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So a floppy disk has a disc inside?

This post is pure AI alarmism.

This.

Hammer meet nail. The same issue plagues the American higher education system, which is wildly overpriced.

Right-o.

There's an opportunity here. Put the video on both YouTube and a blockchain, make it easy to find on the latter via the YouTube URI, then when one discovers a non-working link you …

People who support this tend to be largely uneducated in our system of government and Constitutional history, and are typically located in urban areas where of course they would be…

Horrible idea.

It was indeed "diddle," not "twiddle." At BAML, it's a "tweak." Beacon Platform is another implementation by the same team (but with support for the public cloud, and many more adv…

Spot on.

But it's only debt if business decisions mean you must change it. I've seen far too many programmers crawl through legacy code that need not be replaced (it does its job) merely be…

It's only debt if you have to pay it back.

I'm having trouble grokking the results here. If I put in 50 basis points for a seed-funded company it calculates as no return until a $40M exit. I'd like to see the justification …

Hacker News is the ultimate waste of time. Correction: Hacker News _comments are the ultimate waste of time.

It's definitely not "zero cost." It may be a low cost, but as with any choice, there is always an opportunity cost.

Yeah, Altman is a hypocrite. Zero respect for this guy. "Let's ban certain types of speech unless it's from me, of course."

Exactly. You are someone who gets it.

The general trend in software development appears to be toward generalization over specialization. I'm not sure this is a good thing.

Reads like an advertisement for Copperfield. But in terms of advancing the art form and of classic prestidigitation, I can think of no better current practitioner than Ricky Jay.

To say FlightFox 'copied [the] entire site' is a bit of a reach, to put it mildly. The idea, perhaps, but I wouldn't hold my breath hoping for attribution for that.