xNeil

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by xNeil 1y ago
>You can't possibly believe Musk's fantasies after a couple decades of hilarious (and occasionally dangerous) lies. Eh, betting against Musk generally seems to be a losing proposition. Starlink alone would have given me faith i
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by xNeil 1y ago
>...Tesla is not the winner in electric cars With all due respect, what in the world are you on about?
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by xNeil 1y ago
Not convinced working for government is the best use of your potential, though considering he owns 5% of all US Treasury Bills, I wouldn't say his impact is any less than being a government employee.
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by xNeil 1y ago
Not by Buffett, but you'll love Poor Charlie's Alamanack, by Charlie Munger, his lifelong business partner. https://www.stripe.press/poor-charlies-almanack/cover
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by xNeil 2y ago
The moral panic is social media being the reason for the suicides going up, not the fact that suicides are going up in itself.
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by xNeil 2y ago
Sharing the Hugo theme is a great move Herman. I'll be starting a Bearblog now, all thanks to this comment.
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by xNeil 2y ago
Am I the only one who sees that the entire website is AI generated? Their categories make no sense, neither does their homepage. Weird.
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by xNeil 2y ago
Yes, and Twitter isn't reacting specially in this regard. See Reddit hiking API prices by an absurd amount.
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by xNeil 2y ago
I don't think that's fair - getting back the chronological timeline itself made the purchase a good one in my eyes, alongside the For You feed, which seems to work wonderfully (for me). Not to forget you can literally turn off ads
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by xNeil 2y ago
Cable Cowboy, I'm guessing. Great book!
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by xNeil 2y ago
From Theodore Alois Buckley's introduction to Alexander Pope's translation of The Iliad : "When we have read Plato or Xenophon, we think we know something of Socrates; when we have fairly read and examined both, we feel conv
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by xNeil 2y ago
25% of the Earth's population is younger than 15. Assuming 20% of them use the internet, the TAM (not including the <15 year olds) is 80% of the world's population. 3 out of 4, or 75%, seems like nearly ever human, I'd say
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by xNeil 2y ago
funding secured wasn't a lie so much as a premature declaration, if walter isaacson is to be believed.
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by xNeil 2y ago
>Google and Apple have a somewhat poor software innovation reputation. I'm assuming you mean reputation as in general opinion among developers? Because Google's probably been the most innovative company of the 21st century so f
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by xNeil 2y ago
it's rarely wrong when it comes to concepts - it's the facts and numbers that it hallucinates.
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by xNeil 2y ago
$24k per year to get a job?
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by xNeil 2y ago
It actually does seem to be correct, in that Musk doesn't exactly spend his money on homes or cars or yachts or other material possessions - it seems all his money goes to philanthropy and his businesses (hence the 'per se').
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by xNeil 2y ago
Feynman started with Calculus Made Easy, and only did Calculus for the Practical Man after he finished it.
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by xNeil 2y ago
It's not about just ad revenue though, is it? Many thousands, if not millions of sites rely entirely on Google Search for their revenue. You cannot simply replace all of them with a chatbot - there are massive consequences to such deci
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by xNeil 3y ago
It is quite the impactful story. Saw it under a Twitter (X) thread on IQ and orders of thinking - worth the read.
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Flowers for Algernon (1965) [pdf](sdfo.org)
379 points by xNeil 3y ago|262 comments
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by xNeil 3y ago
i mean, sounds fine? if i buy a physical product, i must be able to do whatever i want to do with it, no? who are apple to decide what i do with a device once i own it?
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by xNeil 3y ago
Why would Sundar resign? That makes no sense whatsoever. Google is the clear leader in search, as it has always been. Leader in Mail, Browsers, Drive Storage, Video (YouTube), Maps, Calendars - the entire personal software suite, basicall
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by xNeil 3y ago
electron's a really nice option, specially for people that aren't interested in porting their apps or spending too much time on development this is a macOS specific app it seems - if you want better performance and more integratio
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by xNeil 3y ago
hey - i know there's quite some negativity in this thread, but i just wanted to let you know that you don't have to change something if you don't want to if that specific facial expression is getting you more views, i see tha
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by xNeil 3y ago
I'm surprised the US Supreme Court is hearing cases filed against or by TCS.
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by xNeil 3y ago
(c) pay money to the company that spends extraordinary amounts of money to host and serve you these videos while simultaneously paying creators, carrying the creator economy, helping companies advertise their products and recommending you v
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by xNeil 3y ago
I'm not so sure of that. What ethics has, say, JK Rowling sacrificed? Warren Buffett?
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by xNeil 3y ago
To be fair, 90% of all people won't admit they were wrong. Sidenote, I think HN will be wrong on Elon Musk and X as well over the long term (personal opinion of course). But the way the discourse around X has changed on HN is incredi
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by xNeil 3y ago
>Politically captured Twitter was far more politically captured before Elon's takeover. >Closed source Elon open sourced the algorithm.

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