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eevilspock
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About eevilspock
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Comment #46271542
that's limited to node. won't work in a browser.
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Comment #45626078
In the media: https://thediplomat.com/2025/10/us-uk-announce-sweeping-sanc...
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Comment #43477503
The irony is that the people and employees of the AI companies will vehemently defend the morality of capitalism, private property and free markets. Their robber baron behavior rev…
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Comment #43477318
What's interesting is the speaker in the poem is predicting their own inevitable ("with a sigh") reality distortion field, i.e. is being cynical about themself. So it is a poem abo…
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Comment #43345636
http://archive.today/f0saw
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Comment #43258554
I think it depends on how it is done, and the kind of ICs you have on the team. It can come off as micromanagement, which may work well enough if you have not-so-competent ICs, but…
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Comment #43258461
On a daily basis here on HN, capitalists and libertarians and others with the SV mindset work hard to protect the narrative that their way is the best way.
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Comment #42658316
Combined with the willingness to exploit those two things to hoard as much as you can, without qualms about taking advantage of cheap goods and cheap labor even from those who work…
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Comment #42658269
It really boils down to your system of morality. If your are willing to look at capitalism and free markets objectively[1], as just algorithms rather than moral systems (i.e. priva…
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Comment #42331570
The marketing dollars spent by the care assistant service is additional GDP. Using GDP to measure the health or rank of a company is like rating writers by the number of words they…
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Comment #42330955
You are implicitly anthropomorphizing LLMs by implying that they (can) have intent in the first place. They have no intent, so can't lie or make a claim or confabulate. They are ju…
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Comment #42330873
The difference is that you are capable of reflection and self-awareness, in this particular case that you understand nothing about dressage and your judgements would be a farce. On…
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Comment #42166080
> Soon you’ll have no friends left This dynamic far outweighs factors like moral and intellectual honesty. Humans want to be a part of a tribe and be respected within it far more t…
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Comment #42149824
The period of fastest growth of Christianity was a period of Christian violence and darkness: the Crusades, The Inquisition, Christian colonialism and imperialism, the Dark Ages. T…
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Comment #42149653
A Homebrew install option will help this take off on Macs. https://github.com/thomasschafer/scooter/issues/6
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Comment #41415936
Isn't Twitter doing much better now Musk has returned it to Founder mode?
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Comment #41415896
One might say the same of founders, but with respect to the org they are a part of: society. Founder? Nope, professional money extractor. Anyone who's critical of, which is to say …
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