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> We do it for food, oil, weapons, vaccines, you name it. Much easier to have a reserve of X, if X can be put in a warehouse and transported later. After reading comments here, I t…

Wealth was quite consolidated when most population were peasants.

Eventually buying spacex is obvious and correct. Buying prematurely is questionable.

Not changing rules would seem quite obvious and correct at the same time.

I would refrain from calling it “dumb”. Just different. Maybe a bit of a hype thing.

But it good illustration of why valuation is so high

> expects Is bearing a lot load here. It is a press release with a goal to create hype. I.e. it has no relation to “facts” … unless they would also share underlying numbers (e.g. c…

Yes, because in all likelihood an artificial train is coming

Building on that futurism. We might design organic brain extensions, so people just become smarter, making LLMs obsolete. (Brain-Bluetooth interface for additional cost)

Track record would matter if we would need to trust him. (E.g. he knows some hidden insider data which stays secret, while he shares only a conclusion without must justification) T…

Still, one can buy lot of interesting problems with that money.

XZ attacker spent half a year earning trust, doing real maintenance. Different order of magnitude effort spent during XZ attack.

Frontend has lower barrier of entry and more appeal for beginners, so its bell curve might have its left edge is thicker. It impacts the avg of problems and culture of dealing with…

If the goal is to be misleading, but technically correct, it hits the bullseye

Emotionally I’m all-in on painful punishments for bullies. But when I stop, and think slower, and more rationally: That bully is a human being who will grow up and he will be a nei…

I’m aware of that specific meaning. (Hiding under uncommon port, also falls under same umbrella) But I think it is interesting and useful to detach from that specific label with al…

> you still regard flags as having some sacred meaning I would like to disagree on this point.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48001905

Yes. Password and hashing algorithm are distinct things. I fully agree with you.

Stop and reflect for a moment. Then continue as usual (quite likely)

That evil city council..

Is it that important to decode what author thought when he was making it? What if the design was made by generative model, does the statue become more or less valuable?

Somebody has to enlighten mimosa-party participants about socialism.

Nations != governments. “Nations” as synonym for country started appearing only recently, in last two/three hundred years. Flags have thousands of years of history.

All modes of cyber security depend on some obscurity (e.g. password) Ideally we want a viable plan B, for when it’s leaked/figured out. (E.g. generate new passwords) (For convenien…