GaylordTuring

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by GaylordTuring 2y ago
I’ve never understood this infinite loop thinking. Why is it meaning to create new people who in turn will have to create new people to derive meaning for themselves?
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by GaylordTuring 2y ago
Can’t you say this for every activity that humans undertake? As a cleaner, you have a very clear purpose: to clean toilets so that you can make money to provide for your family. People can feel a sense of purpose for almost anything, but th
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by GaylordTuring 2y ago
Did you feel like this before having kids as well? I am vehemently against the concept of getting kids (that is, when it comes to myself; you do you) and sometimes hear people say that they reasoned the same way until they actually had kids
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by GaylordTuring 2y ago
Exactly this. I’m of the option that you have to spend at least a couple of hours in deep conversation with most people in order to even think about calling them an asshole, despite them writing what to you feels like obnoxious texts. It’s
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by GaylordTuring 2y ago
Musk has contributed towards a more sustainable future with electric cars, fueled the dream of being an interplanetary species with reusable rockets, and defended free speech in the western world via Twitter.
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by GaylordTuring 2y ago
What point does it defeat and why? I’m assuming that you’re talking about evolution here, where having your own kids rather than taking care of someone else’s have been adaptive, but that’s just like saying that the point of a large rock on
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by GaylordTuring 2y ago
I have a better solution: Just lie. Nobody is going to conduct a deep investigation. > Oh yeah, for who? Microsoft.
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by GaylordTuring 2y ago
It does? What happens if you don’t show up for a month? Or just keep it open once a week? As long as you remember to clear out the fridge every now and then, you should be fine :)
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by GaylordTuring 2y ago
When saying “it’s profitable to lay someone off”, isn’t it implied that it’s profitable in a long-term perspective? Otherwise, it would according to the definition to be profitable to lay someone of as soon as they take their first lunch br
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by GaylordTuring 2y ago
God dammit! I thought Valve had released a stationary computer. I was ready to open my wallet even before clicking the link ;(
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by GaylordTuring 4y ago
If you feel like this, you shouldn’t take a job that can’t guarantee in writing that they will keep you for X number of years. If you took a calculated risk and took the job anyway, well that’s on you.
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by GaylordTuring 4y ago
Those things are nice, but individually they each only have an expected value of maybe a couple of extra years of living time. Contrast that to curing ageing that would put that number in the hundreds or thousands.
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by GaylordTuring 4y ago
So the solution is to have the equivalent of a mass genocide in old people? I would much, much, much rather be alive in a fucked up world than dead in a nice world.
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by GaylordTuring 4y ago
Most people writing in this comment section at the time of writing didn't have all the facts. It would have been much better if they held off commenting until today when we know much, much more. That was my only request. Was that unrea
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by GaylordTuring 4y ago
That's great that it was clearified. _Now_ we can actually have a discussion about it rather than reacting based on assumptions and guesses, which was taking place when I wrote my comment. That was all that I asked for.
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by GaylordTuring 4y ago
Did I express an opition on Elon Musik? I was just urging people to wait for the facts before getting all hyped up. Is that too much to ask for? If all the news here would be posted with a one week lag or so, we would all have a much more f
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by GaylordTuring 4y ago
Everybody here seems to be jumping to conclusions immediately, which frankly seems intellectually dishonest. Take a breath, wait for a while, see if the ban stands (or if it was some technical fluke), see if Twitter/Elon Musk comes wit
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by GaylordTuring 4y ago
But you don’t know what happened in this instance. Wait for a while to see if the van stands and/or Twitter makes a statement regarding this. As of now, it just seems that everybody on HN are taking part in a collective confirmation bi
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by GaylordTuring 4y ago
Who said it was a business decision on his part? If Elon Musk just tried to make money, do you think this is the way he would behave?
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by GaylordTuring 4y ago
It might have lost short-term gamblers a lot of money, yes. But if you lose money through gambling, the only person you should blame is yourself. If you’re an investor who’s in it for the long run, I don’t see what today’s stock price has t
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by GaylordTuring 4y ago
This doesn't seem right. Are you proposing that humans would be erradicted from climate changes? How would that happen?
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by GaylordTuring 4y ago
> He failed at Full Self Driving His time plan might have failed, but that doesn’t mean that full self driving has failed. That’s like if I said: “I’m going to make 10 million dollars by the end of next week”, and then people would call
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by GaylordTuring 4y ago
That’s a really strange definition of “scam”. I would simply define a scam as something where you’re promised to receive something (a certain token, a token that is backed up by something, a promise of future work, et cetera), and then don’
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by GaylordTuring 4y ago
Yes, when you add a token manually, you’re warned that anyone can add a token and that you should exercise caution.
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by GaylordTuring 4y ago
Remember that you can be aware of something being a scam but still trade it, since you believe that the thing won’t collapse just yet. A very risky behavior of course, but it doesn’t mean that you have been scammed yourself.
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by GaylordTuring 4y ago
> Before Russia invaded Ukraine, it provided close to 40% of Europe’s gas. I’ve never understood why people say things like this when referring to the operations started in 2022. Wasn’t what they did in Crimea in 2014 an invasion?
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“I worked at Facebook when we [were] 200. [Twitter’s] layoffs are appropriate”(twitter.com)
62 points by GaylordTuring 4y ago|64 comments
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by GaylordTuring 4y ago
Why are you booing him? He’s right.
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by GaylordTuring 4y ago
I've changed the settings on my iPhone so that calls are shown like notifications like everything else. So no more taking over the whole screen.
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by GaylordTuring 4y ago
This is one of the reasons why I always let the phone hoover a couple of centimeters from my face when talking to someone. Utterly ridiculous!

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