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> The US Department of Labor measures wages, and adjusted for inflation the hourly wage is below what it was in 1973. This is just blatantly untrue according to your source. Hourly…

I personally think it’s bad when countries commit genocide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Uyghurs_in_Chin...

No way, I don’t buy it. If this is actually true I’ll eat my hat

This is meant to be biased???

> It's like 50% if you also count the stuff I pay for that is a direct benefit to me at retirement (as does anyone who pays into social security) It’s not though. The social securi…

So then we prefer the scenario where the employees are just forced to manage a declining company? Or we prefer it folding?

> and that can be arbitrarily far removed from practical utility In which case it’s ~equivalent to not caring about utility

> The execs at Bending Spoon buy these SaaS services on the cheap, cut costs, jack up prices, and milk remaining users for as much cash as possible for as long as possible. If they…

I had high expectations, there’s a lot of interesting content in this topic, but this is 22 points of low-substance buzzwording. There’s no common theme, very little justification …

It’s public shared land. I think surveilling this is fine

The hard part of GitHub is scalability

Yeah it’s a weird example. Perfectly possible real strawberries with all their complexity extract more dopamine!

This is an odd criticism. I am (A) a zoomer and (B) I wasn’t criticising the use of the word spicy? I am saying the comparison itself is bad

> allowing spicy autocomplete Yknow, if the spicy autocomplete can solve difficult open math problems and build medium sized complex programming projects, it’s probably not useful …

Branch predictor can predict these pretty damn well

Europe is not particularly anti surveillance

I can see some risks with creating a hyper intelligent mecha-Epstein

Because you signed up to a set of terms and conditions saying LinkedIn can use your data in this way

This is the exception to the rule

> People used to get arrested for infringing copyright, now they get arrested (or murdered, see below) for defending it Yes because stealing illegal items (if you believe AI genera…

> They were never intended to provide basic safety to you in your home. Uh actually i do think police presence has a deterrent effect on crime. In fact, number of police on the str…

The increasing fraction of “zingy catchphrase” HN comments compared to actually nuanced takes is depressing. Feels like a horrible mix of Reddit and tumblr

> There are many many creative, caring people that are motivated to create things or care for each other for the sake of it Very true. In a UBU world I have no doubt we’d have many…

Out of the 26 polls since the GE, 13 are pro indy 13 aren’t. But it’s worth noting that 9 of the 13 pro-indy polls were commissioned by strongly pro-Indy groups (The National, The …

I don’t think Amazon have a vast conspiracy (that no one has whistleblown on!) of secretly & illegally recording audio for advertising. It would be difficult, require huge amounts …