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csoups14

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    Comment #48911551

    Every day investors absolutely buy these shares; these price targets are publicly available and SpaceX shares are equally publicly available. You've claimed everyone who is disagre…

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    Comment #48911371

    > If individual investors are buying shares and getting blown up, that’s their problem. Invest and due your own research. This is simply absurd. Of the investment banks that helped…

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    Comment #48843880

    You have your opinions on what the discussion should be, clearly other people have different opinions. Why should your opinion be weighted more highly than theirs?

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    Comment #48235509

    I think you're viewing this from the perspective of someone who has a functioning brain and plentiful concepts and ideas that aren't being built because you're labour-constrained. …

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    Comment #48194749

    This was all theory before the war. Now Iran knows they can blockade that Strait and makes these demands so they have much more leverage.

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    Comment #48137359

    Of course incumbents are going to be supportive of the system as it was and is, they're incumbents. You can't blame a person in power for maintaining a system giving them power any…

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    Comment #48113276

    Tech companies sitting on godlike amounts of money and being able to invest such huge sums in AI at a nascent stage is worrisome. There is absolutely nothing to indicate that this …

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    Comment #48112025

    "Gemini, design a widget to tell me if I can afford to stop for coffee before work"

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    Comment #48111990

    "Insanely useful" doesn't mean hundreds of billions of dollars of upfront investment from our largest corporations is prudent especially when proponents of AI don't seem to approac…

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    Comment #48111222

    We've raised, trained, hired and promoted generations of business people who push utter nonsense, understand nothing but optimizing for bad metrics, and orient solely around short …

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    Comment #48109140

    The rich being in control of both sides does not make both sides equivalent when it comes to impacts on the commoner. The country is done for in large part because too many apathet…

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    Comment #48096350

    An indictment of the technology and the modern corporation. We're supposed to believe this technology is all-powerful and these corporations are efficient and innovative, by the wa…

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    Comment #48050431

    They play a game for a living. Their labor provides only indirect economic benefit in providing entertainment. They are also simply waiting to officially join the second group once…

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    Comment #48024638

    Amazon Basics for Knowledge Work™

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    Comment #47962553

    Late in replying to this, but just wanted to say I found this pretty compelling. I generally think people are too quick to assign to malice what could be assigned to incompetence. …

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    Comment #47955433

    Would imagine it's the simplest answer: they're flying by the seat of their pants, there's 1000 things happening every day that demand attention and there's not enough of it to go …

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    Comment #47937437

    Surely there's a middle ground where improved APIs can be leveraged by both people and LLMs alike while keeping those APIs approachable? Why is it necessary that changing the pytho…

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    Comment #47861841

    We should focus on effective means for change. Focusing external influence on low-level individuals with no decision making power might feel good but it has accomplished a sum tota…

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    Comment #47782508

    You'd also have some very large but currently unknowable number of people underfunding Medicare and Social Security but still expecting to be able to draw out of it when they're ol…

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    Comment #47273673

    Why should someone need to start a business just to have as good a life as their parents did? Why is today's wealth inequality optimal for society? Rich people in the past got by j…

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    Comment #46819344

    They're trying to call attention to it. This thread is one example of how taking that action is helping to accomplish that task.

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    Comment #46724805

    So let me get this straight, I save hundreds of dollars a month, I drive my cars "for free", I get paid at the end of my net-metering year, and somehow this is a bad deal because I…

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    Comment #46721289

    I got solar panels installed two years ago and I've washed them once. I'm still getting great production. Are you trying to convince yourself that maintaining solar panels is diffi…

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    Comment #46583755

    > periods of extreme like this are followed by a reversion to the mean more often than not. Cite evidence please.

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    Comment #46565872

    > That's what it was Fake electors plot, Georgia phone call to "find 11600 votes". You seem convinced that he just talks, we have ample evidence that isn't true. > Even if they too…