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> You are ignoring I am not. But if you're unwilling to have a nuanced take then there's no discussion to be had. You're just going to be yelling at me, someone who hates Zuckerber…

> I prefer systems with a lot of people who get helped sufficiently to avoid hitting rock bottom in the first place. Same. I hope you didn't interpret my comment as anything differ…

> This has already been the case for at least my whole lifetime. And for my entire lifetime people have acted the way I'm criticizing. So my request is "the status quo isn't workin…

I think that's the point. No one wants to be the villain in their own story. We all tell ourselves stories to paint ourselves as good. I don't think most people are evil, but I thi…

> it's not out of principle. There's a bunch of influencers who go help struggling people. I'm certain the majority of them aren't doing it out of principle, but at the end of the …

That's not really what people mean. Your example isn't accurate because you just ran bash two different ways.

I love bash. I write a lot of bash too. It is a extremely powerful and useful language. But that also doesn't mean it is a good language. There are many non-intuitive things, hence…

It's amazing how bad this is in the Bay area. I wonder how map engineers don't dogfood. Or what is it that prevents them from making the maps better? They sure have no problem maki…

Isn't that kinda the point though?

My favorite is Claude finding .git/index.lock, asking to remove it, finding out it no longer exists, and then hitting a lock again that it itself created. Poor little robot, stop s…

> I think minority do Let's be real, the minority of people understand bash. It is a terrible language with tons of footguns[0], albeit a very useful language and still worth learn…

No, but I can tell you which is faster by looking at the color

> USB-A has many variants > especially when they aren’t even labeled period What are you talking about? USB-A is color coded. You'll frequently see white and blue. Admittedly this …

> Reviewers know what venues they are reviewing for, and attentive ones will adapt their review based on the prestige of the venue. Works that way in theory but I've seen people be…

> because there are just so many papers at leading AI conferences Ironically a big reason there's so many papers to review is because so many are rejected. A low acceptance rate is…

> you’re handing the power to The user?

The search engine is a lot more than the index. And they have their own index

> What a world we live in. It's a really interesting world. You can spam GPT to get novel math results but here I am trying to scroll up to the beginning of the conversation and 5 …

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> But what is the alternative, and why is it better? Is this a legitimate question? There's hundreds of projects working on alternatives[0]. There's also... you know... the interne…

Your telecom company can triangulate you through their towers, but they don't have access to your phone's WiFi antenna, bluetooth, NFC, nor GPS. Google and Apple have all of that. …

> Serve ads without selling data? They sell data. Why do you think they don't? > CC companies sell your data. Your telecom provider sells your data. Banks sell your data. You're ov…

> to every human who uses the internet FTFY Google has a lot of control over the internet. They also track and profile people even if they never created a Google account. It's one …

> I know people are itching to call false-dichotomy, but lets be real, nothing in 25 years that isn't money-based or ad-based has gained meaningful VC money i.e. VCs dont buy into …

> What's fascinating is that Google gets virtually zero recognition for this, and beyond that, Google is one of the most hated corporations for it. The hate it's about what they di…