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by stackbutterflow 9d ago
That's not even about tech news. I couldn't tell you if Coca cola is part of a bigger group. Show me any brand in a supermarket and I couldn't tell you who owns them. When put in these terms it shows it's perfectly norma
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by stackbutterflow 9d ago
I didn't know who Shingy was. He looks like Jensen Huang's subconscious.
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by stackbutterflow 14d ago
Humans are not prompted.
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by stackbutterflow 19d ago
Exactly. Whether hn is a social platform is a hot topic for some, but in terms of addictiveness it's on the same level as reddit. And there's no algorithm and sub categories. But every day there's basically the same type of t
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by stackbutterflow 19d ago
I made the same observation recently. I think people under 25 probably don't even know how absolutely uncool it was to tell people you stayed at home in front of a computer on weekends or after school. Absolute pariah behavior on the s
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by stackbutterflow 19d ago
It's all about balance. Learning about various stuff from well written articles and Wikipedia for one hour is good. Doing the same thing for the whole weekend isn't. Even reading books all the time to the detriment of other activi
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by stackbutterflow 19d ago
Better five guilty people free than one innocent in prison. I'd like a national poll on this principle. My guess is a vast majority would disagree with it.
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by stackbutterflow 21d ago
I wonder if there are Americans on hn who already self censor their criticism of the Trump regime because they're scared of reprisals.
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by stackbutterflow 21d ago
I have another question I've always wanted to ask. How do you spell words if you can't picture them in your mind? Have you memorized that "pyramid" is spelled p-y-r-a-m-i-d and that for every word? How does it work for C
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by stackbutterflow 21d ago
> The Book of Judith (probably written between 150 and 100 B.C.) contains an early description of someone dying of heatstroke. I can't take the article seriously after that.
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by stackbutterflow 22d ago
>As a citizen of the United States, however, our law does indeed entitle me to things that foreign guests have zero expectation or entitlement to. Based on what? It's a set of arbitrary rules applied within an arbitrarily defined ge
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by stackbutterflow 23d ago
On the one hand I want to agree with you, but on the other hand hn is (rightfully so in my opinion) so anti billionaires, so anti VC, somewhat in the middle on AI, even anti pg recently, that if there are higher forces at work on hn I can o
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by stackbutterflow 25d ago
I still can't wrap my head around it. So we're all dead, robots take care of the infrastructure and healthcare, and there's maybe 50-100 billionaires left on the planet. Then what? They drive their sports car, do bungee jumpi
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by stackbutterflow 27d ago
US TV shows in the years after 9/11 are hard to watch now because they're plagued with pro torture scenes. I don't know when exactly but it seemed to have disappeared.
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by stackbutterflow 27d ago
Only because you think authoritarian means poor.
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by stackbutterflow 1mo ago
I like the term broetry. https://fenwick.media/rewild/magazine/dead-broets-society-be...
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by stackbutterflow 1mo ago
To put it into perspective if we consider that US salaries are 3 to 5 times those of other "rich" countries then it's already a 60 to 100 dollar subscription for the next richest part of the world.
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by stackbutterflow 2mo ago
One intelligent humanoid robot per house. What could go wrong really. Possibly the worst idea.
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by stackbutterflow 2mo ago
It's such a shame that our society doesn't value more, in economic terms, this type of skills.
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by stackbutterflow 2mo ago
I see it go in either two directions, assuming it plateaus at a marginal increase in productivity. Either this newly found productivity helps teams tackle backlog tasks that they never had the time to complete, or it's used to churn ou
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by stackbutterflow 3mo ago
There's no irony because they'll never put two and two together and republican politicians will use the frustration to get reelected.
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by stackbutterflow 3mo ago
Tangential but this article got me thinking. Are we going to see less publicly shared science? With private actors or governments restricting access to AI resources to a few scientists and keeping new knowledge to themselves. Advancing scie
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by stackbutterflow 3mo ago
There's about 193 countries in the world, your number would mean there's less than two countries that are better in every way that matters. I can name ten countries off the top of my head that are better in every way that matters
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by stackbutterflow 3mo ago
People have forgotten because it feels like eons ago but at the beginning of Trump's first term the Turkish president on a diplomatic visit to the white house sent his goons to beat peaceful American protestors while the American polic
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by stackbutterflow 3mo ago
Can it be a case of she's not earning all of the $200k in cash?
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by stackbutterflow 3mo ago
Not convinced it means anything in one way or another. I remember the same headlines right after Facebook's IPO. The discourse was very much that it was obvious that a website to connect with your friends wouldn't make money.
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by stackbutterflow 3mo ago
How many ?
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by stackbutterflow 3mo ago
The present US administration and its backers don't want diversity, democracy and non-whites. Where does that leave non-Chinese and non-US citizens ?
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by stackbutterflow 3mo ago
She can sell books because millions of kids were taught to read. How fair is it that she becomes a billionaire while most teachers struggle?
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by stackbutterflow 3mo ago
Regarding personal responsibility, at an individual's level it's your responsibility to improve your life, because that's the only lever you have and you don't have the time to wait for societal changes that take decades

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