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by mostertoaster 1y ago
> And sure, if you can express your intent clearly in English I think it is underestimated how difficult this truly is. And this will always remain uniquely human because only The human truly knows their intent (sometimes). I’ve had the
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by mostertoaster 1y ago
I think what happens is things come from people with certain views, who seem to be part of some specific tribe, and so the presumption is they’re just spinning a thing for their own angle. This happened all the time during COVID. Facts abou
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by mostertoaster 1y ago
If a Baptist tells me I’m sinning because I smoke and drink whiskey, I don’t hate him, I just dismiss him. If Charlie Kirk said a male cannot be a woman, then the response was hate and was felt to be completely justified. The hate mongering
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by mostertoaster 1y ago
It is likely more than just coincidence that the wealth gap increased so much as soon as we went off the gold standard in the 70s. Might’ve been worth it if we all are ultimately wealthier than we would’ve been, but also easy to think it ju
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by mostertoaster 1y ago
Honestly I think UBI would be awful. And what I really mean is take the sum amount of all welfare we spend today divide by the number of citizens and give every citizen that much. Would hardly be enough still. The only people who should be
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by mostertoaster 1y ago
If we could get rid of social security, Medicaid, food stamps, and all forms of welfare, and replace them all with a UBI equally given to every citizen, the trade off might make something as inherently idiotic as UBI worth it.
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by mostertoaster 2y ago
Yeah unlikely. I don’t even care that Elon isn’t just being altruistic and is in on all this just to benefit himself. My support of what they’re doing thus far is pretty steadfast, and I just want to see more and more people fired, and more
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by mostertoaster 2y ago
Do you think maybe this is less of a big deal in the brave new world of chatGPT. I know I have zero worries about having to code in a new language or framework with the ability to get answers so quickly to my dumb questions, but maybe that
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by mostertoaster 2y ago
So no different than Biden and Obama and Bush. Oh well. At least it is enjoyable to see progressives squirm. And to gut dept of education and usaid, both very solid ideas so far.
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by mostertoaster 2y ago
So when I kept guy in the detached studio as a tenant when I bought the house, and just kept his rent what he was paying already and didn’t raise his rent over the 4 years I had the place, when I could’ve easily gotten 30% more in the marke
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by mostertoaster 2y ago
I think with LLMs we will actually see the demand for software developers who can understand code and know how to use the tools sky rocket. There will be ultimately be way more money in total going towards software developers, but average p
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by mostertoaster 2y ago
Wow this is surprisingly addictive :) Nice job whipping up something so simple, yet elegant, so fast. This is what I love about LLM tools like cursor, it makes the effort to just try and build something so low, you can just try it one night
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by mostertoaster 2y ago
Well I don’t like Trudeau so I’ve enjoyed his trolling of him as “the governor of the great state of Canada”. For the most part I don’t mind, but we will come to regret it if war actually breaks out. I think for the most part it is all supe
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by mostertoaster 2y ago
You sound like those who voted for Trump in 2020. But you might be right, but then so they may have been. Trump won because enough people were sick of the garbage they heard from the progressive left being crammed down their throats. How pe
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by mostertoaster 2y ago
> It would effectively mean a handful of billionaires would control the country. Is that not what we have already. Do you really think your vote matters? I don’t think my tenants ever thought I was greedy. And I don’t think a vast majori
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by mostertoaster 2y ago
I have a hard time expressing why I like what Trump is doing. It might just be to see those squirm who put us through Covid lockdown hell, or just someone who is so willing to do whatever openly. An example I like: they deport a bunch of Co
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by mostertoaster 2y ago
Laws they’re subject to unless the president pardons them. Mostly we pass as many laws as possible, then only enforce them when it is politically expedient. The government in passing so many laws has made the law a joke. Maybe the right win
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by mostertoaster 2y ago
Yeah I don’t get the Greenland thing. I think it is all grandstanding. But I appreciate dictator Trump. If they wanted to go to war with Denmark they would just crush them openly, rather than as they do today with countries who disagree wit
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by mostertoaster 2y ago
Eh, it’s all politics. I’m sure they are trying to win however they can, don’t sit there and be so naive to think the other side wouldn’t be perfectly happy to let illegal immigrants vote if it benefited them. I’m all for fairness. For exam
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by mostertoaster 2y ago
Oh but they have tried. And if you listen to the progressive left, if we try to make sure that remains true, then we are suppressing the vote.
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by mostertoaster 2y ago
Those billionaires didn’t choose to inflate the money supply. I have no issue with them having assets that go up in value. That just doesn’t mean the economy is doing great. The point is there is way too much spending, and this includes Tru
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by mostertoaster 2y ago
The reason Trump won was because “the economy is doing great since Joe Biden”, meant the billionaires tripled their wealth as mega corporations went from less than a trillion market cap to more than 3 trillion, while me and millions others
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by mostertoaster 2y ago
Does blocking non citizens from voting count as “suppressing voter turnout”? It’s all just politics and words, and we’ve picked our side and so we use the language that best supports it. Is someone pro-life, or are they anti women’s rights?
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by mostertoaster 2y ago
It’s all in the eye of the beholder. It appears to me that Trump is doing phenomenal, and my I didn’t like the other side vote for him, is turning into I kind of like him and would more actively support him. He seems like a strong president
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by mostertoaster 2y ago
Oh yeah totally. Our linter definitely discourages it. I still see a false equivalency in the ruby community that verbosity == complexity, that tends to make super complex abstractions and DSLs in order to make the consumption less verbose,
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by mostertoaster 2y ago
I have a love hate relationship with rails. I think rails is quite powerful and great for prototyping. But I’ve noticed lots of rails developers optimize so heavily for making things DRY, they make the most hard to debug monstrosities full
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by mostertoaster 2y ago
Yeah there was a song by silverchair(?) saying ~ “money isn’t everything, but I’d like to see you try to live without it”. When money has been tight for us in the past, that itself brings stress. Though knowing we have great community, who
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by mostertoaster 2y ago
Totally feel this. I think all people should desire to be wealthy and to keep from being impoverished, but we should not define wealth and poverty simply in terms of our monetary wealth, or lack thereof. People who have the love of family a
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by mostertoaster 2y ago
The valuable time we save in not watching bad movies gives us more time to argue on hacker news, so a good optimization.
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