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by xracy 2y ago
Gosh, would be real cool if they hadn't bought all those shares, and just had the cash on hand to help... I don't know... invest in engineering and making planes fly with doors on them.
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by xracy 2y ago
This feels pretty combative, and unhelpful. Which leads me to think it's bad faith. What active contributions are you making to the wellbeing of our reefs?
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by xracy 2y ago
Feels like a convenient way for you to give up your own responsibility to the planet to justify not changing your impact. I'm not saying this is you alone. We all do this, but this comment is particularly egregious for it.
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by xracy 2y ago
> it's not $400 There's just no point in having this conversation, and I'd like you to understand why from my first comment. You're not having a conversation about facts. Your sources for this information have been: 1
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by xracy 2y ago
Even if this had sources like the above article... You still haven't addressed the fact that the article explicitly calls out the hardware costing $400. So yeah, the service is free for 30 days (like the free trial only worse in some w
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by xracy 2y ago
"what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence"
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The entire conceit of capitalism is that competition is good, and that competition forces companies to better address their customers needs. If they're not doing this, then someone can come in and undercut them. But what happens in the
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by xracy 2y ago
I don't know crossfitters, but everyone I know who uses rust loves to talk about Rust . That's a different thing from the ego of gophers. Gophers believe they are superior at programming conventions because they know Go. They hav
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by xracy 2y ago
Every golang programmer I've worked with doesn't fit the bill of "small ego".
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by xracy 2y ago
I'm sorry, I know this isn't the point... And there's another entirely relevant/important conversation to be had here but... Do magnets suck? I think magnets pull, but 'suck' to me involves a vacuum. Also magne
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by xracy 2y ago
I wish we had a metric of "acceptable government waste, because we're providing a public service." When we provide public services the goal needs to be that we provide them to everyone within a reasonable cost-basis. Too ma
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by xracy 2y ago
It's weird to me that we have a concept of "this is the richest person", and we simultaneously defend the richest person as "not being that rich". Like, we're giving them cake after they've already eaten t
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by xracy 2y ago
What makes you think this is envy-driven for me? I would be taxed more according to what you're saying, and I'm still advocating for it. I recognize that the benefit to society of having better distribution of wealth far outweighs
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by xracy 2y ago
You're saying we shouldn't tax the rich because eventually it might be used to tax the less wealthy? That's a lot of "might" on something that should otherwise positively impact a lot of problems with wealth distrib
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by xracy 2y ago
Oh, that would be a success, we got any of them datums to say how this worked, and why it was/n't successful? (legitimately curious for more info)
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by xracy 2y ago
I was just looking for what "success" means to you. I don't know much about the proposition, so I don't know what it entails, or why you would define it as "successful". I don't always have the same metri
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by xracy 2y ago
What is your measurement of "success" there?
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That what's necessary? Zero emissions? OR that Carbon Capture is necessary when we reach it? Zero emissions seems necessary to stop climate change escalating. Carbon Capture seems necessary when we get to Zero emissions to attempt to r
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by xracy 2y ago
I think as long as gas companies have a place to hide in greenwashing, they're going to do it. Maybe carbon capture is a fine thing to invest in, but I can tell you that as long as it's on the table, the other options aren't
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by xracy 2y ago
As a casual non-drinker, I gotta say I don't envy this person her former life of friends who also like alcohol. I am friends with plenty of people who drink, and I can't say it's been an issue with them that I don't drin
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by xracy 2y ago
At this point, my smell test is "how much does the 'solution' smell of gas money." and if it does, I assume they don't want to do the hard work required cause it's not in their interests, and it hasn't bee
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by xracy 2y ago
I don't think this question is as obvious as everyone else clearly thinks it is. But like here's the progression: 1. How does AI currently make money? (the answer is it doesn't, but like what's the world we think ex
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by xracy 2y ago
Here's a question... Does AGI actually change anything about how any of these companies make money? What makes someone trillions of dollars from AGI?
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more than 100% determinism, most people need eventual consistency. AI isn't even like, 10% deterministic at this point. And that's kinda the point of the tools we're using.
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by xracy 2y ago
I'm sorry, do we need another way to push weight-loss drugs? The stigma of being fat is already so high that supply can barely keep up with demand for the drugs for weight-loss. It's so bad that we can't even fix the thing
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by xracy 2y ago
This feels like a ban on free speech... Given that money is speech, and this would be the gov't stepping in to chill that speech #justSayin. That's far from the worst thing wrong with this, but if I were to make a court run with t
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by xracy 2y ago
I think you're misreading this. I'm not saying "you are wrong". I'm saying there's a common trap that a lot of people in tech (and therefore a lot of people on HN fall into), where they believe that they can so
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by xracy 2y ago
I'm not asking for someone to overfit to being able to properly answer the question of "What day is it today?" I'm giving an example of a simple question that all LLMs need to be able to answer correctly. But like, peopl
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by xracy 2y ago
FYI your comments all look like Camp 1 to me. You come off very strongly evangelizing AI in this comment section.
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by xracy 2y ago
Reading the comments in this post, I definitely see Camp 1. I could have a conversation with Camp 2/3. I'm more skeptical than Camp 3, because of the large cost associated with generating this information. Like, what would AI be u

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