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by smt88 7mo ago
I suspect Hegseth and other officials will be replaced when Trump internalizes how unpopular this war is and needs a scapegoat to facilitate a pivot. He's already blaming other people in his administration for anything that's goin
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by smt88 7mo ago
No they're not. They're going to continue making enormous amounts of money from corporate IT lock-in, Azure, and AI. Windows' biggest competitor is iOS, and many people have stopped using Windows entirely and just rely on the
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by smt88 7mo ago
I've been unpleasantly surprised at how credulous journalists are when quoting AI CEOs about AI's capabilities. Jensen Huang has a multi- trillion dollar incentive to claim that AGI has been reached and is possibly the least-trus
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by smt88 7mo ago
"Treat" != "cure"
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by smt88 7mo ago
I didn't say I don't appreciate a win. I was saying that Afroman isn't a crusader for freedom or anything of the sort. We can appreciate the win without glorifying the victim of the case beyond the scope of the case.
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by smt88 7mo ago
I see more of these comments now but it's not enough that it's bothered me. I wonder why our experiences differ.
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by smt88 7mo ago
My observation of Epstein "mania" is that politicians are revealing themselves to not particularly care about children being sexualized. The push for age verification seems to stem from conservative states trying to appear to ca
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by smt88 7mo ago
"Used" seems to be a typo. Being anti-Oxford comma is baffling. It's almost zero extra effort and reduces confusion.
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by smt88 7mo ago
Text is extremely lossy and non-deterministic, so it's not often possible to find evidence of humanity in it
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by smt88 7mo ago
Whether GP is low-info or not, HN guidelines say to assume the best of someone and not to insult them. Calling people ignorant doesn't make them want to change their minds. It just makes them dislike you.
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by smt88 7mo ago
Why do you think the US couldn't take over the Strait of Hormuz (or any other territory not currently held by a nuclear military)?
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by smt88 7mo ago
This is a valid question. I agree politically with a lot of Bluesky users and still find it to be an awful space to hang out in.
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by smt88 8mo ago
Text search (without Gemini) and Gmail are much worse than they used to be. Android is less open, Chrome doesn't allow proper ad-blocking, YouTube has insane ads if you don't have Premium.
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by smt88 8mo ago
Gemini, Waymo, and Wing are very experimental
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by smt88 8mo ago
Pichai is being evaluated for his effect on stock price. His shareholders don't care if every product and service they offer has gotten worse for users in the meantime. Gemini keeping pace with Claude and ChatGPT is clearly some kind o
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by smt88 8mo ago
"Imprecise" != "insane" or "bad faith"
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by smt88 8mo ago
You think it's insane to consider social well-being? You don't want politicians to consider it at all? That makes you an extreme outlier, not me. Social well-being is quantifiable with things like: - all-cause mortality and disabi
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by smt88 8mo ago
Since you criticize Ardern's left-wing management, what countries and time periods can you point to in which a right-wing government massively improved quality of life? This would primarily mean higher wages, lower inflation, and gener
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by smt88 8mo ago
No major spying scandal has caused a notable shift in consumer behavior. I'm not sure why you think this will be different.
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by smt88 8mo ago
One wonders if some trans people might prefer people comment on their accomplishments and not fixate so much on their identity
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by smt88 8mo ago
When has the US govt and its allies been secretive about spying on non-citizens? We literally have agreements with European allies to collaborate on it.
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by smt88 8mo ago
The sticking point seems to be that Anthropic didn't want to help the Trump regime spying on its own citizens (by using Claude to sift through mass-surveillance data)
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by smt88 8mo ago
Those may be the motivations, but the outcome (so far) is still something Iranians are optimistic about
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by smt88 8mo ago
Claude is the best, but Gemini with DoD money could get as good as Claude very easily
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by smt88 8mo ago
Qwen seems fine for analysis to me, but Opus 4.6 is far better to use as a sounding board or for writing code
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by smt88 8mo ago
Besides being a bad joke, this is in terrible taste on a thread read by people with Alzheimer's patients in their lives, and it violates HN's rules that discussion should be valuable and inspire curiosity.
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by smt88 8mo ago
These particular examples are figures of speech, so "shut" in "shut up" still means the same thing it would mean in "shut the door." And "up" is used the same way as "cover up." So the issue
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by smt88 8mo ago
In the US, if you ordered a hot dog and got a sausage (or vice versa), it would be very reasonable to return the item and ask for something else. They are culturally completely different, the same way Cheerios in milk is not another cold so
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by smt88 8mo ago
These traits (violence and low IQ) are both caused by exposure to lead. This study is only novel and interesting if they controlled for that (at least using age).
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by smt88 8mo ago
There are thousands of banks in this country. They take money from the most despicable people. Trump was never in danger of being unbanked.

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