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by smt88 1y ago
We don't need to give up our lifestyle. We could switch to renewables, which would create jobs and save money in the process. The reasons we haven't done this are because China and India are hungrily industrializing, and the Repub
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by smt88 1y ago
No. It's easy to keep abortions secret. They're protected by privacy laws, so even HR can't ask about them. Medical issues are secret from the workplace by default . It's impossible to keep your sexuality secret if you&
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by smt88 1y ago
> Does it matter? Contemporary and local phenomena are also worth studying. Yes. How contemporary? How local? There's a reason we don't study a single person doing something on a random day. It's too contemporary and
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by smt88 1y ago
> Congratulations, you found a reason this topic deserved study. What reason is that? Because it's so specific, weak, and unimportant that I have to ask many more questions to find a way it could lead to any sort of conclusion?
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by smt88 1y ago
This is almost a parody of pointless social science. Assuming we can find a reason this topic deserved study, does it generalize to other countries? Will it be true in 10 years? Was it true 50 years ago? And if it does generalize, what is i
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by smt88 1y ago
Why would we think it did? The slogan harkens back to something like the 1950s (or at least an imaginary version of that decade) when corporations had lower margins and domestic manufacturing was a high percentage of GDP. Anyone who thought
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by smt88 1y ago
How is that anything like a Switch 2? It can't play the games, which is the entire point.
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by smt88 1y ago
Yes. You're missing decades of the arms race between hackers and developers that has resulted in a degree of complexity that is too high for someone who isn't specifically trained in infosec. Web devs use abstractions for lots of
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by smt88 1y ago
I use frontier models every day and cannot fathom how anyone could think they're sentient. They make so many obvious mistakes and every reply feels like a regurgitation rather than rational thoughts.
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by smt88 1y ago
I think AI slop factories like this are ruining the internet, polluting human knowledge, and (thankfully) reducing the usefulness of content marketing in general.
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by smt88 1y ago
So you don't understand why seatbelts were invented and your evidence that they're unnecessary is that you personally haven't gotten into a car accident. "Not downloading malware" is everyone's default stance,
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by smt88 1y ago
Trump admin has suggested using wartime powers to nationalize SpaceX. They're already using those powers for deportations. I don't know if they seriously want to do it, but whether they can do it is up to a highly sympathetic SC
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by smt88 1y ago
They're not trying to explore the "depths of the system". They're tired of the many layers of transformation and build steps in web dev. Those are kind of unavoidable if you want to package your code for multiple browser
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by smt88 1y ago
You're not looking for C. You want to try Go, Java, C#, or Kotlin.
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by smt88 1y ago
I think this project is incredibly cool and lots of people will use this, but... > significant indentation and dynamic typing are absolutely the worst parts of Python. I can understand dynamic typing for scripting purposes, no real qua
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by smt88 1y ago
HN is heavily moderated by humans. They've discussed it before. They're machine-assisted, but heavily involved day-to-day.
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by smt88 1y ago
This is nonsense because it doesn't seem to control for age, education, income, or (most importantly!) whether a woman was trying to get pregnant . Even before Covid, it has been well established that women are less likely to become p
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by smt88 1y ago
You have it backwards. FOSS projects are still currently learning from SQL Server and Oracle. That may change in the next 5-10 years as Postgres has already become the lingua franca of the DB world.
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by smt88 1y ago
SQL Server, like Oracle, is technically fantastic. They were both ahead of Postgres for a long time and many people would argue they still are. The reason people don't use them more often is that they're not free or even inexpensi
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by smt88 1y ago
This isn't true in the US, where the vast majority of people (especially middle-class or wealthier) use iMessage as their primary messaging app. And no, of course this iOS/iMessage app doesn't work on Android.
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by smt88 1y ago
How does using their Python tools help Microsoft?
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by smt88 1y ago
> And they can extrapolate to other foods that you didn't eat during the testing period. I would need to see an independent researcher confirm they can do this. As of now, I don't believe they can, and I'm not even sure
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by smt88 1y ago
A Google account does nothing to prove identity
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by smt88 1y ago
Your faith that slavery and authoritarianism can be (and will be) overthrown by citizens is not based on reality. For the vast majority of human history, most societies were slaveholding monarchies. There's very little incentive for Ch
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by smt88 1y ago
I agree the government is wasteful and could be streamlined, but that's not what Trump is doing. It's instead a revenge campaign against perceived enemies of the GOP, and they have actually increased YoY spending so far. And all
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by smt88 1y ago
It would have to be deeply painful and it would take decades. Voters would never tolerate it. But that's assuming there's even a theoretical way to do it, which there isn't. We just don't have the natural resources or th
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by smt88 1y ago
I have no idea what any of your comment has to do with manufacturing infrastructure
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China can have cheap labor forever because they're an authoritarian government that runs "re-education camps" with enormous numbers of people in them.
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by smt88 1y ago
There is no universe where any set of policies will restore manufacturing to the US that can compete with China
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by smt88 1y ago
"Number of new drugs released" doesn't feel like a good metric for pharma productivity to me. An ideal metric would be "person-years of increased healthspan per dollar spent by the consumer," and I'd wager that

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