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Happens. I worked at a startup that offered to triple my equity if I stayed a full four years, a special offer to me for seven months of excellent performance. Four months later, g…

Sounds great. What have you done?

The golden goose is the landlords who develop and maintain housing, the withholding of feed excessive taxation.

> just never seem to have the zeal / focus / attention span / whatever to correct the problem Mainly because, bluntly, the people who have the most zeal, attention span, talent, an…

Ever heard of the tale of the goose that laid golden eggs? Imagine progressively feeding the goose less, so as to have a greater profit margin on the golden eggs it laid. No partic…

Okay, so if Google wins AGI first, who is to say that AGI isn’t so disruptive, the government just nationalizes Google?

This war was already declared a decade ago. By many interests. And victory followed. I think though a big part of this was YouTube replaced blogs. It's a generational thing.

... and a sign Anthropic couldn't find enough compute anywhere else, so they had to bite the bullet. Interesting.

$45 billion for a 3 year rental .

> sad dark HN loser path Assertion assertion assertion wishful thinking assertion. Show, don't tell. Show us that we're wrong and this isn't a VC black hole. The CEO of Enron as la…

But why would I spend any time mastering this skill when we have AI now? Disability software that uses both the markup and the on-screen visual for decision making is likely immine…

Not everyone in California lives in LA or has LA’s problems.

> Wonder why that isn't happening Because the US is overwhelmingly urban sprawl and is not Europe. The only way to fix this is to tear down and rebuild (which we cannot afford), or…

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What? Seriously, not at all. Anti-competitive practices is when you go out of your way to use legal agreements or practices, in an illegal way (i.e. from the starting point of a mo…

> So, in America, just because it's written in a contract does not mean it's enforceable in anyway. But the presumption, as any court will show, is that it is fully blooming enforc…

When you signed up, you agreed you understood the line - which is whatever Anthropic decides the line is. Legally, the line hasn't changed at all, nor has your moral position relat…

There is literally nothing close to illegal about this behavior. You read the terms of service right, which provides a long list of explicit and implicit disclaimers?

Also they ain't wrong. In what other context does OpenClaw get mentioned? "You may not use our service if you mention OpenClaw" is a harsh line but hardly illegal or forbidden any …

> have been taken advantage of by capitalism “And many programmers, they say to me, “The people who hire programmers demand this, this and this. If I don't do those things, I'll st…

They get more public goodwill from a single ad. The chronically online Linux-using engineer community is too small to matter.

> I don't understand We really need to retire this phrase, it’s become a humblebrag way of calling the other party delusional without even trying to understand. The list here thoug…

But does it matter? If you write a program in Python or JavaScript, you have a terrible mental model for how that code is actually executed in machine code. It's irrelevant though,…

Imagine a drunk developer. Sparks of brilliance while missing obvious trees.

Heard this analogy elsewhere, but worth repeating: AI is like having the greatest developer who ever lived, but she is always on 4 beers.