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I don't think most of these guys are interested in a Black Snake Moan situation. I know the type and they mostly are content to play video games, eat junk food, and whack off all day. They are predictably unproductive in the political
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I cannot figure out if vast multitudes of incels carrying on relationships with AI sexbots is more or less harmful than if they were just being catfished by real, but insincere person(s). Honestly this dystopia is a big letdown over the one
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I am sure Google has the resources to compete in this space. What I'm less sure about is whether Google can monetize AI in a way that doesn't cannibalize their advertising income. Who the hell wants an AI that has the personality
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Imagine your civilization develops quantum computing technology and it's for... advertising. "What is their mission? Cure cancer? Eliminate poverty? Explore the universe? No, their goal: to sell another fucking Nissan." --Sco
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Indeed. This is just sports betting on the world series of "hot potato".
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> We only have to treat them as well as we are legally obligated to They don't even do that. They only treat you as well as your state's AG is inclined to be interested in your situation.
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Let's not forget that UnitedHealth Group has spent $5,860,000 lobbying in 2024. So not only do they bankrupt and kill thousands of people per year, they also aggressively lobby to sustain their role as profiteer in this fucked up syste
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A lot of people have come to the CEO's defense saying don't blame the players, that they're just working with the incentives of the system. But I think what gets missed by that objection is it is a system that they actively c
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I bet you never get tired of being told LLMs are just statistical computational curiosities.
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Agree. Bitcoin used to make sense when it could actually be used to buy things, but at this point it's only useful for moving money for extra-legal purposes and even then, it's possibly the worst crypto to use for that because of
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Agree. I've been doing coding for 20+ years and I've gotten to the point where I'm pretty unmotivated about my work on a good day. I've tried managing teams and it wasn't for me, so I went back to being an IC. I day
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I think growing up isn't when you stop feeling like you're 19, it's the specific point in everybody's life when you realize that nobody else is "more grownup" than you. That you too could be a contributor to th
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Can someone explain to me how it is that we accept password managers as viable solutions from a security perspective? Like, all it would take is a bad actor inside 1Password to upload a compromised version of the browser extension that tran
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> If I didn't only have 30-40ish productive years to achieve whatever I will in this life it would be much easier to donate money or time to charitable pursuits. Spoiler: The haves are not going to get any more generous when they&#x
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It's not coming very soon because those populations are going to completely skip the phase where every household has 2 or 3 fossil fuel vehicles.
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Oh, well if Agile is just a vibe then count me in.
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Agile is like communism - it sounds like a great idea. Except it never seems to work anywhere, and everywhere that it turns into a train wreck consisting of 45 minute daily stand-ups and 3 hour meetings arguing about T-shirt sizes or whethe
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MAD also assumes a level of rationality that I am starting to doubt exists in many world leaders...
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Honestly, that sounds like amazing work. I wish I could afford to get out of enterprise software engineering and just do academic software development like that.
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Bird flu has the opportunity to do the funniest thing possible to the second Trump term...
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I worked on a government software contractor that ended up growing from 10 people to 300 people in about 8 years and sold to Booz Allen Hamilton for around $50 million. You absolutely nailed it. Sadly I didn't get much of a payday out
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What's `uv`? Oh, another Python package manager. Is it a new lunar cycle already? Not to shit on anyone's hard work, but how is Python the only popular language whose package management situation is always actively getting more co
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I would say the latter. For software dev questions, my Google searches and Stack Overflow visits have fallen off a cliff since I started paying for ChatGPT. Ironically, I probably would have paid the same amount to Google for ad-free, old-s
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If the metric is COINCIDENT with the goal, then it's not a problem. You can't get better at winning races without improving your race time (well... you can degrade everyone else's times I suppose). But if the metric is a PROX
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I love the idea that Elon Musk, the greatest beneficiary of federal largess in the 21st century, is going to trim the budget. Redirect it maybe...
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"I never thought leopards would eat MY face"
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Fascinating, the more distractions Musk has, the more impressive SpaceX does. Just imagine what he could do if he were the CEO of a hundred companies!
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I don't mind an 80 or 100 character limit on code, but it boggles my mind that we're still inserting line breaks in comment blocks. Like, if you can't figure out how to get your editor to line-wrap comments then you're i
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Good because there is no way I'm emersing myself in the Apple ecosystem just to watch a few shows. I'm glad this attempt at lock-in bit them in the ass.
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> I was searching for an apolitical, more progressive, and intellectual space This is a concept I struggle with. HN tries to be culture and politically agnostic, but culture and politics drive everything . I think it's intellectual

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