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by bgun 25d ago
If your point is that we should regulate AI as least as strictly as industrial vehicles, I agree.
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by bgun 2mo ago
Complaints about complainers are even more exhausting.
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by bgun 2mo ago
In a forum for tech nerds, of all places.
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by bgun 2mo ago
Even if you are not the one addicted, other people’s addiction problems are still your problems. Being blind to that fact makes you both complicit in it and vulnerable to it.
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by bgun 4mo ago
I agree, but being mildly offensive is kind of the point: makes it more memorable, and clearly differentiated from “popup” which is too broad and has many valid uses in an interface. Dickovers never have a valid reason to exist.
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by bgun 5mo ago
”Smart” sex toys.
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by bgun 5mo ago
You seem to be under the impression that making services better or cheaper _for the consumer_ is the goal of any corporation. The goal is to make their own operations better and cheaper for them. They are laying off employees and adding fea
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by bgun 5mo ago
A little disappointed that the writer never attempts to address the title of the post, which is either a) why most people can't juggle a single ball, or b) how the author even knows this to be true, aside from some limited anecdata.
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by bgun 6mo ago
If you're asking whether advertising works, there is plenty of science making clear that it does, without fishing for anecdata. As to whether every company buying ads is making a good investment, mileage may vary - but the blunt answer
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by bgun 6mo ago
Say what you will about Zuck, he's made investors a trillion dollars. If they cared about his occasionally being wrong and losing a few billion here or there, it's not showing up in the stock price.
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by bgun 7mo ago
You mean cars being allowed to endanger human lives? Enshrined by law, urban infrastructure and cultural notions of independence for over a century? Why is it just now seen as a problem because robots are driving, instead of the stupid, rec
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by bgun 7mo ago
Do you have locks on your doors?
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by bgun 8mo ago
Developments without which the modern world would be unrecognizable: Materials: concrete, petroleum, steel, aluminum, cotton, plastic Music: 12 tone equal temperament Food: Cereal crops, food preservation (canning, pasteurization), fermenta
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by bgun 9mo ago
I like this. Although - can we stop naming every project with a single short, common, vaguely related English word? Does anyone name software after what it actually does anymore? It’s almost as if software authors are afraid that if their p
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by bgun 9mo ago
Isn’t “paying for what you use” the ultimate expression of personal responsibility, though? Is unlimited high-speed internet a basic human right? (I’d argue _access_ is, given its necessity in participation in modern society, but not unlimi
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by bgun 9mo ago
If a computing device can’t actually do more useful things tha another computing device, then saying it has more “computing power” is a bit silly. It’s like measuring national power by population, or saying that ants have “more power” tha
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by bgun 1y ago
tl;dr Engineer discovers that sales & marketing are real jobs. Calling it “content creation” or “influencers” are just another way of minimizing a side of business development that scares you. Thanks for the story, it was an enjoyable r
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by bgun 1y ago
If you sell access to the data then buy it back, that basically lets you get it organized, formatted, and searchable for a fraction of the cost of developing and maintaining your own internal API’s, no? All it costs is your citizens’ privac
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by bgun 2y ago
Trying to streamline the government of a massive nation the same way you would treat efficiency projects at a large corporation represents a miscalculation so inestimably ignorant that it has to be malicious. If the United States had lost a
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by bgun 2y ago
The idea that an average person, working hard, can eventually own part of a nation's land and resources, setting up their family with generational wealth, is derived from the pioneer days when land was plentiful. This was never going t
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by bgun 2y ago
Lecturing comments about what the world needs from someone who uses words like "pointless drivel" just serves to prove the poster's point. We need more writers and fewer critics.
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by bgun 2y ago
> Most people have been “just writing” on the web for over a decade This sentiment is also hard to take seriously. Who are “most people”? How would you know who is “writing on the web” and if it somehow represents a majority of humans, o
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by bgun 2y ago
Every comment from this account so far feels AI-generated. Not trying to dismiss you entirely, I understand if this is an attempt to interact across a language barrier but this kind of response is very suspect. I really hope HN doesn’t succ
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by bgun 2y ago
Republicans have learned to weaponize attention far better than Democrats. Negative attention is still attention, and where Democrats shrink from "gaffes" or criticism, Republicans just recognize that public criticism is still a f
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by bgun 2y ago
Over the last 40 years, China’s version of socialism with state-controlled markets have lifted more people out of poverty than ours. Democracy and capitalism have not benefited me in my lifetime. My taxes go to fund foreign wars and lining
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by bgun 2y ago
This feels like a shallow dismissal, and I’d love to understand what you’re trying to communicate in more depth.
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by bgun 2y ago
“Fragile” trust? That trust has been beaten out of us at every turn for an entire generation. There is nothing fragile about American exceptionalism or the dream of achievement; we’ve just been shown repeatedly that we are becoming the thir
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by bgun 2y ago
This is basic "mind palace" theory, no? Human memory is linked to navigation; the more you associate memories with navigable places, the stronger your memories will remain.
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by bgun 2y ago
This is straight-up identity theft, and likely breaks any number of consumer protection laws. I don't necessarily mind AI being used to write articles that are otherwise factual, but stealing a reporter's name to write about place
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by bgun 2y ago
You realize that video slots, financial software, HR software, legal software, educational software and MANY more all have some amount of regulatory compliance, right? Do you think social media is special somehow and should just get a free

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