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by slg 6mo ago
It's a problem that our society is designed for and judged in relation to capital. Most people are paid in dollars, not shares of the S&P 500. 38% of the population doesn't even own any stocks[1]. We can't act like the
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by slg 6mo ago
One thing that stands out when reading profiles like this is the number of positive and negative descriptions of the subject that agree. For example, there seems to be little dispute that Altman will happily say something that he knows&#x2
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by slg 7mo ago
I don't know if it's just getting older or some deeper change in society, but more and more the reading of how my peers view the world depresses me. Even beyond the specific issues with prediction markets, there is a whole lot mo
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by slg 7mo ago
I still have no idea what you're attempting to convey here, but the way you answered a genuine question with what reads like an attempted insult tells me that I shouldn't care about whatever you were trying to say.
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by slg 7mo ago
Or perhaps a more appropriate analogy, its sounds like the sycophantic language of most of these LLM systems. Which makes me wonder whether these companies actually dogfood their own tools with this sort of stuff? Was this announcement wri
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by slg 7mo ago
Poe’s Law meets The Big Short’s convergence of confessing and bragging[1]. It adds up to being completely opaque in terms of veracity and intent, but either way it highlights the real problem at the center of this story. [1] - https:&#x2F
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by slg 7mo ago
Yes, but is it "intelligence" is a valid question. We have known for a long time that computers are a lot faster than humans. Get a dumb person who works fast enough and eventually they'll spit out enough good work to surpa
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by slg 7mo ago
I'll just defer to Merriam-Webster[1]: >the obvious or easy things that can be most readily done or dealt with in achieving success or making progress toward an objective So not only can it be "obvious" rather than "e
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by slg 7mo ago
I genuinely have no idea what point you’re trying to make here. Do state governments not count as governments?
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by slg 7mo ago
I think you're mistaken. That whooshing sound must have been my comment flying over your head. That was my first comment in this thread, so there was no established goal to change. My sole goal was to clarify the meaning of an idiom
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by slg 7mo ago
>There is in fact a significant distinction between the responsibilities and capabilities of each of these levels of government and you can't lump them all together. But all private businesses have the same responsibilities and capa
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by slg 7mo ago
LaGuardia, like many (most?) airports, is run by the government. This is a distinction without a difference, at least in this case.
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by slg 7mo ago
But context is important. "Low-hanging fruit" doesn't mean the solution is "easy" in a vacuum, it just means this specific aspect is the easiest and/or most obvious place to start attacking a problem. Or to sti
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by slg 7mo ago
Just yesterday I finally got tired of all the browser security warnings and decided to buy a domain name and set up SSL in my local network. I spent like 10 minutes flummoxed by why my reverse proxy couldn't get a new cert from Let&#x
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by slg 7mo ago
>I get what you're saying, but blasting music on buses has been a thing since boom-boxes were invented, it's nothing new. Yes, because people have always felt like outsiders in relation to society. My point was that this sort
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by slg 7mo ago
>is a very "traditional" way of fucking with people and expressing your broad contempt for their society. Motivated in large part as a response to society saying fuck them. I'm not defending assholes being assholes, but I
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by slg 7mo ago
>Also generally anywhere else where prices are rising and developers can’t develop and yet there are a lot of affordable housing policies. Like I said, the “it” in “it doesn’t need to be “affordable”” seemed like it was referencing the p
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by slg 7mo ago
>Affordable housing used as an incentive or way to overcome other barriers to housing (density limits, height limits, zoning etc) I'm not sure what type of affordable housing program doesn't meet this definition. They are almo
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by slg 7mo ago
> There is no "progressive" definition You seemed to disagree with that in your prior post, but I’m glad we can now agree that there is no point debating this then.
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by slg 7mo ago
Those definitions aren't in conflict. The "progressive" definition is just the applied version of the "HUD" definition scaled to local income levels.
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by slg 7mo ago
>In this case affordable housing nets out as a way to overcome policy barriers to market rate housing. So it actually makes the market freer. >Many other implementations of affordable housing further raise the barrier and thus even if
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by slg 7mo ago
I'm not going to debate what the definitions should be, I'll just say I don't think it is productive to join an existing conversation using terms with different definitions than everyone else uses. Defining all housing as in
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by slg 7mo ago
But it didn't reference anything, it stated political opinions like they were confirmed facts, provided zero evidence to support those assertions, and completely ignored the ways in which the article provides counterevidence.
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by slg 7mo ago
I'm not sure if you're intentionally changing the definition of "affordable housing" in an attempt to make the desire for it seem silly or if you genuinely don't know how the term is typically used. But what you&#x
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by slg 7mo ago
This comment is phrased as if the article is confirming these points when it either doesn't mention them or even directly refutes them. First there is no mention of either crime or rent control in the article. But more importantly, i
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by slg 7mo ago
Someone who can write out that code with that specificity should know there are countless technical and procedural ways to help prevent that sort of thing from actually making its way into consumer vehicles (or that OTA updates would be the
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by slg 7mo ago
Then don't frame the argument as "over-the-air updates are bad because of capitalism".
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by slg 7mo ago
>Typically free speech absolutism leads individuals into logical traps they find difficult to dig themselves out of. Yes, "free speech absolutists" tend to define these terms in ways to hide the true arbitrary nature of their b
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by slg 7mo ago
When was the last time you worried about someone cutting your brakes? A lot of times these hypothetical fears are disconnected from reality. Security is important, but people generally don't engage in destruction for destruction&#x27
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by slg 7mo ago
It's interesting how many complaints I see on HN that are framed as if they're complaints about a specific piece of technology when they are really complaints about capitalism. I'm all ears if you want to criticize our entir

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