cool_man_bob

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by cool_man_bob 11mo ago
> The founder is known con-artist involved in such other things as solving nuclear fusion and stealing $2.5M in a Kickstarter scam. Haha, am I still supposed to believe VC’s are competent, intelligent people who deserve their stature whe
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by cool_man_bob 11mo ago
For now, those alliances are always tentative through.
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by cool_man_bob 11mo ago
Meh, I feel we’re entering an era where only the elite will be able to realistically check authoritarians, and they will just be lesser Think more of the earlier end of medieval era, where the peasant class was mostly incapable against feud
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by cool_man_bob 11mo ago
Easy. (b) I can continue to milk a specific market while my competitors do other things. Yeah eventually that will be dried up, but by than point enough wealth has been accumulated for generations of me and my family. Plus if the worst come
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by cool_man_bob 11mo ago
The food seems to have become worse and worse too. I’m pretty sure the last several times I’ve eaten chipotle, across several states, I’ve been given hard rice and cold meat. I don’t remember it being that common a decade ago.
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by cool_man_bob 11mo ago
> The statement lacked any detail. It's just attention whoring Everything is now. That’s what you get when you build a mind rape device that explicitly rewards attention whoring an other antisocial behavior.
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by cool_man_bob 11mo ago
Libertarians and 90s republican are about as politically impotent as the democrats these days. The Hannity and Infowars fans will be written off as crazy when no longer useful.
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by cool_man_bob 11mo ago
Call them sycophants, but they know the road to power. Frightening.
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by cool_man_bob 11mo ago
> In our lifetimes, we may see fully realistic virtual reality, abundant fusion power, cognitive enhancement through brain augmentation, mind uploading, relativistic space travel, unlimited personalized entertainment, full control over o
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by cool_man_bob 11mo ago
Notice they’re building castles too. Look deeper you can even find insane sounding manifestos describing feudal style martial-loyalty oaths.
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by cool_man_bob 11mo ago
> These guys think they are prophets. You say this somewhat jokingly, but I think they 100% believe something along those lines.
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by cool_man_bob 11mo ago
> Whether you are an enterprise developer or BigTech in the US you are on average making twice the median income in your area. There is usually no reason for you not to be stacking cash. For now, expect that to be clawed back severely ov
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by cool_man_bob 11mo ago
Can we not just baker act these people at this point?
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by cool_man_bob 11mo ago
> These days, I think it's better to be in healthcare than IT. Meh, nurse pay seemed alright till I learned how much they’re worked. Maybe physicians get a pretty good deal, but the reasons for that are also why you won’t be able to
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by cool_man_bob 11mo ago
Social media has certainly made very big changes in societies, but overwhelmingly negative
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by cool_man_bob 11mo ago
2. Has me damn ready to leave the industry if I’m not forced out.
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by cool_man_bob 11mo ago
What happened in the 70s to invoke such a reaction? I’m aware of vague issues that plagued the Carter admin, but not a good overall picture.
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by cool_man_bob 11mo ago
I’ve seen Trumps buddy’s (the inhuman lawnmower) big company appear on jobs.now posting for general midlevel dev positions. These people are liars and it’s so painfully obvious. I’ve seen more people realize this since his Trump started bee
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by cool_man_bob 11mo ago
> They have loosened hate speech restrictions in some areas to curry favour with Trump but declared that Zionism is a protected category while they have banned a ton of Palestinian voices That’s crazy because the most explicit antisemiti
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by cool_man_bob 11mo ago
> Are there specific movies/TV shows that you're thinking of? Not GP, but NCIS is the big one offhand. Of course that show has simply gotten more and more ridiculous on general over the years
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by cool_man_bob 11mo ago
That’s a cute soapbox, but I fail to see what it has to do with software freedom.
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by cool_man_bob 11mo ago
> Oh, but the dictator self-saboteurially railroads their ignorant bias without consideration and thereby wastes resources that could've been saved by asking questions and listening to experts. Yeah, but then he just jumps ship to s
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by cool_man_bob 11mo ago
Get some property. Something you own as much as possible. Maybe in one of those states eliminating property tax. Everything else you will lose if the economy turns against you. Also, a bit ironically don’t trust HN advice so easily. I feel
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by cool_man_bob 11mo ago
The other day. I saw a news article on Facebook roughly along the lines of: “Celebrity A angry at people mourning the death of celebrity B” Pretty odd sounding right? Upon looking at the comments though, people pointed out that Celebrity A
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by cool_man_bob 11mo ago
Even worse, without use for them, they’re a liability. Having a boatload of now useless probably angry is a dangerous scenario. Peasant rebellion are rare, but too happen, particularly when starvation is on the table. So the play will be to
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by cool_man_bob 11mo ago
> I'm sure some of those came from people at OpenAI. Don’t underestimate the volume of useful idiots.
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by cool_man_bob 11mo ago
I see a lot of Africans where I live too, but, and I don’t mean this offensively, I’m not sure how or why they’re here. In most of my interactions with them, they’re Uber drivers. Maybe they’re relatives of someone immigrating on some visa
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by cool_man_bob 11mo ago
> Telling a reporter they are "terrible" or talking about making America great. The way he does it resonates with a lot of folks. Yeah, but I could do that. It’s pretty easy to, but I’m certain I wouldn’t be able to amass a cul
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by cool_man_bob 11mo ago
> The populist left and neo-reactionary right see identical reality. My one hope is that these people fall out of favor with the Trump admin and face his wrath. The neo feudalist fervor among these autists has been transparent for some t
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by cool_man_bob 11mo ago
> They can't take over by themselves; what is needed is for the adults to stop caring Can’t blame them with how much the current caregivers seem to be looting the nursery for their personal gain. Anyway, I wouldn’t worry too much. T

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