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by thunky 5mo ago
> You're being downvoted because you appear to be not asking genuinely I literally said I was asking genuinely. It's either one of two reasons imo: 1. Their son hates "ai slop" and doesn't think AI is useful. 2.
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by thunky 5mo ago
OK got it. Its perfectly fine to automate away everyone else's job...except their own and their immediate family's. Then we're supposed to be anti-tech and this site becomes a political one. That is unless you bring up wars o
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by thunky 5mo ago
Have you caught these models violating copyright in responses? Or are you saying that learning is a violation of copyright?
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by thunky 5mo ago
> College grads are angry because their job prospects are bad due to AI hysteria. It has nothing to do with how good AI is I doubt it. If there was nothing behind the hysteria then there would be nothing to be afraid of. If I was entry l
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by thunky 5mo ago
> objectively bad taste Oxymoron.
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by thunky 5mo ago
> It's more like if the grocery store sells you food, the the grocery store is hit with a bigger tax bill And you also risk pissing off the mafia boss and will suffer the consequences elsewhere. It's not a simple choice to sell
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by thunky 5mo ago
> But it's cut off from oil because other countries refuse to trade with Cuba Because of US pressure, yes? If the police prevent all grocery stores from selling you food and you starve, who do you blame: the police or the grocery st
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by thunky 5mo ago
> What we should be demanding is increased competence from our news suppliers. The news is exactly what the public demands: garbage. If we really wanted good journalism we'd have it.
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by thunky 5mo ago
> You look at the code again and there is so much code spaghetti is an understatement it’s the Chinese wall. I don't understand this. A large codebase should be a collection of small codebases, just like a large city is a collection
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by thunky 5mo ago
I'm looking forward to being able to play an endless stream of (background) music that is generated on the fly with my preferences, never to be heard again by anyone unless I hit a button to capture what I last heard. How cool would t
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by thunky 5mo ago
We're splitting hairs but imo if the government takes money from bob and gives it to joe they own the money on between those two steps. The taxing -> spending plumbing is exactly the same as it is now. And if you disagree with that
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by thunky 5mo ago
> If you invest in stocks, real estate, and sometimes other things (gold, bonds, art) then your wealth grows faster than inflation Aka put your wealth at risk or watch it disappear. And the larger point is that runaway govt spending make
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by thunky 5mo ago
If the choice is between giving the govt an portion of my net worth, a portion of my income, or nothing, I'll choose nothing. But that's not really an option is it?
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by thunky 5mo ago
Totally agree but its not the reverse of what I said, you're still talking about changing how the government spends money.
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by thunky 5mo ago
> The vast majority of people in America are already doing this, because their wealth is entirely derived from their income Derived is not the same thing. Not even close. Then why stop at 1%? Why not fork over half of your possessions to
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by thunky 5mo ago
You're framing it like the only barrier to writing wildly successful money printing software is software development skills. If that were true, all of these anti-AI greybeards who have been in the game for 30 years would all own their
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by thunky 5mo ago
> I think almost everybody would be better off if taxes were something like 1% of total assets rather than off the top of your income No thanks. Any discussion about tax reform has to start with government spending otherwise it's no
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by thunky 5mo ago
Good story but in fairness the "no" decision was usable for the next set of interns.
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by thunky 5mo ago
Exactly.
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by thunky 5mo ago
I wrote the parent post. It was a rhetorical question.
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by thunky 5mo ago
Nobody cares that you care, because you're not adding anything to the conversation.
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by thunky 5mo ago
The aricle is a marketing page under a "Winning with us" section right next to a "CEO Page" that describes a CEO pitch. I really don't think this article is very different from thousands of others like it that were
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by thunky 5mo ago
now - 29 years = 1996: Phish - Billy Breathes 1996 - 29 years = 1967: The Doors - Light My Fire
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by thunky 5mo ago
> I've found that nobody that doesn't code is at all interested in the topic. This triple-negative is hard to parse.
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by thunky 5mo ago
Do we really need this comment for every article? Who cares if AI wrote it if you like the ideas?
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by thunky 5mo ago
Yes. And all software is abandoned sooner or later (usually sooner). Acknowledging that is reality is a healthy perspective.
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by thunky 5mo ago
Not all IDEs are free. Not all LLMs are subscriptions.
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by thunky 6mo ago
> It's timeless in that it was never good to begin with True but it shows that good design doesn't matter. Also: Craigslist, Reddit, LinkedIn...the list goes on.
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by thunky 6mo ago
> You'll get a competent UI with little effort but nothing truly unique or mind-blowing. This is exactly what I want in a UI.
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by thunky 6mo ago
> People on HN are seriously delusional. Yes you sure are.

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