saint_fiasco

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by saint_fiasco 4mo ago
The nerds have reason to believe that if their community accepts new people, eventually they will be excluded from their own community by the most popular newcomers. That's the whole reason they started their own exclusive community in
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by saint_fiasco 6mo ago
Learning those prompting skills was very useful for you, but in the context of schools it's a lot more difficult to make the investment worth it. Schools are slow, by the time the teachers get around to teaching the sophisticated techn
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by saint_fiasco 6mo ago
Your kids were raised on those before predatory people and unscrupulous corporations learned how to take advantage of them at scale. To protect against those, you have to make kids super-early adopters like yours, make them use tech that is
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by saint_fiasco 7mo ago
I actually didn't initially think of the parent's objection nor your rebuttal. This is why I like reading HN comments.
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by saint_fiasco 7mo ago
Isn't Democrats retaliating just the status quo for them? Democrats have been picking on the poor tech billionaires ever since the Cambridge Analytica scandal, when they were thought to be at fault for getting Trump elected.
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by saint_fiasco 7mo ago
I suppose that could be solved with a delay. Limit internet archive for articles that are less than a week old.
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by saint_fiasco 7mo ago
There was also the point about lack of granularity and follow-through. The government has the power to ruin your whole life, so it's reasonable that they have high standards of evidence to ruin your life. But if they can't secure
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by saint_fiasco 7mo ago
My bicicle got stolen a long time ago and I never recovered it. The perpetrator was never caught. From this we can conclude many things. Maybe the thief was very crafty. Maybe the local police are incompetent. Maybe everyone is trying their
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by saint_fiasco 7mo ago
Near the end of the book Winston finds out that he was watched much more thoroughly than he thought. They read his private diary and carefully put the same mote of dust on top of the cover so that Winston wouldn't notice it had been op
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by saint_fiasco 7mo ago
Sounds very hard actually. If you asked me to spend a significant fraction of Bill Gates' money I wouldn't even know how to begin. How would you do it? Do you have a way to earn his trust, a service to offer him that he values a l
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by saint_fiasco 7mo ago
Supposedly Richard Stallman's secretaries knew how to code their own Emacs macros. I don't expect any LLM to empower people as much as Emacs can, but they will definitely empower more people in total , just because LLMs are eas
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by saint_fiasco 8mo ago
Professionals are doing what I am doing, only inside companies. They make custom software that solves ultra-specific problems of that one company. I don't quite understand the obsession with shipping fancy enterprise b2b saas solutions
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by saint_fiasco 8mo ago
You won't see it because it's mostly personal software for personal computers. I've got a medical doctor handwriting decipherer, a board game simulator that takes a PDF of the rulebooks as input and an accounting/budgeti
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by saint_fiasco 9mo ago
Maduro was offered some sort of limited amnesty and safe conduit before. Pardoning a different drug dealer can be a way to show Maduro that they were serious about the offer, that they really would have gone easy on him.
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by saint_fiasco 10mo ago
What if you fail for whatever reason and don't finish college? Then you spent a bunch of time and money for essentially no benefit. College will always be worth it for people who are smart and driven and hard working. But a lot of peop
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by saint_fiasco 10mo ago
How do you know it's not still punished? You didn't find that article through Google. Maybe they are still being punished but linkedin and nyt figure that the punishment is worth it.
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by saint_fiasco 11mo ago
I sometimes share interesting AI conversations with my friends using the "share" button on the AI websites. Often the back-and-forth is more interesting than the final output anyway. I think some people turn AI conversations into
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by saint_fiasco 1y ago
I think in that sentence the fog isn't really that important, it's just an excuse to tell you about the surroundings. The speaker is probably standing near city limits. There is some sort of dock or shipyard down the river, there
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by saint_fiasco 1y ago
Have you ever accidentally clicked on a YouTube video and then had your recommended videos turn into pure garbage for a little while? It doesn't have to be a high stakes situation, sometimes small annoyances can add up
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by saint_fiasco 2y ago
Couldn't the constitutional court have acted before the election took place? Forbid that candidate from running in the first place? The reason this looks sketchy in the first place is that it happened after they saw the election result
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by saint_fiasco 2y ago
Most of the country works in the service sector. It's not like I'm some kind of out of touch elite. The ones who are most hurt by tariffs, most affected by higher prices, are the working class. Sure, the workers of the specific in
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by saint_fiasco 2y ago
I don't disagree, you can definitely build more industries with tariffs and protectionism. I just don't see the point. I'm a consumerist at heart. As long as consumers get to consume, it does not matter to me whose industry i
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by saint_fiasco 2y ago
> From a national security standpoint this can be deadly in a hot conflict. What about a cold conflict? How much do the tariffs and protectionist policies cost in the middle to long run? For example, the Jones Act costs billions per year
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by saint_fiasco 2y ago
> The subsidy is already a tit, the tariff is tat Why is someone else subsidizing the price of a thing you buy bad? The subsidy is doing you a favor by reducing your input costs, or freeing up your work and capital to produce something e
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by saint_fiasco 2y ago
Wouldn't that lead every other business to stop investing in additional infrastructure in that state ever again?
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by saint_fiasco 2y ago
You shouldn't suffer at work if you can work without suffering. This sounds like I'm being pedantic because no one would never be in favor of suffering for no benefit, I'm arguing against a strawman. But in the context of bab
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by saint_fiasco 2y ago
They should probably allow companies to keep doing what they are doing now as long as they call it "rent" instead of "buy" in their marketing materials. Normally this honesty would cost them money because their competito
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by saint_fiasco 2y ago
The short term effect of pain is that it is unpleasant. There is no need to appeal to long term effects when someone is clearly suffering right there and then.
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by saint_fiasco 2y ago
Being forced to do rote exercises sometimes makes you creative. Solve a thousand trivial multiplication problems and you will spontaneously discover lots of shortcuts, patterns, intuitions that can warn you when you make a mistake and so on
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by saint_fiasco 2y ago
That's the part I say went out of fashion. The scientific consensus used to be that a stimulus can subconsciously influence you for a while. Like if you saw an ad targeted towards old people you'd subconsciously fix your posture a

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