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This guy is the Regular Car Reviews of botany - no punches pulled, heart of gold. I love his work, especially his parody of the depraved landscapers of today: https://www.youtube.c…

There are websites which will sell you a license key which is real and valid but is not sold directly by Microsoft or an authorized OEM. These keys could be volume license keys tha…

From one recycler to another, thanks for the work you do! Personally, I typically use gray market Windows keys. I have a hard time moving machines with Linux on them. But I think y…

Play this for a few minutes and you start to realize why sequencing and published flight paths are so important! Really fun, thank you!

Or you could just buy a manual transmission car? You can have as much fun in a car that costs a tenth of the price and where the gears actually do what you think they do.

It doesn't check out, you were one Google away from correct information (which I cited above), and relying on ChatGPT to confirm your priors for you and then parroting what it (inc…

That's not true, and you were foolish to trust ChatGPT on this instead of researching it yourself. Also, if you are spending even 20% of a budget on things that are useless or net …

The spend is on private health insurance going to for-profit middlemen. It's not mostly on the government. People love to crow about Medicare and Medicaid (safety net government-ru…

Not quite "open to the public," but very visible from public areas and close enough for you to get a good luck. Also, some offer tours or have attached museums. It used to be that …

Something I have never understood about the "big pharma makes fake/unnecessary/harmful vaccines" narrative is how folks who believe in it (including those in this comment section) …

I really like this breakdown of what one has to do. For my little laptop-selling side business, I have the install-and-setup process pretty heavily streamlined, and it still takes …

In fairness, I think this might be a case where the pure id represented by this administration happens to align with the correct and logical choice. You could be right, but for thi…

I completely agree with you. I think the problem is that Anthropic believes their own BS, and thinks it IS a Doomsday device which only THEY can control. I think that's what's prod…

> So if you take these risks seriously, which the median commentor on HN obviously doesn't, what is the right thing to do? Easy. You oppose it. You dedicate all your resources to s…

> A CEO's blog post is not an official company statement or any sort of binding agreement. Uh, then what is it? We should not take the words of the leader of the company published …

Maybe this will be simpler for Anthropic to understand if they take their own high-minded philosophical nonsense and ego out of it and consider it the way a neutral party would. Su…

I think the key is that they also can't let Anthropic employees who are foreign nationals use it (e. g. overseas remote employees, people on H1-B visas or green cards, etc.) That w…

When you spend a lot of time telling people how dangerous your products are, people who have the power to keep dangerous products off the market might listen. Especially if those p…

Whether or not Anthropic is right about what AI can accomplish, whether these performance gains are real or not, their moral stance here is absolutely hideous to me. "We must blast…

I'm writing this from a Macbook Neo. It's goddam fantastic. The best product Apple has put out in years. There simply is not a Windows laptop out there that can compete on speed, p…

The message they're trying to send is not "we think you're stupid" so much as "we know you hate this, let us make it easier." The problem is that they don't offer a way for you to …

Why does saying "humans have intrinsic value" put an obligation on a person to entirely fix society's problems? It's a really walrus-y "so you critique society yet participate in i…

Do you consider dogs to have more, less, or the same amount of consciousness as humans?

Is it your contention that the vast majority of people only value others in terms of their economic value?

I think Dropbox is great, but I got about 10GB of storage via affiliate links ten years ago and I've never upgraded or paid a cent since. I'm sure I'm a huge loss for them. And eve…