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damnitbuilds

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    Comment #48554794

    I asked a question, you moron.

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    Comment #48487723

    "Noticed how your HN submission is greyed out because of all the downvotes?" Downvotes mean nothing on HN, alas. Factual statements are downvoted because some people don't like the…

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    Comment #48483107

    [flagged]

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    Comment #48481798

    Shorting is not as easy as you think. You have to time it right and you risk big losses. KNOWING OpenAI et al WILL fail is not enough to make money from that.

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    Comment #48481601

    "Landing a rocket again nobody had thought it impossible." Erm, ESA thought it was a dream: "Twenty years ago, before SpaceX had launched a single rocket, Richard Bowles, a sales d…

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    Comment #48480268

    Books like this are for tech bros what horoscopes are for sad old ladies. They are full of platitudes that sound relevant to people's problems and desires, that pretend to be based…

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    Comment #48480095

    You should, however, ( assuming your ideas are correct ) be able to look at a company and tell if it is following your ideas or not and will therefore ( assuming your ideas are cor…

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    Comment #48478677

    Trump attacks renewables, coal dies. Trump attacks Iran, Iran is more powerful. Trump pushes cryptocash. Cryptocash crashes. Atrack me, Don !

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    Comment #48478622

    Seriously, what sort of fuckwit downvoted this ?

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    Comment #48476597

    If you drop a dumb bomb on an area, it kills everyone there. If you release an autonomous drone in an area, it will probably kill everyone there, but might use its AI to decide not…

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    Comment #48472241

    Boycott evil companies.

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    Comment #48465892

    "Similar analyses were done on wheels, which were observed to be sequentially numbered (i.e., 1, 2, 3, ..., N)." Ah. So that's what sequential numbers are.

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    Comment #48452244

    YET ANOTHER story about how great AI is... ...written by YET ANOTHER guy pushing an AI company. Stop this nonsense - you are embarrassing yourselves and fooling no-one.

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    Comment #48436690

    The author picked Napoleon because of the belief that he was shorter than average and included a sum showing that they think he was shorter than average. Napoleon was not shorter t…

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    Comment #48406553

    This article is just an advert disguised as journalism. " Most experts agree that Turkey’s strategy for success in hair transplantation no longer relies on low prices or volume; in…

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    Comment #48406464

    Tech means things should get progressively better. Why don't companies see that people will pay a reasonable amount for better things, but making it worse and charging too much mea…

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    Comment #48406380

    My "Oh shit" moment was when my boss got the bill for me trying to vibe code a bugfix.

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    Comment #48405685

    "B" Because "billion" was too hard to type.

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    Comment #48405662

    I like socialism. I believe in people. I hate the demented woke. I believe in people. There is nowhere for normal sensible people any more.

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    Comment #48398198

    It was a general point.

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    Comment #48397074

    Excavation with our soon-to-be-outdated techniques is needless destruction. We should only excavate what is about to be destroyed. ( And we shouldn't destroy stuff just to put up y…

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    Comment #48397044

    "Twenty centuries are stacked in 4 meters (13 feet) of earth — or about the height of two-and-a-half Napoleon Bonapartes standing on top of one another." Way to get history wrong i…

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    Comment #48396845

    Worthless without pictures of the expanded array.