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dustbitying

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    Comment #34537199

    why speak about an integer number of humans in a percent? to soften the blow? because they're speaking to investors, often institutional for whom it's more useful to know the rates…

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    Comment #34536961

    what's the difference between a subroutine an a proper C function?? theyr'e so close to what they're in principle. IMO, C functions are the answer to the problem exposed in the fam…

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    Comment #34536660

    I've been waiting for civilization franchize to do this. by this point anything less than free form chat with the other 'leaders' won't cut it

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    Comment #34536634

    where the mods plug advanced (post-chatGPT) AIs into this. it happened already, but it's still "military grade and security cleared" away from plebs but I am a crazy person so feel…

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    Comment #34406808

    > There is absolutely no reason to impose such a limit. regardless, I'm pretty sure that somewhere within Apple, they think it makes them more money this way, for the immediate ter…

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    Comment #34372326

    > Reduced need for education. Right now, about half of college graduates do jobs that don't require a college education. For many people, going to college is not cost-effective. Th…

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    Comment #34371817

    given your argument, it seems your gripe is with object orientation rather than with turing-completeness.

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    Comment #34333195

    and the goal, the dream, of every human is to live off charging for rent

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    Comment #34333188

    I remember the thankfully now extinct, era of browser toolbar add-ons... yikes

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    Comment #34327810

    on the other hand, there's a strong incentive for group-organizations, specially profit-driven and "the show MUST go on" kinds of organizations to never depend on a single (or a sm…

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    Comment #34318317

    it's a disappointing choice of words to say the expertise is getting diluted. it's not diluting, it's spreading, getting disseminated. to say that it's diluting softly implies that…

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    Comment #34318255

    humans are natural "copy-cats". this is how kids learn. so why are ideas imitated? it's human nature. and not only humans, other apes are known to do this "monkey see, monkey do" t…

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