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SirHackalot

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    Comment #49104577

    This comment almost made me quit my job and pursue my original passion in architecture. So the job was, all along, as fun as I imagined it… And the full-stack knowledge to make it …

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    Comment #49103361

    Harrumph I haven’t been on Reddit in ages, if that helps :)

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    Comment #49102449

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    Comment #49092572

    I fully support Biden administration’s stance on [2], you have to take positive discrimination case-by-case (because sometimes it’s bad). Quotas are bad. I’ve certainly been on you…

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    Comment #49090388

    Also, it turned out Ukraine had a lot of cards. This administration is such an embarrassment.

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    Comment #49086485

    Yep, that second part of my comment was an article I read about OpenAI and my mind mixed it up with Anthropic. My mistake.

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    Comment #49086463

    Wow, I should never comment first thing in the morning... Thanks for the correction, you’re right. I will see if I can still edit my comment.

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    Comment #49085464

    Didn't Anthropic train on our collective data just to sell it back to us for $100/month? On top of that, Apple is suing them over alleged IP and trade secret theft by ex-Apple empl…

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    Comment #49071801

    It was always the era of lobbying, now you just shower the gold-obsessed king with tribute — crypto, ballroom funds, a private jet — in order to buy a presidential decree. Just lay…

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    Comment #49060468

    It outperformed the west in some things, notably not computing (which sealed its fate). I agree though. But I think there’s also something to be said about the way in which the exp…

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    Comment #49060023

    > becoming disillusioned > becoming? It's all arcane, superstitious nonsense. Nobody actually knows how to work with these models is right. We've replaced software engineering with…

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    Comment #49049178

    Throw the USSR in there as well. Central planning allowed them to leap from an agrarian society to launching Sputnik and putting the first human in space, which spooked us into kic…

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    Comment #49049050

    Take a breath, you’re having a total knee-jerk reaction. What statistic? So out of thousands of years of human history, we somehow stumbled onto the absolute final, perfect economi…

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    Comment #49041185

    Does that mean capitalism is not an efficient system to meet the needs of well-informed consumers? Why am I being lumped in with an 8 year old who asks their parents to buy them an…

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    Comment #49041144

    I don’t see why anyone should be obligated to direct traffic to Twitter. Let the author post on his own blog or digital garden. I don’t want to go on Twitter. Echoing the same as o…

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    Comment #49026905

    Never seen capitalists this afraid of competition. Same story with Chinese cars… We can’t have cheap, and objectively superior EVs because of protectionist policies towards Musk an…

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    Comment #49014830

    I used it to generate some icons for my app recently, I found it a pleasantly useful feature already in its current state. Before this I would’ve had to close the code editor, open…

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    Comment #48951529

    Have you seen our track record of violence and general ignorance? I wouldn’t poke us with a ten light year pole.

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    Comment #48950935

    This is so exciting.

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    Comment #48927485

    Average Musk Stan mentality… It’s why we’re here.

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    Comment #48927317

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    Comment #48927237

    Understandably