs318u 7mo ago
AI oh, AI oh, It’s off to work we (used to) go.
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by phs318u 7mo ago
There’s a big difference between unnecessary applications taking up space on your storage device, and unnecessary services running in the background competing for RAM and CPU with the applications you actually want to run.
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by phs318u 7mo ago
Totally agree. But I’m seeing (or more sensitive to) increasing cohorts that can’t string two words together to express a single thought coherently. There’s a difference between adapting language and use of linguistic tools (such as metapho
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by phs318u 7mo ago
I thought it was sarcasm given you are asking people to “pay a proofreader”. This sounds ludicrous. Could you clarify wha you meant by that line if it’s not sarcasm? Because I’m having a hard time thinking that it’s meant to be taken at fac
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by phs318u 7mo ago
> Language is a tool While this is true, it is not just a tool. Or, I should say it’s a tool with far greater utility than just winning an argument or making a localised point. Language is how we think, and the ability to reason well is
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by phs318u 7mo ago
What’s interesting to me is the number of commenters here making a case of the form “use your own words; grammar and spelling are not that important; we’ll know what you mean”, and yet it’s often the case that different discussions will oft
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by phs318u 7mo ago
> If you find yourself unable to participate in this web forum without paying a proofreader (in time, money, or cycles) to copy-edit your writing, then you’re not welcome on HN as a participant. You forgot the /s ?
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by phs318u 7mo ago
It’s possible of course but reading all the comments from various non-native English speakers here it seems like a common story. It may indicate a subliminal bias in readers (most of whom are presumably American).
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by phs318u 7mo ago
> You could run the comments everyone else posts through an AI tool and ask it to rephrase it so that it is clean, and easy-to-read. For those coming from a language other than English, you are more likely to lose information by using a
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by phs318u 7mo ago
> written English is starting to be seen as snobbish and AI-slop especially with younger generations growing up with AI This is tragic. I write English well and will employ grammar and word choice effectively to make an argument or get a
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by phs318u 8mo ago
Those of us old enough to remember Compuserve know that the cost of entry was exactly why the quality was so high. I was lucky enough that my employer paid for it. I was also active on various comp.os.* Usenet forums. Both were great source
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by phs318u 8mo ago
Probably because its not War and Peace. It's the hook for some app you're probably going top spend all of 2 minutes on deciding whether it may or may not be functionally useful, and that equation is going to be largely solved inde
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by phs318u 8mo ago
To paraphrase the past, it’s “Amerikaner Physik”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Physik
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by phs318u 8mo ago
Did you find the Claude community you were looking for?
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by phs318u 8mo ago
Greetings fellow old person. You totally took me back to 2000. And here’s me thinking I was the only one harvesting pithy quotes from /. I always loved the “doesn’t suck vacuum”, but amazingly never came across the Win98 CD line. Love
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by phs318u 8mo ago
Thank you for responding. Everyone wants to think they will “do the right thing” when their own personal Rubicon is challenged. In practice, so many factors are at play, not least of which are the other people you may be responsible for. Th
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by phs318u 8mo ago
Sure they can. They can “temporarily” suspend parts of the constitution in times of “grave national peril”, and hand out presidential pardons in advance. But doing that would surely be considered dropping the last fig-leaf from the performa
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by phs318u 8mo ago
The discussion here underlines the reality that one can never make a “deal” with a powerful state, just as Lando Calrisian famously found out in Empire Strikes Back. Dario is Lando, complaining “We had a deal!” Only to be told, “I’m alterin
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by phs318u 8mo ago
The Trumpets?
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by phs318u 8mo ago
Surely that’s the definition of a quixotic hope.

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