runarberg

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by runarberg 3d ago
AI is not likely to kill all humans. This is just fantasy or science fiction which for some reason (mass hysteria; or more likely malicious marketing campaign by evil AI companies) a lot of HN users seem to believe is real. It is not real.
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by runarberg 3d ago
I don‘t think Europe, Africa nor (most of) Asia is dealing with crimes committed via AI any differently then USA. I think the problem runs much deeper then USA = bad here. Europe in particular has been laxing their consumer protection for d
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by runarberg 3d ago
They do. Even if you exclude homicides and accidents (which you shouldn’t) major depression becomes much much much more deadly if you have access to a gun. Guns make violent crimes (including common stuff like robbery, domestic disputes, or
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by runarberg 3d ago
This is silly. There is close to 0% chance humans kill all humans, and there is exactly 0% chance AI kills all humans. AI is bad because of the harms it currently causes. It is highly addictive is bad for your brain, it is being given away
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by runarberg 4d ago
Sound more like the latter group likes having things made for them, ideally without paying for it.
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by runarberg 6d ago
Please, do not use LLMs to do actual statistics. They suck at doing actual statistics (like they suck at everything else). Use proven traditional statistical methods like supervised learning for this. You can use traditional (not large) lan
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by runarberg 7d ago
> Can we call the USSR as subservient to Third Reich imperialism? Yes we can, we should, and we do. People on the left (aside from actual Stalinist) do admit that this alliance was bad, kind of like how liberals admit how the British gov
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by runarberg 7d ago
As someone that hates Tailwind, I think there is actually a use case here. If you are fluent in CSS reaching for Tailwind is probably a mistake. But for better or for worse there are lots of developers who can write HTML and JavaScript (or
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by runarberg 9d ago
I am hoping you can get pretty far by self studying if your study material is made by experts and vetted by peers, and you are diligent in practicing an hour a day using a practice routine recommended by experts. Personally I am aiming towa
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by runarberg 9d ago
You are basically saying that supporting American imperialism is not exclusive to NATO. And I don‘t dispute that. I also think that history has been far too kind to France’s supposed opposition to the illegal invasion. France stood firmly i
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by runarberg 10d ago
Which parts of my “personal believes” are wrong? And maybe this mentality is getting more popular because it is true. People are tired of being fed propaganda for Western imperialism and capitalism more broadly. My last attempt to convince
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by runarberg 10d ago
This is simply false history. Every NATO member went to Afghanistan with the USA. Even Iceland despite not having a traditional army participated in the invasion. As for Iraq: UK, Poland, Spain, Portugal, and Denmark provided soldiers to pa
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by runarberg 10d ago
I am biased here, as somebody who grew up next to an American military base in Iceland and had a pro-communist upbringing and learned to hate NATO (as well as the American imperialist agenda as a whole) from an early age. I don‘t see a diff
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by runarberg 10d ago
I started learning guitar last July, and I wanted to learn music theory (and standard notation) from day 1. I am following Absolutely Understand Guitar[1] as my music theory lessons (and Hal Leonard method for notation) along side my regula
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by runarberg 14d ago
They all suck beyond any tolerable threshold. Some of them are further away from the threshold. But at this point, how far each is from the tolerable threshold is besides any point and not worth arguing over. The least of five evils is stil
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by runarberg 14d ago
There are plenty of doom-and-gloom people to go around. Even if Ed Zitron is wrong about a lot of things, the doom-and-gloom part may still be accurate. Personally I am way to the left of Ed Zitron, I actually think he isn’t doom and gloom
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by runarberg 14d ago
The center is not always the reasonable viewpoint. And sometimes the doom-and-gloom guy is correct.
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by runarberg 16d ago
Immigrants are not bad for your country, and claiming they are is racist. If your country is bad it is because of the people in charge (i.e. the rich and the powerful; i.e. politicians and billionaires). If your job sucks, you blame your bo
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by runarberg 16d ago
Iceland already has fishing fees, which is effectively a tax to use the national resource. If you introduce capitalism into the equation you are just opening the doors for the rich to exploit the workers in a systemic manner, and the worker
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by runarberg 17d ago
Note that questions about immigration tend to be quite general and ideology based as well. People are usually asked, “do you support immigration from...” but if you ask them “do you want people from ... to be disproportionately deported” I
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by runarberg 17d ago
I think this speaks volumes about how far right the Overton window has shifted in Europe, if my run-of-the-mill leftist critique of the EU sounds so novel. I actually blame Brexit for this. Before Brexit being anti-EU for anti-capitalist, a
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by runarberg 18d ago
Described by legendery meteorologist Jón Eyþórsson who funnily enough has a lyric (well just a little ferskeytla) listed on Ísmús https://ismus.is/einstaklingar/5381
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by runarberg 18d ago
My personal opinion is that trawling should be banned. Without trawlers shoveling up entire populations and destroying the ecosystem around it, a lot of these issues will solve them selves.
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by runarberg 18d ago
What I have experienced is being in an international relationship and having to have to go through the (legal) immigration process twice. First by my married spouse immigrating to Iceland, and then again by me, and Icelandic citizen moving
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by runarberg 18d ago
Sorry I must brake away from HN guidelines here: But this is an infinitely dumb comparison. I can’t even begin to fathom what kind of endless ignorance and prejudges can possess a person to speak such stupid words. A persons house is not th
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by runarberg 18d ago
Icelandic ex-fisherman here: Iceland‘s fisheries are controlled by what we call quota-kings. They are extremely rich owners of fishing quota (similar to USA’s oil barons) who are increasingly anti-social and obviously very unpopular among I
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by runarberg 18d ago
Iceland has all the worst parts of EU (the unhindered neo-liberalism and border fascism) anyway.
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by runarberg 20d ago
5 kyu in normal go here: I played a couple of games and got crushed by the AI. Groups are much harder to kill in this game, so having a large group of connected stones with zero or one eyes (what we call “dragons” in normal go) is a much be
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by runarberg 20d ago
I disagree. The winning move is to organize, and stand as workers in solidarity against the owning classes, engage in direct action (including boycotts and strikes) until the ruling class changes the rules in our favor, or better yet, aboli
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by runarberg 20d ago
Do not short it. I repeat, do not do this! Do not play the game of capitalism against expert capitalists who have spent the last few decades rigging the game more an more in their own favor. In very rare cases may be lucky but only for a sh

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