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There's no moat to AI models so it doesn't really matter who develops it first. If AGI happens none of it matters since it won't be controlled anyway. If there's an exponential wal…

Yes, election coverage and endorsements and politically biased media did not exist before Citizens United. None of the dozens of democracies with political spending limits have pol…

Hinduism is hardly non-proselytising. After all there's not a lot of Buddhists left in India. The Brahmin caste pretty intentionally and comprehensively reacted to and pushed out B…

I was thinking along parallel lines. If you have fuck-you money then sure: you just leave when asked to do something imoral. But if you are materially dependent on the job then you…

It's not really random. Disease development in the Old World was a combo of long term urbanisation and animal husbandry. Urbanisation in the New World existed but wasn't as old and…

They were charging up hill in the mud. Noone really died from arrows, except maybe some of the horses. But a lot of their horses fell and then the knights ran back through their ow…

Yeah, what's 3 orders of magnitude wrong between strong and stable geniuses. They're claiming to cut $16b and actually only cut like $6b and none of it was actually fraudulent it j…

This is absurdly wrong. Most immigrants are poor people entering their new societies at the very bottom, not hipster digital nomads. Sometimes they are lower middle class in their …

It's easier to steal pentagon contract money than money issued for highways or train tracks therefore military contracting has a higher profit margin therefore that's what the lobb…

This sounds good but doesn't actually make sense, like most corporate money-grabs. If cards accumulate in value, everyone is essentially playing for free(or indeed being paid to co…

You're building CRUD apps. The conventions work and are extensible for teams of 1, 10, 100 and 1000s. You are not special and neither is your product. Companies making millions or …

It's so easy that there's like 5 or 6 of them that I know of in Romania alone and drivers will swap between 2-3 of them every day. So yeah, it's pretty trivial. While there's no re…

I'll add that Ruby meta-programming has 2 pseudo-phases(at least in my mind): load time and 'true' run time. They're both technically run time, but smth like a has_many method in r…

I basically 100% agree with this and this is the editor env I wish I could live in. I think the debate still exists because editors/langs don't work like this and you end up having…

It all depends on how often I'm interacting with an area of code. Is it library code I'm using all the time or some obscure private internal that I visit once a year at most? If I'…

I just had the same sort of realization actually, trying to explain to myself why I dislike micro-functions: it pollutes the vocabulary that I need to know at all times with super …

I agreed with their assessment though for a totally different reason: the second function is only doing primitive operations and not invoking any other functions. For the same reas…

He's lying. Worker wages have been stagnant for a decade plus. Even the recent increases have been vastly outpaced by increases in prices AS EVIDENCED BY INCREASING PROFIT at compa…

If they charged like $2/year/user for 3d party API access they'd be profitable and no one would be that outraged. Their expenses are still absurd given that, from my perspective th…

I know you're not saying this, but just to point out how absurd this price point is: > Reddit generated $350 million in 2021, primarily from its advertising business > Reddit has 5…

Has this strategy ever worked in the history of social media businesses?

Bollocks. Tumblr is still around and probably has been losing money for longer than people here have been alive. No one is throwing away the kind of audience reddit has. Now the CE…

You follow some weird accounts if that's what you see in your feed.

It generates an avatar for her. They show it in the demo, it looks really good.

Eh, it's relative. You can get that for like 10 euros a month in Romania and they throw in a mobile phone and some cable channels to boot I think.