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True. Also, I don't want to be a Debbie Downer, but since EVs are usually around 25% heavier than ICE vehicles, they are actually harder on roads than equivalent gasoline vehicles. And it gets worse, the damage to roads scales roughly
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Ask HN: Is hardware-based digital signing the solution to deep fakes?
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I think the "who cares?" was rhetorical. I suspect the commenter you're responding to is in the same place that am - politically exhausted and, for the time being, apathetic. We didn't vote for any of this to happen. We
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by ryandvm 2y ago
As always, Republicans are their own best argument for limited federal government.
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I love seeing the anti-advertising sentiment bubbling up. Social media addiction, 24 hour political news bubbles, pharmaceutical companies spending more on ads than R&D, consumership-based lifestyles, etc. All of it is driven by adverti
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Absolutely agree. If you follow it all the way, advertising and the insatiable demand for consumer attention is the root of so many of our social problems. 24 hour network news bubbles, social media addiction, pharmaceutical companies spend
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Mmmmm. Does that mean the public NOAA feeds are going dark? https://registry.opendata.aws/noaa-nexrad/
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Not the Jack London or the Jack Johnson I was expecting.
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> Dare I say unless you wear a full face mask, change your walking gait, and just about every habit you have, there is no escape. Lol. Nobody will be able to track me as the guy crab-walking in a sumo suit wearing the Unabomber disguise.
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I wonder to what extent the use of Scala at an organization is a "red flag". No disrespect to the language. I've used it a couple times and if you're all in on FP then it's probably the way to go. But say you'r
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Never meet your heroes indeed. I have a feeling that if Einstein, Newton, Leonardo da Vinci, Churchill or really any of the great historical figures had access to Twitter, there legacies (or lack thereof) would be very different today.
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Jesus, I don't remember this in Blade Runner
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You want to solve this problem? Then promote from below. We all understand that representative democracy is the best organizational form and then we turn around and run ALL our corporations as dictatorships. It's not a mystery why - th
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The problem with that argument is that a Tesla isn't nearly as clever as a human. I have never thought a white tractor trailer disappeared as it crossed in front of me against a bright sky. I know that I should drive a little bit slowe
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I think you're ignoring that most car drivers are not versed in the tools and jargon of the air and shipping industries. It really isn't relevant what "autopilot" means in various professional contexts, what matters is w
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OP is not talking about this ad in particular being cancer. He's talking about a couple million roadside billboards, ads on busses, ads in TV services you pay for, drug companies spending more on advertising than R&D, political mac
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Certain US states are requiring the porn sites actually do rigorous age verification via scanned documents. I believe PornHub just opted to stay out of those states entirely hoping that their "reverse boycott" would cause enough o
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After being in software development for 20+ years, I have concluded that EVERY workplace is dysfunctional - it's just a matter of degree. The only time I wasn't drowning in workplace apathy was the 5 year stint I did as a freelanc
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Advertising is absolutely the root of so many of our problems. It's turned news into ragebait political bubble machines. It's why we have an epidemic of screen addiction and social isolation. They spy on us and sell our weaknesses
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A side effect of employing tens of thousands of full time people that do product development is that matter how good your product currently is, there is an entire organizational hierarchy that has to justify its existence. The result is tha
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Not to stir anything up, but my own observations have been that it is mostly men falling for the political conspiracy theories and _often, but not always,_ their wives follow them.
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I agree with GP. Consciousness isn't so hard to explain if you don't enshroud it with mysticism. Consciousness is the emergent, graduated phenomenon of an information processing system when that information processing system has a
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Forget PMs and engineers, the discussion I want to see happening is just how much more easily an LLM could replace the average CEO...
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Broken clock does what?
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LLMs at this point are just a great replacement for Stack Overflow. If what you're doing has been heavily documented and you just need a primer or some skeletal sample code, the LLMs are great. They are not creative at all, but 99% of
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The people of Earth that will have been bamboozled into spending 4 trillion dollars to set up a summer camp on the red planet.
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> When anyone can donate unlimited amounts to SuperPACs--when money is regarded as speech--then everything with a dollar value is political. That's a great point.
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Yeah, the people flagging every single one of these stories...
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He never believed we would get to Mars or that there would be a self-sustained colony. Mars has only ever been a pipe dream about bilking the world's largest governments for the fattest contract in all of history.
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I mean, SpaceX has revolutionized satellite launching, but that's about it. The rest of Phony Stark's success is mostly about being a hype man in the right place at the right time. For years he coasted on the reputation of being a

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