gjsman-1000

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by gjsman-1000 8d ago
Well, I think both sides are the same to an uncomfortable degree. To quote Bill Maher: “Trump has renamed Lake Ontario to the Lake of America. Of course, the left knows you can’t just rename things for political gain, just ask any Latinx bi
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by gjsman-1000 8d ago
In what universe does using encryption to evade the government function as a survival strategy? Real life doesn't work that way. The government always has the $5 wrench. Or, well, the ability to just shut down your ISP.
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by gjsman-1000 8d ago
> are often misguided Dude, they're literally watching Flock Cameras go up in their neighborhood, being told they use AI, and anyone with a brain who can add 2+2 (or read Larry Ellison on "best behavior") concludes these d
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by gjsman-1000 9d ago
If a right wing party can win in Germany, that’s a sign the left wing and centrist parties completely sucked and ignored voter concerns for too long. Let’s start there.
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by gjsman-1000 11d ago
No, it’s everyone watched the More Perfect Union video, saw sludge coming out of their faucets and low decibel hums ruining sleep, and decided to fight when peasants aren’t allowed to fight. Between this and Flock Cameras, tech isn’t making
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by gjsman-1000 11d ago
“Filthy little hobbits, their moral panic about serving Sauron is wholly uncalled for.”
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by gjsman-1000 11d ago
Nah, make the cost of living unaffordable, make the homes and utilities unaffordable, pollute the water, and they’re preventing the kids from existing in the first place. It’s cleaner.
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by gjsman-1000 11d ago
“Moral panic” is just an academic jargon term for “settle down peasants.” “A backlash fuelled by misinformation and misunderstanding” is also just an academic jargon term for “my vision is superior, anyone who disagrees is out of stupidity,
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by gjsman-1000 14d ago
The original commentator works at a private equity fund, admits he has lost $1B twice, and yet any blue-collar laborer has a better grasp of the material world. The insult is earned.
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by gjsman-1000 14d ago
> So, the first 1,000 robots will only be used to build the next robot factory, which also will be used to build the next really big robot factory. When we see humanoid robots actually out in the wild for sale at retail, they are going t
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by gjsman-1000 1mo ago
No system has ever provably worked; otherwise we wouldn’t have had revolutions.
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by gjsman-1000 2mo ago
Happens. I worked at a startup that offered to triple my equity if I stayed a full four years, a special offer to me for seven months of excellent performance. Four months later, growth below projections, they laid me off 19 days before my
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by gjsman-1000 3mo ago
Sounds great. What have you done?
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by gjsman-1000 3mo ago
The golden goose is the landlords who develop and maintain housing, the withholding of feed excessive taxation.
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by gjsman-1000 3mo ago
> just never seem to have the zeal / focus / attention span / whatever to correct the problem Mainly because, bluntly, the people who have the most zeal, attention span, talent, and focus... aren't in the group.
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by gjsman-1000 3mo ago
Ever heard of the tale of the goose that laid golden eggs? Imagine progressively feeding the goose less, so as to have a greater profit margin on the golden eggs it laid. No particular percentage of feed reduction seemed too harmful, until
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by gjsman-1000 4mo ago
Okay, so if Google wins AGI first, who is to say that AGI isn’t so disruptive, the government just nationalizes Google?
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by gjsman-1000 4mo ago
This war was already declared a decade ago. By many interests. And victory followed. I think though a big part of this was YouTube replaced blogs. It's a generational thing.
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by gjsman-1000 4mo ago
... and a sign Anthropic couldn't find enough compute anywhere else, so they had to bite the bullet. Interesting.
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by gjsman-1000 4mo ago
$45 billion for a 3 year rental .
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by gjsman-1000 4mo ago
> sad dark HN loser path Assertion assertion assertion wishful thinking assertion. Show, don't tell. Show us that we're wrong and this isn't a VC black hole. The CEO of Enron as late as September 2001 could've called
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by gjsman-1000 4mo ago
But why would I spend any time mastering this skill when we have AI now? Disability software that uses both the markup and the on-screen visual for decision making is likely imminent and would render most of this no longer necessary. Claude
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by gjsman-1000 4mo ago
Not everyone in California lives in LA or has LA’s problems.
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by gjsman-1000 4mo ago
> Wonder why that isn't happening Because the US is overwhelmingly urban sprawl and is not Europe. The only way to fix this is to tear down and rebuild (which we cannot afford), or accept that public transit wait times are terribly
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by gjsman-1000 5mo ago
What? Seriously, not at all. Anti-competitive practices is when you go out of your way to use legal agreements or practices, in an illegal way (i.e. from the starting point of a monopoly), to deliberately restrict the ability to use competi
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by gjsman-1000 5mo ago
> So, in America, just because it's written in a contract does not mean it's enforceable in anyway. But the presumption, as any court will show, is that it is fully blooming enforceable. The burden of proof is on showing it isn
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by gjsman-1000 5mo ago
When you signed up, you agreed you understood the line - which is whatever Anthropic decides the line is. Legally, the line hasn't changed at all, nor has your moral position relative to Anthropic. Don't like it, cancel, but it wa
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by gjsman-1000 5mo ago
There is literally nothing close to illegal about this behavior. You read the terms of service right, which provides a long list of explicit and implicit disclaimers?
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by gjsman-1000 5mo ago
Also they ain't wrong. In what other context does OpenClaw get mentioned? "You may not use our service if you mention OpenClaw" is a harsh line but hardly illegal or forbidden any more than any other service restriction (i.e.
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by gjsman-1000 5mo ago
> have been taken advantage of by capitalism “And many programmers, they say to me, “The people who hire programmers demand this, this and this. If I don't do those things, I'll starve.” It's literally the word they use. W

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