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    Comment #43656229

    >First of all there is zero trade between the US and Russia currently, same with North Korea. No, there is trade, $3.5b worth of it. But even if there wasn't, why would they get an…

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    Comment #43655276

    It's national security to destroy all of your alliances? In that case, what is the reason Russia is exempt from these tariffs? Reverse-psychological warfare?

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    Comment #43652389

    >They didn't actually "trust" us before. I'm not sure how you'd measure that anyways. From my reading of foreign news they're mostly taking it in stride, having seen this coming si…

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    Comment #43599368

    You don't think F1 would follow the law?

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    Comment #43598974

    This gave me something to think about. Thank you.

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    Comment #43591295

    >And the justices he appointed would uphold the constitution if he tried it. I don't feel that's a given. But even if they do, it needs to be enforced which feels much less likely.…

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    Comment #43591224

    Whatever paper may have "influenced" the policy, here is the official statement and it is very much napkin math and nothing else. https://ustr.gov/issue-areas/reciprocal-tariff-cal…

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    Comment #43591216

    >If you are referring to taking wealth by force from people that earned it and giving to people that didn't earn it, yes it's 'communist' No, it's taxation. A pretty common phenome…

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    Comment #43580427

    >The people have the power. What do you picture will happen because of protests, exactly? That the administration realizes the error of its ways? Because it seems more likely to me…

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    Comment #43580347

    Only if you don't learn anything while developing. Which is also never the case.

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    Comment #43522636

    I wrote a linter for schemas (Postgres only): [link redacted] I've found it to be a pretty useful way of establishing patterns for data modelling in a team.

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    Comment #43504258

    Cursor is at $100m ARR. People (users, not just investors) are giving them money, not because they expect to see value in a couple of years.

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    Comment #43502131

    >they’re not a product I think it's pretty fair to say that they have close to doubled my productivity as a programmer. My girlfriend uses ChatGPT daily for her work, which is not …

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    Comment #43502049

    >I saw someone saying 80% of doctors believe that LLM's are trustworthy consultation partners. See, now that is something I don't know why I should trust: a random person on the in…

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    Comment #43502023

    >can we stop pretending with the generic name for ChatGPT? What? I use several LLM's, including ChatGPT, every day. It's not like they have it all cornered..

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    Comment #43492503

    You may be able to boycott it now, but I am pretty sure there will come a time where that's not feasible if you want to participate in society, the same way it's no longer feasible…

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    Comment #43490776

    I just tried these with ChatGPT (4o) and it got both of them right. That's not to say that you won't be able to find something that still works but I think that particular hole is …

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    Comment #43481107

    >The alternative to regulation is innovation That's a very easy but hand-wavy thing to say. How exactly would your suggestion work? Are the companies supposed to share their findin…

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    Comment #43479248

    >there are still many questions which a human can easily answer, but even the best LLMs currently can't. I am genuinely curious: what is an example of such a question, if it's for …

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    Comment #43452323

    Sure. I just think that we will be looking back at that as a horribly inefficient and expensive way to accomplish something that will be much more advanced soon.

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    Comment #43451245

    Most people here seem concerned about insurance companies misusing personal data or a full-on totalitarian government takeover. However, my concern is about becoming susceptible to…

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    Comment #43432310

    Right, so your argument is that this is easy , and if it turns out that it's not, we'll just be smug and tell them that they were holding it wrong all along? It sounds like you are…

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    Comment #43424081

    If you have a spreadsheet with macros that are anything more than the most basic, you can't run it in Calc. It's not that trivial.

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    Comment #43420211

    That's true, but conspiracy theorists are not typically out on some philanthropic mission. It's a hobby -- they are doing it because conspiracy theories are fun. That's why they ar…