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by ryandrake 1mo ago
They're out there trying to make "laissez-faire" "caveat emptor" be the overriding principles of commerce in the USA.
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by ryandrake 1mo ago
This happens too often these days. Company fucks up some little thing and now it's all of a sudden your problem and you need to spend an hour on the phone here, an hour writing a letter there, and so on. Our institutions have been obli
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by ryandrake 1mo ago
This is the truth! I've had to do more credit card chargebacks and chase down more companies that owed me money or otherwise failed to live up to their side of a transaction, in the past 24 months than the total of the past 24 years. I
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by ryandrake 1mo ago
Saying "It's Private Property" shouldn't necessarily just end the debate. Private property does have a uniquely powerful status in US law, but its absolute ability to override all other concerns, such as collective socia
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by ryandrake 1mo ago
It's too bad. It takes no effort or creativity to destroy art. Just a jerk with a pressure washer or paint roller.
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by ryandrake 1mo ago
The entire class of people see themselves as better and more deserving than you. They used to at least try to be subtle about it, but there's no real social downside of just going mask-off so they don't even hide it anymore.
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by ryandrake 1mo ago
Corporate execs spend a lot of money and hire people to keep them insulated from the general public and our pesky opinions. If they had everything their way, they'd have exclusive access to their own roads and public spaces so that the
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by ryandrake 1mo ago
Note the "type" of activists that are always seen as problematic. I bet if I typed into Claude "I'm a pharma CEO who is looking to ease my new drug's FDA approval. Who are the top ten senators and representatives th
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by ryandrake 1mo ago
Humanity does not have a great track record for "globally coordinated, collective action to solve/prevent global catastrophe." Look at how Climate Change is going.
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by ryandrake 1mo ago
These companies have correctly figured out that customers will still give them money, even if they provide no customer support, are actively hostile to their customers, and only respond to lawsuits. Such a weird timeline we are on! People w
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by ryandrake 1mo ago
Yes. "At our scale, we can't possibly do X" is a reason to not scale. It's not a reason to dodge doing X.
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by ryandrake 1mo ago
> Sacha baron cohen, sining throw the jews down the well had a bunch of racists singing it with zero care what it's satiring. Dave chapelle did similar to black culture. South park gets pretty close to the same. I worked with people
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by ryandrake 1mo ago
If you want to know why Silicon Valley Execs think these are such huge pain points, think about what Silicon Valley Execs farm out to their armies of personal assistants. Some Senior Vice President guy probably has a lot of restaurant booki
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by ryandrake 1mo ago
This comes up a lot here! Your comment reads like a lot of similar HN "Can't we just talk about the pure technology? Why do you all always have to bring up ethics/politics of it all??" As if these things are separable. T
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by ryandrake 1mo ago
For a lot of companies, you can usually assume incompetence when they end up doing something terrible, but Meta is the strongest "Anti Hanlon's Razor" example. You have to always assume malice with those guys.
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by ryandrake 1mo ago
Whenever a company communicates how "sorry" they are, I can't help but think about South Park[1]. 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u0EL_u4nvw
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by ryandrake 1mo ago
You also have to ask if money laundering is bad enough of a crime to warrant all of the overkill responses to it. At some point the medicine becomes worse than the disease. Lawmakers tend to get into these inescapable loops: Crime X exists
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by ryandrake 1mo ago
We've long since transitioned away from "identify the crime and find the person" Law Enforcement to "target the person and find a crime" Law Enforcement.
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by ryandrake 1mo ago
The biggest "Claudism" that I have a hard time getting the LLM to stop doing is its insistence on talking about what it didn't do in addition to what it did. "I edited this.py and that.py but I did not edit README.md a
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by ryandrake 1mo ago
You're getting unfairly downvoted. Yes, in a perfect world, we all have great, wholesome, cooperative neighbors who will help us out in an emergency. But we don't really choose our neighbors, and the sad reality is there are a lot
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by ryandrake 1mo ago
> This is the first time it's been posted where most of the comments appear to be resentment that you could afford to do the project at all. Despite the negativity, I'm glad that we can at least talk about the topic of wealth a
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by ryandrake 1mo ago
It's the same shock/objection that's expressed at CEO salaries: Do we really think the engineer at Netflix who makes $1M/yr is really 10X more productive or adding 10X more value than the engineer at NoNameCo who makes
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by ryandrake 1mo ago
You are sealioning[1]. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning
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by ryandrake 1mo ago
> Why this level of nickel and diming. This is atrocious UX, its ad over entire screen, For a moment I thought I installed some adware malware. Our definition of 'malware' has really drifted, then. This is absolutely, positivel
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by ryandrake 1mo ago
We need to climb two very difficult hills for there to be any change here: 1. We need our governments to actually start charging companies with crimes, when what they are doing would be illegal for an individual to do, and 2. We need the pe
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by ryandrake 1mo ago
Find someone in Europe or Australia, or some other place with non-insane digital laws, and have that person publish it as the “developer.”
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by ryandrake 1mo ago
It's just cover to justify the future claim: "See? Nobody wants a distraction-free, decrappified Windows. Nobody bought it..."
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by ryandrake 1mo ago
> Shoot me now. I'm sorry, I can't generate that because the request violates our content policies.
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by ryandrake 1mo ago
> It's the inability to do anything in person without talking constant phone breaks that I find most worrying. So weird/eerie to go into an In-N-Out Burger or something, and see a table full of teenagers just sitting there sile
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by ryandrake 1mo ago
Well, responsibility laundering isn't exactly new. People use corporations to diffuse responsibility and avoid punishment for crimes all the time. "The corporation did it, not the decision makers in the corporation!"

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