bradDonniger

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by bradDonniger 3y ago
Can we look past innate human characteristics? Isn’t that like saying we can thrive without a brain? Do we avoid acting like animals or memorize shared memes that make it ok and help us ignore it; like believing confession erases all sin? D
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by bradDonniger 3y ago
US television censors, program directors, editors “heavily censor” acceptable content. Before the internet TV was the goto black box of censored and cultivated information. No official government body does not prevent unofficial collusion.
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by bradDonniger 3y ago
Where’s the objectivity in letting well financed private power “own” natural resources. There is no being objective when the conversation starts in such an intentionally spread artificial obligation to consider. Their claims of ownership ar
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by bradDonniger 3y ago
“The guy” controls a pipeline that did not sanitize its inputs. The DB equivalent is letting a drop table statement run against prod. It’s where supply chain attacks occur. Full transparency would mean opening their code, CI/CD pipelin
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by bradDonniger 3y ago
That’s fine we’ll just expropriate the Boomers hoarded wealth as they churn. The fiat currency numbers are not a fundamental, immutable feature of reality. The obsession with loss of hallucinated values is a bit unsettling. As if entirely e
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by bradDonniger 3y ago
Cloud based AI https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35283852
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by bradDonniger 3y ago
I don’t have all the details because NDAs but I ask questions and get nods and grins from colleagues and friends at chip companies; Apple (and nVidia and Intels) silver bullet to cloud hosted, software based AI is AI chips. We’re circling b
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by bradDonniger 3y ago
They under estimate chip makers plans to embed AI in silicon. Chips intended for launch in 5-6 years are in planning stages right now. Apple, nVidia, and Intel could bring serious hurt to software companies in the next 5-10. Open source pur
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by bradDonniger 3y ago
> There is a ton of money in commercial real estate and the commercial mortgage backed securities that have been spawned. We’re not on the hook for contracts the genius CEOs sign. Let capitalism capitalize on this opportunity to fail and
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by bradDonniger 3y ago
What do we actually need to build? We have plenty of buildings to shelter people, but use them roleplay career professionals. More than enough roads and highways. Plenty of farmland. Maybe could use some hospitals. A real need to rebuild po
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by bradDonniger 3y ago
“Real distinction” is a semantic game. In fact how we label the numbers is all semantic games. We’re insulating an aging gerontocracy at the expense of the next generation. That’s ageism. We’re on the hook for their contracts, their busines
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by bradDonniger 3y ago
USSR style communism was really an authoritarian dictatorship. In capitalist west, capitalism was also about distribution of goods but literally being nice about it. Working together. The language is meaningless gibberish. The tone and emot
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by bradDonniger 3y ago
The worst thing about takes like this is it assumes none of the bankers and government officials communicate. It sets up this nice and tidy semantic bubble that ignores the messy reality of these folks socializing together. Just because the