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One would think that self-proclaimed "conservatives" would like to conserve the natural world... Long gone are the days of Teddy Roosevelt that's for sure.

Nuclear reactors are a notoriously clean and safe method of electricity generation.

In other words: everything to do with economics is worse and everything to do with the inexorable march of progress is better. Yeah sorry but no shit. Technology has progressed sin…

Never get high on your own supply, says the dope peddler.

What do you mean snap feature? Can you explain?

On a casino? Play good poker and go for a low rake. Playing the house is always negative EV, by definition.

Thanks for your thoughts, but how is this is anyway relevant to the issue at hand? I'm sad that this is the top comment...

Rare or not, destroying books is in itself a morally repugnant act. I don't know man, it's not so long ago we used to view nazi book burnings as an archetype of evil. Today compani…

> Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. Co…

Yes, I'm very annoyed that I cannot look at historical data (even from the past couple of days) in weather websites!

Jesus, what a bizarrely aggressive response.

I'm shocked, astonished even, that enterprises on which trillions of dollars are being poured would consider cheating on marketing benchmarks.

The first "scenario" starts with this description > By 2026, when a human with a customer service inquiry has to deal with another human instead of a robot, they get upset and ask …

> there has never been something so powerful it's kept me up past 3 AM every single night working beyond every fiber of my body telling me to sleep. I feel empowered as if I comman…

Yeah, an AI generated blogpost telling me about human emotion...

I actually fucking do this, and have done for a year or two. Sad state of affairs.

No need for that even. Just git reflog and rewind back to any spot your want!

Exactly! The most interesting arguments for Rust that I've ever read have come not from people who hate C++, but precisely from people who are really into C++, because those are th…

Indeed. LLMs produce truly atrocious code, unmaintainable and unreliable. If you're vibecoding a toy to amuse yourself or something similar low-stakes, that's perfectly fine! For h…

> Casey Muratori and Jon Blow have pushed this concept frequently Ah... The school of what I like to call "maximum opinions and minimal evidence". Aggressive arrogant dismissal of …

> you should be celebrating what Elon and his companies have achieved The level of servility of some people never ceases to amaze me. This sentence is viscerally repulsive to me.

You're not the only one: "Beyond the limit: Satellites and mirrors in space pose threat to the night sky" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48787042

Make a "reverse vote" to reject passing a law = abstentions mean you don't reject passing the law = abstentions mean you support passing the law

This comment makes no sense. For one, "you need the absolute best performance and you decide to drop to down to C++", no, C++ and Rust are virtually equivalent in that they pretty …