CPLX

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by CPLX 3d ago
> But let’s say that’s done. How about we don't, seeing as how that's the root of the actual problem that we're facing today in September of 2026?
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by CPLX 3d ago
I'm shocked to read that Paul Graham is only 61. His writings lately sound more like late 70s in terms of age and worldview. References to record labels? How much do record labels have to do with people discovering and catching on to m
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by CPLX 4d ago
Pretty sure we have a a couple examples of what happens when a huge swath of the people in charge are using prescription amphetamines. Berlin in 1939 and Silicon Valley jn 2026 come to mind.
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by CPLX 6d ago
I read it when I was about 9 or 10, I didn't understand any of it at all but I used to pick it up and look at the pictures of the Escher drawings, which were amazing. Then, after I graduated from college, a friend of mine who was finis
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by CPLX 6d ago
That's a really interesting point. I hadn't drawn that connection before. And if anyone's reading this and hasn't read Hofstadter, you're making a mistake, it's utterly perspective-changing stuff. Well, it was
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by CPLX 6d ago
This IS inflation. That's like saying your snow report for skiing should be adjusted for weather.
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by CPLX 11d ago
There’s no need to mince words, they’ve been aggressively told that AI will eliminate nearly every job. If you need your job to feed your family then what Sam or Dario is saying is quite literally a threat to kill your children. Of course t
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by CPLX 11d ago
Memo to anyone in the tech community who doesn’t agree with this: People fucking hate you and don’t trust you and are convinced, not without reason, that you have the specific goal and intention of destroying their way of life and ability
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by CPLX 13d ago
Just for context that’s not quite accurate. There certainly is a distinction in the rule versus securities markets, which I know is what you mean. But it’s more accurate to say participants can trade on lawfully obtained material nonpublic
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by CPLX 20d ago
Of course there is. But if you don’t actually read it…
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by CPLX 20d ago
In fairness at root this has been going on for awhile. No one can keep up with the volume of machine code that modern more abstracted codebases produce. We didn't stop using syntactic programming languages we used code to check code. N
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by CPLX 21d ago
> The issue going on with Taylor Farms isn't their consolidation, it's their lack of taking responsibility. Right, and the issue with the King of England wasn't the consolidation of all power in his hands, but rather him n
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by CPLX 21d ago
> funding never made anyone smarter One of my favorite things about HN is the way that you can find someone who has produced definitive proof of the non-existence of the public education system in an offhand comment.
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by CPLX 21d ago
He would be promptly murdered by someone named Alexander the Great.
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by CPLX 26d ago
Pretty sure "causes Aspirin sales to soar" is an attempt at cleverly saying "gives people headaches"
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by CPLX 1mo ago
You’re gonna run into a little bit of resistance on principles with that argument. For context, I would have absolutely no interest in living in an HOA neighborhood and I don’t support them at all. But we do have a fairly strong precedent f
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by CPLX 1mo ago
Yes of course. Just interesting to see the divergence between the community and its host.
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by CPLX 1mo ago
Interesting to see the sentiment expressed in the comments here given the context that they are being posted on a promotional website for the private equity firm that launched Flock.
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by CPLX 1mo ago
At some point, people will figure out that this doesn't matter. The more I use AI, and especially the more I have my team deliver work and documents to me using AI, the more I realize that the skill of producing high-quality written ma
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by CPLX 1mo ago
If you’re of a certain age this article headline should immediately make you think of this website: https://despair.com/products/mistakes And if that doesn’t resonate with you then you probably missed the era when thes
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by CPLX 1mo ago
I guess it depends on what you call the new world, but for what it's worth that's not quite correct, the main transit point was Manila. In true pedantic HN fashion I am currently vacationing on the west coast of Mexico and learned
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by CPLX 1mo ago
> Meta isn't a public nuisance The premise of the article is that they are, as determined by an actual judge, as well as a jury after a full trial where evidence was presented. Replying “no they aren’t” is utterly free of substance.
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by CPLX 1mo ago
Well, of course. But I think any list of well-run countries, societies, and so on that doesn't have places like Scandinavia and Switzerland tied for first is a little bit confused.
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by CPLX 1mo ago
Yeah this was a shocking realization as I grew older. I always thought “third world” countries were trying really hard to improve their economies but just failing for various reasons. Turns out living in those places can be more than great
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by CPLX 1mo ago
> Otherwise you get the Europe situation I love when people use this as an argument. As far as I can tell “the Europe situation” is the most successful model for social and economic governance the world has produced so far.
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by CPLX 1mo ago
Money does not fix all unhappiness but lack of money guarantees it.
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by CPLX 2mo ago
This concept has annoyed me so much that I decided to give it a name and create a bunch of shortcuts in my AI tools to stop it. I call these things "sprinkles" Because I feel like AI can't stop sprinkling dumb shit all over i
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by CPLX 2mo ago
The CPI showed health care price dropping by 7% in the most completed numbers, which were June. It's fucking ridiculous and obviously so. The problem does involve methodology and so on but mostly it's just that "the map is no
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by CPLX 2mo ago
The numbers are just bullshit. The current inflation numbers tell us the price of health insurance is falling for example. When reality seems to be in conflict with logic, the next step is to question assumptions.
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by CPLX 2mo ago
The business model is making your country more innovative, which makes its citizens richer Americans used to do that too, spectacularly. Just consider the two alternatives: one is your industrial sector with this incredible new automation a

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