john-h-k

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by john-h-k 1mo ago
None of it is against your will. You have no obligation to own a car or drive. If you want to use the _shared_ resource that is public roads, funded by everyone, you have to agree to certain terms (eg a license, insurance).
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by john-h-k 1mo ago
> For example, Irvine, CA has been one of the safest large cites in the US for decades. Why did they need flock? Uhh, because getting safer is still better? Why the hell does the relative ranking matter?
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by john-h-k 1mo ago
> The US Department of Labor measures wages, and adjusted for inflation the hourly wage is below what it was in 1973. This is just blatantly untrue according to your source. Hourly wages have been consistently growing since the 90s, afte
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by john-h-k 2mo ago
I personally think it’s bad when countries commit genocide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Uyghurs_in_Chin...
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by john-h-k 2mo ago
No way, I don’t buy it. If this is actually true I’ll eat my hat
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by john-h-k 2mo ago
This is meant to be biased???
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by john-h-k 2mo ago
> It's like 50% if you also count the stuff I pay for that is a direct benefit to me at retirement (as does anyone who pays into social security) It’s not though. The social security you pay is used to fund the current social securi
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by john-h-k 2mo ago
So then we prefer the scenario where the employees are just forced to manage a declining company? Or we prefer it folding?
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by john-h-k 2mo ago
> and that can be arbitrarily far removed from practical utility In which case it’s ~equivalent to not caring about utility
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by john-h-k 2mo ago
> The execs at Bending Spoon buy these SaaS services on the cheap, cut costs, jack up prices, and milk remaining users for as much cash as possible for as long as possible. If they are such stable long term SaaS businesses who aren’t los
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by john-h-k 3mo ago
I had high expectations, there’s a lot of interesting content in this topic, but this is 22 points of low-substance buzzwording. There’s no common theme, very little justification of any of the claims, and frankly very little to do with pal
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by john-h-k 3mo ago
It’s public shared land. I think surveilling this is fine
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by john-h-k 3mo ago
The hard part of GitHub is scalability
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by john-h-k 3mo ago
Yeah it’s a weird example. Perfectly possible real strawberries with all their complexity extract more dopamine!
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by john-h-k 4mo ago
This is an odd criticism. I am (A) a zoomer and (B) I wasn’t criticising the use of the word spicy? I am saying the comparison itself is bad
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by john-h-k 4mo ago
> allowing spicy autocomplete Yknow, if the spicy autocomplete can solve difficult open math problems and build medium sized complex programming projects, it’s probably not useful to analyse it as an autocomplete anymore, even if that’s
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by john-h-k 5mo ago
Branch predictor can predict these pretty damn well
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by john-h-k 7mo ago
Europe is not particularly anti surveillance
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by john-h-k 7mo ago
I can see some risks with creating a hyper intelligent mecha-Epstein
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by john-h-k 7mo ago
Because you signed up to a set of terms and conditions saying LinkedIn can use your data in this way
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by john-h-k 7mo ago
This is the exception to the rule
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by john-h-k 8mo ago
> People used to get arrested for infringing copyright, now they get arrested (or murdered, see below) for defending it Yes because stealing illegal items (if you believe AI generated imagery should be illegal) is still illegal
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by john-h-k 8mo ago
> They were never intended to provide basic safety to you in your home. Uh actually i do think police presence has a deterrent effect on crime. In fact, number of police on the street is one of the strongest measures for reducing crime!
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by john-h-k 8mo ago
The increasing fraction of “zingy catchphrase” HN comments compared to actually nuanced takes is depressing. Feels like a horrible mix of Reddit and tumblr
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by john-h-k 8mo ago
> There are many many creative, caring people that are motivated to create things or care for each other for the sake of it Very true. In a UBU world I have no doubt we’d have many exciting libraries, lots of pottery, and many books. But
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by john-h-k 8mo ago
Out of the 26 polls since the GE, 13 are pro indy 13 aren’t. But it’s worth noting that 9 of the 13 pro-indy polls were commissioned by strongly pro-Indy groups (The National, The Herald, STV News), which seems like it could have some selec
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by john-h-k 8mo ago
I don’t think Amazon have a vast conspiracy (that no one has whistleblown on!) of secretly & illegally recording audio for advertising. It would be difficult, require huge amounts of processing, probably not help very much, and be incre
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by john-h-k 8mo ago
It just seems really far fetched that thousands of Amazon employees are conspiring to commit an insanely obvious and illegal breach of privacy for data that isn’t even all that useful (hard to analyse, computationally expensive, low signal
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by john-h-k 8mo ago
If a hearing aid was genuinely sending everything it recorded back then it would run out of battery insanely fast. It would also have insanely high network usage
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by john-h-k 8mo ago
Yeah of course they do the looped listening to pick up their wake sound. But extrapolating that to “constantly recording and sending that data to Amazon” without evidence is silly. Again, you’d be very easily able to see this just from netw

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