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by piva00 5mo ago
There was no way to trust someone saying "I have natural immunity, I had COVID" when the crisis was happening, even more given how it was used politically to fan the flames for political gain. Stop thinking about individuals, thin
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by piva00 5mo ago
Herd immunity depends on the most amount of people being vaccinated, it's a numbers game, lowered chances of contracting the disease among the vaccinated translates into dwindling chances for spread. Just look at measles, to stop sprea
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by piva00 5mo ago
Way before that, as usual we can attribute quite a lot of stupidity in corporate governance to Jack Welch. Execs really bought into Welch's schtick wholly, they went to MBA schools praising Welch's management style, read his books
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by piva00 5mo ago
The flu vaccine has saved countless elderly lives. You don't assume good intent from the US and its institutions, fine, but other countries also rolled out vaccines, are they all bought and paid by pharma companies? Is that really the
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by piva00 5mo ago
I don't live in the USA, so whatever was claimed is not universal.
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by piva00 5mo ago
It lowered the chances, and in case of getting sick it also massively lowered the chances of getting the worst side-effects, exactly like any other vaccine does. It's a shame that even highly educated populations do not understand a ba
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by piva00 5mo ago
Astroturf? I believe most of the reports here to be genuine. I'm just a paying user and when web search is debated on HN I share Kagi as a very happy customer. Astroturfing implies that Kagi is paying for people like me to praise them,
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by piva00 5mo ago
Same to me, been a Kagi subscriber for 2 years and only found the AI tool accidentally when I typed a "?" at the end of the query. It was surprising to not be annoyed by a AI feature for once, now I sporadically use it when it mak
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by piva00 5mo ago
Ah, of course, I haven't worked with non-Kanban boards in more than a decade where having a swimlane for the "Todo" items picked for next-in-line work is common, and in that lane there are no users assigned.
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by piva00 5mo ago
Why would tickets need to have a user assignment to be considered refined? It should be up to whomever picks it to work to get assigned to, not a part of the refinement.
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by piva00 5mo ago
In my experience going through the border in China is more pleasant than through the USA, never had a hiccup in China while I've been detained for hours without contact with the outside going through a transit in JFK.
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by piva00 5mo ago
> Meanwhile a researcher who is funded by private companies for technical advances, generally produces good science. They don’t usually need to jail their opponents. This is such an ideology-laden bullshit leap that it pushes you into th
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by piva00 5mo ago
You still didn't clarify: what PayPal features make you think that way? I don't personally know anyone who uses PayPal, the only times I used it was for transferring money using F&F to purchase 2nd hand music gear.
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by piva00 5mo ago
Isn't a wrapper making the ergonomics better valuable enough? In Sweden we have Swish for domestic transfers, if I could use Swish (or if Wero took it over) the same way to transfer money to my friends living in other EU countries I&#x
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by piva00 5mo ago
I don't think you understand how programming as a job works, writing code is the final output of the process but it's not the job in itself.
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by piva00 5mo ago
> Wow, it took more than a century to get to live better than middle age kings. Do you think the people that lost their means to make a good living in 1800s care that we live so much better today ? It is incredible how so many tech peopl
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by piva00 5mo ago
Shouting people with power down is the closest to an open debate you will get with them. No one with power like Schmidt will join in an open debate with you and me (well, unless you are one of the 9-figure millionaires that might be around
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by piva00 5mo ago
> Yeah, NO, it definitely does major distortions. If welfare turns from a temporary safety net only used by a few and paid by many, to a system now many rely on long term and paid only by a few, then it ends up distorting everything: the
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by piva00 5mo ago
Does German welfare really pay generous benefits if people avoid working altogether? I really don't know much about it, I'd have assumed it follows a similar model to the Swedish one: you can be on benefits while searching for a j
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by piva00 5mo ago
In my 20+ years of career it has definitely felt the most tyrannical rollout of a technology I ever experienced. Every other world-transforming technology I got in contact with was more organic: the personal computer, the internet, high-spe
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by piva00 5mo ago
Have you read the Helms-Burton Act? Read it [0] and let me know if it really allows every other country to trade with Cuba, it effectively bars any company that wants to do business with the USA from trading with Cuba. [0] https:/&#x2
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by piva00 5mo ago
I personally know two people who are doing exactly that after a mandate rolled out at their work, the measurement is "tokens spent" and since they weren't finding many cases that required a lot of tokens they simply started t
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by piva00 5mo ago
The difference is the indelitable reality behind it. You are confusing the topography of it with the substance, what's the point of something that is without substance? Without meaning? It's just fake, whenever you point to someon
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by piva00 5mo ago
The concrete difference is that the society around the person living in a UBI-society will be very different than one where there's only social welfare.
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by piva00 5mo ago
I still think you are missing entirely the point about music or any art in general. It doesn't matter how technically innovative, or how much expertise, a model has, while an AI is not a consciousness that can express itself it will be
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by piva00 5mo ago
Most people don't care about music, as most don't care about art in general. People like entertainment though. What you are describing is more akin to a form of hollow entertainment through the medium of music, a lot of pop music
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by piva00 5mo ago
Of course humans will adapt, the core issue is how we can avoid as much suffering as possible while these changes happen, that's always the point. No one wants to live a life during a transitional period in history where suffering is i
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by piva00 5mo ago
RSA is not UBI, UBI literally means Universal Basic Income, it's not for no income/low income people, it's universal. You are conflating the concept of UBI with social welfare, they are different things and it's a bit an
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by piva00 5mo ago
What's the point of listening to purely AI-generated music? I don't mean music that has AI-generated stems as part of an arrangement, where a human actually created it and used AI for bits and pieces, I don't see absolutely a
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by piva00 5mo ago
I wonder how much marketing copy has poisoned the "default" writing style of LLMs, it surely has those undertones of pitching a sale in an uncanny valley way.

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