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by pibaker 6mo ago
Have you seen his other works in recent years? It's hard to get any more obvious than a judge beating up someone with his gavel or a boy judo throwing Putin. It's not like Banksy is known for being a sophisticated highfalutin MFA
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by pibaker 6mo ago
You can 100% work your way to a senior position without ever leaving windows. The people who are like that just don't tend to be hanging out on platforms like HN.
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by pibaker 6mo ago
How would you feel about a test for "teal or blue" or "teal or green?" You still need to make binary choices, just along different boundaries. Would it make any difference?
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by pibaker 6mo ago
It is mentioned on the about page but I still feel like pointing out that your response to this test has as much to do with your perception of colors as how green or blue your screen is and what kind of ambient lighting there is. Especially
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by pibaker 6mo ago
It should not take more than one brain cell to realize that in an era when employment is already perceived as precarious, you are not going to earn any public favors by telling people you are taking their jobs and making them obsolete. Doub
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by pibaker 6mo ago
It will never happen because 65 yos vote and people under 18 cannot vote.
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by pibaker 6mo ago
The more likely explanation is guns. Gun ownership tends to be higher in rural areas because of a mixture of culture, politics, utility and laws. Only 14% of adults in New York State have guns compared to 59% in Alaska. Having a quick, easy
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by pibaker 6mo ago
> Travelers going between cities/countries carry items for people who need to send stuff. Be thankful that you are having trouble recruiting users because a lack of users is what preventing your company's name being on the head
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by pibaker 6mo ago
> Why? I get the warm-and-fuzzy angle of "instilling civic responsibility" I have found that when older people ask young people to do this kind of "mandatory service" they never specify what exactly are they going to
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by pibaker 6mo ago
JR was only privatized in 1987 after the previous state owned railway company borrowed too much to fund its infrastructure projects like high speed rails.
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by pibaker 6mo ago
> And I don't even get the clean bathrooms connection It's simple. If it is Japan, someone will glaze it.
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by pibaker 6mo ago
Your points remind me of an old post on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41454990 especially the following parts > So I understand the concern that this court decision threatens the future of some forms of archiv
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by pibaker 6mo ago
I actually feel the opposite. I don't think people from outside CS will have that much interest into the very basics of AI because there is usually a huge gap between "this is how back propagation works" to any AI model that
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by pibaker 6mo ago
I have noticed similar sentiments among some teenagers. It's not a universal sentiment but those who hate AIs really hate them with a passion. In the meanwhile there is a rising tide of feel good AI content targeted at old people on Fa
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by pibaker 6mo ago
It honestly says something about how absurdly risk averse our society has become that an 1/30 chance of death is considered too high for a literal moonshot. You can advertise a 1/3 rate of slowly choking in vacuum and I bet you wi
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by pibaker 6mo ago
But every "intangible" thing you mentioned was in fact maintained by very tangible violence that those in power decide legitimate. What happens if a poor man decides to squat a rich man's vacation home? What happens if a blac
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by pibaker 6mo ago
I agree this is very sane and boring. What is insane is that they have to state this in the first place. I am not against AI coding in general. But there are too many people "contributing" AI generated code to open source projects
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by pibaker 6mo ago
Should Ryder be held responsible for the two very serious terror attacks carried out using Ryder trucks in the 90s?
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by pibaker 6mo ago
> This is a recipe for creating dead retiree states. This too is the beauty of federalism. You want to live in a dead retiree state? You can. You want to live in a bustling industrial district? You can too. As long as you do things throu
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by pibaker 6mo ago
Dear lord, what percentage of the Gen Z (the population mentioned in the article) do you think pay capital gain taxes???
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by pibaker 7mo ago
You don't even have to be a billionaire to make people believe whatever thing you say. In the 10s you can just say the most amateurish take on a subject imaginable and get a highly educated audience to nod along if you tell them you ma
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by pibaker 7mo ago
> Youtube charges $10 per month and doesn't produce a single video. This is like complaining that your fridge takes money to run even though it produces none of the stuffs you put in your fridge. Serving video is enormously expensiv
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by pibaker 7mo ago
> China suffers more from these conflicts than the US. You are missing the even bigger picture. Look back a few decades. The 1973 oil crisis was not just a temporary inflationary event, but the starting point of various technological and
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by pibaker 7mo ago
I appreciate the nuanced reply and yes, I do mean that you will not be able to produce as much food as you currently can nor will you be able to do so as reliably as we currently can. And while you might be able to do it in Ireland — one of
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by pibaker 7mo ago
You think you are describing the Bolsheviks, but your description is equally fitting for those who want to abolish human labor without providing people alternative ways to make a living. And no, hand waving about "UBI" doesn'
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by pibaker 7mo ago
> When Nick is not at a computer, you can find him out racing sailboats and involved with various entrepreneurial ventures. Says the man who is going to be the feudal lord in GP's scenario…
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by pibaker 7mo ago
There is not enough space for 8 billion humans to do "frontier living."
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by pibaker 7mo ago
> Solar is just as liable as petroleum infrastructure has been. Oil and gas infrastructure is full of choke points like pipelines, port facilities, storage facilities and large, concentrated refineries that supply entire country's w
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by pibaker 7mo ago
I wonder where the gulf states are going to end up. They have tried hard to build economies that aren't just fossil fuel exports. Tourism, trade, finance, luxury living for rich foreigners… but everything they have tried is contingent
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by pibaker 7mo ago
> It doesn't seem very hard to implement in your own site Depends on how technically sophisticated the author is. Many of the blogs I was thinking about were not written by people familiar with web stuffs. They are hosted on managed

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