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by rfwhyte 1y ago
The thing that really boils my blood with these generative AI services, is they are essentially creating throw away, algorithmically generated content that no one else is ever going to use (In this case music) but they expect you to subscri
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by rfwhyte 1y ago
Sounds like the new owners of this already morally and financially bankrupt company are going to go bankrupt all over again if they are trying to pull this kind of scam bait and switch on their small and shrinking user base.
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by rfwhyte 1y ago
While I'm sure lower construction costs would provide some positive benefits for society, all I see when I look at these sorts of efforts to transition to factory built modular housing is yet another massive wealth transfer from the wo
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by rfwhyte 1y ago
Yeah this reads as a total puff piece to me too. Seems to really want to paint a picture of the king as a pious, diligent, man of the people, yet it only leaves me with the impression that what was intentionally omitted is the true nature o
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by rfwhyte 1y ago
The thing you're missing here is that the automakers have spent billions upon untold billions of dollars lobbying politicians and on PR campaigns targeted at the public to convince people that literally the ONLY way American cities cou
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by rfwhyte 1y ago
And there are literally thousands of times more examples of oral histories not matching historical events. A broken clock is right twice a day, but that doesn't mean we should rely upon it for timekeeping.
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by rfwhyte 1y ago
I would argue its actually been those "People in question" who are one of the primary barriers to the acceptance of the growing body of evidence that the Americas were peopled earlier than previously thought. The issue is that the
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by rfwhyte 1y ago
I'd be a lot more into Framework if they had come out with a single other GPU option than the Radeon 7700S that's been the only GPU option available since the brands launch. The 7800M and 7900M have both been out over a year or mo
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by rfwhyte 1y ago
At the time when the fields in this article were being tilled, the Europeans were building castles, cathedrals, river spanning arched stone bridges, multi-masted sailing ships and trebuchets and massive siege engines using tools of iron and
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by rfwhyte 1y ago
No, it's a stupid, overpriced, gimmick camera designed to part fools and clout chasers from their money.
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by rfwhyte 1y ago
As someone who's long dreamed of owning a robotic camera control arm, but who doesn't have a spare $50K kicking around to buy one, I've been following the development of these kinds of projects with great interest. While this
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by rfwhyte 1y ago
The class war was won decades ago, we're only just now starting to realize it. The people at the top control literally everything, and they run the world like a gated community, with only those with the proper "Credentials" e
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by rfwhyte 1y ago
The crazy thing is the answer is quite possibly TRILLIONS.
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by rfwhyte 1y ago
Damn some of the comments here are really depressing. I'd formerly thought HN was one of the last bastions of critical thought on internet, but I guess I was wrong judging by some of these comments. Way too much regurgitation of long-s
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by rfwhyte 2y ago
100% agree. The only way to enact any meaningful change is to put the power back in the hands of the people, especially given the US's insane, borderline anti-democratic, 2 party political system. Both sides are effectively completely
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by rfwhyte 2y ago
"Abundance" is a ludicrous pipe-dream. With the ways our societies are currently structured, any additional productivity / surpluses / GDP that's created via automation, AI, or whatever the "Next big thing&quot
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by rfwhyte 2y ago
As a Canadian, my take on the debate between the Canadian vs. US health care systems is that the US system is better for the rich, whereas the Canadian system is better for everyone else. The US has world leading facilities, doctors and res
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by rfwhyte 2y ago
Personally I think the phones, social media, dopamine addiction, etc. are all symptoms, not the systemic rot at the root of things here. Young people today simply realize, either consciously, or subconsciously, that they live in a broken wo
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by rfwhyte 2y ago
Kids DO realize those concerns though. It may not be at the same conscious, rational level as an adult, but they absolutely recognize that they are living in a broken world and being forced to play a rigged game.
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by rfwhyte 2y ago
As with everything else to do with religion, it probably comes down to something to do with exerting power and control over other people, typically for the profit of the people writing down the "laws" in any given religious text.
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by rfwhyte 2y ago
And all of the scam call centers in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, etc. are run by Chinese gangsters with the tacit support of the CCP. Just like how all the scam call centers across eastern Europe and Russia are run by Russian gangsters with tie
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by rfwhyte 2y ago
Deepseek or whatever farming tech they may be developing don't amount to a drop in the bucket when it comes to their looming demographic collapse. China is projected to see its population decline by somewhere near 400 million people ov
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by rfwhyte 2y ago
Of course anyone other than "Tech" (Corporations) is better at literally anything than "Tech." "Tech" doesn't care about providing utility to it's users, only extracting as much profit from them as po
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by rfwhyte 2y ago
There's also a small Canadian company called Edison Motors that's doing some very interesting work in developing hybrid diesel-electric logging and back-country hauling trucks. They've taken a far saner approach to growth (Ie
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by rfwhyte 2y ago
Another factor worth considering is that the cost of fuel is almost certainly going to go up substantially over the next decade due to dwindling oil supplies, ever increasing fuel taxes and possible global supply-shocks, but the cost per KW
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by rfwhyte 2y ago
It's by design. Airlines, like most industries these days have decided that it's no longer "Profitable" to serve regular folks, so they are pursuing the "Whale" strategy of re-orienting their entire service off
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by rfwhyte 2y ago
This is honestly a super delightful article. It has personality and charm, and actually provides some useful information, despite said information having literally no bearing whatsoever on my life.
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by rfwhyte 2y ago
This just baseless conjecture, and even somewhat conspiracy-theory adjacent, but my best guess is one of the Irving families' companies is somehow involved here. The Irving's, if you don't know, are one of the richest familie
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by rfwhyte 2y ago
I really, really, really wanted to like Framework, but for the type of work I do with a laptop (GPU / CPU / RAM intensive video editing) I can literally get a laptop with twice the performance of a Framework laptop for half the
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by rfwhyte 2y ago
79% of CEOs either have significant holdings of commercial real estate, or have friends / family who do. None of this "RTO" nonsense has literally anything to do with productivity, creativity or whatever other nonsense CEOs a

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