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by slg 1y ago
We don't have to be exact or pedantic. Whatever the original purchase date for individual purchases, I guarantee they are closer to a decade ago than a year ago. EDIT: That comment was heavily expanded after I replied. It was original
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by slg 1y ago
While I agree with the message, I think honesty is important. The Nest gen 3 was released in 2015[1]. People got a 10-14 years out of these devices. Also, that posts says the thermostat will still work locally so the failure state of the
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by slg 1y ago
Here is an article that discusses why those numbers are misleading[1]. From a high level, "run rate" numbers are typically taking a monthly revenue number and multiplying it by 12 and that just isn't an accurate way to repor
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by slg 1y ago
Maybe small compared to the money raised, but it is in fact enormous compared to the money earned. Their revenue was under $1b last year and they projected themselves as likely to make $2b this year. This payout equals their average yearl
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by slg 1y ago
Yes, I have made the same argument elsewhere in this thread saying there is little reason to believe Saquon's record of successful investing is due to anything but luck (and access due to his celebrity)[1], but at the very least he doe
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by slg 1y ago
>If someone did turn $100k into $2m using crypto and options, the smartest thing they could do is to cash out and go home, as they will never get more lucky than that. And the true problem here is that this would be true if they turned $
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by slg 1y ago
Retroactive analysis like this is almost worthless because these were incredibly risky investments in the moment and would have required a prolonged commitment to them that most didn't have and/or couldn't maintain. Consider
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by slg 1y ago
Yeah, it seems like these "investments" are halfway to endorsement deals. He endorses the companies for marketing purposes and is paid in access to investments that typically aren't available to someone of his specific tier
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by slg 1y ago
>For fuck's sake, children are being firebombed in Gaza right now, and this is the imperative ethical hill you choose to die on? Nonsense like this is where I leave the conversation. You can't deny the accusations of moral gran
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by slg 1y ago
>The parent comment is putting it as nicely as it can be put. If you don't want people to pirate your music, your only path of recourse as a musician is to stop uploading digital copies of your work. There is no honor system in musi
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by slg 1y ago
Musicians are not the consumers, but it's their work being consumed and this software would have no purpose without them. And to be clear, my problem isn't that this software upset some musicians. It's that the developers hi
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by slg 1y ago
>As a musician, fuck everything about this Pretty wild to include a comment like this in the testimonials. Sure, you can disagree with the musician on philosophical terms over IP laws and many consumers will always prefer "free&quo
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by slg 1y ago
>because all legitimate opinions about Israel/Hamas are very misinformed/cherry picked Sure, there is plenty of misinformation being thrown in multiple different directions, but if you think literally "all legitimate opini
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by slg 1y ago
Once again, the existence of legal use cases does not invalidate the existence of illegal use cases. Do you genuinely believe the primary use case of this software by a majority of its users will be to download this type of legal content?
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by slg 1y ago
What a weird comment. If you surround a lie with enough truth, it makes the lie disappear?
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by slg 1y ago
You're shifting what I used “objectively untrue” to describe. Here's what I originally said, “the words are objectively untrue”. I was not describing the thought process of the creators because that is obviously unknowable to us
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by slg 1y ago
> I don't think this was your original argument. I’ll be honest, I really don’t know what argument you think I’m making or that you yourself are making. The truth here is that this software will overwhelmingly be used in an illegal
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by slg 1y ago
This is more plausible deniability talk. No one has suggested that all torrent use is illegal. But this software absolutely “facilitates” illegal use cases. A gun can be used legally, it would still be ludicrous to say that guns never “f
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by slg 1y ago
I’m sorry but it is objectively untrue that this software does not “facilitate copyright infringement, illegal streaming, or piracy in any form”. What is the purpose of this project if it is not to “facilitate” watching torrented material?
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by slg 1y ago
>SeedBox Lite is an open-source project provided for educational and personal use only. We do not endorse, promote, or facilitate copyright infringement, illegal streaming, or piracy in any form. This software is designed to be used with
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by slg 1y ago
This has become a self-fulfilling prophecy. When roughly half the political power in this country believes that government can only hurt, it makes it nearly impossible for the government to actually help.
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by slg 1y ago
I think the general argument that the media is not effectively using the attention these events draw is in direct conflict with the idea that these shootings are "predominantly media hype". Also, I quite frankly think this mindset
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by slg 1y ago
>You're using media coverage to critique my point that media coverage is overblown. That isn't what I'm doing. I pointed to an instance of a school shooting, asked you if any other shootings of that scale have occurred wi
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by slg 1y ago
Has there been some other incident of gun violence this week that resulted in 3 deaths and 17 injuries that hasn't been reported? According to Wikipedia[1] this is the largest mass shooting this year in terms of number of injuries. I
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by slg 1y ago
Roughly an hour after this comment was made, someone walked into the church at a Catholic school, killed an 8-year-old and a 10-year-old, shot 17 other people including 14 children, and then turned the gun on himself.[1] "Predominantl
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by slg 1y ago
Another great example of the HN mindset. How can you say "their safety layer clearly failed" without being able to acknowledge that they should be held responsible for that failure and that we should work to reduce the likelihood
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by slg 1y ago
Yeah, that is why we don’t have any regulations on the manufacturing and sale of stuff like guns or drugs. The only thing in the way of a 16 year old having unfettered access is personal responsibility.
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by slg 1y ago
Thank you, “we just have to accept that these systems will occasionally kill children” is a perfect example of the type of mindset I was criticizing.
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by slg 1y ago
People got so upset that LLMs wouldn’t say the n-word to prevent a hypothetical nuclear bomb from going off so we now have LLMs that actively encourage teenagers to kill themselves.
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by slg 1y ago
It says a lot about HN that a story like this has so much resistance getting any real traction here.

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