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by oska 7d ago
Sorry, my mistake then
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by oska 7d ago
> and with the unsaid implication in the OP that all religions basically teach the same thing I read the entirety of 3m4r's posts in that thread and nowhere did I see any hint of such an implication
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by oska 7d ago
As an interested reader and not participant in this discussion, thanks for taking the time. I found what you had to say above informative.
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by oska 7d ago
It's 1) the WSJ and 2) a really dubious headline I don't find it surprising or disappointing that ppl aren't bothering to go read the article because of the two factors in conjunction above
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by oska 28d ago
Yes, she's a bad writer. It's a pity because the material she is covering, the fever of Elizabethan rhetorical inventiveness, including in the written form, is so rich & interesting. She pulls out useful detail & quotes bu
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by oska 28d ago
> The (small business) owner. The small (business owner). Your second formulation doesn't work. Words in parentheses should be able to be omitted without loss of grammaticality. Instead, The small (business) owner would be a better
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by oska 29d ago
I don't like the two examples of parenthesis used in the title & subtitle of this piece, where they put wonderful and perfect in parentheses before a noun phrase. Putting adjectives in parentheses before a noun (phrase) is, yes
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by oska 1mo ago
The obvious rejoinder to this comment is don't self-post about your business on HN then, if you're going to ignore HN commentary as 'unrepresentative'
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by oska 2mo ago
You could make a case for using Windows in the 90s (and yeah, I did; the last version of Windows I used was NT in the 90s). After that your time was much better spent on learning and using Linux (downloadable for free). Visual Basic is a wh
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by oska 2mo ago
You can't resign from a position you never held or a game you never entered into
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by oska 2mo ago
Yes, I've always disliked this saying. People have agency . They can always refuse to play the game (and that is precisely what many great people chose to do).
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by oska 2mo ago
1. There is no such thing as "Artificial Intelligence" (but yes, machine learning and LLMs are real and powerful things) 2. Calling LLMs 'AI' is part of the grifting hype that has been wildly prevalent in the US corporat
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by oska 2mo ago
> windows, office, Visual Basic This is all (Microsoft) junk and so I wonder if you actually benefitted from this 'piracy'. And of course, it's well known that MS turned a blind eye to such 'piracy' in lesser dev
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by oska 2mo ago
I prefix many of my LLM chat sessions with this line > Chat rules : no sycophancy or over-agreeableness (But even with that rule it's still necessary to be discerning about the responses you get and to push back against points made,
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by oska 2mo ago
> Second, intelligence isn’t in fact a perfect commodity We have got very far from Cicero's coining of the word 'intelligentia' (from inter legere , a 'reading between' and hence discernment) when people talk
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by oska 3mo ago
I completely agree with you, and it's strange to see you downvoted on a technical forum Technology is what has always precipitated political change
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by oska 3mo ago
> yet he's worshipped in the tech community Maybe for those who are younger and who mostly know of Jobs posthumously but Jobs was a highly polarising figure through the 80s, 90s and 2000s and there were many ppl who would never buy
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by oska 3mo ago
Here was my parsing of the submission title : > With Wall Street’s help, you’re about to be forced to buy stock in SpaceX Yes, true, so why was it flagged ? > (paulkrugman.substack.com) Ah, ok, that's actually legit. Krugman is
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by oska 3mo ago
The Buddha famously thought out loud with a good buddy, while pursuing Enlightenment under the Bodhi tree
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by oska 4mo ago
Gentle suggestion for you to read the guidelines again https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by oska 4mo ago
It's my opinion that t-shirts with something printed on the front have never been and will never be cool, so I don't struggle with this choice at all
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by oska 5mo ago
Yeah, it's sad to see classic Australian brands caught up in this debasement process
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by oska 5mo ago
Pretty decent video released today by Wall Street Millennial that looks at the profitability of SpaceX (as part of looking at 'Terafab') : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSJi1oQFQzs
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by oska 5mo ago
I don't know if Southern Lebanon town names were removed or never there. In either case it seems quite odd that the southern part of Lebanon has been left so void of labelling. Perhaps the submission title could be changed just to refl
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by oska 6mo ago
This is such an excellent comment (along with SoftTalker's reply) and made me think. I've long rejected the term "intellectual property", along with the delusional/fraudulent term "artificial intelligence"
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by oska 6mo ago
> But then your comment history reveals enough about your intent. This is really poor form, and against the HN guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by oska 6mo ago
> Financial privacy is a complicated subject, could you perhaps agree that there is a use for transparancy? No, because I don't believe in income tax or capital gains tax. I do believe in government taxes but they should be made o
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by oska 6mo ago
> The Government IS the public. How can you say this (and seem to believe it)? The Government is answerable to the public and should serve the public. But conflating the government with the public is simply bizarre, to my way of thinking
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by oska 7mo ago
> asshattery in your twenties is largely irrelevant to your trustworthiness in your sixties Do people believe this? I certainly don't. How you behaved in your twenties is a good measure of the sort of person you are and will be for
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by oska 7mo ago
> because in 2024 their boss told them I am not commenting on your specific example of DEI but I want to make the general point that you are always responsible for what you do, irregardless of whether you were told to do it by your b

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