smithoc

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by smithoc 2mo ago
It's too bad that no immigrants work in construction to build more housing. If we could import lower cost laborers to build houses, that would greatly improve the housing affordability problem, but sadly, every time I go past a constru
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by smithoc 2mo ago
> is there any country an immigrant can move to, and better their lives as well as the locals' life/economy? The United States. > It seems the world is turning hostile to immigration in general - or maybe it is just the impr
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by smithoc 3mo ago
By that argument, why should any musician get anything? They're not paying royalties to the musicians who they listened to in the past and whose songs they trained on while they learned to play. An LLM can be a tool to make music. So i
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by smithoc 3mo ago
This is the first time I have seen refusing to pay bribes framed as a moral failing and character flaw. Perhaps it's not that he "didn't understand he was supposed to bribe" but rather that he thought that system was bad
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by smithoc 3mo ago
Robots
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by smithoc 3mo ago
You've picked a handful of consumer goods which have become cheaper due to technology and used them to construct a narrative entirely opposite of reality. It would be more accurate to say the baby boomers could "work as a grunt an
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by smithoc 3mo ago
The problem is on a thread where there is 1 AI post, people will identify 10 posts as being AI. People latch onto the word "delve" or an em-dash or the idiom of "it's not X it's Y" as being proof that something
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by smithoc 3mo ago
> No they don't know and if they did I would get fired obviously And yet, above, you're still asking where the fraud is. You clearly know you're violating the terms of your employment agreement. That's the fraud. It&#
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by smithoc 3mo ago
OP was presumably not asking literally because they thought this was the best way to find out, they were doing so rhetorically to point out that Andrew Tate is not a person of any real significance or mainstream notoriety, who has garnered
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by smithoc 3mo ago
> Using AI, I've been able to land several interviews and work 3 jobs remotely currently without much effort Working 3 jobs is almost certainly defrauding the employers, your employment agreement likely forbids this due to IP owners
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by smithoc 3mo ago
Does it matter if it was? It's 2026. LLMs are integrated into text editors the same way as spell checkers and grammar checkers. Even if people write things themselves, they likely are using LLMs to review and edit. This isn't a bo
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by smithoc 3mo ago
So you've used AI to do fraud and you're confused why people are opposed to this? You're the reason companies are pushing return to office and putting candidates through gauntlets of interviews and homework - because otherwis
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by smithoc 4mo ago
This anecdote may be true, but is certainly not representative of current life in America. Take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_St... Millions in prison, massively disproportionate t
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by smithoc 4mo ago
> would imagine that they’ve been compelled Sadly, your imagination isn't cynical enough. While the responsibility for the Texas grid failures, which led to multiple deaths and billions in damages, are diffuse across multiple peopl
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by smithoc 4mo ago
The HN title matches the submitted article title, however, it should really say "racial diversity". If removing the legacy preference results in a working-class white kid from the Midwest getting admitted instead of a upper-class
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by smithoc 5mo ago
> Particularly given the alarming stories of people being prosecuted for having miscarriages You need to delete your social media accounts and change where you're getting your news from. Nobody is "being prosecuted for having m
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by smithoc 5mo ago
I'm genuinely fascinated and confused by what's going on in this thread, as apparently British and American English speakers misunderstand each other. If I understand correctly, we've got: libraryofbabel says "maybe a li
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by smithoc 5mo ago
Important to note that "banned" here means "a school chose not to have this book in their library". It's an annoying abuse of language. "Banned Books" has historically meant people are getting arrested for
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by smithoc 5mo ago
There's a political backlash because Fox News and some Russian propaganda social media accounts told people to get angry and they did. We have mandates against leaded fuel and excessively tinted windows and for child seats. We have man
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by smithoc 5mo ago
And schools get funding from lotteries and casinos, and healthcare gets funding from alcohol and cigarette sales. A good thing funded by taxes on a bad thing is pretty common in America.
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by smithoc 6mo ago
I worry the narrative here is going off the rails. A huge part of the Epstein saga was that he had connections to everyone, everywhere across finance, academia, entertainment, non-profits, etc and that he was constantly cultivating relation
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by smithoc 6mo ago
When I was a kid the Detroit automakers bought air filters manufactured at a factory in Kenosha, Wisconsin and brake pads manufactured in Peoria, Illinois and lubricants from Fort Wayne, Indiana. And the people working in those places provi
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by smithoc 6mo ago
> Remember that Musk grew up in Apartheid South Africa And cited his opposition to apartheid as the central reason that he left the country as soon as he could, at age 17, because he didn't want to be a part of that system. There ar
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by smithoc 7mo ago
> Please correct me if I’m wrong. You are, about pretty much all of this. Being a market maker doesn't provide any special information. I'm guessing someone misunderstood something like Level II quotes ( https://www.i
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by smithoc 7mo ago
That's not fringe at all. That was a claim made by anti-drug commercials that ran on TV across the US so frequently that it was satirized by South Park in 2002. See the "Where did the idea come from" section here: https:&#x2
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by smithoc 7mo ago
This seems like a lot of different people voicing different opinions and talking past each other. Roughly, I think you're jumping into the middle of a hypothetical conversation that went like this: Person A: "It's bad that we
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by smithoc 8mo ago
It's maybe slightly less trivial to do, but still incredibly common to buy awards, recognition, press releases, positive reviews and commentary in publications. You might be shocked to find out how much the performers being written abo
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by smithoc 8mo ago
For the same people accept Tether's claims of solvency even though they refuse audits and obviously lie about ownership of various assets. For the same reason people ignore wash trading. For the same reason people continue using Sam-co
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by smithoc 9mo ago
The parent comment, and the series of messages they linked to, are such peak "terminally online" content that I suspect nothing one can write here can help. The paranoia and distrust is so intense that every statement will be seen
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by smithoc 9mo ago
An interesting secondary affect of this, is that today Wikipedia is flooded with misleading attribution in the opposite direction, from presumably well-meaning groups and individuals who are overzealous in their goal of writing the women ba

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