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This is going to sound like I'm flipping sides in this thread: but yeah, absolutely. Otherwise people in Gilroy would have hated datacenters when the planning started and Amazon wo…

Two things can be true: the construction can be technically legal and at clear odds with community opinion. I mean, yes. Amazon can likely do this. But is this strategy really in k…

But... does Amazon say things in their free tier are "always" free? I don't think they do. This was an Oracle lie. If you take a service that you told someone was "always free" and…

Expecting someone to lie doesn't mean rolling over and refusing to acknowledge it. Not unlike people making the expected reactionary cynical commentary on internet forums still dem…

> Were you expecting a massive evil corporation to keep spending $50 every month on you forever? When they offer something "always"... yes? Are "always" and "forever" not synonyms?…

So... what did "Always" mean, exactly?

> Why are you assuming that the other kinds of testing aren’t happening? Rather, I'm assuming that the "Is there protection in place for when the AI tries to backdoor github projec…

> Because the agents aren’t going to run airgapped in real life. Exactly. This logic is precisely why aircraft engineering doesn't bother with component testing or envelope limitat…

Oooph. I'm going to be charitable and make a (horrifying) steelman point for you: Eugenics can be understood as a subset of the ideas of plant and animal breeding that have been pr…

Ew. At what point do we just decide that this whole community has eaten itself? Remember when a "YC founder" was a diligent nerd just trying to make something people want and get t…

You're still misunderstanding what a "vote" is in your laser focus on "taxes". Take "taxes" out of the mix. What's the point of voting at all, in your view? Why bother with it as a…

Why are you not against this? A vote isn't a payment in exchange for taxes. It's the mechanism by which the government represents the will of the people. How do you arrange things …

Well, yes. They're the ones who actually employ the hundred lawyers and PR staff. But that's what it takes, and it's not about clicking some buttons on a Web 2.0 Day Trading UI.

This is a micro/macro mistake. You obviously can't dump a 6% stake at strike price on Robinhood. "The Market", at this scale, means "You find the buyer(s) yourself and work up the …

Genuine apology if that's the sense you got. I'd love to hear the nuance. Please deliver it.

> To be honest, it is quite scary that Google is able to remotely roll out an app like that to all GMS Android phones. Are any commercial mobile phone vendors not able to do such a…

As mentioned, if you want to talk nuance bring the nuance to your comment. Don't try to fake it with "Even Bush and Biden" to make yourself feel smart on HN. You aren't, that shit'…

Exactly. General opposition to the war on terror and the US in general has blinded you to obvious analysis that things were basically OK seven months ago and they're shit now, and …

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This is absolutely 100% true, which is why deliberately destroying all the pre-existing structural deterrents to their bad behavior was such a disaster. Iran did bad things, but no…

That seems like a strawman. Upthread you were pretty clearly arguing from a libertarian perspective (I genuinely thought that your "only NHS" quip was humor, not that you were bein…

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> My point was there are lots of models available, not just 2. My post above wasn't endorsing one in particular. Yeah, so... my question stands: name one you're thinking of, even i…

Arguments about words are a little woke for my taste. Fine fine, pretend I said "convince" and then reply to that. Thanks.