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nkjnlknlk

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    Comment #40159692

    LLMs would have to first be natural conversational experience.

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    Comment #40041289

    The alternative is the Global North (i.e., Western hegemony) admits that China is doing well or at least competitively.

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    Comment #39757499

    It's misleading and poor advice to children. You see this issue a lot in certain immigrant communities where the equivalent "talk" might be: "How to become a Doctor [and be rich an…

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    Comment #39643714

    There being one significant factor does not mean there are no other significant factors. The same goes for solutions.

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    Comment #38885574

    > I like Jordan Peterson's evolutionary take on these philosophical questions Why when actual evolutionary biologists disagree with Peterson on most of his "takes"?

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    Comment #37834455

    > If I need to traverse a tree or list or something, I'm letting AI write that code. Could I write it myself faster? No, and it's going to have an off-by-one error some non-zero po…

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    Comment #37436863

    Supply and demand does _not_ work everywhere else. That is a highschool-level interpretation of the astrology we call economics. Complex systems in reality are not defined by two s…

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    Comment #37436830

    Enforcing peace (where peace is not defined solely by white landowners) has _never_ been the role of the police officer in America.

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    Comment #37436784

    https://www.amazon.com/No-More-Police-Case-Abolition/dp/1620... If you're actually interested and not just asking someone to elaborate on a complex problem over a HackerNews commen…

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    Comment #37436751

    No. That would be abolishing the police. Perhaps defunding eventually reveals that we should abolish the police. Perhaps not.

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    Comment #37422582

    Immigration is not a significant (or at least not top three in significance) factor in the housing crisis. If you believe it is then please cite the data.

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    Comment #37340778

    Laziness is poor framing. Can the masses be "lazy" or is it pointless moralizing in the face of unfettered propaganda and behaviour manipulation?

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    Comment #37328328

    Money does buy time? With money you don't have to sell your labour at exploitative rates.

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    Comment #37328304

    A charitable reading of the text would be that the argument isn't to exclusively do these things. Just that one should make more time for them. If that call does not apply to you i…

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    Comment #37299811

    The self driving cars of our era, even.

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    Comment #37264016

    I agree. I've had the unfortunate experience of moving from more expressive languages and interesting problems to less expressive languages and boring problems as the size of my TC…

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    Comment #37251161

    > Don't copy and paste the same implementation x times because that way there's only one place to fix it. But also sometimes it makes more sense to copy and paste over trying to fi…

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    Comment #37080366

    I don't think they're much more performant than a GUI created with performance in mind. I think they're almost by default more performant with the lowest effort/lazy approach? TUIs…

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    Comment #37066318

    > And personally, I think book recommendations are an absolutely underserved market I haven't read about the industry in years but isn't it the case that the job of "book recommend…

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    Comment #37066218

    Players have not been subordinate to managers (in most sports) for decades.

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    Comment #37066055

    Performance (though not always) and composability are huge reasons. Can really tell the HN crowd has changed a lot.

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    Comment #37066032

    Your last statement invalidates the point you try to make?

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    Comment #36991986

    Is there a strategy in apple notes to better organize/reference other notes? I'm pretty new to the Apple ecosystem and don't really grok it. Agreed on Google Docs (at least for des…

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    Comment #36991711

    is the claim Ash is not battle tested?

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    Comment #36959600

    How well does your integration handle stacked PRs (if at all)? I find that the majority of my interaction with git is super basic that I get no value add replacing `git add -p` (es…