whamlastxmas

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by whamlastxmas 1mo ago
I trust them more than someone who took a nonprofit designed to be open and had tens of millions in donations to do just that, and then turned into a for profit who's cuddled up tight with Microsoft and is so closed they're preemp
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by whamlastxmas 4mo ago
What negative impact is that? For context there are only five houses within half a mile of xAI's data center, the building for which has been there for decades, and any homes in the area have been living by the existing giant natural g
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by whamlastxmas 5mo ago
"claims that are false" is such a broad statement and applies to basically 99% of business leaders, and probably 100% of anyone who's a household name. Elon gets that reputation 50x worse than, say, Larry Ellison, but only be
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by whamlastxmas 5mo ago
It's not about "just raise prices", it's about some industries (e.g. upstart restaurants) that already have massive failure rates and have hyper competition. Even airlines don't make money on flights, and instead on
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by whamlastxmas 5mo ago
it's an appeal to net worth and the argument that you don't become the richest person on the planet by being a massive idiot that everyone likes to paint him out as. he's problematic and sucks but he's not an idiot (in b
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by whamlastxmas 5mo ago
That's a lot of alleged failure for one of the richest people in history. Maybe you should go start a car company and launch company and show us how it's done
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by whamlastxmas 5mo ago
What's the evidence? Tell us with real data why it's so stupid
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by whamlastxmas 5mo ago
I would say ruling over people without their consent is blatantly morally wrong, yes. In the same way anything non consensual is wrong
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by whamlastxmas 5mo ago
The idea they're shutting down xAI is outrageously dumb and to me just sounds like FUD before the IPO
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by whamlastxmas 5mo ago
Agreed there is a huge effort to smear as much as possible. Between parent comment being very highly voted and Wikipedia page being militantly updated and seeing these tired, wrong talking points everywhere, it's pretty obvious
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by whamlastxmas 5mo ago
The TLDR for people who don't intuitively understand why: existing shareholders are diluting their stake in the company by issuing new shares and getting money for those new shares. It's simply selling part of the company. Not pro
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by whamlastxmas 5mo ago
Firefox has years long outstanding bugs in regards to capturing cursor movements. It's really frustrating as someone who has spent years developing Babylon and three.js games and apps and uses FF as my primary browser. It basically mak
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by whamlastxmas 6mo ago
Lmao at pure facts getting downvoted
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by whamlastxmas 6mo ago
And net tax payers are funded by exploiting the labor of lower tax payers
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by whamlastxmas 6mo ago
TFA feels like a thinly veiled excuse to shit on Elon, I closed it the second I saw his name. It's not surprising he doesn't know what he's talking about
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by whamlastxmas 6mo ago
What's the evidence that Annie is rich?
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by whamlastxmas 6mo ago
I really love the way you communicated this and wish HN posters could more routinely invite curious conversations like this. Which isn't to say I'm perfect at it either
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by whamlastxmas 6mo ago
If the side you follow says the science community is political and biased, then "just look at the literature" isn't going to help. It's like telling an atheist they'd believe in Jesus if they'd just read the bi
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by whamlastxmas 6mo ago
If you bought your house for $500k 20 years ago, sold it today for a million, then bought it again tomorrow for a million, would you describe that to your friends as having just made $500k? Like yes in the most pedantic technical accounting
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by whamlastxmas 6mo ago
Since the advent of the internet, and in fact conversation any in format, people have not overly cared about facts. This isn't a new phenomenon
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by whamlastxmas 6mo ago
People have been claiming HN is turning into Reddit for over a decade to the point it's in the guidelines to not make the comparison
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by whamlastxmas 6mo ago
Socialzied medicine works well in many countries where it's 100% government controlled and socialism is much more cultural accepted. The problem isn't government involvement, it's the AMERICAN government involvement, which is
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by whamlastxmas 6mo ago
in other words: "won't somebody think of the economy!"
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by whamlastxmas 6mo ago
ah yes, the high standard of living inlcuding checks notes world-leading medical bankruptcies, collapsing life expectancy despite insane healthcare spending, crippling student debt, unaffordable housing that requires a trust fund just to
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by whamlastxmas 6mo ago
When done for profit maximizing reasons it's not any worse than capitalism itself, but then this degrades into whether capitalism is ethical which is off topic
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by whamlastxmas 6mo ago
Oracle has record revenue and has for many years in a row. Laying people off is a result of mismanagement and not because they can't afford to keep them. In an ideal world I believe we'd have human centered employment instead of p
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by whamlastxmas 6mo ago
Head of a chicken is cut off over a giant dart board, and wherever its headless body lands determines the fine
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by whamlastxmas 7mo ago
I think this sort of thinking is why we have people who continue to vote against their own self interests. The fact is we really don't have enough information to make meaningful conclusions about which party is causing more harm with i
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by whamlastxmas 7mo ago
I have a small portable fan that I place under it basically any time I use it for any development work. It gets thermally throttled pretty fast otherwise. It's definitely the wrong machine for my needs but it's what I gotta work
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by whamlastxmas 7mo ago
Of course a conversation about Peter Thiel and the Vatican has someone finding a way to mention Elon

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