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Cool app. But the actual value is attention. To replace google maps for resteraunt doscovery, you need to be big in the attention market. Unfortunately good engineering alone doesnt do that, you need marketing/product
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True. Your enemies are ontologically evil
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The moral peak of the west was siding with egypt against uk/france in the suez canal dispute. Its been downhill since then. Especially nam
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Regime just means ruling system. Western media prefers to use it as a shorthand for autocratic governments so it gotten a bad conotation, but any ruling system can be described as a regime, regardless of if you like it or not. The organizat
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Isreal did have some polarization among liberal-conservative sides recently. Protests and all that. Could be
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The evangelicals support isreal due to religious obligation. Project 2025, a christian nationalist policy advisement widely followed by the current regime, prescribes supporting isreal
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If you had to live in gaza or north korea right now, which would you choose?
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The people arent being pppressed by the bomb, but by their leaders. The odea that the US would liberate all peoples from tyranical rulers is naive. The US routinely installs and supports tyrants who allign with their geopolitical goals. Pol
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Theyve had the bomb for a while and south korea still exists and is thriving. I have seen alot of batshit insane talk from them, but no real negative consequences for any other country. So it hasnt really been a negative for anyone. I dont
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Regarding the protests in the preceding week, while the iranian people probably had valid problems with their government, its so pbvious the actual scenes we saw in the news were orchestrated to manufacture consent. Its barely hidden anymor
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It was income you dicks. Someone above crunched the numbers. Why do you hate rob reich so much your willing to make shit up and get mad at him about it?
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> In case it wasn't clear I like the delusions of subtlety
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What about iranian or russian oil? Can british and norweigian buy iranian oil in currency other than dollars?
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Solaryuan? How does that work? You dont need to buy sun. Just the initial infrastructure. Even if, in a post oil world, china refuses to let you buy the latest panels down the line, a country could just coast on its existing solar infra. Th
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Shit is about to get alot more cyberpunk than we're used to, thats for sure
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Bullied into doing surveillance? Brother a large part of the tech companies valuations are built on how well they allow the government to do surveillance if the governement wants. They arent victims being bullied, they all knew this day wou
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Nice. Hows it performing? Is it finding good listings for you?
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But do they not need a warrant to track someones movements? Alot of these tech vendors have been a way to launder data gathering to avoid neeidng to get warrants
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Your point on visibility of the value of avoiding the initial purchase makes sense, but theres something your missing. Theres a cost to maintaining and supporting the software. The cost of that wont be factored in either. It might still end
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I agree. Its similar to the dotcom bubble. Alot of those websites had real utility as well. Its just the hype created a liability in investment that wouldnt be fulfilled
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Whatsapp api integration + cronjob Thats it. Its just pets.com Edit: although as a counterpoint to my cynicism, just the intgreations and deamon-ness can be a game changer if the user experience is good. Thats the critical thing. If you can
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See your not thinking with agents yet. You need to be more like me. I have claude chew my food and wipe my ass. Saves a ton of time
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You joke but thats the accelerationists' dream
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As much as claws are
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Dont be ridiculous. He needs to make it deployable by normies and hype it up on twitter first. then he could ask for 10mil
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Out of curiosity, whay are the regulations? If you leave your kid with a friendly neighbor, what laws are you breaking? How would you get in trouble?
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You sound naive and people are mocking you, but honestly who knows. Maybe theres nothing holding this back other than AI skepticism. The proper way to find out is to get some peice of heavy machinery and try it out. Maybe not a tractor necc
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The critical part of software engineering, verifiability and correctness, is still something AI cant do properly at all. And by that i dont mean testing software against a test suite, i mean making a good and extensive test suite to build s
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The accelerationists would hate that. It limits leverage. Theyd prefer the agent just does whatever it needs to to accomplish its task without the user getting in the way
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I do see your point but i think your giving Microsoft to much credit. I wouldn't trust their commitment to their own open format. I think Onlyoffice supporting it is unfortunate, but necessary
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