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by zztop44 2y ago
People used to have a dozen different instances of IE6 open. It was a pain to switch between them and it made your computer run slow. Firefox had tabs. And it had AdBlock. Those were things people wanted. But these days, Chrome is plenty go
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by zztop44 2y ago
Is this a joke? If so I don’t get it. You’re describing Wikileaks.
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by zztop44 2y ago
There are plenty of tools which are dangerous while still requiring a human to decide to use them in harmful ways. Remember, it’s not just bad people who do bad things. That being said, I think we actually agree that AGI doomsday fears seem
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by zztop44 2y ago
They reduce the marginal cost of producing plausible content to effectively zero. When combined with other societal and technological shifts, that makes them dangerous to a lot of things: healthy public discourse, a sense of shared reality,
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by zztop44 2y ago
Browsing one of those bloated monstrosities on a nice new MacBook with a 2gbps connection is still a lot faster and nicer than Craigslist on old Celeron at 56k.
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by zztop44 2y ago
This isn’t really saying much. In many places you need permission to paint the outside of your house (and cannot choose whichever color you want). And almost everywhere you need permission to build a house on land you own.
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by zztop44 2y ago
He interviewed Trump in 2015 (by which time he’d been spreading Sandy Hook conspiracies for years), and even now post-bankruptcy he still interviews Steve Bannon, Tucker Carlson and plenty of other fairly mainstream Republican figures. Ther
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by zztop44 2y ago
My fear is that if I want to download Skype or Teams, I’ll need to first download the Microsoft Store app, and then sign in, and then download the app I want. And the store will be slow and shitty and packed with ads. Likewise for Meta, Ado
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by zztop44 2y ago
I think if the idea of your company failing doesn’t cause you at least some stress then you probably shouldn’t be running a company?
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by zztop44 2y ago
If you’re changing your name and identity, don’t have a network, and can’t put any previous experience on your CV, I think that would absolutely qualify as a career restart today, even if you’re in the same broad industry and using many of
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by zztop44 2y ago
Civilians will still be around, and presumably killing them will still be a military objective. Edit: and not everyone will have robots.
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by zztop44 2y ago
Millions died due to their rulers in the decades before the Communist Party, too.
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by zztop44 2y ago
Very weird comment. I bought a washing machine earlier this year. From a 7 floor electronics shop. The only “paperwork” was the receipt and choosing a delivery time. I declined extended warranty. I dealt with exactly one salesperson, one ot
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by zztop44 2y ago
There must be a rule of that. If you think someone will probably make it run DOOM someday, someone already has.
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by zztop44 2y ago
I’ve definitely benefited from having practically infinite computing power be just one API call (and credit card bill) away. I remember before AWS and provisioning computing resources was way more time consuming and annoying.
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by zztop44 2y ago
The death notice is from the long standing and popular blog of かぼすママ, Kabosu’s owner. There’s a public funeral on Sunday.
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by zztop44 2y ago
Thanks heaps for coming back to clarify, that makes total sense. I just did a bit of research and it does seem like I’m drinking more water than medically recommended, although I don’t know how big the margins are either. Anyway, thanks for
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by zztop44 2y ago
You’re writing with an authoritative tone, but I’m confused by what you’re trying to say. I drink a lot of water. I keep a 2 liter bottle on my desk and refill it 2-3 times over the course of a work day. Sometimes more, sometimes less. I al
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by zztop44 2y ago
And the ad for Google “shower cams” ;)
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by zztop44 2y ago
Pretty sure China isn’t fighting in Ukraine.
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by zztop44 2y ago
I’m pretty sure kids these days do know exactly what that’s like (although they wouldn’t be downloading the music video and it wouldn’t have taken over an hour for a shitty 2.3mb file)
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by zztop44 2y ago
My peers (similar age bracket) are the same. That’s not to say there aren’t downsides to remote work; of course there are. But on balance I don’t know anyone who would willingly go back to in-office or even hybrid.
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by zztop44 2y ago
Because you’re showing a colleague how to use a simple inventory tracker that you’ve created in Google Sheets. Or how the new multilingual Figma templates work. Or how to batch rename a folder full of files using the command line. Or whatev
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by zztop44 2y ago
I think your mistake is to take “free will” to be something that exists or could exist (ie: in the same realm as physical forces). Which is, of course, just as “outside of physics” as the concept of a spirit or God. “Free will” is a cultura
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by zztop44 2y ago
But isn’t that just an argument in favor of censorship?
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by zztop44 2y ago
I think you’re both right. People’s feelings are absolutely critical to any negotiation. And people pretty reliably find a way to align their feelings with their financial interests.
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by zztop44 2y ago
Often the mentally ill drug addict you see today was the person evicted after a job loss yesterday. Homelessness hurts people.
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by zztop44 2y ago
And it’s very likely that for 90% of people their model of choice will be at the other end of the Google/Chrome search box
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by zztop44 2y ago
> Do you not see how the fact that this rose to the level of state-level mediation concedes there are non-economic factors at play? Ambassadors and diplomatic missions routinely intervene (including contacting legislators) to protect the
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by zztop44 2y ago
I don’t disagree with your core point, but branding is about a lot more than a logo. I think iPhones do sell to rich people because of branding, because iPhone’s brand basically is “the best possible phone you can get, plus it integrates se

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