tenpies

17 ms·

151.
by tenpies 4y ago
Everyone likes the censors when they are on their side.
152.
by tenpies 4y ago
> Christianity has a bad reputation now because of Trump. I don't mean you, but it is somewhat comical that the side that hates Trump and Christianity, is also the side that gladly voted in a Catholic into the highest public office.
153.
by tenpies 4y ago
Artificial general intelligence A threat to humanity Something made of meat.[1] --- [1] https://youtu.be/T6JFTmQCFHg?t=68
154.
by tenpies 4y ago
Isn't it too late for that given the exorbitant tax bill he already paid? [1] Short of Democrats passing one of those economy-destroying net wealth taxes, or a truly-absurd unrealized capital gains tax; the damage is done for Musk. Gr
155.
by tenpies 4y ago
Just to add some colour on the insurance aspect: > Mortgage default insurance protects lenders in the event a borrower defaults on their mortgage. It does not protect the borrower or a guarantor. If a borrower defaults, the insurer may o
156.
by tenpies 4y ago
> to take ownership of the pace of technological change. I'm trying to think of a time humanity has tried to do this with an emerging technology and I'm drawing a complete blank. Imagine pausing during the industrial revolution
157.
by tenpies 4y ago
I love the random Canadian flag in there, because apparently every other country's police forces' crest should be recognizable to everyone on the internet, but the Canadians ones are just too obscure.
158.
by tenpies 4y ago
> I don't think the last of those is part of any progressive agenda. At this point, "progressive" in the context of education means everything from a Montessori education, to the re-animated body of Paulo Freire teaching a
159.
by tenpies 4y ago
Everybody lies. US Inflation data is famously understated, and the number of methodology changes we've had in the last year should alarm everyone. We actually saw disinflation in healthcare insurance costs at one point last year, af
160.
by tenpies 4y ago
So do Elon's companies: https://www.engadget.com/tesla-sues-engineer-dojo-trade-secr... https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-lawsuit-supercomputer-... https://techcrunch.com/2018/
161.
by tenpies 4y ago
Just wait until you learn about governments! It's like a corporation on steroids, with its own army, and it gets to make up the rules.
162.
by tenpies 4y ago
> we have 0 idea what to do We have plenty of ideas. The most obvious one is to begin controlling the areas of the border through which these drugs are entering the country. Unfortunately that would require an admission by the current
163.
by tenpies 4y ago
Also falls perfectly within what Yuri Bezmenov (the KGB defector who explained the Soviet's plan to take down the West through ideological subversion) laid out. At around that time, you would have the first batch of fully indoctrinated
164.
by tenpies 4y ago
I agree with your first point, but realistically, is there any audit that would satisfy its critics? If the Western governments want to take you down, no amount of words on a piece of paper sprinkled with legal incantations is going to stop
165.
by tenpies 4y ago
> People are buying EVs because they're better. And absurdly subsidised[1]. And I suspect this figure doesn't include the indirect subsidies, such as exemptions from certain taxes. [1] https://www.statista.com&#x2F
166.
by tenpies 4y ago
There is something deeply ironic about: > visa for remote workers > remote > Applications can only be submitted in paper form. What a fantastic way to attract people who will work through the internet: by having them submit paperwo
167.
by tenpies 4y ago
> 1. Things meant to be preserved so future generations can have them, just as you have them now. I recommend everyone visit an estate sale at least once. You're not going to buy anything, but rather to see all the things someone v
168.
by tenpies 4y ago
Unfortunately IA lost all credibility in my eyes, when they decided that one journalist in particular gets to decide that none of their (awful) tweets should be archived[1]. I understand not allowing certain things to be archived, but the t
169.
by tenpies 4y ago
> The really fun thing is that they are reasonably sure that GPT-4 can’t do any of those things and that there’s nothing to worry about, silly. The best part is that even if we get a Skynet scenario, we'll probably have a huge numbe
170.
by tenpies 4y ago
For only $400 per decade, I will handle your Little Snitch Mini subscription. Longer licensing agreements are also available. ;)
171.
by tenpies 4y ago
> 1. The government requires banks buy their debt and hold it as reserves because it's considered the safest investment. It's not just the banks either. In most Western countries, the pension funds are highly incentivised (usu
172.
by tenpies 4y ago
Yes, I loved the direction Microsoft was going with their phones and Windows Mobile. Microsoft Continuum was insane - you would be able to plug in your phone to a USB-hub like dock with monitor and keyboard, and it would effective run a n
173.
by tenpies 4y ago
> we’ll talk about the “pre-AI” days spent online. I like the pre-social media days we spent online. When making a web site took some non-trivial effort so just having something up and hosted meant that you were either interested in the
174.
by tenpies 4y ago
You could make the case that the internet wasn't a true revolution, but rather social media and smartphones were the revolutions. The internet was just a technology that made it possible, like the semiconductor or batteries, but for mo
175.
by tenpies 4y ago
> As such, they were supported lavishly, with meals and massages, at a level not previously seen, at least not in career available to people who weren't fifth-generation Ivy grads. I think if you push further back, we did see it. G
176.
by tenpies 4y ago
> "At 13:40 p.m., EDT, on Monday, March 20, 2023, ChatGPT begins reading Ayn Rand and decides to go on strike in protest of government coercion. The last message printed to its console read 'Who is John Galt?'". My la
177.
by tenpies 4y ago
> We get history that understandably is written by the more educated from those times. I really don't know that we know what the local rando citizens thought or were thinking. One of my favourite history series was HBO's Rome b
178.
by tenpies 4y ago
> I've been saying for a while that the next big thing in streaming is Wordpress but for Streamers. One of the really interesting projects I've been tracking for a while is Destiny.gg (D.gg for short): https://github
179.
by tenpies 4y ago
> the whole economy is arguably a bubble. No, you're not suppose to notice. I mean just last week there was another "tweak" to the CPI calculation[1], but we still came in absurdly hot at 6% YoY. It's about the 4th
180.
by tenpies 4y ago
On paper, only SVB. In practice, we just saw that the US government will gladly retroactively change the rules to insure any amount of money. For all practical purposes, trillions of dollars in deposits became insured by US tax payers this

More ›