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When you take into account how much corporations cloud the effects of your work from you, and how easy (normal, in fact) it is to live in a bubble where you don't realize the level…

Yes, when life puts you in a position where you're insulated from the consequences of your actions, just enjoy it :) If your role is actively making life worse for thousands of oth…

$250k can do a good job of easing meme-induced pain. "survive underwater" what a joke. Yes, there will be good engineers there who will be sad to see it go this way, but they choos…

Yep, large scale murder is just "business is business", but Musk ouchied my feelings with the bad words and that's far worse - that checks out for the current US left attitude. As …

Do you not use any major provider's AI at all? Because the other big options are from companies actively aiding a genocide (Google), or companies clamouring to be the tools used in…

I checked it out based on this comment. It's funny how in some ways it feels like a lazy student-assignment copied from Wikipedia: the subheadings and the structure are exactly the…

> There was no border dispute of any kind between these countries That is such a perfect representation of the level of public discourse around this, that I can only thank you for …

It's interesting to contrast comments like this in this thread, with the amount of hatred and abuse heaped upon Russians on the day of Russia's invasion - not just the Russian stat…

And yet far less attention than those in Ukraine got even at a time when the destruction and killing there was less than 1% of what Palestine has gone through. Within one week of t…

There has always been a significant section of the US public that's anti-science, and would have posed a strong obstruction to funding any of the space achievements of the 20th cen…

I've also heard people jokingly call manicures handjobs.

> He's upset that Democrats didn't let him commit crime just because he donated to them? Yeah, doesn't he know that you have to be blood-related to the President for that privilege…

Imagine if this was a male journalist snooping through newly appointed young, female engineers' histories, e-stalking them the same way and writing an article of his findings. You …

Not necessarily a culture shift - assuming you mean IRL culture, not HN culture - but rather a sign of HN's much increased popularity in recent years, outside the thoughtful nerd c…

For some added context on the vaccine distrust: > In the early 2010s, the CIA ran a fake vaccination program in Abbottabad, offering free Hepatitis B vaccines to children in an att…

> Given how many activists have used it in overthrowing dictatorial governments How many? There's some news about it being recommended for use by BLM protesters, and about it being…

> The mailing lists are censored and the inner circle cannot be criticized. Well, HN isn't censored in this regard (unless you believe their influence extends here too). What speci…

> And yet they seem to fumble it regularly, in every direction. The results are all over the map, ignore the issue, too strict, knee jerk in about every way, sometimes every way...…

Yeah, all Apple users know that "this software needs to be updated" means "the software itself is fine, the developer just needs to pay us money". It's obvious, not misleading or a…

Google: We have no moat! OpenAI: Hold my beer while I get these people to artificially create one.

It's strange that old expressions like "the US is throwing stones from a glass house" or "the US is like a pot calling the kettle black" have existed for a long enough time to be i…

Explicit control is in many ways better than this kind of subtle behind-the-scenes manipulation. It's more visible, easier to gather resistance against (yes, even under the control…