xracy

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by xracy 7d ago
I really assumed the point of this was going to be to complain about how no phone/phone cases are exactly the same... which is an absolute scourge on society that I assume is continued by Apple here.
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by xracy 1mo ago
What counter example did you provide? You said you had tried a few projects. You can just claim that without any evidence. I have no reason to believe you're not lying. You could say "I used AI to cure cancer." This isn'
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by xracy 1mo ago
The sooner cities and states start negotiating adversarially with companies that want to set up infrastructure in their state, the sooner we'll all be happier with the way things work. If you want to be a part of my community, you need
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by xracy 1mo ago
I'm seeing more examples of you saying you're providing evidence than of you actually providing evidence. So far I've heard a single anecdote about what you did. That's a pretty far cry from the "evidence" you
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by xracy 2mo ago
Came here looking for this response. My follow-up question is "What percentage of the 'totally independent' group, are parents with adult children?" i.e. there's almost an interesting statistic here about what perce
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by xracy 2mo ago
I feel like market cap valuations should have some way to factor in the supply/demand constraints. I know that float exists as a concept, but I think it's insane to call SpaceX a Trillion dollar company, when if it started selling
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by xracy 2mo ago
yeah, I mean, if you don't engage with the comment, then you're not going to understand. So maybe you should take your own advice and actually read what I wrote.
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by xracy 3mo ago
> It is not a naked image of yourself. If I show you a picture of yourself that is a perfect likeness of yourself, And do not tell you how it was collected/created. Is that an image of you? It looks exactly like you, and you have fo
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by xracy 3mo ago
What do you think my comment was responding to? Literally those are the words that I was responding to. Saying that the provenance of a naked image of myself is relevant to the fact that it's a naked image of _me_ and I don't have
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by xracy 3mo ago
> If someone generates a naked photo of you, even if it looks identical to a real photo, it's not your private data. "You see, your honor, it's not a picture of them, it's a picture of their reflection in the mirror
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by xracy 3mo ago
I've been having this thought for the last month. The giveaway was my Medical Professional father thinking that AI was really good at things outside of his area of expertise, and really bad at things inside of his area of expertise.
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by xracy 3mo ago
also assuming there's signal in that noise...
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by xracy 3mo ago
I think it's reasonable for governments to signal a decision like this that parents can ultimately choose to bypass. So it's both to explain the harms and posture to reduce those harms to children, and to leave the final decision
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by xracy 3mo ago
No, this will force the first person to be creative. Not even necessarily kids.
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by xracy 4mo ago
That's justifying this because we've had rampant runaway inflation... There's nothing special about the number $1T.
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by xracy 4mo ago
I think I'm looking at general "retirement funds" which are a little more opaque. e.g. Vanguard/TD retirement funds, when I looked into them, didn't have any information on "what is in them." Just general
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by xracy 4mo ago
> Is it? Given that they've had to change the rules of index funds to allow for this, yes, this is not what people expect.
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by xracy 4mo ago
Curious how someone with a 401k, who didn't want their retirement to be used by these companies to buy at an inflated price, would go about opting out of this. Typically I just have my 401k in an index fund so that things have to becom
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by xracy 4mo ago
Who invests in an index fund for "moonshots"? Everyone I know who invests in an index fund is doing so to mitigate the risks of things like "moonshots" which are typically much riskier investments.
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by xracy 4mo ago
This feels like the kind of thing where, "you must be at least this human to pass" and that it just otherwise mostly wastes your time if you're a robot would cover most of what Captchas are useful for. Like, if it takes you 3
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by xracy 4mo ago
Huh, for someone whose "about" page says: “Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.” You seem to be pushing an ideological agenda around wikipedia by posting opinion pieces abou
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by xracy 4mo ago
Seems like a pretty political take on a wikipedia article, and none of it seems to take issue with the facts presented in the wikipedia article either. Just general mistrust of wikipedia construed as "whitewashing" which isn'
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by xracy 4mo ago
Gotta love "I don't need to show my work! It's self-evident!" It's not self-evident, or the person wouldn't have asked for a source. And you have numbers that you're pulling from "somewhere" with
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by xracy 4mo ago
This is not my reaction to just you. This is my reading of "any time a wealth tax is brought up." My recommendation to you, given you seem to be acting in good-faith: Make it clear "What you want a wealth tax to look like ins
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by xracy 4mo ago
I feel like every opposition I read to wealth taxes is someone saying that we shouldn't do it, because it won't be perfect. Without offering an alternative to the status quo, which is nothing. We can iterate on taxes if they'
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by xracy 4mo ago
There's an old Chemistry joke, that I've reapplied to Software Engineering, and it goes something like: A New Engineer (NE) shows up on their first day on the job, notebook in hand ready to learn. They get assigned to shadow an Ex
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by xracy 5mo ago
I feel like we need to hold Gov't Contractors to higher standards. Like half of these ballooning budgets are things that Private Businesses brag about on the other side. "I got a $200B Private contract with the CA Gov't.&quot
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by xracy 5mo ago
You misunderstand me. > I think I’m okay with there being some remaining consequences for things you do to other people, I would rather live in the world where they hadn't done those things to other people. Not that I would rather p
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by xracy 5mo ago
Yeah, why don't people talk about how my model s tried to drive itself into oncoming traffic more? Not just anyone can drive themself into oncoming traffic. But like, actually the reason is that the cars consistently make dangerous dec
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by xracy 5mo ago
Feels like the world that he created by hoarding vast sums of wealth, and limiting people's free speech, and cutting social safety net programs that put more and more people at risk as the world becomes less and less stable. I would

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