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by swat535 2mo ago
I hear you, but just to pedantic.. prostitution is certainly not a long term career either.. never has been. After 35, you're not going to find work as a sex worker..
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by swat535 2mo ago
> The most egregious of these cases for me is often long tenured engineers who have lost interest in the craft, creating a dangerous combination of having enough merit to ship but not enough interest to make what they ship _good_. I wou
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by swat535 2mo ago
> Everything is opinion. A shared reality is just where opinions coincide I'm not sure I understand.. we have objective realities in the world that are certainly not "opinions". According this logic, gravity exists because
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by swat535 2mo ago
See if you can reach out to them to get their permission. C&C Community did this with Renegade X and EA not only allowed to build the game but even helped them with marketing! Worse case scenario, they say you need to take it down and i
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by swat535 2mo ago
So far about 3,000 of them, including 160 children (the 3.00 includes more children than 160 but I'm singling that out).. in this war alone. I promise you that you didn't kill 3,000+ IRGC members.
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by swat535 2mo ago
People tend to not realize how far these models have become. I remember when they would always hallucinate APIs that wasn't there or make up fields that didn't exist.. those problems are virtually solved now. So with that in mind,
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by swat535 2mo ago
> That's because they're thinking that they're still going to get paid $200k/y for typing in "Duh, Claude, make me an app, here the specs from the client, doh!" If software genuinely becomes a solved problem
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by swat535 2mo ago
Yes, so you should optimize your time to have the best quality of life NOW and never later. You can die at any time.
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by swat535 2mo ago
Denmark is already considering raising the retirement age to 70: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44088957 This is the natural consequence of declining birth rates.. it's either that or immigration right now. Encou
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by swat535 2mo ago
I don't mind people having conversations, just don't blast the volume up or put it on speaker for the whole train to hear..
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by swat535 2mo ago
Which I don’t think it’s healthy either. Any ruling party can become corrupt especially on a longer scale. So the question is what happens if you have another madman in charge? I think the bigger issue is a two party system. The checks and
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by swat535 2mo ago
I don't think it's all Americans however there is a portion of them who are not able to grasp the world outside of their borders. I think it's mainly due to poor education many receive and a very controlled media that suppres
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by swat535 2mo ago
For majority of people, including business executives it's the latter. No one cares about artisan code. Software is just a means to an end for them and not an art form. People treat their computers like any other appliance. They don&#x
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by swat535 2mo ago
> Google will be considered "the new IBM" in 20 years. They have plenty of great tech for consumers right now: Gmail, Maps, YouTube, Chrome, Android,.. You can perhaps argue that search might suffer because of AI but they'
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by swat535 2mo ago
> I am curious why is height important? Isn't there simpler explanation in terms of evolution: taller men look more intimidating and can provide better safety for their offspring? I think a lot of physical preferences (generally) ha
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by swat535 2mo ago
> you can feed more and more and more I have a meta thought.. Hypothetically what happens once there is no more data to be fed to the system? Are we expecting AI to invent its own data and reach full cognition? Currently we are feeding i
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by swat535 2mo ago
> the main role of our military is to ensure that our ideology (liberal democracy) is protected across the world. How is US defending liberal democracy? So far they've killed 3,000+ Iranians. 110k+ causalities in IRAQ and Afghanista
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by swat535 2mo ago
"Ethics" is subjective, there is no such thing as an objective ethics (unless you are religious). This is why thought experiments like the Trolley problems don't have a simple answer.. and they get even more complex with vari
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by swat535 2mo ago
I think you found a great way to never "lose" anything with this definition.
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by swat535 2mo ago
For me it's the opposite, if I do any kind of exercise before sleeping, whether it's lifting weights, doing cardio or slow walks, I'll be awake for hours due to energy. My muscles will ache but my mind remains sharp and energ
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by swat535 2mo ago
> long term maintainability Did business ever cared about this? Like ever?.. I've seen too many code bases with awful code by humans, now AI simply exacerbated the issue but this is nothing new in our field. I just don't see h
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by swat535 2mo ago
> It cannot do the job I want it to. I mean in your case, you are not able to use LLMs effectively to build features, so you should type the code by hand. However, upper management is excited about AI because it can push features quickly
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by swat535 2mo ago
Ironically, I wonder if all these AI stuff is going to spin up a new industry for "organic content" that is verified to be human produced. Then they would be selling at a higher price due to this, increasing the profits for digita
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by swat535 2mo ago
> This isn't a wealth inequality issue, it's a "you're overspending" issue. Just so that I understand your position, you think the reason a cashier at McDonald struggles is because he is overspending on his rent?
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by swat535 2mo ago
> People in that situation are not seeking investment advice Why do you think poor people often fall into get quick rich schemes? You don't think they are seeking advice?
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by swat535 2mo ago
Everyone thinks they can set boundaries with regards to drugs, until they try it and realize that they can't. I don't think anyone trying out hard drugs for the first time thinks that they will be addicted forever. In fact they th
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by swat535 2mo ago
The problem with giving financial advice to people is that many struggle to pay their rent. Telling them to invest in index funds from an ivory tower is laughably misguided of the realistic situation they live in. After they pay their rent
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by swat535 3mo ago
It's funny, because right now the top news on HN is about OpenAI's "Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science". So I suppose which is it? Is AI going to replace us all, or it's not even capable of
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by swat535 3mo ago
How are you going to flatten Iran? A country twice the size of Texas with 90M people. You would have to fire your entire nuclear arsenal and commit mass genocide. Even then, you may not be able to destroy the missile cities, many of them we
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by swat535 3mo ago
Those will usually leave a voice mail if it's important. Then you can call the place back and discuss it. If they don't bother to leave a voice mail, then it's not urgent / important.

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