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by sh34r 3y ago
Collapse now and avoid the rush
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by sh34r 3y ago
There's at least a few people on HN who hold every possible belief you can enumerate. There's Kopimists and patent trolls. There's people who believe microdosing LSD makes them more productive, that we live in a simulation, t
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by sh34r 3y ago
If Medicaid and Medicare were "socialist" in any way whatsoever, we would have Medicaid for All for a fraction of the cost. These programs are so expensive because the "healthcare" system in this country is designed to f
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by sh34r 3y ago
There is nothing socialist about the US. The workers do not own the means of production. Labor union membership is in the single digits. We have some very limited vestiges of social democracy, but social democracy is not socialism. Socialis
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by sh34r 3y ago
Inflation hurts speculative assets the most. In the last 2 years, BTC is down 50% despite inflation being at the highest level seen since the 1980s.
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by sh34r 3y ago
I think we mostly agree with each other. As I said, there’s many exceptions. I’ve mostly worked with Python and JVM languages, which probably explains why I’m less passionate about the counter-argument than you are. Ecosystem definitely mat
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by sh34r 3y ago
It’s dual use, like Metasploit. It’s hard to predict whether black hats or white hats will use it more often or not. I think your conclusion is more intuitive, but let me play devil’s advocate. LotL is too advanced for script kiddies to pul
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by sh34r 3y ago
I’d argue the cost of scaling up the grid, both economic and environmental, are too great when the problem can be resolved by raising everyone’s thermostat to 76 for a couple hours a year. Peaker plants are wildly expensive to keep in servi
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by sh34r 3y ago
Y’all know there are other search engines, right? Yandex is becoming increasingly more useful for politically incorrect content and DMCA violating content. Bing has always been the best for porn. DuckDuckGo is great for many things as well
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by sh34r 3y ago
As long as sanctions and ransomware exist, I don’t think it will ever fully die. But I don’t think the price will ever hit an ATH again without SBF, tether, and their co-conspirators pumping the price by printing stablecoins out of thin air
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by sh34r 3y ago
Like crypto, fraud is the only use case that will pan out for transformers in the end. We’ve been here before. ChatGPT isn’t functionally all that different from ELIZA from the 1960s. It’s tricking people just the same, into thinking it’s m
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by sh34r 3y ago
There are a lot of zombie companies that only exist due to bailouts and zero interest rates. Sounds like you’re at one of them. Inflation and interest rates aren’t going down any time soon. It’s all cyclical. The decadence today will eventu
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by sh34r 3y ago
Writing bad quality software is often even more expensive.
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by sh34r 3y ago
I couldn’t agree more. I could live with apathy towards documentation, but it goes beyond apathy. There is often outright hostility to anyone who “wastes time” writing documentation or doing design work. Agile grifters have absolutely ruine
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by sh34r 3y ago
With many exceptions (the left-pad debacle comes to mind), it’s generally much better to use a third party library instead of supporting your own implementation.
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by sh34r 3y ago
I’ve never met a developer with that attitude, but I’ve met too many managers with it. You’ll be even less of a fan of working for those developers, I guarantee it. That mediocre dev is a straight shooter with middle management written al
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by sh34r 3y ago
It’s gonna take another decade before the suits at F500 companies figure that out, though. You wouldn’t believe the wasteful nonsense that’s in production already…
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by sh34r 3y ago
Anyone with a passing understanding of Assembly or compilers would find that idea laughable. As for the others, it turns out not knowing what you don’t know can be very expensive.
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by sh34r 3y ago
By the time you get a fab up and running, the AI fad will be long dead.
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by sh34r 3y ago
It seems to me that Nvidia has largely abandoned the consumer market in order to chase the seemingly-bottomless demand for AI hype. While AMD is more than happy to stay in their lane, continue making record profits on their same market, and
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by sh34r 3y ago
It is beyond sad how everyone seems to just accept that college is job training now. Of course, it’s a logical response because the neoliberal university saddles students with far too much debt. 90% of what an American university does today
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by sh34r 3y ago
There is no good reason why tuition is as expensive as it is. Georgia Tech offers a $7k online MS in CS. Community college classes cost hundreds of dollars. You could study in Germany as an unsubsidized international student for a fraction
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by sh34r 3y ago
I did a bit of Googling. It’s a desalination plant on the Dead Sea. That is the Jordan River. The stretch they are building the salt wall on is barren desert land. Jericho is the nearest town, 18,000 people, 8” of rain a year, 2 miles from
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by sh34r 3y ago
I know the expression, I was just taking it literally to be humorous.
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by sh34r 3y ago
By the time the music stops, they’ll have grown too big to fail, and it’ll also likely be a sector-wide downturn, so they’ll just get another bailout from Uncle Sam. Moral hazard is endemic in Sillycon Valley.
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by sh34r 3y ago
For most things, Harbor Freight is good enough for Harry Homeowner. You’re gonna be doing a lot of crying if you buy the fanciest tools for every one-off job you run into.
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by sh34r 3y ago
A dollar bill weighs 1 gram, or 0.001 kg. Assuming it’s denominated in $100 bills, that bag weighs roughly $4.4 * 10^10 * 0.001 / $100 = 4.4 * 10^5 = 440,000 kg. No one should be allowed to have a billion dollars.
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by sh34r 3y ago
The law is not computer code. Ambiguous situations exist. Intent matters. We have judges to (usually) sort it all out in a reasonable manner. Trying to get off the hook of a contract on such a frivolous technicality was bound to end poorly
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by sh34r 3y ago
I imagine for every reporter, there’s a dozen “upstanding citizens” breaking the law immediately before their court date.
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by sh34r 3y ago
Or we could replace fines with suspension of driver privileges.

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