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This isn’t slashdot. This is not a server under someone’s desk. This is not a quirky fight for freedom through internet protocols. Y combinator is power, influence, money, and all …

This will never exist. The announcement is the final product.

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But you’ll never know if the writer you respect is generating future novels with an AI trained on their past writing. Maybe this is better, but in a very short time, AI writing wil…

Yes. Sorry that was vague. Chrome dominance is bad for the open web and Google is a bad actor in every space they inhabit. Web devs who code for chrome are as bad as those who code…

Chrome saved us from an abysmal browser market and endless websites that said “best viewed in Internet Explorer 6”. Support ticket from Carvana yesterday told me to try chrome if I…

Get a white collar job. Even if it’s just in the trailer at the construction site. Moving to the other side of the fence will get you connections. Not necessarily an easy thing to …

We have really good insurance and now that my partner needs treatment for a chronic illness, they are denying the treatment. It’s lowering her quality of life, may lead to her deat…

Serious answer: you’re really bad at practical reasoning.

Not a fan of meetup but there’s no reservation fee in place. You can host free meetups like you always could. I’m in two meetup groups that have regular meetings and attendees pay …

If wealth disparity continues to increase these treatments will likely be unavailable to average people. Get rich or support economic policies that prevent oligarchs and billionair…

My daily driver OS crashed multiple times a day 20 years ago and laptop hardware was sus at best. So yeah, I think quality is better. Also, look at cars. So much better with every …

It all makes sense if you assume he’s a dumb guy who got rich by accident.

Some thoughtful comments in this thread so I would like to add something pithy and under-appreciated: once you reach a certain number of users, content moderation is the only thing…

I worked in consulting and my company was largely unaffected. We had clients in traditional businesses unrelated to the dotcom boom. But I know people who got laid off, particularl…

Tether is (mostly) fine today. But it’s an absolute, unmitigated scam and will collapse with the slightest pressure. As BTC declines, Tether’s backing declines as well, even as the…

It may be that the vastness of time is the real filter. We may not be alone but our reach can’t span the time between us and our nearest neighbors

It takes a huge leap of logic to come to the conclusion that Musk cares about free speech for anyone other than himself. What he wants is speech without consequences for himself. H…

Mutual aid is decentralized charity, the aid comes from the community instead of a NGO.

Thanks. My reading comprehension has not powered up yet this morning.

From the article: "But truly that is the message of the Andersen folktale, that power begets the capacity to inspire delusion in the masses." Does the "Andersen folktale" refer to …

From the link: Buffett says, "I didn’t get money from my parents, and I really didn’t want it." Which kind of elides the fact that his father was a sitting US Congressman. Investor…

Being a contractor would require me to spend about $10,000 more for health insurance above what my workplace premiums are. US, obvi. When I was a contractor fifteen years ago, I bi…

>Earlier in life I went down the line of thinking that society/arts etc is getting spiritually or creatively worse compared to some earlier era I valued It's a common idea that som…

Here’s my tenth man take: playing devils advocate is the laziest form of intellectual engagement and lends weight to positions that should have no weight at all.